Addresses Delivered At the Laying of Corner Stone of the Federal Building
Addresses Delivered At the Laying of Corner Stone of the Federal Building
Frank De Witte Andrews
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It has heen the heginning of I'ennyson's "I^irliament of Man. " Here, too, is to he erected, in close connection with the post office, a temple of justice. A huilding for what contrihutes to such high purposes ennoljles its site. In a great city like this, — and we have a right to call Xew Haven great, ranking- as it now does the thirty-sixth in the list of American cities, — a new post office and court house oug-ht to he of commanding architectural design. This will he. It oug-ht, in order to ...have that solidity and splendcM- that such a Iniilding- should possess, to he of marble; and this, too, it will he. It ought to face the (ireen, which for nearly three hundred years has been the center of our civic life, and so it will. Speaking for the State of Connecticut. I welcome the erection of this new monument upon the line between the sovereignty of the State and the sovereignty of the United States. The welfare of the States and that of the Federal (nwernment are insei)arably connected, and the peoi)le of Connecticut are proud that they form also part of the greater whole — the ])eoi)le of the L'nited States.
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