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Show [gc ~as is of tgc ~m crinm <!Lo1\stitntion. "II APPY," (said Washington, when announcing the !J·caly of peace to the army,) "thrice happy shall they be pronounced hereafte r, who shall Lave contributed anything, who shall have performed the mcanrst office in erecting this stupendous fabric of freedom and empire on the broad basis of independency, who shall have assisted in protecting tbe Rights of Human N aiurc, and establishing an asylum for tbc pom: antl oppressed of all nations and religions." You remember well that the Revolutionary Congrcos in the declaration of independence placed the momentous controversy between tho Colonies and Great Britain on the absolute and inherent equality of all men. It is not, however, so well understood that tl1at body closed its existence on the adoption of the Federal Constitution with this solemn injunction, 9* |