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Orationsby John Quincy Adams"The Jubilee of the Constitution, delivered at New York,April 30, 1839, before the New York Historical Society."Fellow-Citizens and Brethren, Associates of the New YorkHistorical Society:Would it be an unlicensed trespass of the imagination toconceive that on the night preceding the day of which you nowcommemorate the fiftieth anniversaryon the night precedingthat thirtieth of April, 1789, when from the balcony of your cityhall the chancellor of the State of New York