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9 which has doomed my Country to Destruction. -You have begun to burn our Town and murder our People. Look upon your hands! They are etained with the Blood of your Belations! You ana I — were long Friends; you are now my Enemy, and I am Yours, B, Franklin® To Benjamin Franklin was granted the gift of genius, and, as well, the gift of texgp ec enexaen with which he enriched his nation and the world. ‘Tis true that to every man is not given the art to avow his convictions in such masterly fashion as it was given to this man of letters and science} but to each ie given the gift of grace by which, in his own way, he may apply his faith in God and loyalty to his country. Patriot, stateman, scientist, he knew that crimes committed brand with infamy, not alone the oriminals, but also those who stand idly by, for he who complacently permite shameful cruelties or traitorous acts shares the guilt of him who practices them. And, I repeat, there are today many in America who are guilty of apathetically condoning the actions of faithfless, traitorous men who seek out, sway and mislead those who, in ignorance or weakness, yield to their sinister sohemings and betray their God, their country and their fellowman. Yet the very history of our United States 4s the story of our ceaseless struggles to keep alive our " precious faith in God and country and to defend this faith from enemies who would corrupt.and destroy it. I myself sew the costly writing of this history during a quarter of a million miles of wareyears' travel over the a1