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"Mr. John G. Whittier has written a letter to a friend in Philadelphia, from which we extract the following: “I quite agree with thee about that great commemoration of the Fourth of July, 1876. It ought to be worthy of the occasion. But at the same time, in the state of our finances, there should be no unnecessary expenditures. There ought to be no local jealousies, and the fact that the interest of the event centres in Philadelphia should not make the East and West and South more willing to aid the celebration. There is nothing sectional in the Declaration of Independence, and its celebration should take part of its universality. I am glad to hear indirectly that thy health is better. I want all the old guard of freedom to hold on as long as I do. I deeply feel the loss of Chase, Greeley, Hale, Tappan and Sumner. Will the next generation have men like them?”"

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San Francisco Elevator

1874-8-1