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- W1710377557 abstract "The Reverend Richard Furman of South Carolina had little patience with those who explained the triumphs of the American liberal experiment in terms of natural causes alone. Some have suggested, chided the Charleston divine in 1802, in ascribing our success to the Providence of God, we run into enthusiasm; and detract from the merit of our statesmen and heroes. An objection fraught with so much absurdity, pride, and impiety, does not deserve to be answered, cried the good pastor. Yet, having thus dismissed the foolish notion categorically, he returned to it long enough to answer the charge: It can surely be no disgrace; but an high honor to our patriots, to say; 'They acted in the cause of God,' and that, 'He smiled on their endeavors.' 2 Furman's verbal lashing of his supposedly impious countrymen was hardly necessary. Throughout the first century of their national history, most Americans seem to have believed unquestioningly that the cause of liberty was the cause of God. In accounting for the presence of liberty in their land, Americans unabashedly declared their belief in the superintendence of a Providence who intended man to be free. This essay attempts to delineate some of the major facets of the legend of providential protection for the nation as the legend manifested itself in popular thought from 1776 to 1876. The study is limited almost exclusively to Fourth of July editorials, odes, and orations. This limitation is made only secondarily because the body of Fourth of July materials, primarily in the form of newspaper accounts and pamphlets, is very extensive. The more important consideration is that these orations, representing the work of lawyers, clergymen, college professors, politicians, editors, and ordinary citizens, reflect the opinion of a wide cross section of the public. Thus Fourth of July opinions can serve nicely as a microcosm of most generally held ideas concerning American nationalism. Bombastic phrases and pious platitudes made the Fourth of July address a masterpiece of oratory according to the standards of an earlier day. But, as Merle Curti has pointed out, the oration nevertheless epitomized the whole pattern of American patriotic" @default.
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- W1710377557 title "Providence and the American Past" @default.
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