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1822 April 8.
Lett. Relinquishment profitable
10.
Might have been added
common ancestry.
Still visible in physiognomy
– almost all
particular
gone, that binds few to
few.
11.
These ties considered,
vainly says Taleyrand
to Frenchmen would
you strive for a connection
with Anglo-Americans
as strongly
as theirs with English.
Temporary war suffices
not to render the
separation permanent.
12.
Fertile these sources
of harmony.
1. From sameness of
language, unequalled
facility of intercourse.
By no different language
same associations presented.
From stronger
language, comes imperfect
and wrong conceptions.
13.
2. Of sameness of religion
sure fruit, absence of
religion-begotten antipathies:
presence of
do. sympathies more
or less strong.
14.
3. 4 & 5. Sameness of laws
and customs: add institutions.
On both sides,
from change in Constitutional
law do. in penal
and civil indefinitely
extensive: yet after
any probable change
will remain a bond of
connection stronger
than between either
nation
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nation and one whose
laws were originally different.
So as to institutions.
No time for explaining
the difference
between them and laws.
15.
Of customs in so far
as free, greater will be
the permanence; more
indissoluble the connection
formed by them.
Fandango may remain
after all laws and Constitution
changed.
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