Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from Oration on the Hundredth Anniversary of the Surrender of Lord Cornwallis: To the Combined Forces of America and France, at Yorktown, Virginia, 19th October, 1781: Delivered at Yorktown, 19th October, 1881
I AM profoundly sensible of the honor of being called to take so distinguished a part in this great Commemo ration, and most deeply grateful to those who have thought me worthy of such an honor. But it was no affectation, when, in accepting the invitation of the Joint Committee of Congress, I replied that I was sincerely conscious of my own insufficiency for so high a service. And if I felt, as I could not fail to feel, a painful sense of inadequacy at that moment, when the service was still a great way off, how much more must I be op pressed and overwhelmed by it now, in the immediate presence of the occasion! As I look back to the men with whom I have been associated in my own Common wealth, Choate, Everett, Webster, to name no others, - I may well feel that I am here only by the accident of survival.
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