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Title: Memorial of Captain Thomas Abbey, his ancestors and descendants of the Abbey family, pathfinders, soldiers and pioneer settlers of Connecticut, its Western Reserve in Ohio and the great West ..
Year: 1916 (1910s)
Authors: Freeman, Alden, 1862-
Subjects: Abbey, Thomas, 1731-1811 Abbey family (John Abbey, ca. 1613-ca.1689) Freeman family (Henry Freeman, d. 1763)
Publisher: (East Orange, N.J., The Abbey printshop)
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: The Library of Congress

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pany of men moved by the spirit of God were readyto enter upon a great spiritual enterprise. I dont use the termpolitical, or national, or social or civic, because it was morethan all of these things; it was above all things a spiritual enter-prise and a spiritual conquest; and the America of the Revolu-tion was another spiritual conquest, and the America of 1861-65for which these fine men fought, for which these brave menbled, the America of 1861 was yet another spiritual enterprise.We fought not for the South, nor against the South; we fought—these men fought—for a new rebirth of freedom for Americaand all the world. And the America of the future—will we dare to make thata spiritual enterprise? We had to conquer the mother land inorder to create the Republic; the question now faces us, will webe great enough to conquer ourselves in order to re-create theRepublic. What is this new America, of which we ought tobe the authors, as this man was one of the authors of the America 160
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Photographed from the Belfry of Enfield Church by Wm. Bradbury Abbeyduring Rabbi Wises address. In the background the Connecticut River and Valley. of his day? What are to be the ideals of America? I foundmy inspiration to-day—or rather I found a confirmation of myown thought—in the beautiful badges worn by the gentlemen ofthe Order of Cincinnati. I ask you to remember the primarymeaning, not the etymological significance, of the term respublica. Res publica is a Latin phrase which is to be translated,the common way or the common weal, and the question thatthe America of 1916 faces is this: Do we continue to cherishthe ideal of the common weal, the ideal of the country which isto be served only if needs must in war, but to be served all thetime, every day and every hour, by the virtues of peace, by thevalors of peace and by the noblenesses of the light of peace.Do you understand what the Republic means—the republic meanslaw, one law for all men, and more than one law, one unvary

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