The Nation and the Constitution: An Oration Delivered Before the City Authorities and Citizens of Providence, July 4, 1866Providence Press Company, 1866 - 23 pages |
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... kings were taking up the sceptre of des- potism , it was taken from the hands of the pope . An ad- versary , a terrible adversary rose up against civil and religious despotism ; this adversary was the Bible . The freedom of examination ...
... kings were taking up the sceptre of des- potism , it was taken from the hands of the pope . An ad- versary , a terrible adversary rose up against civil and religious despotism ; this adversary was the Bible . The freedom of examination ...
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... kings were taking up the sceptre of des- potism , it was taken from the hands of the pope . An ad- versary , a terrible adversary rose up against civil and religious despotism ; this adversary was the Bible . The freedom of examination ...
... kings were taking up the sceptre of des- potism , it was taken from the hands of the pope . An ad- versary , a terrible adversary rose up against civil and religious despotism ; this adversary was the Bible . The freedom of examination ...
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... King as to the Legislature might although they were both in full sympathy with seem proper . With perhaps a single ... King's requisitions for to note the manner in which this first Congress supplies . The colonists in isted that being ...
... King as to the Legislature might although they were both in full sympathy with seem proper . With perhaps a single ... King's requisitions for to note the manner in which this first Congress supplies . The colonists in isted that being ...
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... King was authorized to conclude a prior to and on the mo ning of the 4th day of a peace with certain colonies therein named , July . 1776 , there were political bonds connecting the thirteen colonies being named separately in the One ...
... King was authorized to conclude a prior to and on the mo ning of the 4th day of a peace with certain colonies therein named , July . 1776 , there were political bonds connecting the thirteen colonies being named separately in the One ...
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... alone enjoy in fullest sense , the supreme felicity of a day of inde- pendence . It is a great day , for great things have been done on this day . Not a king crowned , but a king re mon le withou gressio Gent allow of the presen of.
... alone enjoy in fullest sense , the supreme felicity of a day of inde- pendence . It is a great day , for great things have been done on this day . Not a king crowned , but a king re mon le withou gressio Gent allow of the presen of.
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Page 11 - Workmen wrought thy ribs of steel, Who made each mast, and, sail, and rope, What anvils rang, what hammers beat, In what a forge and what a heat Were shaped the anchors of thy hope!
Page 19 - Flag of the free heart's hope and home, By angel hands to valor given ! Thy stars have lit the welkin dome, And all thy hues were born in heaven. Forever float that standard sheet ! Where breathes the foe but falls before us, With Freedom's soil beneath our feet, And Freedom's banner streaming o'er us ? JOSEPH RODMAN DRAKE.
Page 28 - The hand that rounded Peter's dome, And groined the aisles of Christian Rome, Wrought in a sad sincerity: Himself from God he could not free; He builded better than he knew : The conscious stone to beauty grew.
Page 22 - What constitutes a State? Not high-raised battlement or labored mound, Thick wall or moated gate; Not cities proud, with spires and turrets crowned; Not bays and broad-armed ports, Where, laughing at the storm, rich navies ride; Not starred and spangled courts, Where low-browed baseness wafts perfume to pride. No: MEN, high-minded MEN...
Page 12 - Then and there was the first scene of the first act of opposition to the arbitrary claims of Great Britain. Then and there the child Independence was born.
Page 14 - On this question of principle, while actual suffering was yet afar off, they raised their flag against a power, to which, for purposes of foreign conquest and subjugation, Rome, in the height of her glory, is not to be compared ; a power which has dotted over the surface of the whole globe with her possessions and military posts, whose morning drum-beat, following the sun, and keeping company with the hours, circles the earth with one continuous and unbroken strain of the martial airs of England.
Page 28 - I am apt to believe that it will be celebrated by succeeding generations as the great anniversary festival. It ought to be commemorated as the day of deliverance, by solemn acts of devotion to God Almighty. It ought to be solemnized with pomp and parade, with shows, games, sports, guns, bells, bonfires, and illuminations, from one end of this continent to the other, from this time forward forevermore.
Page 11 - Thou, too, sail on, O Ship of State! Sail on, O UNION, strong and great ! Humanity with all its fears, With all the hopes of future years, Is hanging breathless on thy fate...