Excerpt from The Great Conspiracy: An Address Delivered at Mt, Kisco, West Chester County, New York, on the 4th of July, 1861; The 86th Anniversary of American Independence

Jays Address. My Fellow-Countrymen :We have assembled to celebrate the eighty-sixth birthday of American independence, and we come together under circumstances that seem to make us contemporaries and co-actors as it were, with our fathers of the revolution. The crisis which they met, and which their heroism decided after a seven years war with Great Britain, again meets us face to face. The early scenes of their struggle for constitutional liberty, have found in our recent experience an historic parallel of even chronological exactness. The blood of Massachussetts, shed at Lexington on the 19 th of April 1775, was not shed more gloriously than that of the sons of the same old commonwealth, who, marching by our national highway, to the defence of our common capital, were slain at Baltimore on the 19 th of April, 18 G 1.The midnight ride of Paul Revere, famed in history and song, rousing the sleepers as he passed to hasten to defend their country, created no deeper emotion among the colonists of that day, than did our electric wires flashing far and wide the news of the assault on Sumpter and the massacre at Baltimore, and thrilling with a simultaneous burst of sympathy the loyal heart of the American people. On the 4 th of July 1776, the congress that met in the state house at Philadelphia approved the solemn instrument that declared the independenceof the American colonies, and announced to the world the birth of a nation.

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