The Youthful Franklin An Oration Delivered At the Unveiling of a Statue of Ben
The Youthful Franklin An Oration Delivered At the Unveiling of a Statue of Ben
Beck James Montgomery
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, the Declaration of Independence, the Treaty of Alliance J with France, the Treaty of Peace with England, and last, but not least, the Constitution of the United States. To that great document, which so far has given a practical realization of the highest ideals of American liberty, and which is probably the greatest state document yet penned by man, Franklin s contribution was ines timable. Apart from the compromise measures which he proposed, which saved the Convention from disintegrating wi...thout its glorious result, it was the potent power of Franklin s personality, with its shrewd union of political sagacity and tactful savoir fair, which so reconciled the discordant members of the convention that they finally agreed to sign the document for submission to the people. This was the last and perhaps the most useful of his achievements. Conscious that, like Moses, he could on ac count of age only behold the promised land from afar and not enter therein, it was with the prescience of an inspired prophet that at the close of the great convention he pointed to the half disc upon the speaker s chair and said in substance that while he had often wondered in the course of the four months deliberations whether that picture of the sun represented it as rising or setting, he now knew that it symbolized "a rising sun.
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