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it from its great valley. As it came, so, by secret compact, the Spanish flag went—to be replaced not by the old Fleur-de-Lys, but by the Tricolor; the new and glorious banner of liberty, equality, and fraternity. It was easily made at home in a city whose republicanism under the pruning of Spanish rule had only rooted itself the more deeply.
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CANAL STREET, NEW ORLEANS.
