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Wendell Phillips, Theodore C. Pease, Speeches, Lectures and Letters of Wendell Phillips: Volume 2, Prefaratory note. (search)
Wendell Phillips, Theodore C. Pease, Speeches, Lectures and Letters of Wendell Phillips: Volume 2, The old South meeting House (1876 ). (search)
The old South meeting House (1876).
An address delivered in the Old South Meeting-House, June 4, 1876, and revised by Mr. Phillips.
It was in this building that he made his last public address,--the tribute to Harriet Martineau, which closes this volume,--December 26, 1883.
Ladies and Gentlemen: Why are we here to-day?
Why should this relic, a hundred years old, stir your pulses to-day so keenly?
We sometimes find a community or an individual with their hearts set on some old roof or great scene; and as we look on, it seems to us an exaggerated feeling, a fond conceit, an unfounded attachment, too emphatic value set on some ancient thing or spot which memory endears to them.
But we have a right to-day — this year we have a right beyond all question, and with no possibility of exaggerating the importance of the hour — to ask the world itself to pause when this nation completes the first hundred years of its life; because these forty millions of people have at last achiev
Wendell Phillips, Theodore C. Pease, Speeches, Lectures and Letters of Wendell Phillips: Volume 2, Daniel O'Connell (1875 .) (search)
Wendell Phillips, Theodore C. Pease, Speeches, Lectures and Letters of Wendell Phillips: Volume 2, Harriet Martineau (1883 ). (search)
Harriet Martineau (1883).
Remarks at the Unveiling of Miss Anne Whitney's statue of Miss Mart uld indorse this memorial of the city to Harriet Martineau, because her service transcends national reat genius among women, it may be said of Miss Martineau, that she was the peer of the noblest, and b, it was a collection, or gathering.
Harriet Martineau had been welcomed all over America.
She one with God makes a majority.
This was Harriet Martineau.
She was surrounded by doctors of divin littering banquets of social societies?
Harriet Martineau, instead of lingering in the camps of th y of to-day.
To this meeting in this hall Miss Martineau went, to express her entire sympathy with her journey, but not her principles.
Harriet Martineau saw, not merely the question of free spe l see its grand and beneficial results.
Harriet Martineau saw it fifty years ago, and after that s you to welcome to Boston this statue of Harriet Martineau, because she was the greatest American A
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