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aided one another, these men and women; how they
persevered through all sorrow and adversity, in
life and death! They lived surrounded by dangers,
in warfare with the natives; they suffered from
the climate, from the want of habitations and
conveniences, and from the lack of food. They lay
sick; they saw their beloved die; they suffered hunger
and cold; but still they persevered. Habitations
they had built were destroyed, and they built
afresh. Amid their struggles with want and adversity,
amid the Indians’ rain of arrows, they founded
their commonwealth and their church; they formed
laws, established schools, and all that could give
stability and strength to a human community. They
wielded the sword with one hand and guided the plow
with the other. Amid increasing jeopardy of life,
they reflected on the welfare of their successors,
and framed laws which every one must admire for their
sagacity, purity, and humanity. Even the animal
creation was placed under the protection of these
laws, and punishment fixed for the mistreatment of
the beast.
And when from the land of the Pilgrims I look abroad
over the United States, I see everywhere, in the
South, North, and West, the country populated, the
empire founded by a people composed of all European
peoples who suffered persecution for
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