Orations and After-Dinner Speeches of Chauncey M. Depew (Classic Reprint)
(SlTE OF FEDERAL HALL, NEW YORK CITY, ON THE ONE HUNDREDTH...)
SlTE OF FEDERAL HALL, NEW YORK CITY, ON THE ONE HUNDREDTH ANNI- VERSARY OF THE INAUGURATION OF PRESIDENT WASHINGTON, APRIL 30, 1889. WE celebrate to-day the Centenary of our Nationality. One hundred years ago the United States began their existence. The powers of government were assumed by the people of the Republic, and they became the sole source of authority. The solemn ceremonial of the first inauguration, the reverent oath of Washington, the acclaim of the multitude greeting their President, marked the most unique event of modern times in the development of free institutions. The occasion was not an accident, but a result. It was the culmination of the working out by mighty forces through many centuries of the problem of selfgovernment. It was not the triumph of a system, the application of a theory, or the reduction to practice of the abstractions of philosophy. The time, the country, the heredity and environment of the people, and the folly of its enemies, and the noble courage of its friends, gave to liberty, after ages of defeat, of trial, of experiment, of partial success and substantial gains, this immortal victory.
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