his address which show a flowery finesse worthy of the polished gentleman
that he was:
Pardon me, gentlemen, that I beg in the name of my compatriots to
return you our thanks for thus finishing your work so nobly commenced when
we were suffering under the arbitrary power of a despot – that the virtue
of a free people has not suffered those to become mendicants and wanderers
among the virtuous, who have suffered for Liberty, and who are now exiles.
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