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Excerpt from An Oration, Delivered at Plymouth, December 22, 1802: At the Anniversary Commemoration of the First Landing of Our Ancestors, at That Place
IN reverting to the period of their origin, other nations have generally been compelled to plunge into the chaos of impenetrable. Antiquity, or to trace a lawlefs ancefiry into the caverns of ravilhers and robbers. It is your peculiar privi lege to commemorate in this birth-day of your nation, an event afcertained in its minuteft details: an event of which the principal aftors are known to you familiarly as if belonging to your own age an event of a magnitude before which Im agination fhrinks at the imperfection of her pow.
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