Excerpt from Celebration of the One Hundred and Fourteenth Anniversary of the Declaration of American Independence by the Society of Tammany or Columbia Order: Held at Tammany Hall, Friday, July 4th, 1890 Columbia, the gem of the ocean, The home of the brave and the free, The shrine of each patriot's devotion, A world Offers homage to thee, Thy mandates make heroes assemble, When liberty's form stands in view, Thy banners make tyrants tremble, When borne by the Red, White and Blue. 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.