History And Its Sources An Address Read Before the Long Island Historical Socie
History And Its Sources An Address Read Before the Long Island Historical Socie
James Carson Brevoort
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The task seemed herculean, but the grateful and virgin earth rewarded them for their toil, and the red man disappeared before the advance of the plough. The early colonial days were rough and trying, and there was little time ami less ability to record what was done by the sturdy ami hopeful colonists of these shores. The little they left, and the little that lias been preserved as a record of those times, might to lie precious to us. And must he gathered by our Historical Societies, and treas-... ured as carefully as were the brazen tables of Rome ; but let us hope, without an ultimate fate, similar to theirs at the hands of the Goths. Such materials consist of letters, journals, reports, church and village records, accounts, public and private, law papers, and indeed manuscripts of every kind that time has spared. Valuable too are the little ill-printed and worse spelled pamphlets, stained and dog's-eared, which may he hidden away in cupboards and garrets, with tic continual risk of falling into the hands of the cook or the rag-picker.
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