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Excerpt from Valedictory Address on Retiring From the Office of President of the New England Historic-Genealogical Society: Delivered at Boston; Mass;, Wednesday, February 7, 1866
These are by no means small things which we have accomplished. They have placed our Society on a firm and solid basis, and by good work well done, thus far we have shown our capability of performing greater things hereafter. But yet, I do not think that many of us have risen to a just estimate of our present position and the duties which it involves. Our members are thoroughly in earnest in prosecuting, in a regular, systematic way, the objects of the society, but it does not seem to me that they have as yet felt the slightest breath of that almost divine afilatus, which, rising from the midst of the ensanguined battle-fields of the late terrible war, and emphatically contrasting man's inhumanity to man with the love and mercy of N ature, and the God of Nature, has breathed forth over America's length and breadth a Spirit of elevated patriotism and lofty sense of duty to her self and to the world.
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