An Oration Delivered on the Fourth Day of July, 1850, Before the Citizens of Covington, Ky (Classic Reprint)

An Oration Delivered on the Fourth Day of July, 1850, Before the Citizens of Covington, Ky (Classic Reprint)
Author: William E. Arthur
Publisher: Forgotten Books
Total Pages: 46
Release: 2016-08-27
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 9781333383367

Excerpt from An Oration Delivered on the Fourth Day of July, 1850, Before the Citizens of Covington, Ky I hope my countrymen will never become the least insensible to the price less value of that bequest! I hope my countrymen will never become so in amed by the con ict of opinion or so indignant at the impudence of error, as to lose Sight of that eternal vigilance and that rational concession, which will ever be requisite to preserve the symmetry and beauty of this our com mon inheritance! I hope this generation will never forget that they are in the beneficial possession of an indivisable estate of incalculable value, which they, by the act of God and their ancestors upon the one side, and by their own concurring, obligatory act upon the other, hold in sacred and in solemn trust for posterity in all time to come: And that if by any misdoing upon their part harm comes to the glorious trust which they hold and enjoy, they will be sternly required in that high court of universal jurisdiction, which shall pervade all eternity, by the Lord High Chancellor, who sees the hidden workings of the mind and reads the secret purposes of the heart, to solemnly answer and atone for the trust which they shall have abused with black ingratitude and violated faith, to the ruin of millions born after them! It is the solemn lesson of history, that when a country ceases to treasure and profit by the fruits and the memory of her past experience - and a people to honor and emulate the good and great, that country's doom is sealed, her glory is departed, and the day of her disastrous destiny is e'en dawning, and that people will speedily become wanderers and vagrants, the igno minous slaves or tools of illegitimate power. Destitute of honor or trust, sunken in their own esteem, bankrupt in that of the world, all moral worth and dignity will then have ed from them forever with the last shriek of expiring liberty, as in the living instance of the wretched degenerate Greek, who now that he is to all seeming dead to the genius, liberty and fire of his glorious progenitors, fawns, cheats and cringes at the feet of a barbarian master. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works."

An Oration

An Oration
Author: John Stevens Cabot Abbott
Publisher:
Total Pages: 8
Release: 1850
Genre: Duty
ISBN: