Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from The Oration, in the City Hall, Burlington, on Washington's Birth-Day, 1859: By Request of the Lady Managers of the Mount Vernon Association, and Many Citizens of Burlington
I have your note, of this date, with its two enclosures: from the Lady Managers of the Mount Vernon Fund; and from citizens Of Burlington, headed by the Mayor.
I cordially consent to a request, so cordially expressed. The name of Washington; the auspices of such honorable women; the desire of so many Of my friends, Of five and twenty years - permit me to add - your own most generous agency: leave me with no alternative. It will afford me the very greatest pleasure, to meet my fellow citizens, so constant to me in their confidence and kindness, at the time and place proposed.
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