Read the following excerpt. This Fourth of July is yours, not mine. You may rejoice, but I must mourn. To drag a man in
shackles into the grand, illuminated temple of liberty, and call upon him to join you in joyous
anthems, is inhuman mockery and sacrilegious irony.
What inference can be made from this excerpt?
Celebrating freedom is absurd in a country with slavery.
The Fourth of July is an important national holiday for most people.
Celebrating freedom for all will be possible once slavery is ended.
The Fourth of July acknowledges the admirable ideas of the U. S.