Excerpt from An Oration, Pronounced at Charlestown, on the 4th July, 1821, at the Request of the Republican Citizens of That Town, in Commemoration of the Anniversary of National Independence Polyh. Historian lib. N.and theatric images of their features, but to con template their venerated characters, to call to mind their invaluable services, to cherish their revered memory; to lay up the image of their virtues in our hearts. The two men, who stood in a relation, in which no others now stand to this whole conti nent, have fallen. The men whom Providence marked out among the first of the favored instru ments, to lead this chosen people into the holy land of liberty, have discharged their high office and are no more. The men, whose ardent minds prompt ed them to take up their country's cause, when there was nothing else to prompt and everything to deter them; the men who afterwards, when the ranks were filled with the brave and resolute, were yet in the front of those brave and resolute ranks the men, who, when the wisest and most sagacious were needed to steer the newly launched vessel through the broken waves of the unknown sea, sat calm and unshaken at the helm the men who in their country's happier days were found most wor thy to preside over the great interests of the land they had so powerfully contributed to rear into greatness, these men are now no more. 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.