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e; and they prove their devotion to it by maintaining with their blood and their lives the rights and principles asserted by our fathers in 76. The Yankees will probably to-day renew their professions of respect and devotion for them, notwithstanding that they have crushed them into the dust. They are hypocrites and Pharisees enough for that. The Declaration of Independence, fringed and gilt with certain transcendentalisms, imbibed from the French philosophy of the day, with which Mr. Jefferson and his contemporaries had become somewhat inoculated, set forth the popular rights for which we are this day battling. The main principles it asserted the Yankees never could approve. It is that Governments, "derive their just powers from the consent of the governed." The Yankees think they have a right to govern the Southern people against their consent. They have desecrated both the day and the principles which it commemorates, and the very best way in which we can celebrate i