An Oration Delivered Before the Inhabitants of the Town of Newburyport At Their
The book An Oration Delivered Before the Inhabitants of the Town of Newburyport At Their was written by author Adams, John Quincy, 1767-1848 Here you can read free online of An Oration Delivered Before the Inhabitants of the Town of Newburyport At Their book, rate and share your impressions in comments. If you don't know what to write, just answer the question: Why is An Oration Delivered Before the Inhabitants of the Town of Newburyport At Their a good or bad book?
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And this, my fellow citizens, or I have mistaken thti 48 motives by which you have been actuated, is the pur- pose for which you are here assembled. It is to enjoy the bounties of heaven for the past, and to prepare for the duties of the future. It is to revie^v the principles proclaimed by the founders of your em. Pire ; to examine Vv'hat has been their operation upon your own destinies, and upon the history of mankind ; to scrutinize with an observing eye, and a cool, deliberate judgment, you...r condition at this day ; to compare it with that of your fathers on the day which you propose to commemorate ; and to discern what portion of their principles has been retained inviolate, — what portion of them has been weak- ened, impaired, or abandoned ; and what portion of them it is your first of duties to retain, to preserve, to redeem, to transmit to your offspring, to be cherished, maintain- ed, and transmitted to iheir posteiity of unnumbered ages to come. We have consulted the records of the past, and I liave appealed to your consciousness of the present ; and what is the sound, which they send forth to att the echoes of futurity, but Union ; — Union as one People, — Union so as to be divided by no act whatever.
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