An Address Delivered at Charlestown, August 1, 1826: In Commemoration of John Adams and Thomas Jefferson

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W.L. Lewis, 1826 - 36 páginas
 

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Página 15 - Vernon, is Washington indeed shut up in that cold and narrow house ? That which made these men, and men like these, cannot die. The hand that traced the charter of independence is indeed motionless, the eloquent lips that sustained it, are hushed ; but the lofty spirits that conceived, resolved, matured, maintained it, and which alone to such men,
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Página 15 - Tell me, ye who tread the sods of yon sacred height, is Warren dead? Can you not still see him, not pale and prostrate, the blood of his gallant heart pouring out of his ghastly wound, but moving resplendent over the field of honor, with the rose of heaven upon his cheek, and the fire of liberty in his eye?
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Página 11 - ... liberty, but the humiliation and the sorrows of Judah. From this mournful spectacle, it is said, the pious and heart-stricken Hebrew, even to the present day, turns aside in sorrow. He will not enter Rome, through the gate of the arch of Titus, but winds his way through the by-paths of the Palatine...
Página 12 - It is henceforward, what the dying Adams pronounced it, a great and a good day. It is full of greatness, and full of goodness. It is absolute and complete. The death of the men who declared our independence, — their death on the day of the jubilee, — was all that was wanting to the fourth of July. To die on that day, and to die together, was all that was wanting to Jefferson and Adams.
Página 35 - But he survives not; he is gone. They are gone together! Friends, fellow citizens, free, prosperous, happy Americans! The men who did so much to make you so are no more. The men who gave nothing to pleasure in youth, nothing to repose in age, but all to that country whose beloved name filled their hearts, as it does ours, with joy, can now do no more for us; nor we for them. But their memory remains, we will cherish it; their bright example remains, we will strive to imitate it ; the fruit of their...
Página 31 - the spirit of of party is the worst enemy of a popular government ;' shall we not rejoice that we are taught, in the lives of our Adams and our Jefferson, that the most embittered contentions, which as yet have divided us, furnish no ground for lasting disunion. In their lives did I say ? Oh, not in their lives alone, but in that mysterious and lovely union which has called them together to the grave.
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