An Oration, Delivered Before the Citizens of Tuscaloosa, Ala

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Excerpt from An Oration, Delivered Before the Citizens of Tuscaloosa, Ala: July 4th, 1851 Fellow Citizens: We are assembled to celebrate the seventy-fifth return of the birthday of American liberty. Three quarters of a century ago this day, the thirteen united colonies of Great Britain on this continent declared themselves absolved from all further allegiance to the British crown. Seven years later, at, the close of an exhausting war, they found themselves reduced to the lowest extremity of national distress. All private enterprise was paralyzed and blasted, and a frightful depreciation had fallen upon all the evidences of the public debt. The new States, still in the feebleness of their infancy, and now miserably debilitated by years of wasting warfare, lay widely scattered along a thousand miles of coast, and still half enveloped in the original forest. Intercommunication was slow and difficult. There is not one of them which is not virtually nearer to the European continent at this day than they were then to their nearest neighbors. Though nominally united in a species of compact entered into for the common defence, they found themselves wholly unable to arrange any common scheme for raising up the broken fortunes of the country - for repairing its ruined credit, or stimulating into new life its prostrate industry. A few years of disheartening Experience were sufficient to produce a universal conviction, that something must be done to harmonize their distracted counsels and give unity to their efforts for the common weal. Out of this conviction sprung the measures which resulted in the ultimate adoption of the present federal constitution. It is no part of my purpose, to-day, to indulge in eulogy of this noble instrument. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.