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Excerpt from The Lesson of '76 to the Men of '56: An Oration Delivered Before the Municipal Authorities of the City of Boston, at the Celebration of the Eightieth Anniversary of American Independence July 4, 1856
And now, while the garments of the genius of the republic are trailing along draggled and bespattered, and her eyes are so full of tears that she can hardly see that road of empire on which she has been travelling for seventy-three years with such stately impetuosity, men are every where asking What shall we do? This question I think the thoughts of today may well be asked to answer. Every pure-minded lover of his country may well seek inspiration from the fountain head of the life of the republic - her first, her hero age. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
