Memorial Of The Reunion Of The Natives Of Westhampton Massachusetts September 5 1866 1866

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Total Pages : 174 pages
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Download or read book Memorial of the Reunion of the Natives of Westhampton, Mass written by and published by . This book was released on 2015-07-27 with total page 174 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Memorial of the Reunion of the Natives of Westhampton, Mass: September 5, 1866 Centennial celebrations, and Reunions of the natives of given towns, are modern features of our New England history. Our country is yet in its youth. None of our municipal communities have existed long enough to admit of more than two centennial jubilees, and many of them have had but one. Such occasions are replete with the deepest interest to the living descendants of generations which have passed away. They afford an opportunity to gather up, and put upon record, the memories of the past, to pay our dutiful respects to parents, grandparents and still more distant progenitors, and to preserve green in our recollections their household fidelity, their social worth, their unfaltering patriotism, and their consecrated piety. A want of proper respect for antiquity is said to be one of the grand defects of our national taste. If it is a blemish in our character, much should be pardoned to the stern necessities of pilgrim and frontier life, to the incessant struggle of the first settlers for existence, surrounded by hostile savages and a frowning wilderness, under inclement skies, and, more than all, with an almost total want of sympathy in the land that gave them birth. The fathers of New England had little time to spend in communion with the past. The necessities of the present were all engrossing; and yet, such is the testimony of all contemporary and impartial history, that, in addition to their unquenchable love of civil and religious liberty, they had more taste for institutions which were hoary with time, more love of literature and science, more relish for works of art, and a far higher regard for the immortal welfare of their children and their children's children, than have distinguished any other pioneers the world has seen. 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.