1. ۱YOU just maturing youth! You male or female!
2. ۲Remember the organic compact of These States,
3. ۳Remember the pledge of the Old Thirteen thenceforward to the rights, life, liberty,
4. ۴ equality of
5. ۵ man,
6. ۶Remember what was promulged by the founders, ratified by The States, signed in black and
7. ۷ white
8. ۸ by the Commissioners, and read by Washington at the head of the army,
9. ۹Remember the purposes of the founders,—Remember Washington;
10. ۱۰Remember the copious humanity streaming from every direction toward America;
11. ۱۱Remember the hospitality that belongs to nations and men; (Cursed be nation, woman, man,
12. ۱۲ without hospitality!)
13. ۱۳Remember, government is to subserve individuals,
14. ۱۴Not any, not the President, is to have one jot more than you or me,
15. ۱۵Not any habitan of America is to have one jot less than you or me.
16. ۱۶
17. ۱۷Anticipate when the thirty or fifty millions, are to become the hundred, or two hundred
18. ۱۸ millions, of equal freemen and freewomen, amicably joined.
19. ۱۹
20. ۲۰Recall ages—One age is but a part—ages are but a part;
21. ۲۱Recall the angers, bickerings, delusions, superstitions, of the idea of caste,
22. ۲۲Recall the bloody cruelties and crimes.
23. ۲۳
24. ۲۴Anticipate the best women;
25. ۲۵I say an unnumbered new race of hardy and well-defined women are to spread through all
26. ۲۶ These
27. ۲۷ States,
28. ۲۸I say a girl fit for These States must be free, capable, dauntless, just the same as a
29. ۲۹ boy.
30. ۳۰
31. ۳۱Anticipate your own life—retract with merciless power,
32. ۳۲Shirk nothing—retract in time—Do you see those errors, diseases, weaknesses,
33. ۳۳ lies,
34. ۳۴ thefts?
35. ۳۵Do you see that lost character?—Do you see decay, consumption, rum-drinking, dropsy,
36. ۳۶ fever, mortal cancer or inflammation?
37. ۳۷Do you see death, and the approach of death?