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 been previously promised.

On this latter occasion, after a chorus by the "Orpheus Glee Club, " which had kindly volunteered for the purpose, the object of the Address was introduced as follows, by the Hon. Alexander H. Rice, as Chairman of a Committee, appointed by the Artists of Boston, to procure funds for casting in bronze the design of Mr. Thomas Ball for an Equestrian Statue of Washington: -

Ladies and Gentlemen: -

I have been requested by the committee who have in charge the erection of Ball's equestrian statue of Washington in the city of Boston, to introduce the subject and the orator of the evening. And remembering that those who read books commonly skip the preface, especially if it be long, in their eagerness to reach the interest of the following volume, I shall apply the warning to the present occasion, and hope to secure your patience for the preparatory word by postponing for a moment only the intellectual banquet for which we are already impatient. I shall therefore perform my whole duty if I but sound the homely note of preparation, and hint at the object to be attained, leaving all the poetry of the theme to the same eloquent lips whose inauguration of other monuments and statues, of marble or imperishable bronze, has likewise adorned the literature of our country with contributions equally beautiful and permanent. [Applause.]

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