Lecture on the Life and Military Services of General James Clinton Read (Classic Reprint)
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Excerpt from Lecture on the Life and Military Services of General James Clinton Read It was beautifully and truly said by Montgomery, that it is difficult to convey to others an accurate impression of an impassioned speaker; that it is like "gathering up dew-drops, which appear indeed jewels and pearls in the grass, but run to water in the hand. The essence and the elements remain, but the grace, the sparkle, and the form, are gone. He who has attempted the task will have realized the force and the truth of the poet´s observation, and will have felt regret and disappointment when he perceives that his description is comparatively tame and spiritless, of events, and scenes, and efforts which charmed him as a beholder, and produced impressions which are glowing and fresh in his memory. But if the speaker possessed the power of conveying to this audience correct impressions of eloquent men, he would not be called upon to exercise that power in discharging the duty which he has assumed this evening. The individual, whose biography he proposes briefly to sketch, was a plain blunt soldier, born upon the frontiers, and who spent no inconsiderable portion of a long life amid the toils and perils of border wars: - a true patriot, who, if not first, was prominent among the men who sustained the heat and the burden of the revolutionary contest in this state. I mean General James Clinton. A brief sketch of his family, and especially of his father, Colonel Charles Clinton, may not be uninteresting. The name of Clinton has been prominent for the last hundred years, both in the colonial and state history of New-York. 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.
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