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The Town of Poughkeepsie - Agricultural & Commercial. Her places and her xx never idle.
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NOTE:
Order of toasts probably wrong - original digitally cut up and reassembled
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Very little more than 50 years ago we were a puny sattelite revolving around the primary Brittania.
We are now independent xx of half a century's duration. We neither have or wish a sattelite.
And bright among the brightest
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The aborigines of this country, now fast receding from existence - May we who possess their lakes
& their rivers, their mountains & their plains, inherit at least one of their virtues - an
inextinguishable love of liberty.
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The women of the United States.
"None but the brave, None but the brave, None
"but the brave deserve the fair.
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The army & navy of the Union.
When the occasion occurs may the xx xx want a Washington, Layfayette or a Green, the latter a
puny Mr. x or a bainbridge.
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The Eagle of northern & the Condor of southern America from their lofty eyry's
behold a moity of the globe happily released from
European thraldom & free as the western breezes they inhale.
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Scraps in Henry's handwriting, signed with letter R
New York Public Library
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Good old Dutchess - His sons among the first in science, the arts, and in griculture.
Her daughters among the fairest of the fair.
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