Excerpt from The Declaration of Independence: A Discourse Delivered in the First Congregational Unitarian Church in Philadelphia, June 29, 1862<br><br>It is not that the people of this country are better made than the inhabitants of other parts of the globe. It is the influence of the institutions based upon the truths of the Declaration of Independence, the absence of the oppressive legislation which elsewhere prevails, and which implies distinctions among men not existing in nature, and fa voring a few at the cost of the many, cribs and confines the native powers of men, forbidding their unfolding, it is the absence of partial laws to which our national happiness is due.<br><br>About the Publisher<br><br>Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com<br><br>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.