Excerpt from An Oration: Delivered in St. Andrew's Church, on the Fourth of July, 1821, Before the St. Andrew's Company, and at Their Request Had so shortly before been denied. W ith a in their own history before them, the enemies of our revolution, looked to the existence of a republic here or elsewhere, as short livedu The United States might succeed in throwing off the yoke which they complained of as oppressive, but like the mother Country, would soon be weary of a new sneer cf th1ngs, be glad to revert to monarchical rule and submit again, to the. Dominion of the King, w hose allegiance they had renounced. Some too, who Wished well to the noble cause in which one Countryr was engaged, timid in their views, fearful only from historical analogy, might despair of a permanent con tinuance of a new Government built up on the foun dations of the old one. 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.