A Discourse Delivered Before the New England Society

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Excerpt from A Discourse Delivered Before the New England Society: In the City of New-York, December 22, 1847 To trace the rise and progress of communities, to follow the fortunes and elucidate the character of those who have laid the foundation of new associations, to preserve from decay the memory of illustrious men, who have transferred from one hemisphere to another, the arts of peace, the blessings of liberty, and the consolations of religion, belong perhaps, to the province of history, rather than to a brief address, upon a special occasion. And yet, we who are now assembled, may with strict propriety, and not without a sense of just pride, cast our eyes back upon the events of the last two centuries, while we contemplate the ancestry from which we are sprung, and the causes which have led to our being here, this day, to present our grateful offerings upon the altar of our national existence. "Difficilis est (says the learned Grotius, ) rerum gestarum narratio: quæ absentem, fugiunt, presentem, trahunt." It is difficult to give a correct narrative of events, they escape the observation of those who were not witnesses, while those who were present, are drawn away by their force, or become parties in the scene. But the story of our origin, as a people, is not obscure. We are not compelled, like other nations, to trace back our race through rude ages of barbarism, to the dim uncertainty of tradition and fable. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This 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.