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Excerpt from Oration: Pronounced Before the Citizens of Providence on the Fourth of July, 1826, Being the Fiftieth Anniversary of American Independence
It is not necessary to dwell on the history of our independence. It is astonishing that this history was written, precisely written before that independence was achieved. I allude to what, at the time, was deemed a phrensied oration of Wilkes, in the House of Commons, in 1775, on the motion of Lord North to de clare the province of Massachusetts in a state of rebellion. He was indeed, not only ani.
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