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that the angry passions which formerly raged with violence, are generally and rapidly declining. May no untoward circumstance occur to interrupt this happy procedure; and, in the language of one of our modern bards,—

"May Erin's sons, of every caste,
Be Irishmen, from first to last,
Nor name or creed divide them."