Oration Delivered Before the New England Historic Genealogical Society April 19
Oration Delivered Before the New England Historic Genealogical Society April 19
Coffin, Charles Carleton, 1823-1896
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The astonishment has been changed to respect in these later years. A few years before the organization of this Society, Sidney Smith could sneeringiy ask, " Who reads an American book ? " To-day, in every hamlet of England you ma}^ purchase at a wayside stall volumes of Emerson, Hawthorne, Longfellow, Whittier, Holmes, Lowell, and Harriet Beecher Stowe. The Englishman in the closing decade of the century regards it as an honor to be related by kin with a people that has produced FIFTIETH ANNIVE...RSARY ORATION. 15 a Washington, Franklin, Jefferson, Lincoln, Grant, Sherman, and Sheridan, Since 1865 John Bnll has recognized Jonathan not only as a relative by kinship, but as a brother worthy of honor and respect. To-day there is mutual regard and hearty hospitality on both sides of the Atlantic. With this growth of respect there has come a desire on the part of many people in this country to connect themselves with their ancestry in England. Since the organization of this Society there has been a marked development of what may be termed the historic sentiment, manifest by the formation of historical societies, and notably by the publication of State, town, and family histories.
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