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Excerpt from Proceedings at the Inauguration of the Statue of Daniel Webster, Erected in the Central Park, New York, July Fourth, 1876
Sharing in this estimate of the great statesman's character, and his relation to the history of the whole country, Mr. Gordon webster burnham, a native of New England, and a citizen of New York, conceived the idea of a statue, to be erected in the chief city of America, which should preserve and transmit to future generations the characteristic form and features of the man, and stand as a lasting memorial of his work. 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.
