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There is something exceedingly sublime and melancholy in the spectacle which the present crisis of our history presents. An illustrious and venerable little city-the metropolis of a vast extent of uninhabited country-garrisoned by a doughty host of orators, chairmen, committee-men, burgomasters, schepens, and old women-governed by a determined and