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Excerpt from A Speech Delivered at the Democratic Celebration by the Citizens of the Second Congressional District of Pennsylvania: By the Citizens of the Second Congressional District of Pennsylvania, of the Fifty-Eighth Anniversary of the Declaration of Independence, July 4th 1834
And never, my countrymen, on any previous anniversary Of our independence, have American citizens assembled with this duty imposed upon them more sacredly than now. At no mo ment Of our political existence have they been required to weigh with greater care the measures and conduct of their public men, to examine the practical results of their policy, and to revert to the great ends of social government, and the means by which they must be maintained. No foreign enemy roams along our shores, no desolating scourge hovers over our homes. Peace ex tends her olive wand, and heaven seems more abundantly to heap on us the prosperity and the bounteous blessings it has always showered, with a gracious hand. Yet the voice of domestic strife is not silent. The halls that Should be sacred to patriotic deliberation, ring with the echoes of faction. The intrigues Of am bition, and the designs of avarice, are at work in every corner of the land, and the purposes Of the one and the other are to be subserved amid the tumult they have conspired to excite. Yet in truth, the contest'with these is never difficult, their overthrow is never doubtful, the triumph is never uncertain, when the determination is resolutely made. 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.
