poem by Charles Sprague.  INDEPENDENCE A SOLEMN DUTY By Richard Henry Lee         The time will certainly come when the fated separation bet...

  "We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalien...

"Nor shall their story be forgot...  AMERICA RESENTS BRITISH DICTATION By Henry H. Carrington        During the agitation of 1765, conc...

THE FOURTH OF JULY IN WESTMINSTER ABBEY By Phillips Brooks, July 4, 1880        To all true men the birthday of a nation must always be a sa...

"How sleep the brave who sink to rest, By all their country's wishes blest."        "There are brief crises in which the ...

The Declaration of Independence: The Vision of a Free Society from the Jack Miller Center  "The United States is the only country with ...

OUR NATIONAL ANNIVERSARY BY A. H. RICE        We celebrate to-day no idle tradition - the deeds of no fabulous race; for we tread in the sca...

"Let Independence be our boast, Ever mindful what it cost." ADDRESS OF JOHN LATHROP (JULY 4 , 1796, Boston.)        In the war for...

Old Glory in the Sky. ADDRESS OF JOHN QUINCY ADAMS (July 4, I793, Boston.)        Americans! let us pause for a moment to consider the situa...

Glorious Fourth postcard  ADDRESS OF JOEL BARLOW (July 4, I787, Hartford, Conn.)        On the anniversary of so great an event as the birth...

 ENGLAND AND THE FOURTH OF JULY BY W, T. STEAD (From The Independent.)        I wish with all my heart that we could adopt the Fourth of Jul...

A young American from the turn of the 20th Century.        Independence Day is the national holiday most dear to the hearts of the Ame...