Excerpt from An Oration, Delivered at Gloucester, July 4, 1827, in Commemoration of Our National Independence: At the Request of the Town Subject to intestine commotions or total destruction, for the want of our admirably devised federate sys tom, and of just representation; for the want of those well defined rights and rivilgesthose proper checks and balances, in the diflgrent departments, for which our own is so eminently distinguished. From a close investigation of the causes of the revolutions, that had ...
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Excerpt from An Oration, Delivered at Gloucester, July 4, 1827, in Commemoration of Our National Independence: At the Request of the Town Subject to intestine commotions or total destruction, for the want of our admirably devised federate sys tom, and of just representation; for the want of those well defined rights and rivilgesthose proper checks and balances, in the diflgrent departments, for which our own is so eminently distinguished. From a close investigation of the causes of the revolutions, that had overwhelmed the different forms of gov ernment from earliest time, up to the period of our separation from the mother country, reflecting men began to despair, and consider mankind as incapa ble in the present state of things, of enjoying t at condition, in which each individual might be bless ed with a proper share of liberty. Venerable pat riots, who had made it the study of their lives, to promote the improvement, and meliorate the con dition of humanity, cast a look of despondence on the past they were about to think that forms of government might emanate from the brain of the philosophic, excellent in theory, but inapplicable to the multifarious and clashing interests, and nu merous contending passions, that would never cease to operate on man. But when they saw the beau tiful, proportional forms of our republic rising to eminence and distinction when they saw the peaceable and happy manner in which its citizens enjoyed their extensive privileges and the con cordant adaptation of all the parts of the political machine to the whole; a beam of light broke in upon them from the West, and their drooping spirits revived. This was, indeed, an era to be joyfully hailed by the great and good of every region. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at ... 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.
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