Excerpt from An Address, Delivered at the Laying of the Corner Stone, of the New Town Hall, in Newburyport, July 4th, 1850 When the Declaration of Independence went forth to the world, a proper constitutional government, that is, a social fabric deliberately commenced from the corner stone of universal natural right, and built up in all the symmetry, beauty and strength of a perfect whole, was a thing yet unknown on earth, and to be attempted by us for the first time in the history of man. 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.