Speech of the Hon. Edward Everett on American Institutions; In Reply to Dicussion in the British House of Lords; Delivered on the 4th of July
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Speech of the Hon. Edward Everett on American Institutions; In Reply to Dicussion in the British House of Lords; Delivered on the 4th of July

Speech of the Hon. Edward Everett on American Institutions; In Reply to Dicussion in the British House of Lords; Delivered on the 4th of July


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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: SPEECH, Eighty-four years ago this day the Anglo-American colonies, acting by their delegates to the Congress at Philadelphia, formally renounced their allegiance to the British Crown, and declared their independence. We are assembled, fellow- citizens, to commemorate the anniversary of that great day, and the utterance of that momentous declaration. The hand that penned its mighty sentences, and the tongue which, with an eloquence that swept all before it, sustained it on the floor of the Congress, ceased from among the living at the end of half a century, on the same day, almost at the same hour, thirty-four years ago. The last survivor of the signers closed his venerable career six years later; and of the generation sufficiently advanced in life to take a part in public affairs on the Fourth of July, 1776, not one, probably, survives to hail this eighty-fourth anniversary. They are gone, but their work remains. It has grown in interest with the lapse of years, beginning already to add to its intrinsic importance those titles to respect which time confers on great events and memorable eras, as it hangs its ivy and plants its mosses on the solid structures of the past; and we have come together to bear our testimony to the day, the deed, and the men. We have shut up our offices, our warehouses, our workshops?we have escaped from the cares of business, may I not add, from the dissensions of party, from all that occupies, and all that divides us to celebrate, tojoin in celebrating, the birthday of the nation, with one heart and with one voice. We have come for this year 1860 to do our part in fulfilling the remarkable prediction of that noble son of Massachusetts?John Adams?who, in the language of Jefferson, was the Colossus of independence, the pillar of its support on the ...


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  • ISBN-13: 9781458849007
  • Publisher: General Books
  • Publisher Imprint: General Books
  • Height: 229 mm
  • No of Pages: 22
  • Spine Width: 1 mm
  • Width: 152 mm
  • ISBN-10: 1458849007
  • Publisher Date: 14 Oct 2010
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: N
  • Weight: 45 gr


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