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Identifier: ohioarchological02ohio_0 (find matches)
Title: Ohio archæological and historical quarterly
Year: 1888 (1880s)
Authors: Ohio State Archaeological and Historical Society
Subjects: History Archaeology
Publisher: Columbus : Published for the Society by A.H. Smythe
Contributing Library: Allen County Public Library Genealogy Center
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and to all the acts and ordinances ofthe United States in Congress assembled conformablethereto. These purposes inspired them when they drewtheir swords. They laid down their swords when thesepurposes were accomplished. It is this that makes the birthday of Ohio another birth-day of the nation itself. Forever honored be Marietta asanother Plymouth. The Ordinance belongs with the Dec-laration of Independence and the Constitution. It is oneof the three title deeds of American constitutional lib-erty. As the American youth for uncounted centuriesshall visit the capital of his country — strongest, richest,freest, happiest of the nations of the earth — from thestormy coast of New England, from the luxuriant regionsof the Gulf, from the Lakes, from the prairie and theplain, from the Golden Gate, from far Alaska—he willadmire the evidences of its grandeur and the monumentsof its historic glory. He will find there rich libraries andvast museums, and great cabinets which show the product
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Oration of Hon. George F. Hoar. 49 of that matchless inventive genius of America, which hasmultiplied a thousand fold the wealth and comfort of humanlife. He will vSee the simple and modest portal throughwhich the great line of the Republics chief magistrateshave passed at the call of their country to assume anhonor surpassing that of em^perors and kings, and throughwhich they have returned, in obedience to her laws, totake their place again as equals in the ranks of theirfellow-citizens. He will stand by the matchless obeliskwhich, loftiest of human structures, is itself but the im-perfect type of the loftiest of human characters. He willgaze upon the marble splendors of the Capitol, in whosechambers are enacted the vStatutes under which the peopleof a continent dwell together in peace, and the judgmentsare rendered which keep the forces of states and nationalike within their appointed bounds. He will look uponthe records of great wars and the statues of great com-manders. But, if he

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