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VOLUME X.
FARMERS Mk THIS WAY.
TM opposition any that in a short time the ground
will be ready to sow Outs, Harley, &c. How
they know this We are not able to say, hut this much
wo•will say, that whenever it gets ready, you bad
hotter give us a call for. ono of the best Grain Drills,
and warranted at that, (no largo talk about refunding
money,) hut if the article is not as represented, it can
be returned, and all matters satisfactorily arranged.
Likewise in duo time the grass will ho in order for
hay making, and then wo aro prepared to furnish you
with, Allen ' s Mower, a splendid machine for cutting
grass 'of any kind. And in addition, when desal ts ,
we have alto the combined lic4er, of.
Manny's Patent, which is manufactured upon a dif
ferent principle from those made heretofore, and war
ranted to eat grass and grain as fast as ono team of
Lomeli can draw iL And further, we have the Pre
mium Corn Sheller of Lehigh county, anti as 'there
has been sold a very large number in it short time
that have rendered universal satisfaction, we are con
fident in saying, that it has, nu superior hero or else
where. We likewise have a mill for chopping feed,
which has been tested thoroughly in different sections,
and all who have witnessed its operations, testify to
the good qualities of the mill, and recommend it to
farmers as an article to save time, and likewise grain
in the amount which is yearly given to millers in the
shape of "toll." In short no have almost any article ,
which farmers require for agricultural purposes, such
no Ploughs of almost any pattern, Corn Cultivators,
Revolving Huy Rakes, Hay Forks, Corn PloughS,
Corn Planters, Limo Spreaders, Threshing Machines
and Horse Powers of different kinds, and all warrant
ed to give satisfaction. Repairing done in all the
different branches, on reasonable terms and at short
notice. Any person residing at a distance, in want
of any of the above articles. can obtain them by ad
dressing the subscribers att No. SO West Hamilton at.,
Allentown, Pa. • SWEITY.ER dc SAEGER.
ti RA TN DRILL HEIM ENCES.
Reuben Helfrich, North Whitehall: Charles Hen-
ninger, (1,1; David Hoary, do; David Kuhns, Macun
gy ; George Beisel. Allentown.
CORN SHELLER REFERENCES.
Timid Hertz. Weseoesvillo; John Darts, Cedar
Crook; Jacob Wislier, Lower Maeougy ; C. A W.
Edelmon. Allen ; Reuben Gimkunbach, North
Whitehall.
FEED MILL REFERENCE
Charles Seagreavep, Alhallow a.
Allentown, April 2.
WARREN'S
IMPROVED FIRE AND WATER PROOF
COMPOSITION ROOFING.
Josoph Clewoll, Allentown, Agont for Lehigh Co
Y OUR - aitentiun is respuctfully solicited to the
above method of Roofing, now much used in
Philadelphia and vicinity, and which has been exten
sively in use in many of the cities of the West, during
more than cloven years past, during which time it
has boon tested under ovary variety of circumstances,
and we confidently offer it to the public as a mode of
Rooting unobjectionable in every important porticular,
'while it combines, in a greater degree than any other
roof lu use, tho valuable requisites of cheapness, du
•rability, and security against both lire and tratur,—
This is rapidly superseding the use of all other kinds
of roofs, wherever it has been introduced, giving gen
eral satisfaction, and is highly recommended by all
who have tooted its utility. These roofs require an
inclination of not more than ono inch to the l'oot,
which is of greet advanteve in came of fire, anti for.
drying purposes. They are offered at a price COll.llll
- loss than any• other root* in use, while the
amount of materiel dam!, which would otherwise he
mod in extending tip the walls and framing for a
stoop roof, often makes it still farther important re
duction in the cost of building. Chillers /11:ly bu
formed of tho samo motorist ne the roof. at mach less
expolmo than-any other. In ease of defect or injury,
from any cause, there is no roof so easily repaired.
Tho materials being mostly non-conductors of heat,
no roof is so cool in summer, or so warm in winter.
Thoao wishing to me our roof, should give the rafters
u pitch of about one inch to the foot. For further in
formation apply to Joseph Clowell, at Allentown, our
agent for Lehigh and Carbon ti unties, who is pre
pared to execute all orders at short notiee.
11. M. WARREN , CO..
No. 4 Farquhar Buildingg, Walnut St., Philadelphia
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Ithll'EltENCES.
The following named gentlemen in Allentown have
their bonsos roofed with the aboved named eon:posi
tion, and are able to testily to Its superiority over any
other kind of roofs :
IL F. TREXLER, Union st., between Milli and Tooth.
11. Sratrut. Walnut st., between Eighth end Ninth.
F. liont.sm, Seventh st., between Hamilton & Linden,
Itorg S 1100 E, Linden st., between Fourth 1 Fifth.
J. H.. 'Wow:, Sixths et., between Hamilton & Linden.
Sulu& KNAuss,Ninth st., between Linden & Turner.
A. Klotz, corner of Union end Seventh street.
H. E. Wma UT, Fourth et., between Liuden & Turner.
Fob. 13, 1856.
—ly
13r. Edwin • G. Martin,
A NNOUNCES to the citizens of Allen
-....--- 21 town and vicinity, that ho has lately
:JR graduated us Physician in all tho various
brunches, in Um 'University of criv.,•ylvu
nla, and has commenced his practice in Cie
Offlco of his father, Dr. Charles 11. Martin, next door
west of the Odd Fellows' Hall, West Hamilton street,
Allontown,where ho is at nil times prepared, by day
or by night, to aid tho afflicted, and render his services
o all who may honor hint with a call.
CDR. N. A. GRIM,. A.M.
OFFICE AT THE
-IELELCT-13E1' MEC) 1 3V Xs,
3 WJE.IT HAMILTON STREET,
ALLENTOIS'N, PA.
Allentown, Feb. G.
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"OLLO,, MIL FARMER, where • havo you beau
4.1 that have got such a heavy loud. You
will kill ally o ur o horses. Ah, I have boon to Stopp's
Cheap Cash Store, at No. 85 Wost Ilamilke St., Al
lontown. I suppose you got all that, load for ab ou t
$lO. Yes indeed, and 25 coots change at th,:t. Ah
yes, soo I got Mackerel, Salt, Sugar, CoILA:, like, Rai
sins, Chocolate, Tom, Molasses, Choose, &c., nil for
buying and harvest.
LADIES' DRESS GOODS, of almost every style
and patent, stickful black and fancy coloroi%Silks,
plain and figured De ',mines, Chu Lawns, Ging
ham, Alpacas, &c., &c., at the Cheap Store of
GU I% andHLC
Cor. of Eighth naudltun Sts.
April 23.
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0! say can you see by the dawn's early lieht.
What so proudly we hail'd - at the twilight's lust
gleaming,
Whose broad stripes and bright stars through the
perilous fight,
O'er the ramparts we wateh'd were so gallantly
streaming?
And the rocket's red glare, the bombs bursting in air.
(Jove proof through the night that our flag was still
there:
0!. say, does the star.spangled banner yet wave.
O'er the land of the free and the home'of the bravo?
On the shore, dimly seen through the midst of the
deep,
Where the toes haughty host in dead silenceire.
poses:
What is that which the breeze o'er the towering
steep,
As it Ninny blows, half concealed, half-discloses?
Now it catches the deem of the morning's first beam
to full glory reflected now shines on the stream;
'Tis the star-spangled banner, 0! long may it wave.
O'er the land of the free and the home of the bravo?
And where is that band who so vauntingly swore,
That the havoc of war and the buttle's confusion,
A home and n country should leave us no more?
Their blood has wash'd out their foul footsteps pol
lotion,
No refuge could save the hireling and elnvo
From the terror of flight, or the gloom of the grave,
And thestarApnitgled banner in friumph loth wave
O'er the hind of the free and the home of the bravo.
0! thus be it over when freemen shall stand.
Between their loved home end the war's desolation,
Blessed with victory and ponce, may the Thieve:l-res
cued land.
Praise the power that .bath made and preserved us
a nation!
Then conquer we must, when our cause it is Just,
And this he our motto: •' In God is our trust!"
O'er the land of the free and the home of the brave,
And the star-spangled banner in triumph shall wave.
Hail Columbia, happy land!
hail, yo heroes heaven born hand,
Who fought and bled in freedom's cause,
And when tho storm of war was gone,
Enjoyed the peaty your valor won.
Let Indepandonco be your boast, •
Ever mindful what it cost,
Ever grateful for the prize,
Let its altar leach the shies.
Firm, united lot us be, .
Rallying round our liberty!
As a band of brothers join's!,
Peace and safety we shall find.
Immortal Patriots! riso mice more!
Defend your rights, defend your shore;
Lot fin rude foo with impious bond,
Invado the ahrino, whore sttorod lies,
Of toil and blood, tho well-earned prize;
While offering peace aincero and just
In lioavon we place n manly trust.
That truth 'nod justice may prevail,
And every scheme of bondage, fall. Firm, .ltc
Sound, sound the trump of fame,
Let Washington's greet name
Ring thro' the world with loud applause!
Let every clime, to freedom dear,
Listen with a Joyful ear;
With equal skill, with steady power,
lie governs in the faithful hour
Of horrid war, or guides with ease,
The happier time of honest pence. Firm, be
Behold the chief, who now commands.
Once morn to servo his country, stands,
Tho rock nn which the sto.m will beat!
But armed In virtue, firm t.nd true
Ills hopes am fixed on'hearbn and ' you;
When lope was sinking In dinnay,
When gloom obscured Columbia's day,
His steady mind from changes free,
Reeolvod on death or. Liberty. Firm, (to
Stanzas for tho Fourth of July
Freemen, rend the sacred record,
Written by your noble sires,
Fix upon your heart the loiters,
An if stumped with living fires!
Let Choir words of solomn utt'ranco--
" WE ARE FREE AND INDEPENDENT,"
Printed on the Rock of Ages.
Ever glow in gold resplendent.
If a hand would raze that motto,
Traitor Lout that hand would sway
Lot it rot upon a dunghill,
Scathing to its kiudrod clay
Plant the staff, whence floats your banner,
Firm in freedom's sacred earth,
And, beneath the waiving glory.
bless,these sires wile guvo it birth.
Rouen yot country And brothera
Take your stand—bo firm etroug!
For the traitor word "DISUNION,"
By the breozo le borne'along.
Aye, the breeze that spreads your bacillar—
Vibrates to your bravo huzza—
Boars that pestilential ivhisper,
Which would all your glory mar!
Take your stand round freedom's altar,
On your country's Sabbath day,
Swear nuow our sacred Union,
Is FOREVER AND FOR AVE!,
Tho sod, White and Blue
Columbia, the gem of the Ocean,
The home of the Brave and the Free,
The Laud of each Patriot's devotion,
The world offers homage to thee.
Thy mandates make heroes assemble,
When Liberty's form stands in view,
And thy Banners make tyranny tremble,
When borne by the Rod, White and Blue
When borne, .le.
When war wages its wide desolation,
And threatens the land to deform,
Wo ask thon of freedom's foundation,
Columbia rode safe through the storm:
With her garlands of victory o'er her,
And so proudly she bolo her brave mow,
And her flag proudly waving before her.
Now boast of the Bed, White and Blue.
Now boast,
Tho wino Nips, the wine cups, bring hither,
And Lill them up to the brim,
May the wreath she has won never wither,
Nor the stars of her glory be dim;
May the surface united not cover,
But hold to her garlands so true—
Our Army and Navy forever,
Three cheers for the Red, White and Blue
Three cheers, &e.
The Star-Spangled Banner
HAIL COLUMBIA.
i DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE.
JULY 4th; 1710.
When, in the course of human events, it be.
I comes necessary for one people to dissolve the
poll ticaNands which have connected them with
one another, and to assume among the powers
! of the earth the separate and equal station to
which the laws of Nature /..nd of Nature's God
entitles them, a decent respect to the opinions
of mankind requires that they should declare
the causes which impel them to the separa
tion.
(L-,VO hold these truths to be seltevident : that
all lnen arc created,equal ; that they are en
d-,wed by their Creator with certain unaliena•
hie rights ; that among:those are life, liberty,
and the pursuit of happiness ; that, to secure
these rights, governments are instituted among
men, deriving their just powers from the con
sent of the governed : that whenever any form
of government becomes destructive of these
ends, it is the right of the people to alter or to
abolish it, and to institute a new governMent,
laying its foundation on such principles, and
organizing its powers in such form, as to them
shall seem most likely to effect their safety and
happiness. Prudence, indeed, will dictate that
governments long established should not be
changed for light and transient causes: and,
accordingly, all experience hath shown that
mankind are more disposed to suffer, while
evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by
abolishing the forms to which they are accus•
mined. But when a long train of .abuses and
usurpations, pursuing invariably the seine
object, evince a design to reduce them tinder
absolutedespotism, it is their right, it is their
duty, to throw off such government, and to
provide new guards for their future security.
Saab has been the patient suffering of these
colonies ; and such is now the necessity which
constrains them to alter their former system
ofgovernment. The history of the present King
of Great Britain is a history of repeated in
juries and usurpations, all having in direct ob
ject the establishment of an absolute tyranny
over these States. To prove this, let facts be
submitted to a candid world
He has refused his assent to laws the most
wholesome and necessary for the public good.
He has forbid his governors to pass laws of
immediate and pressing importance, unless
suspended in their operation till his asse.it
should be obtained : and when so suspended, I
ho has utterly neglected to attend to them.
He has refused to pass other laws for the ae.
commodation of large districts of people, unless
those people would relinquish the right of repre
sentation in the legislature—a right inestiinable
to them, and formidable to tyrants only.
He has called together legislative bodies at
places unusual, uncomfortable, and distant
front the depository of their public records, for
the sole purpose of futuiging them into compli
ance with his measures.
Tie has dissolved representative houses re
ritedly, for opposing with manly firmness, his
invasions on the rights of the people.
Ile has refused, for a long time after such
dissolutions, to cause others to be elected:
whereby the legislative powers, incapable of
annihilation, have returned to the people at
largo for their exercise—tho State remaining in
the mean time eiquised to all the danger of
invasion front without and convulsions with
in.
He has endeavored to prevent the population
of these States ; fur that purpose obstructing
the laws fur naturalization of foreigners, refus
ing to pass others to encourage their migration
hither, and raising the conditions of new ap
propriations of lands.
He has obstructed the ministration . Ofjustice,
by refusing his assent to laws for establishing
judiciary powers.
He has made judges dependent on his will
alone fur the tenure of their offices and the
amount and payment of their salaries.
He has created a multitude of new offices, and
sent hither swarms of officers to harass our
people and eat out their substance.
Ile has kept among us, in times of peace,
standing armies, without the consent of our
legislature.
110 has effected to render the military inde
pendent of and superior to, the civil power.
Ile has combined with others to subject us
to ajurisdiction foreig .to our constitution, and
unacknowledged by our laws, giving his as
sent to their acts of pretetided legislation :
For quartering large bodies of armed troops
among us :
For protecting them, by a mock trial, from
punishment for any murders which they should
commit on the inhabitants of.these States:
For cutting off our trade with all parts of the
world :
For imposing taxes on us without our con
sent:
For depriving us, in many cases, of the ben
efits of trial by jury :
For transporting us beyond seas, to be tried
fur pretended offences :
For abolishing the free system of English
laws in a neighboring province, establishing
therein an arbitrary government, and enlarging
its boundaries, so as to render it at once an ex
ample and tit instrument ft); introducina the
seine absolute rule into these c , .:.niies :
For taking away our charters. itholi:thing our
most valuable laws. and altering. fl indaniental
ly. the powers 'trout. governments :
For suspending our own legislatures, and
declaring themselves investigated with power
to legislate for us in, all cases whatsoever..
loograglai2tteDEl E 1W•co Ilatt
Allentown,
In every stage of these oppressions we have
petitioned for redress in the most humble
terms: our repeated petitions. have been an
swered only by repeated injury.
A prince whose character is thus marked by
every act which may define a tyrant is unfit to
be the ruler of a free people.
Nor have we been wanting in attention to
our British brethren. We have warned them
from time to time of attempts made by their leg
islature to extend an unwarrantable jurisdiction
over us. We have reminded them of the cir
cumstances of our emigration and settlement
here., We have appealed to their native justice
and magnanimity, and we have conjured them,
by the ties of our common kindred, to disavow
these usurpations, which would inevitably inter
rupt our connexions and correspondence. They
too, have been deaf to the voice of justice and
consanguinity. We must, therefore, acquiesce
in the necessity which denounces our separa
tion, and hold them as we hold the rest of man
kind—enemies in war, in peace friends.
We, therefore, the representatives of the
United States of America, in General Congress
assembled, appealing to the Supreme Judge of
the world for the rectitude of our intentions,
do, in the name and by the authority of the
good, people of these colonies, solemnly publish
and declare, that these united colonies are, and
of right ought to be, free and independent
States ; that they are absolved from all alle
giance to the British Crown, and that all politi
cal connexion between them and the State of
Great Britain is, and ought to be totally dis
solved ; and then that, us free and independent
States, they have full power to levy war, con
clude peace, contract alliances, establish com
merce, and do to all other acts and things
which independent States mayor right do. And
for the support of this declaration, with a firm
reliance on the protection of Divine Providence,
we mutually pledge to each other our lives, our
fortunes, and our sacred honor.
JOHN HANCOCK, President.
New Diempekire. James Smith,
Josiah Bartlett, George Taylor,
William W hipple, James Wilson,
Matthew Thornton. George Roes.
.. 1 1asertelateetta Bay. Delaware.
Samuel Adams, Ctosar Rodney,
John Adams, George Road,
Robert Trout Paine, Thomas M'koan.
Ethridge Gerry.
..,Wary/a ad.
Rhoda Samuel Chase,
Stephen Hopkins, William Puce,
William Ellery, Thomas Stone,
Connecticut. Chas. Carroll of Carrollton.
Roger Sherman, Irir J inia.
Samuel Huntingdon, George Wytbe,
William Williams, Richard Henry Lee,
Oliver Wolcott. Thomas Jefferson.
New York. Benjamin Harrison,
William Floyd, Thomas Nelson, jr.
Philip Livingston, 1'31111.3N Lightfoot Lee,
Francis Lewis, Carter Braxton.
•
Lewis Morris. North Cantina.
New Jersey. William Hooper,
Richard Stockton, Joseph Hewes,
John Witherspoon, John Penn.
Francis Hopkinson, . South Carolina.
John Hart, Edward Rutledge,
Abraham Clark. Thomas Heyward, jr.
Pennsylvania. Thomas Lynch, jr.
Robert Morris,Arthur Middleton.
Benjamin Rus, Georgia.
Dunjumin Franklin, Button Gwinnet,
John Morton, Lyman Hull,
George Clymer, Geoigo Walton,
In a chariot of light in the regions of day,
The Goddess of Liberty came,
Ten thousand celestials directed the way,
And hither conducted the dame,
A fair budding branch from the garden above,
Where millions with millions agree,
She brought in her Laud as a pledge of her love,
Aud.the plant she named LIBERTY TREE.
The celestial exotic struck deep in the ground,
Like a native it flourished nod bore;
The fame of its fruit drew the nations around,
To seek out this peaceable shore.
Unmindful of name or distinction they came,
For freemen like brothers agree;
With'eno spirit endued, they one friendship pursued
And their temple was LIM= TIME. •
Beneath this fair tree, like the patriarchs of old,
Their bread in contentment they ate,
Unvei'd with the troubles of silver or gold,
Tho oaros of the grand and the great.
With timber and tar, they old England supplied,
And supported hor power on the sea;
nor battles they fought, without getting a groat,
For the honor of LIEERTY TREE.
But hear, 0 yo swains, ('tie a tale most profano,)
How all the tyrannical powers,
King, Commons and Lords, aro uniting amain,
To out down this garden of ours.
From the East to the West Mow the trumpet to arms,
Through the land let the sound of it flee ;
Let the far and•tho near, all unite with a cheer,
In defence of our LITIEPTY TREE.
it'.7'A gentleman in Philadelphia oars to bet
331,000 that Buchanan will carry every State
in. the Union, That is, 31400 on.eachState:
a., July 2, 1856.
He has abdicated government hero by declar
ing us out of his protection, and waging war
against us.
He has plundered our seas, ravaged our
coasts, burnt our towns, and destroyed the
lives of our people.
He is at this time transporting large armies
1 of foreign mercenaries, to complete the work of
death, desolation, and tyrany, already begun,
with circumstances of cruelty and perfidy scarce
ly paralleled in the most barbarous ages, and
totally unworthy the head of a civilized nation.
Ile has constrained our fellow-citizens, taken
captive on the high seas, to bear arms against
their country, to become the executioners of
their friends and brethren, or to fall themselves
by their hands.
He,' has excited domestic insurrections
amongst us, and has endeavored to bring on the A l
inhabitants of our frontiers the merciless t, , • ,
savages, whose known rule of warfare is an un
distinguished destruction of all ages, sexes awl
conditions.
LIBERTY TREE
SPEECH OP ELDER JOHN ADAMS.
Delivered on the subject of the American incirpcnd
awe of 1776.
Sink or swim, live or die, survive or perish
I give my hand, and my heart, to this vote.
It is true, indeed, that in the beginning, w
aimed not at independence. But there is a Di
vinity that shapes our ends. The injustice o
England has driven us to arms : and, blinded
to her own interest, for our good she has ob
stinately persisted, till independence is now
within our grasp. We have but to reach forth
to it. and it is ours.
Why then should we defer the declaration ?
Is any man so weak as now to hope for a recon
ciliation with England, which'shall leave either
safety to his own life, and his honor ? Aro not
you, Sir, who sit in that chair ? is not he, our
venerable col , • , , • ,
consent, by repealing her acts, to acknowledge
that her whole conduct to us has been a course
of injustice and oppression.
Her pride will be less wounded, by submitting
to that course of things which now predestin
ates our independence. than by yielding the
points in controversy to herrebellious subjects.
The former she would regard as the result of
fortune ; the latter she would feel as her own
deep disgrace; Why then, why then, sir, do
we not as soon as possible, change this from a
civil, to a national war ? And since we must
fight it through, why not put us in .a state to
enjoy all the benefits of victory, if wo gain the
victory ?
If we fail. it can beno worse for us. But we
shall not fail. The cause will raise up armies ;
the cause will create navies. The people, if we
are true to them, will carry us, and will carry
themselves, gloriously through this struggle.
I care not how fickle other people have been
found. I know the people of these colonies, and
I know, that resistance to British aggression is
deep and settled in their hearts and cannot be
eradicated. Every colony, indeed has express
ed its willingness to follow, if wo but take the
lead. Sir, the declaration will inspire the peo-,
and
with increased courage, Instead of a lond bloody war, restoration of privileges,fur ad
ng
dress of greivances,
for chartered immunities,
held under a British King, set before them the
glorious objects of entire independence, and
it will breath into them anew the breath of
life.
Read this declaration at the head of the
army ; every sword will be drawn from its
scabbard, and the solemn vow uttered, to main
tain it or to perish on the bed of honor. Pub
lish it from the pulpit ; religion will approve it,
and the love of religious liberty will cling
round it, resolved to stand with it, or, fail
with it. Send it to the public halls ; proclaim
it there : let them hear it who heard the first
roar of the enemy's cannon ; let them see it.
who saw their brothers and their sons fall on
the field of Bunker Hill, and in the streets of
Lexington and Concord, and the very walls
will cry out in its support.
Sir, I know the uncertainly of human af
fairs ; but I see clearly through this day's
business. You and I, indeed may ruo it. We
may not live to the time when this declaration
shall be made good. We may die—die colonists
—die slaves—die, it may be ignominiously, and
on the scaffold. Be it so. Be it so. If it be
the pleasure of Heaven that my country shall
require the poor offering of my life, the victim
shall be ready at the appointed hbtir of sacri
fice. cone when that hour may. But whilst
I do live, let me have a country or at least the
hope of a country, and that a freo country.
But whatever may be our fate, be assured,
'that this declaration will stand. It may cost'
blood I but it will stand, and it will richly
compensate for both. Through the thick gloom
of the present, I see the brightness of the fu-
ture, as the sun in the heavens. We shall
make this aglorious, an immortal day.—
When we are in our graves, our children will
honor it. They will celebrate it with thanks
giving, with festivity, with bonfires and illumi
nations. On its anni.L.l return, they will' shed
tears, copious gushing tears, not of subjection
and slavery, not of agony and distress, but of
exuhation, of gratitude and of joy.
Sir, before God, I believe that the hour has
conic. My judgment approves tut* measure,
and my whole heart is in it.: All that I have,
and all that I hope for in this life, I am here
ready to stake upon. it ; andlleave offesl be-
b • • • or I.
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