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Excerpt from An Oration Pronounced on the Fourth of July, 1822: At the Request of the Inhabitants of the City of Boston, in Commemoration of the Anniversary of National Independence
IT would be unnecessary as well as impracticable to enu merate the auspicious circumstances, under which we now meet together. You have already expressed your sense of them most unanimously and unequivocally by the usual rejoicings of this day in public and in private, by military and by religious ceremonies, your steps are thronged by a cheerful multitude, the current of business stands still, and joy and gratitude are proclaimed by every tongue and re?ected in every face. Our national prosperity is not a subject, upon which you need to be either informed or ex cited, and all, that I could say to display it, would be little else than a repetition of the sentiments of every one who hears me. But it is not solely for the purpose of exulta tion that we are here assembled. You have considered this as a proper occasion, not merely for innocent enjoy ment, but for sober re?ection. You have recollected that on this day, if ever, we must be naturally and forcibly led to think of our ancestors and of posterity, to investigate the causes which conduced to the establishment of our na tional happiness, and the formation of our national char.
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