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Show "The Fourth." "A century and more has passed, and as the foundations of this government govern-ment are more firmly settled, as the structure reared by the fathers now spans the continent from ocean to ocean; and has victoriously established establish-ed its right to be, political liberty has ceased to be the mere dream of the enthusiast, and has become the every- j day fact of the men of thought and action ac-tion in the world. This was the first step; and we are here to glory in it, and to boast of those ancestors who suffered and tolled and fought to accomplish ac-complish It." David J. Brewer. |