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Excerpt from An Oration in Commemoration of the Birth of Our Illustrious Washington But the sordid miniens of governmental power were now actually thriving and happypn this dreadful system, - so ruinous to the people, - so fatal to our liberties. They supported, of course, and commend ed this system. It was clearly 'their interest, and they, possibly, thought it their duty, to applaud, in discriminately, every act of the Administration. Nay, they Went farther -they even dared to de nounce, as rebels, and traitors to their country, all who could even doubt the wisdom, or expediency, Executive measures. In their estimation, aflairs were never more prosperous! With the silver smith at Ephesus, they could say By this craft, we have our wealt - and thus, while these pand ers of office were picking up the crumbs, which fell from the royal table; while they could retain their places, their influence, and emoluments; they could neither see nor flee! The calamities of their country. Hence, the whole herd of petty tyrants, of civil and military officers, of Spies and informers, of tools and tories, with Governor hutchinson at their head, set up, at once, the hue and cry of treason and rebel lion the sword was drawn by government against us - the-gordian knot was cut -and we, the peo ple, were compelled to assert our rights, and to main tain them -or to perlsh 1n the attempt. 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.