I can call to mind no specialized annual day, in any country, which can be named by that large name--Supreme.

I can call to mind no specialized annual day, in any country, whose approach fires the whole land with a conflagration of conversation and preparation and anticipation and jubilation.

No day save this one; but this one does it.
In America we have no annual supreme day; no day whose approach makes the whole nation glad.

We have the Fourth of July, and Christmas, and Thanksgiving.

Neither of them can claim the primacy; neither of them can arouse an enthusiasm which comes near to being universal.