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ing Of the history Of the Revolution and the war
Of 1912. Yet naughty, selfish feeling, and an
unwarrantable assumption Of importance on the
part Of the confidential advisers who surrounded
the throne Of England at the time, induced her
monarch to imagine that anything like true great
ness or nobility Of heart was, In any other place
in the world except the island over which he
swayed his sceptre, an exotic. That was thought
TO be the case most particularly in the American
colonies. They spurned the petitions and treated
with contempt the remonstrances and demands
Of our fathers. Our fathers petitioned humbly;
that was considered tameness, and construed in
to proof Of apathy. They petitioned boldly;
their remonstrance was considered impudent au-
dacity. They then demanded; and were said to
be guilty Of treasonl And . long line Of acts
were projected which were designed to crush
them and keep them in humble subjugation.
Oh, England, why did you not then pausef
Why did not the masses rise and ask justice for
our ioreiathersp Your true and loyal dependen-
cies In North America had, % one man, just
fought your battles without hope Of recompense.
What thoughts ought the associations Of that
period to have awakenedp Were they those Of
oppression and slavery over this the land Of
your kindred and brothers, for whose wealth
and happiness the winds Of Heaven seemed to
blowp Covered as she once was with the gor-
ded with the gems Of progress and manufacture,
there was now scarce an object but industry In
rags, and patience In despair. The merchant
was without ledger, the shops without Gus
toner, and the fields without . harvest. How
was Il that sense Of Justice, added to frater-
nal feeling that nature prompted, failed to touch
| your heart How was Il that SGT Of stock
iobbers and political ravens were permitted to
sway your councils, direct your policy, and lead
you to think Of treating trained, collared, pam
pered and rapacious pack Of ministerial beagles
upon collation., or Of maintaining them upon
subsidy, that the supposed weakness OF your
brothers in North America might enable you to
enforce from them and their almost starving
childrenP Why spend thousands in the deco
ration Of dragons and in the erection Of places
tor their amusement, to feed the bloated nam
moth Of sinecurei To convert your American
dependencies into garrison, and enable you to
extort from an almost famished people the far
things that make up some underling's salary.
have read Of States ruined by the Visitations Of
| Providence, devastated by famine, wasted BY
fire. overcome BY enemies; but this. ] btlieve,
for the first time In history, presents nation
like England beggared with her spois and con-
quered with her success. The heart Of any
honest Englishman, as well as that Of any re-
flecting man, must burn within him when be
thinks that the policy Of the ministry that occa-
stoned the war Of the Revelation, 90 sanguinary
In It's operations and 50 eonfessedly Tuinous in
It's expenditure, was still more odous In It's prin-
ciple Il was policy projected BY the English
ministry for the purpose Of forcing her American
colonies out Of their undoubted rights; i was
q policy which struck ct the very foundation Of
the English Constitution; which IibsIled The
most glorious era In her national annals; which
declared tyranny eternal, and was announced to
the people Of the colonies amid the thunder Of
artillery, that no matter how aggrieved, their
oulv attitude was that Of supplication; and that,
thus erinRine, they must expect or claim only
what their royal masters might choose to give
them; which, when Il told the veteran Of the
/" French and Indian war that bis achievements
were glorious, told his children also that his tn
umph was their ruin, and furnished 70 history
the terrific farce Of great, . powerful and an
envied nation proposing o. her sons necatomo
upon the grave Of their liberties
Our 6orelathers, though few in numbers, COM
paratively without means, and longing for peace,
would not purchase it at the price Of liberty.
They would not brook bondage or slavery from
any power on earth, much less from brother
Englishmen. And when q horde Of English
paupers without performing quarantine, were
vonited forth among them, 70 rob them Of their
| substance. and q rabble soldiery was sent TO
riyet the chains Of bondage, they as one man
few 10 arms. The wit, The sage, the orator, the
hero. the whole family Of genius, poured forth
their treasures, and gave them nobly to . ma
TONS exigence. The libatiou was q glorious
one. II humbled England and her overbearing
nobility into the utmost respect for the spirit
they had spurned.
On the fourth day Of July, 1776, Il brought
forth the Declaration Of Independence; an In.
strument that, BY an lovers Of freedom, and
particularly BY Americans, will be forever cher
ished -.
Our glorious Constitution, too, is the child o.
that Offering Il eniranchlsed. dsenthralIsd and