On the record
Columbia, great Republic, thou art blest, While Empires droop, and Monarchs sink to rest.
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Seward reflects on the blessings of the Republic in contrast to failing empires and monarchies.
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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.
Sink or swim, live or die, survive or perish with my country is my unalterable determination.
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