Excerpt from Oration Delivered on the Fourth Day of July, 1861, at the Capitol, Austin, Texas Every people who in the providence of God. Have been blessed with the enjoyment of freedom, have hailed with exultation and joy the annual return of some day which marked a bright epoch in their history; and you, the mingled sons and daughters of many States, have with patriotic zeal. Come forth to celebrate this, the birth-day of American Independence. With a unanimity of purpose and a glow of feeling, such as yu'o did not, and could not feel in the later and worse days of the Republic, you have assembled to do honor to the great cause of Constitutional Freedom; to hear yet once mo 'e read tl.e Declaration of Independence; to bow down before the. God of a free people, and invoke his aid in their behalf. 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.