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Excerpt from Report of a Meeting of the Inhabitants of Cambridge in Memorial Hall, Harvard College: January 18th, 1877
Thanking you, sir, for your kind introduction, I respond very willingly to a call to add something in behalf of this cause which has brought us together. I have but little to say, and all the less because I have experienced the misfortune to which I have learned long since to submit, and for which I advise my young friends of the University to prepare themselves, that of finding that much of what I expected to say has already been. Better said. I shall con fine myself to two or three ideas which have occurred to me in connection with this project, and which have occurred to me partly as an outsider, which I am, in a sense, owing to the misfortune of my birth, to which you have so compassionately referred. (laughter.) It has been asserted, and it seems generally to be believed, that the preservation of the Old South is merely a matter of sentiment. Well, if this were all, surely, to 'an audience gathered here, it should be argument enough. For, as we have been told, this hall is a monument to the might of sentiment. These walls and those tablets that looked down upon us as we entered here plead with us to preserve every relic that may tend to foster in the breasts of our children a love of their country and of their country's history.
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