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BY its powers! How many q warm and phi.
lapthropic heart has been chilled by its ICY
touch 1t stalked within the walls OF our
Capitol, and there left the stains Of its pollut.
ing touch on our national glory. 1t has leaped
over the pale of the church, and even reached
up its sacriligious arms to the pulpit, and drag
ged down some of its brightest ornaments. 1t
has revelled equally on the spoils OF the pa
lace, and the cottage. In whatever light we
view il, whether as an individual, social, or
a national evil, as affecting our personal inde-
pendence and happiness, our national wealth
and industry; as reducing our power OF name
and military defence; as enfeebling the intel
lectual enerkI&s of the nation, and undermln-
ing the health Of our fellow-citizens; as SINK
ing the patriotism and valor Of the nation as
increasing poverty and taxation; as saPping
the foundations Of our moral and religious IN
stiurions, or as introducing disorder. distress,
and ruin, into families and societies, It calls to
us, in a voice of thunder, to awake from our
slumbers, to seize every weapon, and weld
every power which the God of nature has
placed within our reach, to protect ourselves,
and our fellow-citizens, from its ravages