ADDRESS,
DELIVERED AT GEORGETOWN,


July 4th, 1916.
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LADIES AND GENTLEMEN While rise be-
lore you under the disheauening assurance
that nothing shall be able to say can give any
increased interest or impulse TO the great and
godlike, and glorious cause for whose advoca
cy and advancement we are this day assem-
bled-while convinced that the assignment 10
another of the post unworthily occupy would
have proved far more promotive of the sue
cessfuiness and entertainment ofthis occasion,
yet, can contemplate the humble and hasty
effort dedicate TO il, with none other than
emotions OF gratitude and gladness.


Had we met 10 gain instruction in the prin-
ciples OF some grand new enterprlse--to start
the people in some great moral movement, |
should have been disposed TO decline any other
relation than that of listener; but, we are
called upon TO commemorate great moral re-
form and civil reform--the triumph oi moral
freedom and civil freedom; and the occasion
is one, SO august, so animating, as to demand
common congratulative and cooperative effort.
cannot persuade myself, that there is one OF
all this assemblage who does not feel its inspi-
ration-one whose soul is SO steeled against all
the softning sympaties of humanity-whose
heart so dead 10 every pulse Of free and noble
feeling-as not to share in its joy. essay not
to express the minglihgs Of patriotism and plea
sure which bestir my inmost spirit; IT'S said
by celebrated English bard, that


ITO those who deepest feel, is i'll cxprest


The indstinctiyeness Of the human breast"
And though spoken Of sorrowful, it is equal
ly expressive Of joyous conflict of feeling,
and there is connected with this day, in the
hallowed recollections of the past, the impress
sive import and attractive associations Of the
present, and the cheering anticipations Of the
future, much, very much, to cause an up
sprlnging, outbursting gush Of emotion for
which 1t is as difficult to find expression as re-
straint. y, If my tongue could but speak forth
the enklndllngs Of my mind and heart on this
great subject, could hope TO speak not in vain


-ior can but believe that the cause Of tenn
perance is not only the cause of humanity and
OF God. but that it is essentially and equally
the cause OF my CoUrrkY--so intimately in
terwoven with the spiri, and principles Of our
glorious Constituton--so closely connected
withour prosperity and perpetuity as people
that its association with this day seems super
latively suited.


As remarked in the introduction, pretend