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 These ancient compacts are invaluable

 monuments of an age of virtue, patriotism,

 and disinterestedness. They exhibit the price that great States, which had won lib-

 orty, were wiling to pay for that union, without which they plainly saw it could not be preserved. IL was not for Territory or State power, that our revolutionary fathers took up arms; II was for individual hberiy, and the right of self government. The expulsion from the continent oi British aT- mics and British powers, was then bar ren conquest, If, through the collisions of the redeemed States, the individual rights for which they fought, should become the prey of petty military tyrannies, establish ed at home. To avert such consequences, and throw around liberty the shield of union, States, whose relative strength at tho time gave them preponderating power, mag unanimously sacrificed domains, which would have made them the rivals of empires, oIl- iy stipnlating that they should be disposed of for the common benefit of themselves and the other confcderated States. This enlightened policy produced union, and has secured liberty. It has made our waste l lands 10 swarm with busy people, and ad- ded many powerful States to our conieder- ation. As well for the fruits which these works of our noble ancestors havc nrndn f