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Excerpt from An Oration Delivered at the Request of the Washington Society: At the City of Boston, July 4, 1832 That country on whose white cliffs our Pilgrim ancestors cast many a lingering look, as they bade it their solemn farewell, had for ages been famous in arts and in arms, and on the pages of its history are bright and enduring memorials of noble Struggles, for the liberties of the people. It had preserved in the midst of the barbarous feudal despotism, which so long darkened Europe, a faint image of a free govern ment, -a shadow which served to remind mankind, that the proud reality of a republican government had once existed. The Colonists transplanted to Ameri ca, England's boasted Magna Charta, and those free principles of the British Constitution, the right of the people to a share in the Judicial and Legislative de partments of government, by Juries and a represem tatien of the Commons. These redeeming principles were diffused throughout the Colonies. They were the good seed, that fell upon the good ground, and produced a glorious harvest, the Thirteen Republics of 1776, and the Twenty - four Republican States of 1832, - the hope of freedom and the admiration of its friends. 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.