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BY J. F. BRACE, EsQ.

 You are now assembled, fellow citixens, to celebrate the birth day of freedom in your native land, to look back upon fifty years of unexampled prosperity and happiness.

 Many are the advantages resulting from these annual assemblies in our land they point us Lack to owhat we were, when toiling in the prison houseof bondage; they show us what we now are, after half a century of trial.

 The object of these celebrations is not. as many of the timid imagine, to keep up in the heart the hatred of one nation. The decla- ration of Independence, as it is now read to us, will not rouse us against the oppressor of the last century, but against oppression in this; and, while this declaration sounds in their ears, this people will not submit to the domination of the artful demagogue, on the one hand, or fall beneath the sword of conquest, on the other. live remember, from year to year, that our ancestors, amidst the horrors of war and the gloom of poverty, pledged " their lives, their fortunes. and their sacred honor, |" that freedom should be perpetuated among us; are We in danger of proving de generate Can Americans again bow to tit led aristocracy, after having met, in a perfect equality, around the festive hoard, that is ev- cry where spread on this day? Can A. mericans again submit to military dom ,ina:ion, and political slavery, after hearing, as they every where will, this day, what half "a century of freedom has wrought out for them. 1t is impossible. He. who tyrannizes over these states, must firstraze from the mind the memory of the past; must blot out from the page of history the record of the last fif- ty years; must say to this people, ye shall not year after year, meet in the templesof liberty to offer the sacrifice of thanksgiving.

 In these; our annual attempts, however, to preserve the spirit of liberty among us let us mot keep alive the sense ofthe injuries which, fifty years ago, we received from the English nation. It cannot be necessary for freemen, after half a century of political existence, to remember and revenge the injuries inflicted on them in their infancy;-injuries, that were then met and revenged In the great work o( eplghtening the world, of dissemina- ting the principles of liberty, ofeducation and of religion, we need the assistance of nation. ppssessing, as England does. so many of the principles of freedom in her institutions; let our maxim then be towards her as to others. enemies in war; in peace, friends;s and let lus mi sHlly the .recOllections of this halfcen- tllFS Nhilee, by reproaches of ancnemv, that 