Centenary Orations, Addresses and Poems, Commemorative of the One Hundredth Anniversary of Our National Independence - Brossura

Brossura

ISBN 10: 1150823623 ISBN 13: 9781150823626

Riassunto

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1882. Excerpt: ... ADDRESS, BY HON. DANIEL ROBERTS, DELIVERED AT THE CENTENNIAL CELEBRATION AT BUKLJNGTON, VT., JULY 4TH, 187C. Fellow-citizens:--The citizens of Burlington have invited to this festal gathering the civil authorities of the several towns of the county, with, their civic societies and all their people, and they have deputed me, in their behalf, to bid you all welcome to a participation.in the appointed doings and appropriate enjoyments of the day. One hundred years of national life! a hundred years of liberty, guarded by constitution and law; a cycle completed this day which includes in it the first establishment of the American Union and its later vindication: the first proclamation of universal human freedom and equality, and their later crystalizatiou in an amended constitution, and the consummation in historic fact of the self-evident truths of the Great Declaratin. As in the first Continental Congress, on the motion of Benjamin Franklin, prayer was offered to Almighty God for guidance and strength for the great work then in hand, so now, having entered into the labors of the fathers, it is befitting the occasion that we lift up our eyes to the hills from whence cometh our help--to the good God and Father of us all--and that we offer devout praises and adoration to Hun whose kind hand has led us for a hundred years as a nation, and our people always, and has brought us to this day in assured peace, confirmed unify and established liberty--for, of a truth, hitherto hath the Lord helped us. THE CHARACTER OF THE EARLY SETTLERS OF VERMONT-ITS INFLUENCE UPON POSTERITY. AN ORATION BY HON. LUCIUS E. CHITTENDEN. DELIVERED AT THE CENTENNIAL CELEBRATION AT BURLINGTON, VI., JULY 4TH, 1876. Mr. President And Citizens Of Chittenden County:--An apology seems out of pla...

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• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 1150823623
• ISBN 13: 9781150823626
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
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