Historical Oration

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Excerpt from Historical Oration: Delivered at Champlain, N. Y., On the Fourth of July, 1877 Mr. President: Ladies and Gentlemen: Citizens: - Standing face to face under these benign skies and beneath our starry banner, the flag of a hundred years, with joyful reverence and sincere thanksgiving to the stupendous Artificer of heaven and earth, the Giver and Preserver of our lives, be it ours to celebrate with one accord the birthday of a free and happy nation. Fled away is the red man's reign of a thousand years, the white face is monarch of land and lake. And while you listen, I will tell you the story of how this change transpired. It was on the morning of the 4th day of July, in 1609, that Captain Samuel de Champlain, a Frenchman by birth, and then governor of Canada, accompanied by sixty painted warriors of the Algonquin and Huron tribes, embarked in twenty-four birch-bark canoes, came up the river below where now stands Fort Montgomery, and entered the waters of our beautiful lake. The appearance of the pale face was the signal for a new era in all these lands, thenceforth the march of navigation, commerce, and civilization through this valley began, nor ceases with the years. Champlain brought with him the two pacificators of barbarianism, namely, the Bible and the fire-arm. 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.