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Excerpt from Address Before the Philodemic Society, at the Annual Commencement of Georgetown College, D. C., July 25, 1848
Such are the tendencies of a federative form of government. Such were its happy effects in Mexico. Such the fair blooms of promise that 'were blighted by its overthrow and the substitution, by Santa Anna, of the principle of centralism, which arrested her onward progress.
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