Speech Of Henry Champion Deming Of Connecticut On The Presidents Plan For State Renovation Delivered February 27 1864 Classic Reprint

Author : Horace Bushnell
Publisher : Forgotten Books
ISBN 13 : 9780267666645
Total Pages : 48 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (666 download)

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Download or read book Speech for Connecticut written by Horace Bushnell and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-02-03 with total page 48 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Speech for Connecticut: Being an Historical Estimate of the State, Delivered Before the Legislature and Other Invited Guests, at the Festival of the Normal School in New Britain, June 4, 1851 It will occur to you at once, in the problem raised, that what any people can be and ought to be, depends, in a principal de gree, on What they have been. And so much is there in this principle, that scarcely any thing is necessary, as it seems to me, to exalt our public consciousness and Set us forward in the path of honor, but simply to receive the true idea of our history and be kindled with a genuine inspiration derived from a just recollection of the past. In' this View it is, that I now propose to give you a sketch, or outline of our history; or perhaps I should rather say, an his toric estimate of our standing as a member of the republic. In giving this outline, or estimate, I must deal, of course, with facts that are familiar to many; but we have a history of such transcendent beauty, freshened by so many inspiring and heroic incidents, that we should not easily tire under the recital, how however familiar. Nothing should tire us but the mortifying fact, that as a people, We have not yet attained to the sense of our own public honors. Mr. Bancroft, the historian, thoroughly acquainted with the relative character and merit of the Ameri can States, not long ago said, - There is no state in the Union, and I know not any in the world, in whose early history, ifi were a citizen, I could find more of which to be proud, and less thatl should wish to blot. My own conviction is that this early history, though not the most prominent, is really the most beautiful that was ever permitted to any state or people in the world. 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.