Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from An Oration Before the City Authorities of Boston, on the Fourth of July, 1872
One by one these my predecessors pass before you, each laying his gift upon the altar. Teachers, Gen erals, Senators, Governors of the Commonwealth, Presidents of the Continental Congress, and of the United States; merchants, scholars, physicians, divines, soldiers, and jurists; poets, historians, and statesmen, - the long roll-call of those who in turn have answered to your call 1s well calculated to fill your hearts with honest pride, as you thus enumerate the famous progeny of the ancient town. To me, how ever, their latest successor, they teach a lesson of modesty, - I might almost say of deep humility. Their presence speaks to me of my shortcomings, and causes me to feel how much more eloquent than any words or thoughts of mine is the memory of the silent voices of the past.
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