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Excerpt from Address Delivered Before the Adelphian Society of Greenwood, South Carolina
Being constrained to approach the vestibule of the Temple of Science with faltering steps, we would not attempt to conceal the deep, emotions of the soul, in essaying to perform the part allotted to us in your annual festival. From a most profound regard for age and expe ricuce, we ever feel that youth should keep silence in the presence of superior wisdom. But as every one has a part to act in the g1and dranm of life, and silver-locked generations pass in quick succession from the stage, leaving 111 eternal bequest their glorious patrimony of civil and religious liberty; shall it be thought presumptuous, if their sons be found striving to maintain and perpetuate this priceless legacy? Shall it be thought presumptuous, even if I should raise my feeble testimony 1n behalf of principles, involving the clearest rights of man, and bought with the blood' and treasure of an honored ancestry} Certainly not, while there is a heart to feel, or a soul to love the beau tiful, the excellent, and the Divine - certainly not, while there is one drop of freedom's blood coursing the veins of this youthful band, or one glow of maternal beauty upon the fair cheeks of these virgin daughters. Then, ito divest myself of all that embarrassment, which self-distrust and inexperience are wont to beget on occasions like the p1esent, permit me to speak without reserve; desiring rather to be profitable, than speculative and beautiful, while I invoke the charity 01 an indulgent aud1to1y. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.