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From the high ground we stood upon, from the plain path which invited our footsteps, to be so fallen, so lost, is mortifying; but everything of virtue has, in a degree, taken its departure from our land....
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Beck expresses Washington's feelings of mortification over the nation's decline from its virtuous ideals.
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