Excerpt from An Oration Delivered Wednesday, July 4, 1827, in Commemoration of American Independence: Before the Supreme Executive of the Commonwealth, and the City Council and Inhabitants of the City of Boston In the year 1761, in that old building, which still remains a monument to the eloquence, patriotism and fearlessness of our Fathers, James Otis, first boldly expressed those sentiments of independ ence, those maxims of eternal right, those principles of natural equality among men, which lighted up in the minds of his willing hearers, that ame of liberty which was never to be extinguished. 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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