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Athens Weekly Banner

Location

Athens, Georgia, United States of America

Date

Jul 10, 1908

Page

3

Magnificent Oration by Judge Emory Speer

In an Independence Day gathering before over ten thousand Georgians at Brenau Chautauqua, Judge Emory Speer delivered a sweeping oration praising Georgia’s founders and the birth of the nation. He recalled James Oglethorpe, Jamestown, and the colonial struggles, linking them to modern liberty and the enduring American creed.

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