Oration Delivered Before the Chamberlain Philosophical and Literary Society of Centre College, on the Fourth of July, 1835 (Classic Reprint)

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Excerpt from Oration Delivered Before the Chamberlain Philosophical and Literary Society of Centre College, on the Fourth of July, 1835 Gentlemen of the Chamberlain Society: The discussion, at least in part, of a literary or scientific subject, would, probably, be preferred by this audience which has chosen to participate with an academical society: I shall, however, in conformity with a suggestion in your letter of invitation, adhere to the common topics of the occasion. This is the fourth of July. It has returned for the fiftyninth time since it was the birth-day of American independence. The sun which saw our fathers pledge themselves to resist the tyranny of Great Britian, is again in the heavens. How much there is in a day like this, to exalt patriotism, and give a salutary direction to the national mind! Its arrival tells us that another year has separated us from our fathers, and borne us on towards the period when we, like them, shall exist only in the memory of posterity. We look around, and where are the millions who shouted when news of the declaration of independence was heard? If the present generation was removed, and the remnant of those days left, melancholy would be the spectacle: frail, white-haired men, few and far between, one might raise his voice, and none be near enough to answer. Scenes of the past, usually dim in the mind, are made vivid by the associations of the day. Things of the present hour are for awhile laid by, we enter into communion with the departed, our fathers rise in strong vision, distinct, like the pale stars which gather in the sky when an eclipsed sun spreads its solemn twilight. The clamor of ordinary strife and pursuit being hushed, ancestral admonition is clearly audible. What! silent still, and silent all? Ail no the voices of the dead Sound lile a distant tonei)t s(all And answer Lei one living head, But 07 ie arise JFe come, we come, Tisbul llie liring who are dumb. 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.