Excerpt from An Oration Delivered Before the Citizens of Charlestown on the Fifty-Second Anniversary of the Declaration of the Independence of the United States of America In conformlty to the Act of the Congress of the United States, entitled, An Act for the encouragement of learning, by securmg the comes of maps, charts, and books to the authors and pr0prletors of such cop'les, during the tlmes therem men tlone and also to an Act, entltled, An Act supplementary to an Act, entltled, 'an Act for the encouragement of learning, by securmg the comes of maps, charts and books, to the authors and propnetors of such coples durmg the trmes therem menttoned and extending the benefits thereof to the arts of designing, engraving and etchlng historical and other punts. 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.