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Excerpt from The Centennial Celebration and International Exhibition of 1876, Their Advantages, Duties, and Honors: Speech of Hon. Joseph R. Hawley, of Connecticut, in the House of Representatives, May 7, 1874 And by subsequent legislation we were commanded to report from time to time, and to make our regular reports to the President, and in a final report present a full exhibit of the result of the centennial celebration and exhibition of Yeu authorized us, you created us, you ordered us to be commissioned by the President. You com manded us to report. You commanded us to devise plans for holding not a national celebration alone, but an international exhibition. We have obeyed you. We have made our plans. We have our plans for the reception and classification of articles. We have our plans for the admission of goods. We have our plans for building. We have our ground selected. We have everything ready but one thing. And we have reported to you from time to time. And now we come again to report, as you have commanded us to report. I do not come here, sir, to pretend that we have ever obtained any snap judgment upon the Government or upon the nation. I do not come here to pretend that you are bound by any law from which you cannot escape. I have come to tell you where we, your officers, com missioned by your order, find ourselves to-day; and I come, gentle men, my friends, to ask you to tell us what we must do. 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.
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Invitation to Centennial Celebration. Resolution of the Carpenters' Company of Philadelphia, Inviting the Members of the Senate and House of Representatives to Assemble in the Hall of the Company on the 5th Day of September Next, (1874) that Being the One Hundredth Anniversary of the Meeting in Said Hall of the First American Congress. January 28, 1874. -- Referred to the Committee on the Centennial Celebration and the Proposed National Census of 1875, and Ordered to be Printed

United States. Congress. House

Published: 1874

Total Pages: 2


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