Excerpt from Oration: Delivered in the Congregational Church, Sacramento, California, July 4, 1857 As in our wide-extended domain, there are found all descriptions of scenery, every character of soil, climate and productions, as well as Specimens of the various races and mixtures of the human kind - so has our prolific land given birth to innumerable shades of Opin ions, and vast varieties of parties, faiths, creeds, philosophies, abstract theories and crude, ill-digested and erroneous ideas about forms of government and the rights of man. To partially expose the fallacious promises and unsound arguments entertained by many with reference to these latter questions, is the task I have chosen to perform this day. It is peculiarly appropriate. I have only to regret my inability to handle it as its importance de mands. What I shall now say, is but the advance of certain propo sitions, which at a future time, will, with a variety of cognate ques tions, be more fully elucidated. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.