Their reluctance to abandon it has however been proportioned to the ardor and fondness with which they embraced it. The excesses which have constantly multiplied, with greater and greater aggravations have successively though slowly detached reflecting men from their partiality for an object which has appeared less and less to merit their regard. But this unanimity of approbation has been for a considerable time decreasing. As long therefore as the Revolution of France bore the marks of being the cause of liberty it united all hearts and centered all opinions. The love of Liberty is here the ruling passion of the Citizens of the United States pervading every class animating every bosom. In the early periods of the French Revolution, a warm zeal for its success was in this Country a sentiment truly universal.
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