The 4th of July in Albany 1831

The National Broadcasting Company in conjunction with the Fund for Adult Education presents Democracy in America by Alexis de Tocqueville. Albany, July 4, 1831. The reading of the Declaration of Independence in the Methodist Church was really a fine spectacle.

There was, in the reading of these promises of independence so well kept, in this return of an entire people toward the memories of its birth, something deeply felt and truly great. The Fourth of July in Albany, 1831.

A Study in American Independence. Item 3 in the series Democracy in America. Prepared by the Division of General Education of New York University, under the direction of George Probst, American Historian. A series designed to bring to life the America of 1831, as recorded by Alexis de Tocqueville, and so to illuminate the image of democracy itself.

A study in American independence, the Fourth of July in Albany, 1831. What is it? What's the matter? How they had to barricade? Quiet, boom on! This is not fun!

We are in America! It is Independence Day 1831. in Chapter 1 and the loyal citizens of Albany seem to be saluting the dawn with the fusillard of artillery. Phew, not a very pleasant wakening for me.

The guns made me dream of the reign of terror. The reign of terror was over years before you were born, boom on. I know, but my family has told me many stories of the revolution.

So has mine, my own father and mother in prison barely escaped the guillotine. My grandfather, my great-grandfather, an uncle and an aunt, old guillotine. And since then we have had Napoleon, the restoration of the Bourbon, the July Revolution last year, Louis Philip back again with his damned umbrella, all that in 40 years.