An Address Delivered Before the Cincinnati Literary Club
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Excerpt from An Address Delivered Before the Cincinnati Literary Club: February 4, 1871 Nearly thirty years have passed since the remains of Genl. Harrison were borne through our city to be deposited in their last resting place at North Bend. Most of the generation of men who were then prominent actors in public affairs, have followed him, or still linger on the stage mere spectators of the active world around them. Nearly twenty-three millions of people have been added to our population, to whom he speaks only through history. The personal animosities, political prejudices, and wild excitement of 1840, are all hushed, and we can turn back in memory, or con over the pages which record them all; and weigh motives, and judge deeds, with the calm philosophy of the historian. With no personal ambition to gratify, or political partisanship to warp, we can afford to be just to the virtues and forgetful of the faults oi the dead. In this spirit let us stand by the tomb of Harrison, at North Bend, on the bank of the Ohio, and look back over the sixty-eight years of life through which he passed, from the cradle on the James. They were years of stirring import to the world. They witnessed the throes and birth of a free government, and Its progressive steps from a Rebellious Colony to a controlling power in the destinies of the world. William Henry Harrison was born in the midst of Revolution, and inherited the blood of heroes. His family descended from a near relation of Genl. Harrison, who was a bold leader in the Revolution of the English Commonwealth, and was sacrificed on the scaffold for his liberal principles. They settled in Virginia in 1640, sustained the high character of their ancestors, and filled many important positions in the Colony. Benjamin Harrison, the father of William H., was a man of education, wealth and influence. He was a plain, common sense man, withal; a man of the people, and for them. He was early enlisted in the Independence of the Colonies. 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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