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Excerpt from Oration Delivered Before the City Council and Citizens of Boston, on the One Hundred and Fourth Anniversary of the Declaration of American Independence, July 5, 1880
I thank you, Mr. Mayor, for your selection of a subject when you invited me to speak to you on this occasion. Your indication of your Wishes will render this selection not invidious; and my treatment will not seem partial, or particular, by reason of a choice from out a galaxy of heroes and statesmen, among whom one star only differeth from another star in glory.
In that Pantheon of departed heroes, the old hall of the National Capitol at Washington, to which each State has been invited by Congress to contribute two representatives of her history, Massachusetts has, Within a few years, placed two noble statues, - the one is of John Winthrop, as most worthily represent ing our early colonial period; the other of Samuel Adams, the personification of the Revolution. It has been said that your Legislature hesitated long be tween the latter and his more distinguished kinsman, John Adams, the second President of the United States.
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