The Genius and Posture of America
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Excerpt from The Genius and Posture of America: An Oration Delivered Before the Citizens of Boston, July 4, 1857 Absent among the mountains of New Hampshire for a week after the Fourth of July, I knew not what a turmoil had been raised over my innocent Oration. The bitter attacks it had drawn forth did not disturb my enjoyment of the charm and peace of nature there. But the abuse heaped on me by an unscrupulous press, has now become a matter of notoriety; and, in yielding to many requests for an authorized pamphlet edition of the Oration, a few prefatory remarks will be appropriate. I was certainly surprised to find that the deterioration of sentiment and the inversion of principle in our country had gone so far that an Oration strictly adapted for a celebration of the Declaration of Independence and the legitimate institutions of the Republic, should be considered unfit for the Fourth of July, and should prove so distasteful to "men who stand high in the community." How far we must have drifted from the principles which the country publicly professes, when a Fourth of July Oration, in order to be palatable, and to win "thanks," must be filled with subserviency to Slavery, and with praise or silence towards the nefarious acts of a corrupt administration! There are men, it seems, by whom an oration, fit to be delivered on the Fourth of July, cannot be listened to with comfort. Is the fault in the truth, in the utterance of it, or in the men whose vice and dishonor it smites? To retort the satire, falsehood, and insult with which some of the newspaper attacks on my Oration are filled, would not be difficult, though it would be tedious: but the scurrilous spirit of wounded hatred which they betray is beneath the dignity, as it is contrary to the principles, of a Christian man. 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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