Excerpt from Oration, on the Occasion of Celebrating the Fortieth Anniversary the Occasion Battle of Lake Erie: Delivered on the Tenth of September, 1853, in Newport, R. I My fellow-citizens, between a people and its heroes there an intimate sympathy. Its heroes and its men of genius are the richest product of a people. Springing out of its soil, they, in the afl'luence of their creative force, throw back upon the soil whence they have sprung the seeds of new forces. A free people generates leaders, to strengthen and enlarge freedom. As we have seen in the Erie fleet, the captain and the rank and file are worthy one of the other. 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.