Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from An Oration, Delivered at Salem, on the Fourth of July, 1812
Glorious were the events and the tera mination of the revolutionary war. Glorious were the times, when the policy of Waihington direéted our national affairs. Ever facred be the memory of thofe illufirious periods! 3 May each fucce?ive anniverfary of the birth-day of our nation faithfully recall them to the mind of eve ry American. Never in the whole hifiory of man have fironger claims exified to the riche? offerings of the heart. Never was there great er propriety in the annual appropriation of one day to the celebration of pafi: achievements.
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