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SQUIRE PEDANT. 33 ible seity. Archaisms, exoticisms, and exolete lingo marked his allocution to the conflux. He located his prelation to his competitors, upon the chevisances of his antecedaneous existence – upon his connusance of cameralistics; upon his consension with the primordial and immaculate democraty; and upon his senility and resipiscence.

1. His chevisances. In the enumeration of these, he furnished an ocular apodixis, that he was of a doughty and ethel stirp. His ayle and eam had both been bellipotent; and his immediate progenitor had been consessor with the thesmothetes of this nation during the formation of our national systasis. He himself had been a cid of a vexillation, endured the durity of castramentation, and wielded the bilbo in the sanguinary arena; and in the concertation for the munities of postnate generations, he sustained a despoliation of his possessions. These things were not thrasonically spoken.

2. That his connusance of cameralistics had been utile to the federal compact on various emergencies. He made the indiction that an ampliation of sess upon forinsical commodities, would urge remote gubernations to batulate in relation to us; and as a sequence, a decurtation of our mercantantes, would occur. His advocacy of the minoration of the cess upon forinsical mercature, was pancratic. His consension with the primevous democraty, and his resipiscence during a great longevity, were also very luculent.

His present principia are: The minoration of all extravagations and sumptuosities in hegemonical operations; and above all, the supervacaneous guerdons of the gubernative functionaries — the eversion of pecunious synomosies or banks — the abrogation of all the dysnomies of the present dynasts — the cessation of mercature on mutuatitious media — the enactment of isonomies — the depulsion of the temulence and vici-