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Excerpt from Judaism Patriotism Fraternalism
On a summer day in 1845, in the little town where I was born in the Rhenish Provinces, the postman brought a letter which was written in the United States by an uncle of mine, whose son is the President of Dr. Berkowitz's Temple at Philadelphia. Among other things which the letter contained, there was a picture of George Washington, and a translation of the Declaration of Inde pendence in German. The feeling that overcame me in looking at the one, and reading the other, is as Vivid and distinct today as it was then, more than seventy years ago, and day and night from that time until I had the pleasure and good fortune of accompany ing my sainted grandparents to this country, the thought was what a wonderful man George Washington must have been, and what a fairyland it must be, where all men are born free and equal. And thus, when on the 19th day of July, 1848, I landed in New York, an immigrant boy, I was to all intents and purposes an American, and during these seventy years, I have never de parted from that lofty conception of duty to American citizenship that had been formed in the land of my birth.
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