Excerpt from An Oration on the Fiftieth Anniversary of American Independence: Delivered and Published at the Request of the Committee of Arrangement in Dorchester, for the Celebration of the 4th of July 1826 It was evident to the discerning minds of the colonists, who were now wide awake to the designs of the British ministry, that this was only a pitiful attempt to evade a difficulty, and that they still adhered to the principle of unrepresented taxation. 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.