An Address On The Occasion Of Opening The New Town Hall In Braintree

Author : Charles Francis Adams
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ISBN 13 : 9781332323456
Total Pages : 92 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (234 download)

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Download or read book An Address on the Occasion of Opening the New Town Hall in Braintree written by Charles Francis Adams and published by . This book was released on 2015-08-05 with total page 92 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from An Address on the Occasion of Opening the New Town Hall in Braintree: July 29, 1858 This assembling of ours to-day is to mark a new event. Not a great one, may be, if measured by the scale of national rise and fall; but yet great enough for us. Old Braintree inaugurates her new town hall. It is a fact in which she may take an honest pride, and for which she may be fairly congratulated. Accordingly, we come, all of us, not her immediate children only, but the children of those who were her children in years gone by, to give her joy. By this sign we know that Old Braintree has prospered, greatly prospered; and that, too, in the face of what have appeared to her grievous discouragements. For the ancient town has in her two centuries of life endured, much against her will, repeated amputations of her most vigorous limbs; she has felt herself barbarously shorn of her once ample proportions; she has been reduced in her outward form until she appears smaller than either of her off-shoots. Yet in spite of this tribulation, Old Braintree shows out hale, and vigorous, and youthful withal. Her hills and her valleys still ring with the echoes of honest industry; her fields still swell their annual rewards for faithful labor; her dwellings resound with the mirth of happy children, and her expanding churches still witness the grateful devotion which marked her Puritan days. 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.