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Excerpt from An Oration, Delivered at Salem, on Monday, July 5, 1819, at the Request of the Association of the Essex Reading Room, in Celebration of American Independence Where are the glories of the ancient Republics The) exist but in the recollections of the lovers of freedom. They are to be found only in the records of genius and virtue. The land, once the birth-place of liberty, heroism, philosophy, poetry and eloquence, is now pressed by the foot-step of the slave or the tyrant. Ignorance has erected her altar on the spot, where genius and learning once had their seats, and the city, that gave laws to the world, has been the prey of savage conquests, and at length the fountain of the most degrading superstitions. 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.