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instincts, and incites to deeds of virtue. Enduring
monuments of true greatness, when the mighty
pyramids shall have crumbled to dust, in voiceless
eloquence they will speak terror to tyrants, and bid
patriots hope.
  But there is a freedom higher and holier than
even this-
                  "A liberty unsung
     By poets, and by senators unpraised,
     But liberty of soul, derived from Him,
     Bought with His blood, who gave it to mankind,
     And sealed with the same tokens."

  And yet, though " unpraised," " unsung," it is
that emancipation of the noblest powers of the
human soul, without which the most ample politi-
cal freedom is stamped with slavery. As far as the
heavens are above the earth, as eternity transcends
time, or the immortal mind is superior to its clay
tenement, does freedom to worship-to look up to
God in the full exercise of the powers he has given-
excel mere political emancipation.
  H[igh, therefore, as is our admiration of the
spirit, and courage, and magnanimity, awakened
by a strong impression of the demands of patriotism;
and which, to protect a country's rights, and secure
a country's triumphs against the encroachments of'
foreign or domestic despotism, will brave alike the
carnage of the battle field, the solitude of the bastile,
or the ignominy of the scaffold; the heroism displayed
in behalf of this more exalted object, is of a more
elevated order still. Its achievements and endu-
rances derive a surpassing glory from the superior



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