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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1901 edition. Excerpt: ... the clustered columns of free and independent states, and whose base is as broad as the continent--could be shaken to pieces, by striking off the ornaments of its capital. No! this nation lives, not in one man nor a hundred men, however able, however endeared to us; but in th? affections, the virtues, the energies, and the will of the whole American people, INDEPENDENCE DAY.--Rkv. L. Parmely. AN ADDRESS TO AMERICAN YOUTH.' "The Fourth of July, 1776, will be the most remarkable epoch In the history of America. I am apt to believe that it will be celebrated by succeeding generations as the great anniversary festival." John Adams, in a letter to his wife, July 7th, 1776. Independence Day! The booming cannon and rattling firearms! It is not the wrath of battle; but only echo-thunders, rolling back upon us from the great war-tempest of '76. Nor are these sounds now mingled with the cries of the wounded and groans of the dying--mournfully terrific swelling up from the field of blood. The report of guns and voice of artillery that, fall on our ears to-day are all mellowed down into notes of enchanting music, and sweetly chime in with the glorious, triumphal anthem of our national jubilee. Upon the youth of America is conferred the noblest birthright in the whole world. The stars under which you were born beam with brightest promise and kindle loftiest hope. The principles declared and defended by our forefathers, "amid the confused noise of warriors, and garments rolled in blood,"--the great principle, "that all men were created equal," is the broad and only foundation of true greatness. The warguns of '76 exploded that long venerated theory, that royalty must flow alone through the veins of crowned lineage, and...

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