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on high, yet the fad event is ftill remembered with increafed forrow. The hoary headed pat- riot of '76 ftill tells the mournful ftory to the liftening infant, till the lofs of his country touches his heart, and patriotifm fires his breaft. The aged matron ftill laments the lofs of the man, beneath whofe banners her hufband has fought, or her fon has fallen. At the name of Wash- ington, the fympathetic tear ftill gliftens in the eye of every youthful hero, nor does the tender hgh yet ceafe to heave, in the fair bofom of Co- lumbia's daughters.

Farewel, O WASHINGTON, a long fareweU Thy country's tears embalm thy memory : Thy virtues challenge immortality ; Impreffed on grateful hearts, thy name fhall live, Till diffolution's deluge drown the world !

Although we muft feel the keeneft forrow, at the demife of our Washington, yet we confole ourfelves with the refle6lion, that his virtuous compatriot, his worthy fucceifor, the firm, the wife, the inflexible ADAMS ftill furvives. — Elevated, by the voice of his country, to the fupreme executive magiftracy, he conftantly ad- heres to her elfential interells ; and, with fteady hand, draws the difguiling veil from the intrigues of foreign enemies, and the plots of domeftic foes. Having the honor of America always in view, never fearing, when wifdom dictates, to Item the impetuous torrent of popular refentment, he ftands amidft the flu61:uations of party, and the explolions of ta6lion, unmoved as Atlas,

" While ftorms and tempefts thunder on its brow, " And oceans break their billows at its feet."

Yet, all the vigilance of our Executive, and all the wifdom of our Congrefs have not been fufh- cient to prevent this country from being in fome

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