Address Delivered on Occasion of Centennial Celebration of the Town of Merrimack, N. H. April 2, 1846

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Excerpt from Address Delivered on Occasion of Centennial Celebration of the Town of Merrimack, N. H. April 2, 1846: Rev. Stephen T. Allen In one of the favorite volumes of Sir Walter Scott he has introduced a personage that invariably awakens the interest and wins the esteem of all classes of readers. He is represented as going about from place to place in Scotland, visiting the graveyards, and with pious care repairing and replacing the monuments of the departed, - rubbing off the moss that centuries have gathered upon the headstones of the covenanters and other countless dead, and with his mallet and chisel cutting anew the inscriptions that "Times effacing fingers" have almost obliterated, - thus snatching from oblivion and handing down to generations to come the memory of those who are worthy to live in everlasting fame. That personage is "Old Mortality." What he is represented as doing for the by gone generations in the land of Bruce, we, fellow citizens, have this day assembled to perform for those who have gone before us in the occupancy of the soil whereon we now dwell. After the lapse of a century since the incorporation of our town, we come together to unfold the venerable record of our fathers' history, to review the scenes through which they passed, to look upon the spots where first they felled the ancient forest trees, and erected their humble log dwellings, and to witness in the change which a century has effected, the products of their toil, the monuments of their prudent foresight, and the evidences of their self-forgetting care for the welfare of their descendants. 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.