Excerpt from An Oration, Delivered in the South Parish, in Weymouth, July 4, 1828: Being the Fifty-Second Anniversary Pf American Independence Here are yet living witnesses to the fact, that the Independence of our country was gained, not by accidental expressions of enthusiasm in the cause of liberty, but by a deliberate and fixed and persevering determination not to submit to the injuries and insults of British power and pride, not to be slaves. 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.