Excerpt from Addresses

More than one hundred years have passed since the death of Washington, and he is today the central figure in American history. The judgment of his contemporaries has been approved by subsequent generations, and his birthday is the rallying point of freedom in every land. He typifies honesty, courage, character, the love of country and the love of liberty, as does no other soldier-statesman of which the world has a record, and it was because of these qualities that the great Irish orator, Charles Philipps, grandly said of him - and I will make his words the text of my address tonight - "No country can claim him, no people can appropriate him. The boon of Providence to the human race, his fame is eternity and his residence creation."

We honor his memory, we recount his virtues, which we would fain emulate, we recall the principles which guided his public life, not idly, but in order that they may exert their proper influence upon the destinies of the Republic. Hence, our meeting this evening is not for eulogy alone. It is for patriotic profit.

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