The Nation and the Constitution: An Oration Delivered Before the City Authorities and Citizens of Providence, July 4, 1866Providence Press Company, 1866 - 23 páginas |
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... less than men to an account , they that imagined a vain thing were ruled with a rod of iron and dashed in pieces like a potter's vessel . But in such a political system as ours , the sword can never be the final arbiter . It flashes ...
... less than men to an account , they that imagined a vain thing were ruled with a rod of iron and dashed in pieces like a potter's vessel . But in such a political system as ours , the sword can never be the final arbiter . It flashes ...
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... less a nation under the articles of confederation than they had been while owning a common allegiance to the British Crown . Their inchoate nationality was only marred and defaced by that miserable makeshift , the child of narrow ...
... less a nation under the articles of confederation than they had been while owning a common allegiance to the British Crown . Their inchoate nationality was only marred and defaced by that miserable makeshift , the child of narrow ...
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... less com- pact than barbarian or feudal monarchies , would imply that civilization itself is anarchy . The Federal systems of ancient Greece were weak , because their starting point was the separate sover- eignty of cities ; ours is ...
... less com- pact than barbarian or feudal monarchies , would imply that civilization itself is anarchy . The Federal systems of ancient Greece were weak , because their starting point was the separate sover- eignty of cities ; ours is ...
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... less long with us it has not been less intense . If not our entire history , the last ten years of it , have shown where we stand . We have not shrunk from our principles . Though a bitter , a painful , pay a terrible cup was presented ...
... less long with us it has not been less intense . If not our entire history , the last ten years of it , have shown where we stand . We have not shrunk from our principles . Though a bitter , a painful , pay a terrible cup was presented ...
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... less long with us it has not been less intense . If not our entire history , the last ten years of it , have shown where we stand . We have not shrunk from our principles . Though a bitter , - a painful , pay a terrible cup was ...
... less long with us it has not been less intense . If not our entire history , the last ten years of it , have shown where we stand . We have not shrunk from our principles . Though a bitter , - a painful , pay a terrible cup was ...
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American arms army articles of confederation authority battle beautiful blessings blood Boston Boston Massacre British cause celebration century CHARLES FRANCIS ADAMS Cheers church citizens civil colonies common Congress Constitution continent Continental Congress Declaration of Independence despotism divine duty earth England equal Europe faith fathers fellow-citizens flag Fourth of July freedom future Gent allow glory grand hands happy heart heroes honor hope human hundred institutions John Adams justice King labor land legislation live loyal manhood Massachusetts ment Messieurs mighty millions moral nation never noble ocean old world ORATION ORATION DELIVERED patriotism peace peril Philibert Berthelier political present principles progress prosperity race rebellion religious liberty republic republican revolution rich ship Sitka slavery soil sovereignty spirit struggle territory thirteen colonies thousand tion to-day toast triumph true truth Union United victory virtue Washington WASHINGTON HEIGHTS wealth
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Página 11 - Workmen wrought thy ribs of steel, Who made each mast, and, sail, and rope, What anvils rang, what hammers beat, In what a forge and what a heat Were shaped the anchors of thy hope!
Página 19 - Flag of the free heart's hope and home, By angel hands to valor given ! Thy stars have lit the welkin dome, And all thy hues were born in heaven. Forever float that standard sheet ! Where breathes the foe but falls before us, With Freedom's soil beneath our feet, And Freedom's banner streaming o'er us ? JOSEPH RODMAN DRAKE.
Página 28 - The hand that rounded Peter's dome, And groined the aisles of Christian Rome, Wrought in a sad sincerity: Himself from God he could not free; He builded better than he knew : The conscious stone to beauty grew.
Página 22 - What constitutes a State? Not high-raised battlement or labored mound, Thick wall or moated gate; Not cities proud, with spires and turrets crowned; Not bays and broad-armed ports, Where, laughing at the storm, rich navies ride; Not starred and spangled courts, Where low-browed baseness wafts perfume to pride. No: MEN, high-minded MEN...
Página 12 - Then and there was the first scene of the first act of opposition to the arbitrary claims of Great Britain. Then and there the child Independence was born.
Página 14 - On this question of principle, while actual suffering was yet afar off, they raised their flag against a power, to which, for purposes of foreign conquest and subjugation, Rome, in the height of her glory, is not to be compared ; a power which has dotted over the surface of the whole globe with her possessions and military posts, whose morning drum-beat, following the sun, and keeping company with the hours, circles the earth with one continuous and unbroken strain of the martial airs of England.
Página 28 - I am apt to believe that it will be celebrated by succeeding generations as the great anniversary festival. It ought to be commemorated as the day of deliverance, by solemn acts of devotion to God Almighty. It ought to be solemnized with pomp and parade, with shows, games, sports, guns, bells, bonfires, and illuminations, from one end of this continent to the other, from this time forward forevermore.
Página 11 - Thou, too, sail on, O Ship of State! Sail on, O UNION, strong and great ! Humanity with all its fears, With all the hopes of future years, Is hanging breathless on thy fate...