Excerpt from Oration Delivered by Edwin Forrest, on the Fourth of July, in New York, 1838 But how pitiful - how worse than pitiful, the wretched aim of those, who gloat over these rare and transient ebullitions of tumultuous rage as supplying an argument against the adequacy and benign e ects of democratic government: Have these revilers of the principle of liberty read the lessons taught b the history of the past; or have they considere the forceful admonitions with which the present state of the other empires of the world is fraught? 1f the mild spirit of equal laws, which derive their sanction immediately from those whom they affect, cannot wholly sub due the stormy passions of man, Will they explain what better form of political institutions has ac complished that result? 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."