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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... feel that it would be ungracious , and my silence might be misconstrued , especially when called upon to respond to the health of President Johnson . For long years I belonged to a party opposed to Andrew Johnson , a party which ...
... feel that it would be ungracious , and my silence might be misconstrued , especially when called upon to respond to the health of President Johnson . For long years I belonged to a party opposed to Andrew Johnson , a party which ...
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... feel or think we Americans can now apply with some little alteration to the whole country , the beautiful eulogy , which Webster once confined to the state of Massachusett . « She needs no encomium : there she is ; behold her , and ...
... feel or think we Americans can now apply with some little alteration to the whole country , the beautiful eulogy , which Webster once confined to the state of Massachusett . « She needs no encomium : there she is ; behold her , and ...
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... feel or think we Americans can now apply with some little alteration to the whole country , the beautiful eulogy , which Webster once confined to the state of Massachusett . « She needs no encomium : there she is ; behold her , and ...
... feel or think we Americans can now apply with some little alteration to the whole country , the beautiful eulogy , which Webster once confined to the state of Massachusett . « She needs no encomium : there she is ; behold her , and ...
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... feels , knows with a strong assurance , that she is his own govern- ment . Every thread in her banner has been woven there by his own hand . Every law in her statute book has been recorded there for his sake . Every acre of her ...
... feels , knows with a strong assurance , that she is his own govern- ment . Every thread in her banner has been woven there by his own hand . Every law in her statute book has been recorded there for his sake . Every acre of her ...
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... feel ourselves to be a people wholly free , and standing on the very threshold of a work too large to measure , and almost too appalling to contemplate . The blood in the veins of every European nation- ality runs sluggishly and timidly ...
... feel ourselves to be a people wholly free , and standing on the very threshold of a work too large to measure , and almost too appalling to contemplate . The blood in the veins of every European nation- ality runs sluggishly and timidly ...
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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...