The Lesson of '76 to the Men of '56

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Excerpt from The Lesson of '76 to the Men of '56: An Oration Delivered Before the Municipal Authorities of the City of Boston, at the Celebration of the Eightieth Anniversary of American Independence July 4, 1856 On this our eightieth national birth-day, fellow citizens, I cannot shut my eyes to the fact that we are fallen on times which try men's devotion to their country, their principles and their age. The republic is trembling in the shocks of a moral earthquake. Events have transpired within a twelvemonth, which, if they could be only blotted out, our golden state itself would be a cheap payment to obliterate. Upon the borders of the republic ruin hangs imminent, a virgin territory, broad enough and bright enough to tempt another Cortes with an iron crew, has been despoiled of the purity of its electoral franchise. 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.