text:  And, dear fellow citizen, the same thing might be said of us as was said of the ancient Anglo-Saxons, as the French historian Francois Guizot says, and I quote him, "...when there scarcely remained traces of popular assemblies, the remembrance of them, of the right of freemen to deliberate and transact their business together, the remembrance of them resided in the minds of men as a primitive tradition and a thing which might come about again."