Oration Delivered At The Centennial Celebration Of Cleveland Ohio On Perrys Victory Day September 10 1896 Classic Reprint

Excerpt from Oration Delivered at the Centennial Celebration of Cleveland, Ohio, on Perry's Victory Day, September 10, 1896 Civis Romanus sum to stand for ages as a guaranty ofconsideration and protection throughout the civilized world. It was a happy circumstance that caused the settlement of the Western Reserve upon the nation's birthday. With true American spirit the little band of pioneers, under the leadership of Moses Cleaveland, celebrated that to them important fourth of July. Toasts indicating thankfulness for the past and hope for the future were announced in the customary manner. Good punch was provided. The President of the United States was remembered, in accord ance with time-honored custom. Port of Independence they named Conneaut, the place where the celebration was held. May the Port of Independence and the fifty sons and daughters who have entered it this day be successful and prosperous, they hopefully offered. May these sons and daughters multiply in sixteen years sixteen times fifty, again expressed their anticipations. It is recorded that after the celebration, notwithstanding the effect of the punch, they retired in good order. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

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Excerpt from William Lloyd Garrison, the Centennial Oration: Delivered by Reverdy C. Ransom in Faneuil Hall, Mass., U. S. A., Dec 11. 1905 William Lloyd Garrison was in earnest. He neither temporized nor com promised with the enemies of human freedom. He gave up all those comforts, honors and rewards which his unusual talents would easily have won for him, in behalf of the cause of freedom which he espoused. He stood for righteous ness with all the rugged strength of a prophet. Like some Elijah of the Gil ead Forests, he pled with this nation to turn away from the false gods it had enshrined upon the altars of human liberty. Like some John Baptist crying in the wilderness, he called upon this nation to repent of its sin of human slavery, and to bring forth the fruits of its repentance in immediate emancipa tion. William Lloyd Garrison was born in Newburyport, Mass, Dec. 10, 12505 He came of very poor and obscure parentage. His father, who was a sea faring man, early abandoned the family for causes supposed to relate to his intemperance. The whole career of Garrison was a struggle against poverty. His educational advantages were limited. He became a printer's apprentice when quite a lad, which trade he learned. When he launched his paper, Thc Liberator, which was to deal such destructive blows to slavery, the type was set by his own hands. The motto of the Liberator was Our country is the world, our countrymen mankind. Garrison did not worship the golden calf. His course could not be changed, nor his Opinions influenced by threats of violence or the bribe of gold. Money could not persuade him to open his mouth against the truth, or buy his silence from uncompromising denunciation of the wrong. He put manhood above money, humanity above race, the justice of God above the jus tices of the supreme court, and conscience above the constitution. Because. He took his stand upon New Testament righteousness as taught by Christ, he was regarded as a fanatic in a Christian land. When he declared that he determined at every hazard to lift up a' standard of emancipation in the eyes of the nation, within sight of bunker-hill and in the-birthplace of liberty, he, was regarded as a public enemy, in a nation conceived in liberty and dedi pated to freedom. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Excerpt from Centennial Oration the Voices of the Past Tonight we come, at our mother's call, to celebrate her centennial jubilee. Not a single absent member! For, whether in the flesh or in the spirit, all have come, and to the roll-call of this gala hour answer here. Hoist to the top Old Glory's rippling colors! Bring forth the timbre] and the harp, and let the anthems swell to heaven from all the daughters of song. But, to warm our hearts, we need no other wine than Memory's. Horace may prefer the old Falernian from the Italian hills. But we'll drink to our mother's health in the rarer vintage of her own purple clusters. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Excerpt from Oration Delivered at the Reunion of the Army of the Cumberland: Columbus, Ohio, September, 16, 1874 The remedy for the admitted evils resulting from the introduction into the body politic suddenly of so large a pro portion 'of ignorant electors, is not, it may be affirmed with certainty, to seek to deprive them of the franchise now se cured to them by constitutional guaranties. That would be unjust and impossible. To the extent of protecting them in their equal rights as citizens, the faith of the Nation is pledged; and that faith, made sacred by the blood and treasure spent in the restoration of the Union, will be redeemed at every additional cost. Neither will it promote relief, while not openly seeking that end, to approximate it indirectly, by a system of intimida tion and outbreaks of violence, in order to reduce them to a state of subserviency to those who claim to be the rightful ruling class. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Excerpt from Oration by Gen. H. V. Boynton: Delivered at Guilford Battle Ground, July 4, 1900 Tarleton, in his carefully written history, describes Guilford as a stubbornly contested field where victory alternately presided over each army, and, further, as a victory which, however splendid and honorable to the general and the troops, was not useful or advantageous to Great Britain. Fox in the British Parliament, declared that the victory was with the Americans, for, he argued, that in the face of recognized defeat Cornwallis could have done no more than he did do, namely, leave the field and flee to the coast, as he was forced to do. There is one false tradition of this field which the citizens of North Carolina properly combat and deny, and that is the6 Guilford Battle Ground, july 4, 1900. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Excerpt from Oration Delivered at the Invitation of the City of Chicago and of the World's Fair Commission: On the 4th Day of July, 1893, in Jackson Park, Chicago The time, the place, the occasion, and the land scape are unique. This is the Columbian year; this is the anniversary of an immortal declaration of human rights; this is the city of Chicago; this is the World's Fair. The Old Liberty Bell is here; the New Liberty Bell is here; the American people are here; the nations of the earth are here. In ten thousand years of recorded history when was there ever such a conjunction of events? In all the un numbered years to come, what probability is there that it will ever be repeated? National grandeur and State pride are in conjunction with international friendship. What political horoscope can equal this? The unclouded heavens, the boundless prairie, the teeming metropolis, the unvexed bosom of a vast inland sea, yon Viking ship and caravels, and yonder palaces of art, resting tranquilly on their shadows in the wave - all are in harmony with the occasion. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.