AN ORATION DELIVERED AT THE CELEBRATION OF OUR NATIONAL INDEPENDENCE AT THE CITY OF WASHINGTON, JULY 4th 1816 cover title . A 25pp. manuscript draft of his speech, with ink and pencil corrections, sig

by Lear

$6,000 · Offered by Bartleby's Books

1815-ca.1842 . Lear's 25pp. speech, approx. 4000 words, selfwraps with ms. title page, bound at left margin with a thin ribbon. Lear's prose celebrates the 40th anniversary of the founding of the United States, its Constitution and first President, but also speaks of the more recent events of the War of 1812. Lear's summation of the country's virtues include extensive territory, a salubrious climate, a fertile soil, & a people hardy, enterprising, brave & virtuous, and a Constitution

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