Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from An Anniversary Oration, Delivered on the 13th of April, 1836: At the Request of the Jefferson Society, of the University of Virginia
On the new continent, the moral and intellectual creation seems to have been fashioned after the same bold s'ublimity Of outline, that characterised the works of external nature. Our magnificent mountains - sunny skies, and mighty rivers, were appropriate scenes and inspired fit associations for the regenerators of the world, whose minds.
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