AN ORATION ON THE NECESSITY OF POLITICAL UNION AT THE PRESENT DAY: DELIVERED AT THE BAPTIST MEETING-HOUSE, IN PROVIDENCE, AT THE COMMENCEMENT OF RHODE-ISLAND COLLEGE, A.D. 1797
Providence, Rhode Island: Carter and Wilkinson, 1797. First Edition. Pamphlet. Pamphlet. Disbound. 8 pp. Author of this Master of Arts candidate's statement, may actually be the same Paul Allen who went on to publish the famed two-volume history of the Lewis and Clark Expedition (albeit without mentioning Nicholas Biddle, the actual author's name. Disbound. Item #88640
"The present is an age of wonders, and an era of revolutions. The most experienced politician,who has grown grey in the study of mankind, will find in the course of an hour all his expectations destroyed, and predictions overturned. Whatever in the times of antiquity existed only in fable, is realized and fulfilled at the present day -- Like the disconsolate hero of romance, we seem bound in a spell, and to beholdat a distance flowery fields, unclouded skies, burning mountains, and rivers of blood..."
¶ Patriotism, that pride and boast of antiquity, has been vilified and disgraced, as inconsistent with that liberal afection which embraces the whole family of man. But self love is one of the strongest principles of action. Nature commands, and man must obey..."
¶. "Americans! While you justly resent the many injuries you have received from the legislators of France, remember your long and glorious struggle for independence.-- Great-Britain, who now assiduously courts your alliance -- who offers the hand of assistance, once attempted to destroy your ver existence as a nation..."
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