Excerpt from An Oration Delivered Before the Citizens of the Town of Quincy, on the Fourth of July, 1835: The Fifty-Ninth Anniversary of the Independence of the United States of America Standing as We do amid the graves of the patriot dead and surrounded by their monuments, there will be a solemnity in our reflections which will temper the gaiety and chasten the joy of the heart. 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.