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Excerpt from Biography of the Signers to the Declaration of Independence, Vol. 6
But if impartiality requires the admission, that the delegates to the American congress, at that eventful period, had in some respects their equals; justice no less compels us to assert that they had not their superiors in zeal, and devotion to the pub lic cause; nor were they excelled in reputation for integrity, without which perfect confidence could not be reposed in them.
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