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But it may be due to ourselves and to the country, that the national sense of his character and services should be fitly commemorated.
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Seward suggests that it is important to properly honor the legacy of John Quincy Adams after his passing.
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The measurable failure of this struggle in France, teaches the necessity of due preparation before a people can advance to the permanent possession and enjoyment of their rights.
There are events, the monuments of which, surviving every other memorial of human existence, eternize the nation to whose history they belong, after all other vestiges of its glory have disappeared from the globe.
Fellow-citizens: I will detain you no longer by this faint and feeble tribute to the illustrious dead.
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