An Oration Delivered (Classic Reprint)

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Excerpt from An Oration Delivered Mr. President - Ladies and Gentlemen: We hail the Fourth of July! We hail it as a day made gloriously immortal, by one of the most sublime achievements that was ever conceived in patriotism or executed in human wisdom, since the foundations of the earth began. Thus consecrated, we hail its return in the calendar of time, as our great national Sabbath, when we can all, with one accord, seek rest from our secular labors and honor the day with appropriate observances: when men of every political faith, mutually laying aside their partizan difference, as unbecoming the day, meet together in one common brotherhood, to recount, with filial affection, the deeds which our fathers have done, to con, anew, the lessens of virtue and polity which their wisdom has taught us, and to renew, at the altar of our Country, our vows of eternal devotion to her best interest - her integrity, one and indivisible. In this spirit, we may take a retrospect of our history, taking example from its brightness, admonition from its shades, and dwelling with astonishment upon our unparalleled advancement in population, in the manufacturing arts, in agricultural and commercial wealth, and in educational facilities, since our patriot fathers declared to the world, this day, eighty-two years ago, that we were, "and of a right ought to be, a free and independent people." In this spirit, too, we may speculate upon our future, as it presents itself in wonderful progression, until the power of numbers fails in making up an aggregate of the constituents of our national greatness. For these things, as a band of brothers, in the brotherhood of our nationally, we hail the Fourth of July. We hail it with the sounds of war as it is ushered into being, we hail it with songs of triumph at early dawn, we hail it with the horn of plenty at the festive board, through the meridian hours, and we hail it throughout the live long day, in high rejoicings. All hail to the Fourth of July, and may it ever be hailed in its recurring seasons, by us, as a virtuous, united, enlightened, free and prosperous people, until the "Angel shall stand with his right fool upon the sea and his left loot upon the solid land, and swear by Him that liveth for ever and ever, that time was, time is, but time shall be no more." 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.