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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... rich in material prosper- ity , swift in moral and intellectual progress , abound- ing in patriotism . Popular liberty , guarded by liberal laws , makes a government strong and a people loyal . mon le withou gressio Gent allow of the ...
... rich in material prosper- ity , swift in moral and intellectual progress , abound- ing in patriotism . Popular liberty , guarded by liberal laws , makes a government strong and a people loyal . mon le withou gressio Gent allow of the ...
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... , patriotism , and states- manship , are the rich heritage of the country . In place of our foremost men appear the names of accidental heroes and political schemers . Senatorial dignity has even descended to the illiterate adventurer , 15.
... , patriotism , and states- manship , are the rich heritage of the country . In place of our foremost men appear the names of accidental heroes and political schemers . Senatorial dignity has even descended to the illiterate adventurer , 15.
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... wine to please the taste and warm the heart ; throughout the year herds of cattle and sheep browse on rich herbage , and supply food and raiment ; your citizens are cosmopolitan in tone , taste , and habits ; exempt 21.
... wine to please the taste and warm the heart ; throughout the year herds of cattle and sheep browse on rich herbage , and supply food and raiment ; your citizens are cosmopolitan in tone , taste , and habits ; exempt 21.
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... rich plains of Texas . Lately the magnificent territory of the extreme northwest has been bought . It cannot be many years before that people who have resisted tyranny with wonderful bravery , who have at last hedged in within a wall of ...
... rich plains of Texas . Lately the magnificent territory of the extreme northwest has been bought . It cannot be many years before that people who have resisted tyranny with wonderful bravery , who have at last hedged in within a wall of ...
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... rich a domain . The wealth that lies hidden in the rocky caverns of the Alleghanies and in the fastnesses of the Cumberland range , calling on the thrift and enterprise of the new generation of young men , is beyond all calculation ...
... rich a domain . The wealth that lies hidden in the rocky caverns of the Alleghanies and in the fastnesses of the Cumberland range , calling on the thrift and enterprise of the new generation of young men , is beyond all calculation ...
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Page 29 - 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 5 - 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 2 - 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 28 - 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 6 - No farther seek his merits to disclose, Or draw his frailties from their dread abode (There they alike in trembling hope repose), The bosom of his Father and his God.
Page 9 - Yet now despair itself is mild, Even as the winds and waters are; I could lie down like a tired child, And weep away the life of care Which I have borne and yet must bear...
Page 29 - 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...