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see him again you were gone. Still I felt sure of his return when Congress shall again assemble & that we were again to hold sweet converse together upon subjects of high concern to human welfare whereof he so loved to speak and upon which he could so interest and instruct us all.

Almonst no man in history has done so much to help & so little to harm mankind. When we consider all that he had already done it appears wrong to desire longer to detain him from his reward; but when we think of what the next ten years of his ripened and