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Show w VA "- 4,77 -v‘--.. t 36 ) (37) 1161's, a day hardly to be numbered with the other days of the year, SHE feemctl about to take her to enjoy Forever the " glorious liberty of the " fons of God l" But I forget myfelF; whi- final departure from America, and to leave that ugly Hag Slavery, the deformed child ol Satan, in her room. I am now filled with a proporv ther have I been hurried by this enthufialm, or whatever elfe you will pleafe to call it? I hope your candor will Forgive this odd excurfion, for tionable degree of joy in God, on occalion ol‘ which I hardly know how to account myfelfi HLR fpeedy return, with newhnilcson her lace, with augmented beauty and {planclor.~---~Clnee There were two or three things more Which I intended to lay relative to thisjoyful occalion. more then, Hail! celcllial Maid, the daughter of To go on then, thefe colonies are better than God, and, excepting his Son, the firll-born of heaven! Welcome to the-{e {hores again; wel- ever apprilcd of their own weight and confev come to every expanding heart! long mayclt quence, when united in a legal oppofition to any unconflitutional, hard and grievous treat~ thou relide among 1 s, the delight of the wile, ment ; which may be an advantage to them. good and brave; the protcctrcfs ofinnocence‘ from wrongs and opprellion, the patronefs ol‘ Cod often bringeth good out of evil; or what is intended for evil by men, is by him meant for learningmrts, eloquence, virtue, rational loyalty, good. religion ! And it" any milhrable people. on the cafe of Jofcph, whom his hardshcarted, envious continent or illcs of liuropc, taller being weaken» brcthrcn (old as aflmre into lE'gyrst. ed by luxury, debauchery, vcnality, intelline became great, and his Father and brethren were quarrels, or other vices, lhould, in the. rude collifions, or now-uncertain revolutions of kingdoms, be driven, in their extremity, 'to at length obliged to have recourfe to him, to keep them and their's from perilhing.------And thus, not improbably, may good come out of leek a lath retreat from llavcry in {time lardillant climate; let them find, 0 let them our late troubles, as well as out of thofe opprel; fions, which occafioned the flight of our lore- .‘tind one in America {acted wings ; vhere fitthers into the defarts of America. The great {hock which was lately given to our liberties, may end in the confirmation and enlargement under thy brooding, our Otript‘cliflcd fathers once found it, and we now enjoy it, by the favor of Him, whole fervice is the molt glo~ rious freedom! Never, 0 never may He perw :mit thee to forfalte us, for our unwortl'tinefs to. cnioy thy enlivening prelineel By His highpet'~ million, attend us thro' life a N o n l-ZA'I'II to the regions of" the hhtilcd, thy original abode. thtm # ‘3 z "3 So it was particularly in the memorable There he of them : As it is laid, the {lately oaks of the fc-relt take the deeper root, extend their arms the farther, and exalt their venerable heads the higher for being agitated by {lorms and tcmpcfls, provided they are not actually torn up, rent in firsces, or quite blafled by the lightning of 1K3? 'r‘t‘n. |