When I look back on the gloomy days of last winter, and see America suspended by a thread, I feel a triumph of joy at the recollection of her delivery, and a reverence for the characters which snatched her from destruction.
Paine expresses profound relief and admiration when recalling America's precarious state during the previous winter and its subsequent rescue.
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