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It is not my intention to doubt that the doctrine of the
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American universal geography, or, A view of the present state of all the empires, kingdoms, states, and republics in the known world, and of the United States of America in particular. In two parts
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for the purpose of illustrating and defending the commonly received orthodoxy of New
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in the United States, may have had these objects; and actually had a separation of the People from their
Government in view, is too evident to be questioned.
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in Boston in 1808, when all the Congregational churches of that city, except the
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were "slavish" and that their skins and skulls were thicker than those of other
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