Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from An Oration Delivered July 4th, 1809, in the North Dutch Church, Before the Washington Benevolent Society of the City of New-York
Of such a land, so rich in every gift of nature, so favoured of heaven, are we the happy sons. Let then no party rancour, no weak foreboding of future ill, repress the generous sympathies of our nature. Let us this day Join in the general joy, and hail with honest pride the return of that day which rescued us from the oppression of foreign pow er, and gave us a claim to the glorious titles of republicans and of freemen.
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