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from a freedom-loving individual that may well be taken to heart today. He recalled for his listeners early Norwegian expeditions to the shores of America nearly a thousand years (before, and, said:
“But since then we learned . . , one of the great nations of tho earth had been successful in planting colonies there^That these colonies had grownand flourished, and that, when the mother country" had endeavoredto impose tyrannical^ laws upon them, they had rebelled, and standing up boldly in the presence of mankind had declared before Almighty God, that they were free and independent—that they had been successful and had established a government with a written constitution, based upon the principles of justice and the eternal rights of humanity, that they had spread over almost the entire continent, and had become one of the leading nations of the earth, and that there a home could be found for all who sought it, that the right tjb labor for ourselves would not be denied us, and that our ‘inalienable rights’ of ‘life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness’ would be secured to us.
“Overjoyed with the light and
have sought this country to be partakers in this liberty, to enjoy this freedom, and here iu, this beautiful valjey we have selected our home.”
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