Excerpt from Dangers of Our Republic: An Oration Delivered in Chester Vt;, July 4, 1857 Ah! Me, what changes have been wrought! I wondered then about mysteries and marvels long since revealed. I looked forward to things now far behind me. Time goes tramping on, seemingly more fleet than ever, bearing us - who shall tell us where? I have looked upon these scenes and compared them with others far distant and far different. I have seen them from the high Alps, whose snowy brow is dazzled with the radiance of summer suns, and stars which twinkle in Italian skies; from the summits of Mt. Lebanon, with the relics of its famous cedars far below me on one hand, and the immense ruins of Baalbec on the other; from the boundless wastes of Arabian deserts; from the palm groves, royal tombs, ruined temples, and everlasting pyra mids on the banks of the Nile'; from cathedral piles and monkish cloisters from Roman forum and Athenian Pnyx and Agora; from European and Asiatic battle fields; from living thrones, cynic cells, and from among toiling, struggling, suffering masses of oppressed millions: and from every point their rises up for me a cloud by day and a pillar of fire by night, from this hallowed spot, more excellent in fact, and more sublime in suggestion. 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.