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our country, which overwhelms our enemies with despair, and commands the respect of all who are friends to virtuous liberty.
It remains for us, by all the means in our power, to support a character so honorable to ourselves and to our country. By the example, conduct and application, to their respective duties, of all public functionaries, the degraded and licentious among us, can be best inspired with those precepts of order, decorum and subordination, which distinguish so pre-eminently, civilized from savage man, and which must be among the first, and most cherished laws of Heaven, since we see their divine essence expressed in the face of all animate; and inanimate creation.
I	conclude gentlemen, by assuring you of my ready, and cordial co-operation with you, at all times, in such measures as may contribute to the safety and prosperity of our country.
NATCHEZ, (M. I.)-PRINTED BY JOHN W. WINN & Co.
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Library of Congress
"Speech of Governor Fulwar Skipwith to the Senate and House of Representatives of the State of West Florida, at St. Francisville, on the 29th of November, 1810. Natchez, (M. T. [Mississippi Territory]) ? Printed by John W. Winn & Co. [1810]." http://www.loc.gov/
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