Excerpt from An Oration, Delivered on Monday, Fourth of July, 1825, in Commemoration of American Independence: Before the Supreme Executive of the Commonwealth, and the City Council and Inhabitants of the City of Boston Why, on this day, lingers along these sacred walls, the spirit-kindling anthem Why, on this day, waits the herald of God at the altar, to utter forth his holy prayer? Why, on this day, con gregate here the wise, and the good, and the beau tiful of the land -fathers! Friends! It is the sabbath day on freedom! The race of the ran somed, with grateful hearts and exulting voices, have again come up, in the sunlight of peace, to the Jubilee of their Independence! 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.