The Indebtedness Of The West To New England

Author : Charles W. Fairbanks
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ISBN 13 : 9781330687185
Total Pages : 24 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (871 download)

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Download or read book The Indebtedness of the West to New England (Classic Reprint) written by Charles W. Fairbanks and published by . This book was released on 2015-07-04 with total page 24 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Indebtedness of the West to New England Mr. Chairman, Ladies and Gentlemen - With pleasure I have come to participate with you in this interesting historical occasion, and to bear testimony of our gratitude to New England for what she has been, and is, to the West. I do not feel as though I had come among strangers, or "enemies," to use a phrase which has had much currency upon the hustings, for the ashes of many of my ancestors rest in your soil. They were among the pioneers who aided in raising the torch of liberty upon the Atlantic coast, and they were among those who carried beyond the Appalachian mountains the fundamental principles of human freedom which were inculcated here. We meet, not as strangers, but as friends, filled with the love of liberty, and with pride in a common ancestry. We are bound together by a common heritage, a common kinship, a common aspiration and a common destiny. We return to New England with filial affection. We look to her as to a venerable mother, wise, noble-minded and generous-hearted. She may have seemed exacting and austere in her early days, but she has mellowed and sweetened with age. If she has faults they lean to virtue's side. We recognize and gladly acknowledge our everlasting indebtedness to her for the high ideals which the pioneers carried hence to their humble homes in the West. They took with them the love of religion, the love of learning, the love of home. These have been the inspiration of the West. They have been the sure foundation of her development from small beginnings to her present strength and power. I rejoice with you in the two hundred and fiftieth anniversary of the municipal birth of Lancaster. Two and one-half centuries are but a brief period, compared with the lives of some of the European municipalities, but it is a long time when compared with most of our American cities, with the national Government, and with the eldest of our States. 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.