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Excerpt from Remarks of the Hon. Robert T. Conrad, at the Celebration of the Anniversary of American Independence: By the Philadelphia Repeal Association, at the Arch Street Theatre, July 5, 1841
But it is peculiarly the events commemorated by our national festival, that consecrate them. The traveller who sees the ever recurring and court-appointed festivals of some of the despot isms of Europe, naturally conjectures that their annals must be pregnant with celestial fire; but he finds to his dismay, that this hollow merriment is to commemorate, probably the birth of some stupid and pro?igate royal driveller, or perhaps of some monarch of sterner stuff, who blessed his real m with glory, blessed it by sluicing the veins of his subjects to win a feather that must ?aunt upon their tyrant's brow, making him more their tyrant. They are trampled to the dust, and groan, and rave, and die, and rot, by thousands, in their tortured wretchedness: and yet these people celebrate the birth of their monster-idol as a festival!
The traveller, shocked and disgusted, turns his steps to Ame rica. He find here but two national festivals. The former is the birth-day of a being so glorious as to be above the world's glory; a piece of moral statuary so perfect that the most carp ing casuistry would not presume to pare or alter it - the nation's Father!
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