Excerpt from The Past, Present, and Future of America: An Oration Delivered in the First Presbyterian Church, Orange, New Jersey, July 4th, 1865 This is our King, whose throne is the will of the majority of the American people, whose subjects are States and Territories, whose symbols of royalty are the eagle and the flag, whose birth-day is the Declaration of Independence, whose baton is the Constitution, whose baptism is the war of the Revolution and the war against treason, whose coronation is the Proclamation of Emancipation, whose attributes are union, justice, domestic tranquillity, fcommon defense, general welfare, and universal liberty, and whose right to rule is immortal manhood and the voice of Jehovah. 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.