Excerpt from The Heritage of the Pilgrims: An Oration Delivered Before the New England Society of the City of New York, in Celebration of the Two Hundred and Thirty-Fourth Anniversary of the Landing at PlymouthIt is New England, as she was first founded, as she has since been established and built up, as she now is, - mother of men, source of great ideas, nurse of great principles, battle-ground of great con¿icts, that we celebrate in this commemoration.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis 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.