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 the nations, wearied with slaughter, gave truce to the miseries of man) will permit me to observe, that, connected by consanguinity, or friendship, with many of the principal characters who asserted and defended the rights of an injured country, the mind has been naturally led to contemplate the magnitude, both of the causes and the consequences of a convulsion that has been felt from the eastern borders of the Atlantic, to the western wilds.

much for the distresses of America, in the dark days of her affliction, a faithful record has been kept, of the most material transactions, through a period that has engaged the attention, both of the philosopher and the politician; and, if life is spared, a just trait of the most distinguished characters,