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"Blush ye not

To boast your equal laws, your just restraints,

Your rights defined, your liberties secured;

Whilst, with an iron hand, ye crush to earth

The helpless African, and bid him drink

That cup of sorrow which yourselves have dashed,

Indignant, from Oppression's fainting grasp?"

The love of freedom is one of those natural impulses of the human breast which cannot be extinguished. Even the brute animals of the creation feel and show sorrow and affection when deprived of their liberty. Therefore is a distinguished writer justified in saying, "Man is free, even were he born in chains." The Americans boast, and justly too, that Washington was the hero and model patriot of the American Revolution,—the man whose fame, unequalled in his own day and country, will descend to the end of time, the pride and honor of humanity. The American speaks with pride of the battles of Lexington and Bunker Hill; and, when standing in Faneuil Hall, he points to the portraits of Otis, Adams, Hancock, Quincy, Warren and Franklin, and