An illustrated history of the New world : containing a general history of all the various nations, states, and republics of the western continent ..and a complete history of the United States to the present time .. . been my fortune to hear someof the ablest speeches of the greatest living orators on both sides ofthe water, but I must confess I never heard any thing which so com-pletely realized my conception of what Demosthenes was when hedelivered the Oration for the Crown. S he went through the magnificent peroration, hiscountenance glowed as if he were inspired. Hisvoice, exerted to its ut
An illustrated history of the New world : containing a general history of all the various nations, states, and republics of the western continent ..and a complete history of the United States to the present time .. . been my fortune to hear someof the ablest speeches of the greatest living orators on both sides ofthe water, but I must confess I never heard any thing which so com-pletely realized my conception of what Demosthenes was when hedelivered the Oration for the Crown. S he went through the magnificent peroration, hiscountenance glowed as if he were inspired. Hisvoice, exerted to its utmost power, penetrates everyrecess of the Senate, and even the ante-rooms andstairways, as he pronounces, in deepest tones ofpathos, these words of solemn significance : Whenmy eyes shall be turned to behold, for the last time, the sunin heaven, may I not see him shining upon the broken anddishonoured fragments of a once glorious Union ; on Statesdissevered, discordant, belligerent; on a land rent with civilfeuds, or drenched, it may be, in fraternal blood! Let their lastfeeble and lingering glance rather behold the gorgeous ensign of therepublic, now known and honoured throughout the earth, still full41 3h2. 640 ADMINISTEATION OF FTLLMOEE. high advanced, its arms and trophies streaming in their original lus-tre, not a stripe erased or polluted, nor a single star obscured, bearingfor its motto no such miserable interrogatory as, What is all thisworth V nor those other words of delusion and folly, Liberty firstand Union afterwards ; but everywhere, spread all over in charac-ters of living light, blazing on all its ample folds, as they float overthe sea and over the land, and in every wind under the wholeheavens, that other sentiment, dear to every American heart—LiB ERTY AND UnION, NOW AND FOREVER, ONE AxXD INSEPARABLE! The last words of the lamented Webster are contained in theexclamation, I still live ! In their noblest sense, how emphaticare these words ! how forcible, how
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