AN ORATION

Delivered Before the Washington Benevolent Society at Cambridge, July 4, 1815Whilst Europe beheld with trembling solicitude the progress of these dogmas, ignorant of their ultimate effects, France herself became the theatre of the awful experiment. Soon the floodgates of rebellion were raised, and amidst the ensuing carnage and dismay, the deepest nightshade of atheism hung over that aban doued country, and moral France was expunged from the map of Europe. One wave rolled forth from the flaming abyss of the revolution to he succeeded by an other still more terrific. The blood-stained parasite of ambition, who chanced to gain the vantage-ground of party, was doomed to pay the forfeiture of life, and aroland and Marat, arobespiere and Barras - names, which glare with horrid lustre on the page of histo ry - only scaled the republican scaffold, to plunge into destruction the more speedy and complete.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis 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.