Excerpt from An Oration, Delivered at the Baptist Meeting-House in Colebrook, on the National Thanksgiving Non less was the Divine indulgence manifested to us as a nation, when for a long. Season of uninterrupted prosperity, and for more than thirty years of penec, .a peace scarce broken by the tru mpet's sound, or disturbed by the meteor flashes of war, while Europe was shaken to its centre by perpetual contests and commotions, and the two rival powers were seeking to embroil us in their conflicts under the guardian care of Heaven we made a rapid progo ress in agricultural improvements, in the arts and in man ufactures - the sciences were cultivated-ewe increased 111 wealth - our trade flourished, our sails were on every se and our fiag'fluttered in every commercial port. But here I am reluctantly compelled'to point you ta the darker of the picture - We had grown too proud and toe. 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.