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Excerpt from An Address: Delivered at the Music Hall, Boston, in Aid of the Fund for Ball's Equestrian Statue of Washington, 13 May, 1859 The following Address was first delivered in Baltimore, on the evening of 2d of May, 1859, in aid of the Funds of the Young Men's Christian Association of that city. It is here published, by request, as delivered at the Music Hall in Boston, on the 13th of May following, in aid of an object for which it had...

Excerpt from Reminiscences of Foreign Travel: A Fragment of Autobiography Crossing the Atlantic for the first time in April, 1847, I visited London with some peculiar advantages for seeing the English celebrities of that day. I was a member of Congress, and during the six or seven years I had been at Washington I had served for a part of the time on the Committee of Foreign Affairs. I had thus been brought into Official as well as personal as...

Excerpt from Oration on the Two Hundred and Fiftieth Anniversary of the Landing of the Pilgrim Fathers at Plymouth: 21 December, 1870 There can be no true New England heart which does not throb to-day with something of unwonted exultation. There can be no true American heart, I think, which has not found itself swelling with a more fervent gratitude to God, and a more profound veneration for the Pilgrim Fathers, as this morning's sun has rise...

Excerpt from Speech of Mr. Winthrop, of Mass, , On the Mexican War: Delivered in the House of Representatives of the United States, January 8, 1847 The House being in Committee of the Whole on the state of the Union, and having under consideration a bill to raise for a limited time an additional military force, and for other purposes Mr. Winthrop said, that if he could have selected his own time for addressing the committee, he would not hav...

Excerpt from Eulogy Pronounced at the Funeral of George Peabody, at Peabody, Massachusetts, 8 February, 1870 While I have been unwilling, my friends, wholly to decline the request of your Committee of Arrangements, or to seem wanting to any service which might, perchance, have gratified him, whom, in common with you all, I' have so honored and loved, - I have still felt deeply, and I cannot help feeling, at this moment, more deeply than ever ...

Excerpt from Address at the Unveiling of the Statue of Colonel William Prescott: On Bunker Hill, June 17, 1881 Fellow-Citizens: - I cannot assume the position which belongs to me to-day, as President of the Bunker Hill Monument Association, and enter on the discharge of the duties which devolve upon me in that capacity, without first giving expression to my deep sense of the honor of an office, which has been held heretofore by so many disti...

Excerpt from Memoir of the Hon. Nathan Appleton, LL. D: Prepared Agreeably to a Resolution of the Massachusetts Historical Society AT the stated monthly meeting of this Society, held at their rooms on Thursday, 8th August, 1861, the Presi dent (hon. Robert C. Winthrop) announced the death of the Hon: nathan appleton, a Resident Member of the Society, as follows: We. Have been called on so often of late, gentlemen, to notice the departure of t...

Excerpt from Introductory Lecture to the Course on the Early History of Massachusetts: Members of the Massachusetts Historical Society An Introductory Lecture, ray friends, like an overture to an oratorio or an opera, has, proverbially, a wide scope, and I shall avail myself, with your indulgence, of the largest privileges of my position. It is no affectation in me, however, to say to you at the outset, that I have little hope of satisfying e...

Excerpt from Archimedes and Franklin: A Lecture Introductory to a Course on the Application of Science to Art, Delivered Before the Massachusetts Charitable Mechanic Association, November 29, 1853Or they may have imagined, perhaps, that he would be impatient to visit at once the sacred fountain Of Arethusa, and the seat of those Sicilian Muses whom Virgil so soon after invoked in commencing that most inspired of all uninspired compositions, wh...

Excerpt from An Address, Delivered Before the New England SocietyIf we might imagine the youthful Victoria, led along by the train of re¿ections which we have thus suggested, and snatching a moment from the anxious contemplation of Colonies which she is in immediate danger of losing, to search after those which have been lost to her already, - if we might imagine her turning back the page of History to the period of the first Stuart, to discov...

Excerpt from Addresses and Speeches: On Various Occasions Some circumstances, connected with the progress and close of my late Congressional career, have induced me to comply, not altogether unwillingly, with the suggestion of friends, - that whatever I have said on public questions, should be placed within the convenient reach and reference of such as may care to know any thing about my course. I have ventured to think, too, that this volum...

Excerpt from An Address Delivered Before the Association of the Alumni of Harvard College In rising, Mr. President and Brethren, to perform the distinguished part in the services of this morning, which has been assigned me by your Executive Committee, it is a real relief to me to reflect, how little, after all, the success of this occasion will depend, on the character of the entertainment which may be afforded you, during the brief hour whic...

Excerpt from Speech of Mr. Winthrop, of Massachusetts, on the Annexation of Texas: Delivered in the House of Representatives of the United States, Jan, 6, 1845 House of Representatives of the United States, January 6, 1845. - The Joint Resolution for the Annexation of Texas being under consideration in the Committee of the Whole on the State of the Union - Mr Winthrop said: I have very little hope, Mr. Chairman, of saying any thing new on t...

Excerpt from The Dedication of the Washington National Monument: With the Orations, February 21, 1885 Without further preface I proceed to discharge the duty assigned me' After music by the Marine Band, prayer was offered by the Rev. Henderson Suter, Rector of Christ Church, Alex andria, Va. Where Washington worshiped. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbo...

Excerpt from Speech of Mr. Winthrop, of Massachusetts, on the Oregon Question: Delivered in the House of Representatives of the United States, Jan, 3, 1846 House of Representatives of the United States, January 3d, 1846. The House having under consideration the bill reported by the Committee on Military Affairs, "to provide for raising two additional regiments of riflemen, and for other purposes, " and the question being upon the motion to c...

Excerpt from Life and Letters of John Winthrop: From His Embarkation for New England in 1630, With the Chapter and Company of the Massachusetts Bay, to His Death in 1649 I must not omit to acknowledge my indebtedness to Charles Deane, Esq., A.M., of Cambridge, to the Rev. Chandler Robbins, D.D., of Boston, to the Rev. George E. Ellis, D.D., of Charlestown, and to Dr. John Appleton, the Assistant Librarian of the Massachusetts Historical Socie...

Excerpt from Oration: Delivered Before the City Council and Citizens of Boston, On the One Hundredth Anniversary of the Declaration of Independence, July 4, 1876 God, that as a reunited people, this nation bows before thee in this memorable hour, that thou hast put away all feeling of bitterness from between us, and from the North and the South, the East and the West, we come up together into thy kingdom of peace and love. Bless, we pray thee...

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