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TO A PRESIDENT.

ALL you are doing and saying is to America dangled          mirages;

You have not learn'd of Nature—of the politics of          Nature, you have not learn'd the great ampli-          tude, rectitude, impartiality;

You have not seen that only such as they are for These          States,

And that what is less than they, must sooner or later          lift off from These States.

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