An Oration: Delivered on Tuesday, the Fourth of July, 1826, It Being the Fiftieth Anniversary of American Independence, Before the Supreme Executive ... of the City of Boston (Classic Reprint) - Tapa blanda

Excerpt from An Oration: Delivered on Tuesday, the Fourth of July, 1826, It Being the Fiftieth Anniversary of American Independence, Before the Supreme Executive of the Commonwealth, and the City Council and Inhabitants of the City of Boston

Carthaginian, to swear enmity to another nation, but, in the spirit of obedience and under a sense of moral and religious obligation, to inquire what it is to fulfil well our duty to ourselves and our posterity. And while we pass before our eyes, in long array, the ou'tspread images of our fathers' virtues, let us strive to excite, in our own bosoms, and enkindle in each others, that intense and sacred zeal, by which their patriotism was animated and refined. Fifty years after the occurrence of the greatest of our national events, we gather, with our children, around the tombs of our fathers, as we trust, - and may heaven so grant - fifty years hence, these children will gather around ours, in the spirit of gratitude and honour - to contemplate their glory -to seek the lessons suggested by their exam ple; - and to examine the principles, on which they laid the foundations of their country's prosperity and greatness, But if, as Americans, it be natural and suitable to con~ secrate this day in our affections, how much more as citi zens of Boston, - inhabitants of that city, known through the world, as the cradle of American liberty - standing, as we do, under the canopy of that sacred temple,* which was honoured, in the most trying times of our revolution, by the boldest breathings of our chiefest patriots which was pol luted, in the most disastrous times, by the war-horse, which neighed and stabled, in this sanctuary - surrouncied, as we are, by the direct descendants of those, who were first and most fearless, in the day of severest trial!

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