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Show THE AMERICAN FLAG. "I can even now remember by re-i re-i flections on first beholding the American Ameri-can flag. It never crossed my mind that a time might come when the flag, the emblem of the freedom just alluded to, should be divided by apportioning its stars to the citizens of native birth, and-its stripes only as the portion of I the foreigner. I was, of course, but j young and Inexperienced: and yet. even j recent events have not diminished my I confidence in that ensign of civil and j religious liberty. It is possible I was mistaken, but still I cling to the delusion, delu-sion, if it be one, and as I trusted to that flag on a nation's faith, I think it more likely that its stripes will disappear dis-appear altogether; and that before it shall be employed as an instrument of bad faith towards the foreigners, of every land, the white portions will blush into crimson and the glorious I stars alone will remain." Archbishop Hughes. . |