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The spirit of the age Remd &- be for organization-& harmonious have doubts who there? it is advantages & the agm.? & I probably has advantageous though in any event the fact remains his people cannot get together to talk on any subject with out straight way electing a insider & [illegible] a secondary, With regard to the military services that our country is continuing with at present, I suppose we may call the [scarcity?] of the [relm?] & the Cincinnati the father

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of them all and as you are well aware the opperation & that treaty? in the beginning was beyond all and town whom the boundaries of the states are made and the well of laws drawn up. I have as a constitution for each state. You may remember those were but remarkable articles for judicial? for the abolition of slavery after the year 1800 The other announced that no one believing an [insidious?] title should

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ever become a citizen of the new States. But each was struck out by the house-deserving of notice as they were she? one? because it was the first attempt at material condemnation of slavery the other because it was a public expression of the dread with which our ancestors beheld the growth up the security? of the circumstances? the order of the society of the Cincinnati was framed April 1783 at the suggestion