Hancock. and Washington struck their great and resounding blows against compulsion and took up for themselves and for their fellows a citizenship in Americathat land where liberty. tolerance. and growth still abide. there in the city of Philadelphia. the essence of America stands enshrined forever in the works and deeds of immortal men. I have stood In the great square of Philadelphia on many another occasion. but truly. Mr. President. there has never been another occasion like that. All America was assembled there. Men and women of all races. creeds. and colors were gathered there--dressed in the garbs of the respective nations from whence they came to take up the mantie of citizenship in America. Those people were immigrants and descendants of immigrants. They were Catholic. Protestant.
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