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Excerpt from An Address Delivered in Wales, October 5, 1862: Being the Centennial Anniversary of the Municipal Organization of the Town; With Additions and Extensions Upon Some Matters Needful to Bring the History of the Town Down to January 1, 1866, to Which Is Annexed a "Roll of Honor," Being a Catalogue of the N
Fellow Citizens and Townsmen: It is the custom with many of the towns of our Commonwealth, in some suitable way, to commemorate the centennial anniversaries of their settlement, or of their municipal organization. And this seems very appropriate, as showing in the people of this age a due appreciation of the labors and toils of their ancestors - as manifesting a magnanimous and ennobling sense of gratitude toward the pioneer settlers of our land, and the fathers and founders of our municipal establishments and civil institutions. Our fathers and our mothers, with great assiduity and heroic fortitude, and under many and great privations and discomforts, labored and toiled to transform a wilderness country, inhabited only by wild beasts and savages, into cultivated fields and fruitful lands befitting the abode of civilized man, and to establish institutions worthy the character and conducive to the happiness of man in an enlightened and refined state. Is it not meet, then, that we, who are now reaping a rich harvest of benefits from the life-long toils of our ancestors, should devote an hour in manifesting a grateful recognition of those toils, and in commemorating the virtues of those noble souls who wisely laid the foundations of a very large share of our present civil and social enjoyments? 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.
