Excerpt from Oration Delivered on the Fourth Day of July, 1835: Before the Citizens of Beverly, Without Distinction of PartyIt was not possible, that the great controversy should be settled, by any ordinary mode of adjustment. A change in the British constitution, by which the colonies should have been admitted to a full repre scutation in parliament, would probably have restor ed harmony. But this was rejected even by the most enlightened friends of America in the British parliament. After alternate measures of inadequate conciliation and feeble and irritating coercion, the sword is drawn. The wound of which Chatham spoke, - the vulnus immedicabile, the wound for which in all the British Gilead there was not one drop of balm,-the wound, which a child, a mad man, a thoughtless moment might inflict, and did in fliet, - a wretched project to knock the trunnions off a half a dozen iron six-pounders, and throw a few barrels of flour into the river at Concord, - this in curable wound, which not parliaments, nor ministers.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis 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.