Oration on American Independence, Delivered at Akron, Ohio, July 3, 1847
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Excerpt from Oration on American Independence, Delivered at Akron, Ohio, July 3, 1847: Together With the Eulogy Upon General Thomas L. Hamer, Pronounced Before the General Assembly of Ohio, at Columbus, January 18, 1847 Fellow Citizens: - There has been a wonderful change in the condition of civilized man since the memorable document, just now read in your hearing, was promulgated to the world. His conceptions of the object and end of human government, are now widely different from the crude notions which were then entertained by the greatest portion of the people on the habitable globe. The monstrous absurdity that kings ruled by "divine right" had prevailed for centuries; and even in England, under their boasted "Magna Charta," the history of the reign of the Tudors and of the Stuarts is little else than a gloomy picture of the licentiousness of power, when exerted by tyrannical rulers over the heads of an ignorant and servile people. It seems to have been claimed by the crowned heads of the old world, (and the deep debasement of their subjects in most cases conceded the claim to be just.) that the great majority of mankind were placed here, on the earth, for no other purpose than to contribute to their aggrandizement, and that the only proper end of government was to uphold tyranny and punish resistance to oppression. True, this false notion had brought one of the Stuarts to the block, and had sent another into perpetual exile, but these admonitions were productive of no radical change in the monarchal policy of England, which seemed to traverse the earth in quest of objects on which to display its arbitrary power. It finally received a check, and from a quarter of the world where it least expected to meet with resistance. 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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