Daniel Webster,
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| "We have come to this Rock, to record here our
homage for our Pilgrim Fathers; our sympathy in their sufferings; our gratitude for their
labours; our admiration of their virtues; our veneration for their piety; and our
attachment to those principles of civil and religious liberty, which they encountered the
dangers of the ocean, the storms of heaven, the violence of savages, disease, exile, and
famine, to enjoy and establish. – And we would leave here, also, for the generations
which are rising up rapidly to fill our places, some proof, that we have endeavored to
transmit the great inheritance unimpaired; that in our estimate of public principles, and
private virtue; in our veneration of religion and piety; in our devotion to civil and
religious liberty; in our regard to whatever advances human knowledge, or improves human
happiness, we are not altogether unworthy of our origin…" |
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