Oration
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Excerpt from Oration: Delivered Before the Young Men´s Association of Brooklyn, N. Y., On the Fourth of July, 1863 In the dark hour of national adversity and trial we meet to commemorate the ever memorable Declaration of Independence. We celebrate the eighty-seventh anniversary of the nation´s birth-day. Gloomy and clouded as are the visions of the future, the memories awakened by the recurrence of this day should inspire us with hope. We should more than ever appreciate our deep responsibility. We have enjoyed the great privilege of free constitutional government. We owe our admiration and our gratitude to the men who framed that government and created the nation; and we are, indeed, unworthy the inheritance if we allow all our aspirations for the future grandeur of our country, and all our recollections of her past career, to be changed to bitter disappointment and despair. Our nation, as we reckon the age of nations, is yet in its infancy: one of the most prosperous upon which the sun of heaven has ever shone, she had reached greatness, as the poet described the birth of Venice, from the wave of the Adriatic, "As by the touch of the enchanter´s wand." A giant nation, yet in its infancy. Its vast geographical extent, its territorial acquisitions, the mighty increase of its population - from three millions at the date of her independence to more than thirty-one millions - the tide of immigration still swelling and peopling its fertile regions with enterprising and industrious races, already the granary of more than half the world; the spread of education, the rapidity with which civilization and the arts have advanced, have been the theme of wonder and astonishment to the whole civilized world. Prosperous at home, abroad our country ranked as one of the great nations of the earth. 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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