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all the world, and of civil and religious liberty,
in the fullest extent,—with all the powers of go-
vernment emanating from the people, "the only
legitimate source—and all the public function-
aries amenable to them, for the exercise of their
delegated trusts;—with an abundance of the ne-
cessaries and comforts of human life and enjoy-
ment, generally diffused through all ranks of
society;—and with all the great interests of the
country, cherished and protected with an exclu-
sive view to the national prosperity and general
welfare. And whilst our hearts are wanned
with gratitude to Almighty God for those vari-
ous blessings, the mind, on an occasion like the
present, naturally and unavoidably reverts to
the recent most astonishing occurrence of the
death, on the fiftieth Anniversary of our Na-
tional existence, of the two great apostles of
liberty, most distinguished in the Declaration
of our Independence;—the one as its author, and
the other as its most efficient advocate. On
the last National Jubilee, Jefferson and Adams
both paid the great debt of nature, and whilsta
grateful people were assembled round the festive
board, and in the fulness of their hearts, Pour
ing out their feelings of admiration of these
great benefactors, and their revolutionary com-
patriots, they passed from their labours, to ap-
pear "before the judge of all the earth. " and
we humbly gust that their sentence was, "Well