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We wish that this column, rising towards 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. We wish, finally, that the
last object to the sight of him who leaves his native shore, and the first to
gladden his who revisits it, may be something which shall remind him of the
liberty and the glory of his country. Let it rise! let it rise, till it meet the sun in
his coming; let the earliest light of the morning gild it, and the parting day
linger and play on its summit!--Daniel Webster
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