Our first century: being a popular descriptive portraiture of the one hundred great and memorable events of perpetual interest in the history of our country, political, military, mechanical, social, scientific and commercial: embracing also delineations of all the great historic characters celebrated in the annals of the republic; men of heroism, statesmanship, genius, oratory, adventure and philanthropy . s, from one end of the continent to the other, fOm thin time tortli, forevermore.—John Adaus. ^c-uczi^^ . -^-j:, %r NE HUNDRED ago, namely, ontlie Fourth of July, 1776, tliere was bo
Our first century: being a popular descriptive portraiture of the one hundred great and memorable events of perpetual interest in the history of our country, political, military, mechanical, social, scientific and commercial: embracing also delineations of all the great historic characters celebrated in the annals of the republic; men of heroism, statesmanship, genius, oratory, adventure and philanthropy . s, from one end of the continent to the other, fOm thin time tortli, forevermore.—John Adaus. ^c-uczi^^ . -^-j:, %r NE HUNDRED ago, namely, ontlie Fourth of July, 1776, tliere was born inthe western world a New Nation,—the Re-public OF THE United States. Defiance totyrants was emblazoned in empyreal light uponher brow, and Freedom and Justice were thefrontlets between her eyes. Mon-archs, crowned with kingly dia-dems, stood awed at the augustmanifesto, and at the solemn ar-raignment of King George beforethe judgment of mankind, andparliaments and cabinets startedin dismay to their feet; but thePeople, as thej descried the eagleof Liberty spreading her wings,and soaring proudly aloft, breath-ed freer and took stronger heart,as the clear ring of her voicesounded through the air, declar-ing, with grandly rounded enun-ciation, that -all men are to pay the tribute of taxation arbitrarily imposedupon them at the point of the bayonet by the British crown,—. 1776. G6 OUR FIRST CENTURY.—177G-1876. failing, too, to move the king and liis min-isters from their career of liaughty andreckless obstinacy,—the thirteen Americancolonies found themselves reduced to thealternative of abject submission to theirso-called royal masters, or of armed resist-ance. Alread}there had flaslied through-out the country the electric words of Pat-rick Henry, We must fight I An appealto arms and to the God of Hosts is allthat is left us. I repeat it, sir, we mustfight! And as tlie blood of patriothearts had now flowed freely and bravelyat Concord, and Lexing
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