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will prove an act of mercy to the enslaved nations,
so it is of I)inding force to engage the whole and
every interest and conscience, to preserve the
common liberty and peace." The prosperity and
peace which the teeming millions of our population
to-day enjoy, prove the truth of his principles and
the fulfillment of his hopes. Nor should it ever be
forgotten, that the security, the intelligence, the
progress-the everywhere-visible marks of pros-
perity unrivalled, which are ours, spring pre-emi-
nently from the religious liberty which we enjoy.
We have but to open eyes to see its presence, and
appreciate its blessings.
                 " Who with heart and eyes
     Could walk where liberty had been, nor see
     The shining footprints of her deity
     Nor feel those God-like breathings in the air,
     Which mutely told her spirit had been there"