Address at Dedication of Monument to Benjamin Harrison, Indianapolis, Indiana, October 27th 1908 (Classic Reprint)
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Excerpt from Address at Dedication of Monument to Benjamin Harrison, Indianapolis, Indiana, October 27th 1908 Mr. President and Fellow Citizens: More than seven years ago there were here held the obsequies of Benjamin Harrison. We were in sorrow then from the loss of a friend, a neighbor and a good man. Our affliction prevented any clear estimate of him other than in those intimate relations of life where we judge more from the heart than by the mind. We did not then assert his greatness, but bowed in submission to the will of God. The nation was bereaved. The President of the United States, the Governor of this State, the comrades of his military career, his associates in public life, and his fellow-citizens of all parties and of all stations, stood beside the altar and filled the avenues of this, his beloved and loving city; and then with flags all draped, with dirge and tears moved in funeral procession to his sepulchre. Time has abated, without erasing our emotions, and has given a perspective by which we may more justly measure his merit by his deeds. This monument, unveiling his form to our vision and expressing a people´s love and esteem for the citizen, the soldier, the statesman, and the patriotic Chief Magistrate, draws our thoughts from his tomb and lifts them on high in praise and gratitude, as we recall his character, his career, and the blessings bestowed by Providence, through him, upon our nation. America is to-day proud of this typical American. By orations and poems, with song and music, and unfolded banners, we dedicate this memorial, and commend his example, for the inspiration of our youth and the manhood of the present and of the future. The Harrison Administration. If we turn to consider his administration of our Government, of which I am to speak, we shall find him therein, displaying those qualities, which, in the estimation of men, bear the unmistakable mark of true greatness. His was an administration of a statesman, strictly attentive to Government business and controlled in all its departments by a fervent but discriminating patriotism. It could not have been otherwise, for his career was one truly national, and its threads, as they were successively spun, bound him more strongly to his country. It embraced largely the development of the West and farthest West, and their transformation into homes and territories and states of the Union. His life grew at school and college near his Ohio birth-place into vigorous and well-equipped intelligence, and found its opportunity for action among those who, like himself, were descendants of the earlier western pioneers. 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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