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Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events: Documents and Narratives, Volume 1. (ed. Frank Moore), chapter 278 (search)
Doc. 254.-the great conspiracy. An address delivered at Mount Kisco, West-Chester County, New York, on the 4th of July, 1861, by John Jay. My fellow-countrymen :--We have assembled to celebrate the eighty-sixth birthday of American independence, and we come together under circumstances that seem to make us contemporaries, and co-actors as it were, with our fathers of the Revolution. The crisis which they met, and which their heroism decided after a seven years war with Great Britain, agai foundation of our national glory and of the broad principles of right on which they based the edifice of American freedom! Those years have passed; their results are written on the map of America, on the page of history, and to-day, the 4th of July, 1861, the American Congress convenes again at the call of the President, at the capital bearing the name of Washington, to meet the question, whether the republic is to be maintained in its integrity, with the Constitution proclaimed by Washingto