The Claims of Our Country on Its Literary Men

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Excerpt from The Claims of Our Country on Its Literary Men: An Oration Before the Phi Beta Kappa Society of Harvard University, July 19, 1849Alma Mater, who, without a drop of New Eng land blood in his veins, has little knowledge of your sectional topics, sympathies, or predilections, therefore, while deeply grateful for the compliment, he unhesitatingly assumes the full right, which your request implies, of speaking as it becomes him before a society of American scholars, fear less of giving offence by a frank utterance of his thoughts, certain of a kindly hearing from those whom talent, cultivated under the best auspices, has made liberal, candid, and considerate.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.