An Oration
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Excerpt from An Oration: Delivered Before the Union and Literary Debating Society, July 4, 1838 On this day, my Fellow-Citizens, sixteen millions of people in the enjoyment of plenty, peace, and prosperity, inhabiting the extent of this varied and vast republic, hold their political sabbath. On this day they assemble - through the hills and the valleys, by the ocean shore, and on the mountain lop; from the chilly North, where, in the watery chase, the bold adventurer smites the Leviathan of the flood, to that generous and genial South, - "Where the citron and olive are fairest of fruit, And the voice of the nightingale never is mute" - In the halls of public legislation - in the open air - beneath the umbrage of the leafy woods - in the temples raised up in honour of the living God, they congregate - to celebrate the epoch of their birth as a Nation - to pour out their gratitude to the Author of all good for the blessings which he still continues to shower upon them - for the complete success with which, in his wisdom and goodness, he was pleased to crown the labours, the sacrifices, the blood, and peril of their fathers in the season of severest trial, and to bind around the monuments of the brave, the patriotic, the dead, but the unforgotten, the fragrant ever green wreath of the People´s gratitude. It is meet that this day should be ever kept holy. It will ever refresh, it will ever profit, to contemplate the truths contained in the Declaration which you have just heard read, and to dwell upon the history of the times in which it had its origin. As the waters are purest where first they bubble up from the sandy earth, so are the fountains of political wisdom and virtue, which find their sources in the days of the Revolution. As the Arab loves to linger over the shaded springs of the Desert, so do we over epochs in our history more refreshing than the stream to the traveller thirsting, or rest to the weary. 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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