Excerpt from An Oration Delivered Before the Democratic Citizens of the County of Worcester, Worcester, July 4, 1887 Many have entered it, and some with signal and lasting bene fit to their countrymen, but there is still rich room for more. In view of the vast variety of considerations which suggest themselves, and recollecting the ability with which this occa sion has been often illustrated, one is at a loss to choose the theme of a discourse addressed to an audience like that be fore me. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

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Excerpt from Oration Before the Democratic Citizens of Oxford, and the Adjoining Towns, in Worcester County, Massachusetts, July 5, 1841 Friends - A great change has come over us since the people of this country assembled a year ago, to recall the glorious associations that will ever surround this day, so long as the love of freedom shall throb in a single bosom. For the first time in the last forty years of our national history, a majority of the people have brought the federal party into power. A year ago, a measure hailed by the party then in the majority as a second Declaration of Independence, the Constitutional Treasury Bill, was signed by Mr Van Buren, the President of the United States, and became the law of the land. To-day he is a private citizen, and that great measure of his administration, which he sustained with such lofty integrity and devoted fidelity, has passed under the ban of his successor in office, and is in the progress of repeal by the new Congress. An extra session of the national legislature, under the call of the new administration, is now convened at Washington, busily engaged in the process of creating a national debt, establishing a national bank, enforcing a high tariff, increasing expenses, and indirectly assuming the state debts, by a distribution of the revenue derived from the public lands. The divorce between bank and state, so solemnly decreed by the people, has been annulled, the bans of marriage are again proclaimed in the Senate Chamber, and the state is once more to be put under bonds, to love, honor, and obey the banks. These are great changes, and they were brought about by great efforts and great promises. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.