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Excerpt from An Address Before the New England Historic-Genealogical Society: In the Hall of the House of Representatives of Massachusetts, Tuesday, Sept. 13th, 1859; The Hundredth Anniversary of the Death of Major General James Wolfe, With Passages Omitted in the Delivery, and Illustrative Notes and Documents
The conquest of one French possession achieved, the ministry yielding to importunities from America, projected an enterprise for the acquisition of Canada, also. The whole design, wrote the celebrated Bolingbroke, was formed by me. After inex ensable delays on the part of those entrusted with the manage ment of the affair in England, a ?eet and land force finally departed from Boston for the St. Lawrence. A more miserable termination to a military operation of moment, can hardly be found in history. Peace was concluded in 1713 and its terms were assailed in words of bitter denunciation by the party in Opposition. Lord Oxford was impeached, and tried for his life but such has been the progress of civilization that his conces sions to France on the sea, - his principal offense - have become honorable to his memory.
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