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Medford Historical Society Papers, Volume 9., The dedication of the soldiers' monument. (search)
t. Again, these memorial pillars testify to the power of our Constitution to bear the new and untried strain of a gigantic civil war. Our Constitution proved a safe compass on a stormy sea. Furthermore, this column suggests to us our duties. It asks us to love our Union more and more every month, and to watch with eagle eyes the doings of its enemies. Among the imperative and Christian duties of our country now is the education of the freedmen. In the immortal proclamation of President Lincoln, January 1, 1863, there is an implied promise that the United States would instruct the freedmen in the new rights and new duties of their new condition. That divine proclamation changed all the slaves—into what? Not into orangoutangs, not into angels, but into citizens. Citizens they are, nothing more and nothing less; and, as citizens and human beings, they have as much right to instruction and development as they have right to food. At this moment, they ask of us this bread: sha
er. Benjamin F. Fenton. Recording Secretary. Percy W. Richardson. Corresponding Secretary. George S. T. Fuller. Librarian and Curator. Miss Agnes W. Lincoln. Standing committees. Publication. Miss Helen T. Wild, Chairman. David H. Brown. Miss Annie E. Durgin. George S. T. Fuller. Charles H. Loomis.urtis. Edward H. Balcom. Charles R. Byram. B. Frank Bullard. Papers and addresses. Moses W. Mann, Chairman. David H. Brown. Charles H. Morss. Miss Agnes W. Lincoln. Rev. Frank I. Paradise. Henry E. Scott. Historic Sites. Moses W. Mann, Chairman. Leonard J. Manning. Francis A. Wait. Hall Gleaso N. Miss dry. Fred H. C. Woolley, Chairman. William A. Thompson. Mrs. Willard Dalrymple. Charles B. Dunham. Orrin E. Hodsdon. Library and collection. Miss Agnes W. Lincoln, Chairman. Miss Mary E. Sargent. Miss Ella A. Leighton. Miss Eliza M. Gill. Wm. Cushing Wait. Benjamin F. Fenton. George S. Delano. B. Frank Bullard