Excerpt from Oration by Henry E. Highton at Santa Rosa, Cal;, July 4, 1890<br><br>But, as the greater includes the less, so our National Anniversary must always remain - pre-eminent while our Constitutional Government and our American ideas prevail and endure. That Anniversary is related to the most important event in secular history, with all its realized and developing results and consequences. It means, not merely the birth of a nation after throes and anguish which lasted for centuries - not merely the establishment and the organization of great communi ties in which the rights and the liberties of individuals, of municipalities and of States, are fundamentally pre served and guarded from attacks from within and from without by State Constitutions and laws, and by an indestructible Federal system; but it means also the discovery and the practical application of the true theory of government for the whole human race and the supremacy of the deepest personal and political sentiment that, from the earliest ages, has agitated the turbulent breast of mankind.<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.