Which sentences from Frederick Douglass' speech, Wat to the Steve is the fourth of puyo show the separation between him and his audience and prove that he does not share his listeners' attitudes toward the Fourth of July?
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The papers and placards say, that I am to deliver a 4th of July oration. This certainly sounds large, and out of the common way, for it is true that
I have often had the privilege to speak in this beautiful Hall and to address many who now honor me with their presence. But neither their
familiar faces, nor the perfect gage I think I have of Corinthian Hall, seems to free me from embarrassment.
The fact is ladies and gentlemen, the distance between this platform and the slave plantation, from which I escaped, is considerable - and the
difficulties to be overcome in getting from the latter to the former, are by no means slight. That I am here to-day is, to me, a matter of
astonishment as well as of gratitude. You will not, therefore be surprised, if in what I have to say I evince no elaborate preparation, nor grace
my speech with any high sounding exordium With little experience and with less learning. I have been able to throw my thoughts hastily and
imperfectly together and trusting to your patient and generous indulgence I will proceed to lay them before you.
This for the purpose of this celebration is the 4th of July. It is the birthday of your National Independence, and of
you is what the Passover was to the emancipated people of God. It carries you minds back to the day, and to the act of your great deliverance
independence, and of your political freedom. This, to
and to the signs and to the wonders associated with that act, and that day. This celebration also marks the beginning of another year of your
national life and reminds you that the Republic of America is now 76 years old. I am glad, fellow-citizens, that your nation is so young. Seventy-
six years, though a good old age for a man, is but a mere speck in the life of a nation. Three score years and ten is the allotted time for individual
men but nations number their years by thousands. According to this fact, you are, even now, only in