The United States as a Natiok. Universit:

MICHIGAN

LECTURES ON THE CENTENNIAL

OF

AMERICAN INDEPENDENCE,

GIVEN AT

BERLIN, DRESDEN, FLORENCE, PARIS, AND LONDON.

BY

JOSEPH P. THOMPSON, D.D., LL.D.

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BOSTON:
JAMES R. OSGOOD AND COMPANY,
(LATE TICKNOR & Fields, AND Fields, Osgood, & Co.)

1877.

COPYRIGHT, 1877, BY
JAMES R. OSGOOD & CO.

All Rights Reserved.

Stereotyped and Printed by
Rand, Avery, and Company,
117 Franklin Street,

Boston.

MY FATHER.

1792–1873.

O thou of wise and gentle life,
Unselfish, faithful, free from guile,
Disdaining Mammon's sordid strife!
I see THEE now serenely smile
As thine own words of patriot truth,
Gathered in Freedom's early bloom, -
The garnered lessons of my youth, -
I lay, a chaplet, on thy tomb.

JULY 4, 1876.