Excerpt from Anniversary Address: Delivered at the Baptist Church, North Adams, Mass We stand to-day bathed in the splendor of two eras - the era of '76 and the era Of '65-the era of birth and the era of manhood. Our Fathers broke the yoke of Britain, you have broken the yoke of the slaveholders. The promise of the Revolution is fulfilled. The Declaration of Jefferson has blossomed in the Proclamation of Lincoln. The cannon Of '65 have blown to atoms what the cannon of '76 only wounded. And, fellow citizens, this last ...
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Excerpt from Anniversary Address: Delivered at the Baptist Church, North Adams, Mass We stand to-day bathed in the splendor of two eras - the era of '76 and the era Of '65-the era of birth and the era of manhood. Our Fathers broke the yoke of Britain, you have broken the yoke of the slaveholders. The promise of the Revolution is fulfilled. The Declaration of Jefferson has blossomed in the Proclamation of Lincoln. The cannon Of '65 have blown to atoms what the cannon of '76 only wounded. And, fellow citizens, this last four years' struggle, from which we have just emerged, has been only a continuation and comple tion of the Revolutionary war. The interval of peace since the Revolution has been but a long truce and pause, in which each side has been unconsciously preparing for the final tug, which now is ended. 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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