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Excerpt from An Oration: Pronounced Before the Citizens of Boston, on the Anniversary of the Declaration of Independence, July 4th, 1831
I AM all unused, fellow citizens, to situations like that, in which, by your favour, I now find myself. I have no hope of duly meeting its demands. I should unhesitatingly have declined to yield myself to your call, had I not remembered that it ill becomes a dutiful son of Boston, to constitute himself the judge of the forms of service which it may require from him; and, if not with more diffidence, I should have met it with more reluctance, but that I felt too that for a son about to be dismissed from beneath the beloved family roof, there are ties which may Well strengthen the obligations of duty, even when' these are strongest.
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