AN ORATION, DELIVERED BEFORE THE CITIZENS OF BURLINGTON, N. J., ON THE OCCASION OF THEIR CELEBRATION OF THE EIGHTY-SIXTH ANNIVERSARY OF INDEPENDENCE DAY, JULY 4th, 1862. By J. HOWARD PUGH, M. D. PHILADELPHIA: KING & BAIRD, PRINTERS, No. 607 SANSOM STREET. 1862....

Burlington, July 8th, 1862. Doct. J. Howard Pugh , Dear Sir : Having listened, with so much pleasure and profit, to the appropriate and impressive address with which you favored us upon the occasion of the recent celebration of “Independence Day,” we feel that we would be failing in duty to those of our fellow-citizens who were deprived of that gratification, were we to allow the occasion to go by and be forgotten, without taking measures to have your remarks placed upon record, and to secure th

In the ways of Providence, there is always fitness in the smallest as in the greatest things. It is on the Fourth of July, in midsummer, that we hold the anniversary festivals of American Independence. And it is a beautiful ordering of the Providence that rules the seasons and the nations, that the time of these anniversaries is so well suited to the occasion. For it is fitting, that in the midst of glorious summer days, when the earth lies richest in the sunlight; when the fields are golden wit