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1 L. Vossion, The Centennial of the Constitution of the United States at Philadelphia 1 (1887)

handle is hein.cow/cencusphil0001 and id is 1 raw text is: The Centennial of the Constitution of the United States at Philadelphia. I. O F all the cities of the American Union, Philadel- phia was certainly the most worthy, in all points of view, to be the seat of the resplendent festival by which the Americans have just celebrated the Cen- tennial of their Constitution. In fact, one encounters here at each step the mementos of the War of Independ- ence, and of the creation of the American Union. The descendants of the old Philadelphia families-the Coxe's, Wistar's, Morris's, Rawle's, Meade's, Burd's, Shippen's, Biddle's, Pennypacker's, Cadwallader's, and so many others, of which the members distinguished themselves in that eventful epoch in the councils and on the battle- field-have guarded preciously the glorious heritage which their ancestors have transmitted to them, and in no part of America, is patriotism more ardent and glowing than in this great city, which was the veritable cradle of the modern United States. In the other cities of the Union, especially in the West, patriotism and attachment to the Constitution are also pure and sincere; but no direct bond attaches the inhabitants to this glorious past,

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