as they come upon all nations, must be expected to come upon us also, desponding patriotism may turn its eye hitherward, and be assured that the foundations of our national power still stand strong. (7) We wish that this column, rising toward heaven among the pointed spires of so many temples dedicated to God, may contribute also to produce, in all minds, a pious feeling of dependence and gratitude. (8) We wish, finally, that the last object on the sight of him who leaves his native shore, and the first to gladden his who revisits it, may be something which may remind him of the liberty and the glory of his country. (9) Let it rise, till it meet the sun in his coming; let the earliest light of the morning gild it, and parting day linger and play on its summit.
Now scrutinize it still closer by digging deeper to the thought: (1) As
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