Oration
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Excerpt from Oration: Delivered Before the Addison County Anti-Slavery Society, on the Fourth of July, 1836 We have met, fellow citizens, on a day consecrated in the hearts of us all by patriotic and blessed recollections. It is the natal day of our country´s independence. Hallowed as it is by the toils and blood of our fathers, it should be held sacred to human liberty and human rights. Though we conic not together with banner and trumpet, with parade and ceremony, yet we feel that is good to hail its annual return with tokens of joy and thanksgiving. We would not forget the countless blessings and priceless benefits which have been conferred upon us by our heroic sires, but would rather, under the inspiration of the memories which the occasion brings with it, recount their daring achievements, their sacrifices, their sufferings, their toils, their privations, their patient endurance, their self-sacrificing devotion, their trials and their triumphs, that we might enjoy the rich inheritance which they thus purchased for us. It is good for us to drink in the spirit which animated (heir bosoms - to catch the fervor of their devotion to the rights of man - to break the sluggishness of our own patriotism by estimating the price they paid for the privileges amid which our lot is cast - and to enkindle within our own bosoms those lofty emotions which carried them through want, defeat, despondency and disaster to the proudest triumph in the annals of the world. That soul must, indeed, be dead, that, on this day, with the voice of the past whispering in his ear the deeds of his revolutionary fathers and tuning his heart to the music of freedom, docs not swell with unwonted emotions and kindle with the noblest aspic. rations. With such influences upon him, the sealed fountains of his bosom must be broken up and from their inmost depths will come Welling up the sweetest waters of patriotism-the purest flowing of I ho spirit of liberty. But this anniversary should never be permitted to pass without a recurrence to the principles which were asserted by our forefathers - established by the revolution and made the basis of our political fabric. In our devotions to the name we should not forget the spirit of liberty. If we boast of our institutions, and spend our breath in panegyrics upon those who founded them, let us, at least, be sure to know what they are, for what they were established and how they arc regarded. While we dwell upon the memories of our sires and exalt them to be saints in the calendars of freedom, let us be certain that the doctrines for which they bled, are worthy of acceptation, and that we are not despising and rejecting them. Was the American Revolution a contest about Words? Was there nothing of eternal, immutable right in the principles for which those who achieved it, perilled their all - their lives, their fortunes, and their sacred honor? Did they bare their bosoms to death, and hazard their memories to infamy, for mere abstractions, that should be the watchwords of liberty to-day and the maxims of a discarded philosophy to-morrow? 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.
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