Excerpt from Oration Delivered Before the City Council and Citizens of Boston: On the One Hundred and Sixteenth Anniversary of the Declaration of Independence, July 4, 1892 In Board of Aldermen, July 6, 1892. Resolved: That the thanks of the City Council be expressed to Hon. John R. Murphy for the patriotic and eloquent Oration delivered by him before the city authorities on the Fourth of July, in commemoration of the One Hundred and Sixteenth Anniversary of American Independence; and that he be requested to furnish a copy thereof for publication. Passed, unanimously, by a rising vote. Sent down for concurrence. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.