Excerpt from An Oration, Delivered Before the Democratic Citizens of Allegheny County, Celebrating the 57th Anniversary of American Independence, on the Fourth July, 1833

You have come together, my fellow citizens, for no ordi= nary purpose. To hold in grateful remembrance this holy Sabbath of American liberty, calls forth the noblest and most exalted feelings of our nature, and elevates you in the estima tion of all human kind. All your common avocations are this day suspended, and you have assembled round the festive board, to forget your former fiends and animosities, to soften your po litical prejudices, to contemplate the grandeur and stability of your republican institutions, and to sing the paean of your country's deliverance. NO event can be more interesting - no spectacle can be more sublime, than to witness you doing ho nor to the mighty dead, and holding up to public admiration.

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