An Oration, Delivered Before the Addison County Anti-Slavery Society, on the Fourth of July, 1836 - Couverture souple
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Présentation de l'éditeur
We have met, fellow citizens, on a day consecrated in tiie hearts of us all by patriotic and blessed recollections. It is the natal day of our countrys independence. Hallowed as it is by the toils and blood of our fathers, it should bo held sacred to human liberty and human rights. Though we come not together with banner and trumpet, with parade and ceremony, yet wc 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 witli it, recount their daring achievements, their sacrifices, their sufferings, their toils, their privations, tlioir patient endurance, their self-sacrificing devotion, their trials and their triumphs, that we might enjoy the rich inhcritanc Gwhicli they thus purchased for us. It is good for us to drink in the spirit which animated their bosoms to catch the fervor of their devo. tion 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 tliose 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 fi-eedom, does not swell with unwonted emotions and kindle with tlie noblest aspi. rations. Witli such infl.uences upon him, tlie 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 flowings of the spirit of liberty. But this anniversary should never b
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