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An oration, delivered before the Gloucester Mechanic Association, on the Fourth of July, 1833 by Rantoul, Robert, Jr - 1833

by Rantoul, Robert, Jr

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An oration, delivered before the Gloucester Mechanic Association, on the Fourth of July, 1833 by Rantoul, Robert, Jr - 1833

An oration, delivered before the Gloucester Mechanic Association, on the Fourth of July, 1833

by Rantoul, Robert, Jr

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Salem, MA: Printed by Foote & Chisholm, 1833. 51p., bound with thread, edges trimmed (though sufficient margin remains all around). Speech given on the fifty-seventh anniversary of the Declaration of Independence, celebrating God-given freedom. However... "Meanwhile the feeble remnant of the aborigines, once undisputed lords of this fair hemisphere, having dwindled already into harmless insignificance, are melting away like frost before the sunbeams. Their final catastrophe may strike the imagination with melancholy, but sober reason will not regret that one lone wanderer of the trackless woods shall make room for a hundred families of a refined and social race, or that the untamable savage, with his few and simple virtues, falling a victim to instincts which cannot change to suit the change of circumstances, should be supplanted by innumerable successors trained in a more enlarged morality and endowed by nature with higher capacities for enjoyment..." Rantoul became a member of the Massachusetts House of Representatives before moving on to the US Congress.
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  • Publisher Printed by Foote & Chisholm
  • Place of Publication Salem, MA
  • Date Published 1833

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AN ORATION DELIVERED BEFORE THE GLOUCESTER MECHANIC ASSOCIATION, on the Fourth of July, 1833

by Rantoul, Robert, Jr

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Salem: Printed by Foote & Chisholm, 1833. 51 pages. 9.5x6", printed wrapper. Untrimmed. Progress of Independence & Liberty in Europe, especially France, American Revolution, state of Federal Union. "Hon. Caleb Cushing with respects of R. Rantoul Jr" on cover. American Imprints 20896 (DLC; MWA; PPL; RPB; WHi). Wrap detached, light crease, edges chipped, bit soiled, spotted, G.
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