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For when before has it happened that in such a condition of society the son has, by mere civic achievement, attained the eminence of such a sire, and effaced remembrance of birth by justly acquired renown?
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Seward praises the achievement of a son who surpasses his father's legacy through civic accomplishments.
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Let it be remembered, that it has ever been the pride and the boast of America, that the rights for which she contended were the rights of human nature.
That freedom and that security required that the nations of Europe should relax their grasp on the American Continent.
But power, confessedly derived from the people, must be exercised in obedience to their will, and must be resigned to them again, at least in death.
The recital of heroic actions loses its chief value, if we cannot discover the principles in which they were born.
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