Opis: Speech of Hon. Benjamin F. Tracy - Tracy Benjamin F.

Excerpt from Speech of Hon. Benjamin F. Tracy: Before the Middlesex Club of Boston, Massachusetts

Mr. President and Gentlemen of the Middlesex Club: This day is consecrated by the Nation to the memory of our martyred President, Abraham Lincoln.

On each recurring anniversary of his birth, the strife and bustle of business ceases, while seventy millions of people, with reverent hearts, pay their tribute of love and respect to that matchless leader and patriot who guided the nation successfully through four years of civil war, preserved the Union and restored it to prosperity and peace.

He was the offspring of the Republic, the product of free institutions. In no other country could such a career as his have been possible.

I shall not attempt here to trace at length the marvellous life of one who, born and reared in extreme poverty, without any advantages of early education, by sheer force of character and intellect, in twenty five years raised himself from the humble position of a laborer working for monthly wages to the chief magistracy of a Nation of thirty millions of free and independent people.

Born in Kentucky, his boyhood was passed in a severe struggle for existence against the adverse conditions of frontier life. Beyond learning to read and write and the simple rules of arithmatic he had no early education. His occupations during early manhood were of the humblest kind - now a flatboatman on the river, now keeping a country store, then occasionally working as a surveyor. In his speech at New Haven in 1860, he said: "I am not ashamed to confess that twenty-five years ago I was a hired laborer mauling rails and at work on a flatboat."

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Nazwa: Speech of Hon. Benjamin F. Tracy Before the Middlesex Club of Boston, Massachusetts (Classic Reprint)
Autor: Tracy Benjamin F.
Wydawnictwo: FB &c Ltd
Kod paskowy: 9781330518755
Języki: angielski
Ilość stron: 24
Format: 15.2x22.9cm
Oprawa: Miękka

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