Excerpt from Union Speech: Delivered at Kanawha Salines, Va., On the Fourth of July, 1856 To-day our nation is four score years of age. Some of her citizens are older. A few are yet living, who in their youth fought for our independence. We are a young nation. Every considera ble nation of Europe is more than ten times as old, counting from the time when the institutions of modern society arose after the dis solution of the Roman Empire. The principal nations of Asia are of still greater antiquity. It is only upon this ...
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Excerpt from Union Speech: Delivered at Kanawha Salines, Va., On the Fourth of July, 1856 To-day our nation is four score years of age. Some of her citizens are older. A few are yet living, who in their youth fought for our independence. We are a young nation. Every considera ble nation of Europe is more than ten times as old, counting from the time when the institutions of modern society arose after the dis solution of the Roman Empire. The principal nations of Asia are of still greater antiquity. It is only upon this continent that civilized nations younger than ours, have sprung up. But, in one respect, even the Spanish American States are older than our United States. As colonies, they had an earlier beginning; at the outset, they had also great advantages, having a country more attractive to emigrants, and in Mexico and Peru, a native population subject to their rule, and somewhat advanced in civilization. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at ... This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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