AN ORATION, PRONOUNCED ON THE 4TH DAY OF JULY, 1798, AT THE REQUEST OF A NUMBER OF THE INHABITANTS OF DEDHAM AND ITS VICINITY, IN COMMEMORATION OF THE ANNIVERSARY OF AMERICAN INDEPENDENCE.
Dedham: Printed at the Minerva Press, 1798. 19, [1 blank] pp, with the half title. Disbound with mild spotting. Good plus.
This dramatic July 4 Oration recalls "the sages and heroes of our own Columbia and of our own time," who "waged war against Despotism. They wrenched, from the monster's grasp, the iron sceptre, and bound him in the fetters and chains he had forged for millions of freemen. Then, Liberty, was thy triumph complete!. . . On the 4th of July, 1776, a phenomenon in politics appeared, which challenges a parrallel [sic] in the annals of the world. - A nation by her own FIAT sprang from chaos and night, into the full vigor of life, and the unbounded splendor of day.- At that awful moment, was foredoomed the downfal [sic] of Tyranny."
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