Excerpt from The Oration, as Delivered, on the Fourth of July, 1832, 56th Anniversary of American Independence, by Dr. Christopher Carleton Rice, Orator of the Day, Honorary Member of the "Painters' Association": In the Bethel Baptist Church, Delancy Corner of Chrystie-Street, Before the Several Civic Societies in New-YorkIn congratulating you upon our 56th anniversary of national existence, I feel myself imperceptibly lapsing as if into a species of reverie or recollective paroxysm, whose doctrine inculcates the maxim of re¿ection, and whose tenets bid me observe, con trast, analyze, weigh and unite, thus we by a knowledge of elemen tary simples, judge by analogy the nature of compounds, as ef feets or compounds must be the result of primal simples or cau ses, and this by application contains a moral deduction, prov ing that the establishment of governments, based by free institu tions and elective principles, constituting the foundation of a re public, must have originated from experiments made upon other species of legislation, and this contemplative theory gives birth to a preservative doctrine of paramount importance, that is as it effects not only the persons at present enveloped in participating the benefits of our present mode of legislating, but that of other countries and people now being advancing towards political pre eminence, and also that of countries and people as yet in the embryo of discovery. How arduous the task to enter upon the analysis or synchesis of a country, whose theme genius has ex hausted its powers upon how difficult to retrace that labyrinth of mystery on which eloquence has expanded its richness, dili gence its industry, and patriotism its genial sunbeam. But re membering the story of the aspiring Phaeton, I may be allowed to apply the same words of the writer, magais tamen excidit ansis.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis 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.