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No people can be bound to acknowledge the invisible hand which conducts the affairs of men more than the people of the united States. Every step by which they have advanced to the character of an independent nation seems to have been distinguished by some token of providential agency

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George Washington
Age: 67 †
Born: 1732
Born: February 22
Died: 1799
Died: December 14
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