Excerpt from An Address Delivered in Medfield 4th July, 1816

The duties and the dangers of a people peculiarly favoured by the providence of the Almighty will present to the mind a subject of contemplation, not wholly unsuitable to the business of the day, nor unworthy of the occcasion that has called us together.

This growing empire has always been distinguished b, y the peculiar care of heaven. The genius of Columbus was illumed, his soul fortified, and his little vessel guided by an agency evidently not his own. By a pious mind the footsteps of providence are to be traced, not only in the daring enterprise that led to the discovery of the new Continent, but more clearly in the preparations made in the new world for the reception of a race of men more enlightened and improved. When, withhold, adventurous spirits, the pilgrims of the East had arrived through perils of the watry wastes at the shores of the hemisphere in the West, the hand of the Protector through the sea had made ready for them a large place on the land.

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