Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from An Oration Pronounced at Littleton July 4, 1806: The Thirtieth Anniversary of American Independence
Liberty ought to be valued in proportion to the hazard and the price by which it was first obtained. Estimating it by this rule, who can prize it higher, or who will guard it with more jealousy, than the people of America To them it is the price of la bor and suffering, of treasure and of blood. While contesting the claims of our mother country, and struggling in defence of our just and unalienable rights, we were poor and yet oppressed. Our weak ness and poverty, which ought ever to excite com passion and forbearance in the breast of a generous enemy, served only to invite insult and injury, and to inspire the invaders with full confidence of suc cess.
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