Excerpt from The Declaration of Independence, and the Effects of It: An Oration Delivered Before the Citizens of New York, at the Celebration of the Centennial Anniversary, July 4th, 1876 The prayer was heard. The effort and the sacri fice have come to their fruitage; and today the nation - still one, as at the start, though now ex panded over such immense spaces, absorbing such incessant and diverse elements from other lands, de veioping within it opinions so conflicting, interests so various, and forms of occupation so novel and manifold - to-day the nation, emerging from the toil and the turbulent strife, with the earlier and the later clouds alike swept out of its resplendent stellar arch, pauses from its work to remember and rejoice; with exhilarated Spirit to anticipate its future; with rever ent heart to Offer to God its great Te Deum. 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.