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VOLUME VII.
THE LEHIGH REGISTER,
puNished in the Borough of Allentown, Lehigh
,unty,Ea-,every, Thursday
JLI AIJGIJSTIJS L. RIME,
A tslso per annum,payable in advance,and
$2OO if not paid until the end of thc year. No
paper discontinued,until allarrearagesare paid
except at the option of the proprietor.
AnvairrisameNTs,making not more than one
square, will be inserted three times for one dollar
and for every subsequent inset lion twentyfive
cents. Larger advertisements, chaijed in the
sameproportion. Those notexceeding ten lines
will be charged seventy-five cents, and those
making six lines or less, three insertions for 60
cents.
UFA liberal deduction will be made to those
who advertise by the year.
Ur Office in Hamilton St., one door East
of the German Reformed Church, nearly
opposite the 6 , Friedensbote Office."
Great Hat, Cap and Fur Store
IN ALLENTOWN.
irai • Keck,
Truly thankful for the liberal patronage
heretofore extended to him by his friends,
and a generous public, requests a•continu
ance of than. patronage from them and that
they should now call, and examine the most
extensive stock of
1;4
El ATS, CAPS AND FURS,
that has ever been brought to the
• public, at his established and lately
refitted Hat Emporium, No. 14, Wilson's
Row, East Hamilton street.
He has just returned from the City of
Philadelphia with the new spring style of
Hats and Caps of all kinds and varieties.
The people of this neighborhood, have
found it expensive to go to the great neigh
boring cities. Hereafter, to think them
selves in either of them, will be very cheap.
They will merely have to call into the above
mentioned Hat store, observe the late im
provements, and hear of the uncommonly
low price, when at cmcg, their imagination
will impress them with the belief that they
stand in one of the best and cheapest Hat
stores of New York or Philadelphia.
Call, see, examine, judge, inspect, choose,
price, and buy for yourselves.
TO HUNTERS.—Highest cash prices
paid for all kind of furs
Dec. 1, 1852,
Grand Exhibition
• -OF-
New Fashionable Fall and Winter
(COLIOO
AT THE
New. Cheap Store
OF
Getz 4• Gilbert,
These gentlemen, take this method to in
rorin their friends and the public in general
that they have received a very large and
Well selected stock of Full and Winter
Goods, which they are now • ready to dis
pose off to their customers at the lowest
prices. '
Their Fall and 'Winter stock has been
selected with the utinost care and consists of
Clothes, Cassitners, Satinets,
Flannehs, Gloves and Hoseiry, besides De
laines, Alapaceas, Lusters, Ginghams, Plain
and Figured Poplins, Muslins and Prints,
Boots, Shoes, Hats, Caps,- aucensware,
Hardware, Looking Glasses, Stationary,
Hooke, &c.;
To which they invite the attention of their
friends and the public generally, Confident
that the fullest satisfaction, both in price and
quality, will be given to all who may favor
them with a call.
The highest prices will be paid in ex•
change for Coanty produce.
'They have reason to be thankful for the
favors received thus far and.hope by atten
tion to business; disposing of their goods at
small! profits, .good treatment towards their
customers, o merit still greater share of
customers. .GETZ & GILBERT.
Catasauqua,•Sept. 10. -If-0m
.
Groceris" risk OP Sall.
The undersigned have just received an
entire new • Stock of Groceries, Fish and
Bah which they intend to sell at the
.and
prices at their Store in Catasnuqua, Le-,
high county. GETZ Si GILBERT.
-Sept. 10, 1052. I-43m
. ,
COAL ! COAL
The•-andersigned have opened a Coal
Yard in 'Catetatimpai and will constantly
keep , on hand all kinds of Coal which they
will•sell at greatly.reduced prices.
• • •,• GETZ. & GILBERT.
September 10, 1852. 11-oin
Ready-made Clothing.
The undersigned keep all kinds of Ready
Made Clothing, on hand, and will make to
ordeirott the lowest possible prices.
- , , GETZ . Qt GILBERT.
September 10,1858,
A FAMILY NEWSPAPER.
Builders, Carpenters, Cabinet
affakers and Others.
—Th-s-nb-s-cTibeTs-tnke-this-method-to-in
form the public, that their Planing Mill,
Slitting Mill, Sash Machine, Stave Machine,
I Turning Laths,Circular and Whip Saws,
and other macinery are now complete, and
in successful operation, and are prepared to
floor boards, and plane ‘vgather and side
boards on either one or both sides, to resaw
sawed lumber to any size required, from
six inches to one-fourth of an inch in thick:
ness, to furnish the lumber, and make all
kinds and sizes of
Window Sash, Shutters, Blinds,
doors and mouldings; they also have .con
stantly on hand and for sale, all kinds of Bed
Posts, Tablelegs, Wagon Hubs, Bent, Fil
lies, Shafts and Spanish Cedar Segar Boxes,
and are also prepared to do all kinds of turn
ing, and to saw pine, cherry, walnut, or any
other kind of wood to nny shape required.
and also to cut staves and heading for flout
barrels, or any other light casks.
Thesr hope that by strict attention to their
business, and low prices, to receive a liberal
support from a gerferous
Apply at their works adjoining Pretz &
Weinshimer, formerly Romig's Mill, in
East Allentown. •
BALLIET, SAEGER. & Co.
Feb. 23, 1853.
Portable Gas.
GAS has been acknowledged, from the
time of its first introduction, to be the best ma
terial for light, its use being attended with no
dangeror trouble. But to bring it to the con
humers by miles of conducting pipes and
meters, snakes it an article of luxury only
aniline* by a part of the community in
large cities, who reside within the range of
the main pipes. And even then, its high
price exceeds all otherburning material.;
and the greater part of the citizens cannot
enjoy the benefit of gas light even by pay
ing any price, not to mention the many acci
dents which happen by the use of turpentine
and alcohol light. If the great expenses of
miles of main pipes could be avoided, gas
would not cost half the price it now does.
Every man would burn it : and it would be
promotive of family happiness, as the spirit
of education and science has reached almost
every house. The wife would enjoy the
company of her husband, and he entertained
by a fine story from a book or newspaper :
every corner might be occupied by children
learning their lessons ; ladies at the piano
would not dispense with a gas light, if once
used, and all this can be done with ono gas
light, at the cost of half a cent an evening.
To. effect this, gas must be made portable.
Experiments have been made to compress
it from 13 to I part in volume, but it was
found impossible to regulate the pressure,
and was very dangerous on account of the
liability to explosion But by a far safer and
more simple apparatus in every consumer's
celler—u tub with water, a tin or sheet iron
kettle, 10 or 16 feet of pipe, and a burner
in the lower story put up in a, proper man
ner—every man can light up two rooms
and in the same mannerthe whole house
may be lighted from the cellar. The gas
wagon stops at tho front door, the manufac
turer runs an India-rubber pipe through the
cellar-hole or door, attaches it, and fills the
apparatus without any trouble or notice to
the consumer
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In this manner, a small capital invested
will enable almost any community, village,
or town to erect a concern to supply gas
at a price lower than any other burning
material can be furnished. All w,ho take
an interest in the subject, or would like to
have gas works erected in this manrier, will
please address
W. F. DANOWSKY M, D.
March 9, 1853. ¶-3m
All persons using the water of the Com
pany for family or other purposes, will
please take notice, that the time to renew
their permits is the first'of April next, and
it is expected that they will call upon the
undersigned Treasurer and renew them,
us a number of permits have been chang
ed. Those persons who have not settled
for their perinits from the Ist to the 10th of
April, must not complain if the water is
stopped from them after that time.
The board reserves the right where the
Water is 'used by joint Hydrants ; if not
paid by all joined, to stop it if they see prop
er as they consider • such arrangements sole
ly advantageous to those who connect in
using %eater, consequently cannot interfere
with arrangements of this kind.
Notice is also given•to.persOns who wish
to use Hydrant Water,-for building -purpo
ses.that they must take out their permits
before thexcommence-building and if this
rule is not strictly observed, the change will
be do le for the W a t er .
t u Hydnum, t it requires first
a permit, from
. . CHARLES EOKRRT I Treasarer.
Mirch 16, ¶-4!
Plane, Plow and Groove,
Water Company,
ALLENTOWN, LEHIGH COUNTY, PA., APRIL 6, 1853.
Eagle Hotel,
No. 139, North Third Street )
BEiWEEN RACE AND VINE,
PHILADELPHIA
DAVID STIM, Proprietor.
This gentleman takes great pleasure to
inform his friends and the public in gen
eral, that he has taken the above named
well-known and de
r scrvedly popular •
?1 ,4 4:74 - in k. EAGLE HOTEL ,
h • :
!Tr situate in.the most bus-
.
111101)1101 siness part of the city,
1 which -he has refitted
with entirely neiv Furniture and Bed
ding of a superior quality.
The hode has also been renovated and
improved in a manner, which will compare
favorably with the first class Hotels in the
city, and cannot fail to give satisfaction to
those who may patronize the establishment.
Ila" His TABLE will always be supplied
with the choicest and most wholesome pro
visions the market affords, and his BAR,
with the purest and best liquors. The sta
bling belonging to his' house, is good and
extensive, and will be supplied with the
best provender, and attended by careful
hostlers.
Nothing in short, shalhbe left tindoti to
make hiq Guests 6omfortable,and he flatters
himself that by strict attention to business,
he will merit and receive - a liberal share of
public encouragement
Philadelphia, December 1, IJ—Gin
1h . ay nes ,
11.EOPTIST.
Adopts this method to inform his
11 .1.1:,:' friends and the public in general,
that he has made Allentown his permanent
residence. He has opened an office at his
dwelling, opposite Kolb's American Hotel,
a few doors east of Pretz, Guth & Co's.
Store, where he will be happy to oiler his
professional services in the science of Den
tistry. He will call at private residences,
if requested.
10°' His terms are reasonable, and having
had much experience in the professions,
feels satisfied that he can give general satis
faction.
Allentown, April 24, 1851. • IT —ly
New Dry Goods Store
In Philadelphia,
No. 253 NORTH 2d, STREET.
Thomas V. Landes, takes great
pleasure to inform his circle of friends and
former customers, that he has taken the
well known Store, No. 253, North Second
Street, formerly occupied by Simon R.'Sny
der, opposite the Black. Horse Tavern, Phil
adelphia. He is prepared with a well selec
ted and entire new and fashionable Stock
of Dry Goods, consisting in part of
French and elnterican Cloths, French Cas-
settlers, and a large Stock of other
Goods for Gentlemen's wear.
Ho also invites his Lady customers when
they visit the city to give him a call and ex
amine his beautiful stock of Silks, Delains,
Berage Delains, &c., in short he.keeps a
full assortment of every kind of goods be
longing to the retail Dry Good business.
Ho trusts that by strick attention to busi
ness he will be able to gain a liberal share
of public patronage. •
Don't forget the place, call at No. 253,
North Street', directly opposite the Black
Horse Tavern, and you will find you obedi
ent friend.
THOMAS Y. LANDES.
Phila. January 19, 1853.
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Straw Goods—Spring 1853,
T HE Subscriber is now prepared to
ex
hibit to Merchants. and Milliners his
usual heavy stock of Ladies' and Misses'
.STRAW AND SILK BONNETS,
STRA W TRIMMINGS and
• ARTIFICIAL FLOWERS ;
Palm-leaf, Panama and every Variety of
SUMMER HATS.•
for Gentlemen ; which for extent, variety
and beauty of manufacture, as well as uni
formly close prices will be found unrivaled.
THOMAS WHITE, • ..
No. 41, SOpTII SECOND
.TREET,Fhiladelph
~
February 9, 1853. . ¶-3m--$3
• VIDD1 1
.13111612 4201211
WATERMAN & OSBOURN,
North West Corner of Second 4- Mielberry
(.4rch ) Streets,
.PHILADELP.III.I2.
OFFER FOR SALE A LAttos. ASSORTMENT OF
TEAS, • 1 .
COFFEE, At the Lowest
SUGAR, .'
MOLASSES, Market rates.
SPICES, &c., &c.,
Those commencing New Stores are par
ticularly invited to call.
CV• Attention given. to Produce.
Philad. Jan; 20, 1853. 1-41ra-2i
Great Bargains !
New Arrival of Fashionable Goods.
Pretz, Guth d' Co.
Have just returned from Philadelphia and
New York, with an immense stock, of Win
ter goods, which they are now unpacking,
at their store in Allentown. They have
been selected with much care. and in point
of cheapness cannot be excelled in this or any
other country town, in the State. Their
customers and other are invited to call at the
Store, and make their choice of Goods, for
the winter campaign.
Splendid Ladies Dress Goods,
Such as Silks, of all colors and prices, De
tains, Merinos, Calicoes and Ginghams. The
Ladies of Allentown,
will find it to their ad
vantage, first to call at their Store, before
they purchase. elsewhere.
Cloths Cassimers and Vestings,
they have in abundance, of all colors and
qualities, also ordinary Cloths and Satinets,
for every day wear.
PRETZ,.GUTH & CO.
Allentown, Dec. 15, ¶-6w
GROCERIES,
t Several tons of
A ma'
I NN -0 14t1 , Groceries such as
,141:910 9
Molasses, Sugary,
Coflee, Spices Teas, Cheese, &c.—all for
sale cheap at t he . Store of
PRETZ, GUTH & CO.
Queenswase.
A splendid assortment •of Queensware
comprising, every,,immaginable article used
inhousekeeping,, just received and for sale
by PRETZ, GUT & CO.
Carpets Carpets.
Just recetved and for sale a splendid as
sortment of Stair and Parlor Carpets, at the
store of ' PRETZ, GUTH & CO-
STONE COAL.
Just received, a large supply of Lump,
Egg, Stone, Nut and Coal dust, at their
Wharves, at the Lehigh Basin, and will be
delivered to any part of the town by
PRETZ, GUTH & CO.
Allentown, Dec. 15, 1852. ¶-6w
SALT. SALT.
A largo quantity of Ground and fine Salt,
for sale by
PRETZ, GUTH & CO.
IMOIC. IMRE A.
socunlm.
Come Jill and Judgefor Yourselves ! •
During the past summer the undersigned
—directly opposite the German Reformed
Church in Allentown.— has materially en
larged and beautifully finished, his Store
room, and in order to make his assortment of
Clocks, Watches
AND
14 .1 D JEWELRY
‘4)‘ 7i
- 5 - c e compare with his other
9 `13 0 C , "4 improvements, he adopts
this method to inform his
old customers and a host of new he expects
to get, that he has just returned from New
York, with a most magnificent display of
House, Offiee and Parlor Clocks, Gold
and Silver Watches, of every variety,
Gold Ear and Finger Rings, Breast
Pins, of every iminaginable pat
tern, gold, silver, steel an d brass
Watch Chains, Seals and
Keys.' silver Tea and T -
ble Spoons, gold, silve
and steel Spectacles,
for all ages, Spy
glasses of all sixes,
gold Lockets Chains,
Music Boxes of various
qualities, gold andfanej
.
dais, of all sixes, gold an silver
Pencils, Melodians of the beat
manufactory in the I.7nited States.
In short every'articie kept inn well stocked
Jewelry store can be got of him, and is de
termined to sell as cheap as can be bought
either in New York or Philadelphia. He
flatters himself to believe that in beauty and
assortment his establishment cannot be sur
passed in any country town in the , state.
is
The public invited to call and then to
judge for themselves.
rirlie continues to repair Watches and
Clocks, and since he keeps none but the ve
ry best of workmen, he can afford to war
rant theta for one year. Gold and Silver
war,e will also be repaired at_the shortest no"-
tice and upon the most reasonable terms. --
Thankful ler past favors he trusts that- by
punctual attendance and low prices,he,,will
be further able to meet with, favors.
CHARLES S. MASSEY.
December 16. . -
JOB ‘PRisilrridra,
early executed at ttte"loot i er7 9nicc.
FOR FARMER AND MECHANIC.
SlioceHumus Selections.
A Revolutionary Sermon.
Frequently during the last ten or twelve
years w — e — hive met in the papers of the day.
with what purported to be a sermon preach
ed upon the eve of the battle of Brandywine.
The last place we have met with this "in
teresting documept," which "was recently
found among the papers of Major John Shef
meyer," of Pennsylvania, deceased pat
riot of the revolution was in the Nashville
Christian Advocate, of the 17th ult. ' copied,
as appears by the credit, from the D elaware
Gazette. We believe its paternity has been
attributed to several divines, but as copied
into the Advocate, it appears to have been
delivered by Rev. Jac. Trout, to a large por
tion of the American soldiers, in the presence
of Gen. Washington, Gen. Wayne and oth
ers, officers of the army.
Now this sermon which purports to date
from "the times that tried men's souls,"
has not the dust of one-fourth of that time
upon it, and is the creation of the very pro
lific brain of George Lippard, who ()blamed
some notoriety by . his "Legends of *Buy
elution, "as published itithe Saturday Cppr~
ier some yenrs since. These legends, which
appear to have been previouslyiiilivered in
the form of lectures, have been published in
book form, and in the legend of the battle
of Brandywine, we find incorporated this
self-same "revolutionary sermon," with this
note appended."
"This sermon was published (before it
was incorporated with the lectures,) with fic
titous names 'attached, etc. There is no doubt
that a sermon was delivered on the eve of
the Battle of Brandywine, and I have sub
stantial evidence to prove that the prelicher
was none other than Hugh Henry Breck
enbridge, a distinguished Divine, Whonfter
wards wrote "Modern Chivalry," an emi
nently popular production, and filled various
official positions with honor to , himself and
his country. The sermon is I trust, not
altogether unworthy of that Chivalric band
who forsaking their homes and churches,
found a home and church in the camp of
Washington."
Here is the sermon, which, by the way,
is an eloquent affair. The wonder is that
its modern origin has not sooner been dis
covered.
Preached on the eve of the Battle of Brandy
wine (September 10, 1777.) in presence
of Washington and his army, at Chadd's
Ford.
TEXT-M They that take the sword, shall
perish by the sword:"
Soldiers and Countrymen;—We have
met this evening perhaps for the last time.
We have shared tae toil of the March, the
peril of the fight, the dismay of the retreat
--alike we have endured toil and hunger,
the contumely of the internal foe, the out
rage of the foreign oppressor. We have sat
night after night beside the same camp fire
shared the same rough soldier's fare; we
have, together heard the roll of the reveille
which called us to duty, or the beat of the
tattoo which gave the signal for the hardy
sleep of the soldier, with the earth for his
bed, the knapsack for his pillow.
And now, soldiers and brethern, we have
met in the peaceful valley, on the eve of bat
tle, while the sunlight is dying away beyond
younder heights, the sunlight that to-morrow
morn will glimmer on scenes of blood. We
have met, amid the whitening tents of our
encampment -- in times of terror and of
gloom have we gathered together—God grant
it may not be for the last time. •
It. is a solemn time. Brethren, does not
the awful voice of nature, seem to 'echo the
sympathies of this hour? The flag of our
country droops heavily from younder staff—
the breeze has died away along the plain of
Chadd's Ford—the plain that spreads before
us glistenidg in sunlight—the heights of the
Brandywine arise gloomy and grand beyond
the' waters of younder stream, and all na
ture holds a pause of solemn silence, on the
eve of the bloodshed and the strife of the
morrow.
"They that take the sword, shall perish
by the sword."
And have they not taken the sword? .
Let the desolated plain, the blood-sodden
ed valley, the burned farm house, the sack
ed village, and the ravaged town, answer—
let, the whitening bones of the butchered
farmer, strewn , along the fields of his home
stead, ctriswei—let the starving mother, with
the babe clinging to heT withered breast,
that can afford no sustenance; let her an
swer, with
,the death-mtl4,roingling with the
murmuring tones that mhrktthe last struggle
for life—let the, dying thother and her babe
answer !
It was but a day Pait, and our land - slept
in the
,light . of peace. War was not here
--wrong was not hire. Fraud, aid woe,
and misery, and want, dwelt . not antOng us.
From the eternal solitude ofthe'green wobde,
arose , the blue+ sinoke•of the 'sealer's cabin,
and golden fieldstf scorn peered .forth from
amid the waste of 'the wildernesar and the
glad music of human voices awoke-the si
lence of the forest. , • ,
Now ! God of mercy, behold the chiingel
Under the nhadew of a pretext—under the
NUMBER 27.
sanctity of the name of God, invoking , the
Redeemer to their aid, do these foreign hire
lings slay our people I They , throng our
towns, they darken our plains, - and tam
they encompass our posts on the lonely
plain of Chadd's Ford.
“They that take the sword, shall perish
by the sword."
Brethren, think me not unworthy of be.
lief when I tell you that the doom of the
British is near ! Think me not vairt,when
I tell you that beyond• that- cicHnl-,tflntpow
enshrouds us, :I see gathiting4thicli,!and
fast, the darker cloud, and the blattgefsionn,
of a Divine Retribution They liniy'con
quer us to-morn:4A Might and wrohgmay
prevail, and we may be clriverldittleld
the hour of God's ownlagetuke wilt
come ! • • d .
Aye, if % in the vast 'irohtu es ,of eternal
space—if in the heart , of the''' boundless
verse, there throbs the being: of an awful
God, quick to revenge and sure to punish
guilt, then will the man George of Bruns.
wick, called King, feel in his brain and in
hiileart, the vengeance of the Eteroal Je2
hovah I A blight will be upon his life—a
withered brain, an accursed intellect-4
blight will be upon his children, and on his
people. Great God ! how dread the pun
ishment !
A crowded populace, peopleing the dense
towns where the man of money thrives,
While the laborer starves.; want striding
among the people in all its forms of terror;
an ignorant and God-defying priesthood
chuckling over the `miseries of-millions; a
proud and merciless nobility, adding wrong,
to wrong, and heaping insult upon robbery
and fraud ; royalty corrupt to the very heart
aristocracy rotten to the core : crime and
Want linked hand in hand, and tempting men
to deeds of woe and death ; these area part
of . the doom and retribution that shall cows
upon the English throne and people.
Soldiers—l look around among your tam•
iliar faces with a strange interest I To•mor
row morning we will all go forth to battle
—for need I tell you, that your unworthy
minister will go with you invoking God's
aid in the fight ? We will March forth to
battle. Need I exhort you to fight the good
fight—to fight for your homesteads, and for
your wives and children?
My friends, I might urge you to fight by
the galling memories of British wrong 1—
Walton—l might tell your father, butcher
ed in the silence of midnight, on the plains
of Trenton ; I might picture his gray - hairs,
dabbled in
,blood; I might ring his death
shriek in your ears.
Shelmire, I might tell you of a mother
butchered, and a sister outraged—the lonely
farm house, the night, aslant!, the roof in
flames. the shouts of the troopers as they
dispatched their victims; the cries for mercy
the pleadings of innocence for pity. I might
paint this all again, in the terrible colors,of
vived reality, if - I thought your courage need.
ed such wild excitement. 1
But I know you are strong in might of
the Lord. ' You will go forth to battle to-
morrow with • light hearts and determined
spirits, though the solemn duty, the duty of
avenging the dead, may rest heavy on your
souls. - ,
And in the hour of battle, when all around
is darkness, lit by the lurid cannon-glare
and the piercing musquet-flash, when the
wounded strew the ground, and• the • dead
litter your path, then remember, soldiers,
that God is with you. The Eternal God fights
for you—he rides on , the battle-cloud, he
sweeps onward with the march of the hur
ricane charge.—The Awful and the Infinite
fights for you and you will triumph.
“They that take the sword, shall perish
by the sword." . ,
You have taken the sword, but not in the
spirit of wrong and ravage. You have ta
ken the 'sword for: your homes, for your
wives, for your little ones.=You have' aken
the sword for truth, for justice and right
and to you the promise is, be . of good cheer,
for your foes have taken the sword, Id def-.
ance of all that man holds dear—in blaapheo
my of God—they that shall perish ty the
sword.
And now, brethren and soldiers, I bid you
all farewell: Many of us may fall in the
fight of to-morrow—God rest the souls of
the fallen—many of us may live to tell the
story of the fight of to-morrow, and in the
memory of all, will ever rest and linger the
quiet scence of this autumnal night.
Solemn twilight advances over the *ley
tho woods on the opposite heights fling their
long shadow over the green date meadows;
(hound us are the tents of the Contineniel
host, the half-suppressed bustle of the emir',
the hurried tramp of the soldiers to and fro;
now 'the confusion, and now the, atilkness
'which mark the eve of battle.
•"' When we meet again, may the long shad.
owe of twilight be flung over a petteetulituid.
.God in heaven gmnt it. • • ' ,
Let ue pray.- • • '•
Or There is nothing purer then , hatiestyi
nothing sweeter than charity ;- nothing
brighter than virtue; nothing warmer. than
love ; and nothing, more steadfast than faith.
These united in one mind,- from the•purest,
the airmen, the richest, and brightest, tius
holiest and the most steadfast happiness.
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