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TODAY, JULY 4, 2023, WE COMMEMORATE THE SIGNING OF THE DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE WHICH BIRTHED OUR EXCEPTIONAL NATION
Johnson: THE ETERNAL MEANING OF INDEPENDENCE DAY
On July 9, 1858, Illinois Senator Stephen Douglas gave a campaign speech to a raucous throng from the balcony of the Tremont Hotel in Chicago. Abraham Lincoln was in the audience as Douglas prepared to speak. Douglas graciously invited Lincoln to join him on the balcony to listen to the speech. […]  Lincoln invited Douglas’s audience to return the next evening for his reply to Douglas’s speech. Lincoln’s speech of July 10, 1858, is one of his many great speeches, but in one respect it is uniquely great. It concludes with an explanation of the meaning of this day to Americans with matchless eloquence and insight in words that remain as relevant now as then. Now, it happens that we meet together once every year, sometime about the 4th of July, for some reason or other. These 4th of July gatherings I suppose have their uses. If you will indulge me, I will state what I suppose to be some of them. We are now a mighty nation, we are thirty—or about thirty millions of people, and we own and inhabit about one-fifteenth part of the dry land of the whole earth. We run our memory back over the pages of history for about eighty-two years and we discover that we were then a very small people in point of numbers, vastly inferior to what we are now, with a vastly less extent of country,— . . .
Read more: https://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2017/07/the-eternal-meaning-of-independence-day-10.php
ConstitutionFacts.com: The Declaration of Independence
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CobnstitutionFacts.com: Fascinating Facts about the Declaration of Independence
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