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Look back on these forebodings, not hastily but reluctantly made, and see how in every instance they have completely failed.
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To the hopes of the hostile, the fears of the timid, and the doubts of the anxious actual experience has given the conclusive reply.
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Overlooking partial and temporary evils as inseparable from the practical operation of all human institutions, and looking only to the general result, every patriot has reason to be satisfied.