Excerpt from Annual Celebration in Honor of the Eighty-Seventh Anniversary of American Independence: At Tammant Hall, Saturday, July 4th, 1863 After appropriate music by the Band, the declaration OF independence was read with decided effect by brother thomas C. Fields. The reading was listened to with the greatest atten tion, and elicited hearty and repeated cheers. The next feature of the occasion was the reciting of Drake's Address to the American Flag, by hosea B. Perkins, esq. Mr. Perkins prefaced his recitation with a few remarks, which were warmly received by the audience, and his delivery of this Splendid poem was loudly applauded throughout. 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.