Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from Oration Pronounced by the Honourable Robert C. Winthrop, Speaker of the House of Representatives of the United States, on the Fourth of July, 1848, on the Occasion of Laying the Corner-Stone of the National Monument to the Memory of Washington: With an Introduction and an Appendix
Resolved, That the thanks of this Board be presented to the hon. Robert C. Wif throp, for the eloquent, instructive, patriotic and appropriate Address pronounced by him yesterday, on the occasion of laying the corner-stone of the National Monu ment to the memory of Washington: That he be requested to furnish the Board with a copy of the address; and that a large and elegant edition of the same be published in pamphlet form, under the direction of a committee to be appointed for that purpose.
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