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Carlile's Declaration.

The world has not seen of late ages anything more amusing than Carlile & Co.'s parody of the Declaration of Independence.--Who of them is the Jefferson of the new Revolution? Carlile must remind everybody of the Father of his Country in the dignity and grandeur of his character, as well as the majesty and purity of his personal department — There is no difficulty in discovering the parallel between George Washington and John S. Carlile, but who is the performer of Jefferson?

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