Download Free Speeches And Other Proceedings At The Public Dinner In Honor Of The Centennial Anniversary Of Washington Book in PDF and EPUB Free Download. You can read online Speeches And Other Proceedings At The Public Dinner In Honor Of The Centennial Anniversary Of Washington and write the review.

Unlike some other reproductions of classic texts (1) We have not used OCR(Optical Character Recognition), as this leads to bad quality books with introduced typos. (2) In books where there are images such as portraits, maps, sketches etc We have endeavoured to keep the quality of these images, so they represent accurately the original artefact. Although occasionally there may be certain imperfections with these old texts, we feel they deserve to be made available for future generations to enjoy.
Excerpt from Speeches and Other Proceedings at the Public Dinner in Honor of the Centennial Anniversary of Washington: To Which Is Added, Washington's Farewell Address On the 22d day of February, 1832, being the Centennial Birth Day of George Washington, a number of Gentlemen, from different parts of the United States, honored the occasion, by a Public Dinner, at Barnard's Hotel, in the City of Washington. The arrangements for the Dinner, were made under the direction of a Committee, consisting of - Mr Chambers, of Maryland, Mr Waggaman, of Louisiana, Mr Letcher, of Kentucky, Mr Bates, of Massachusettts, Mr Peters, of Pennsylvania. According to the arrangements by this Committee, Mr Webster Senator of the United States, from the State of Massachusetts, presided: and Gen. Charles Fenton Mercer, a Representative from Virginia, Gen. Walter Jones, of the District of Columbia, and Gen. Joseph Vance, a Representative from Ohio, were selected to act as Vice Presidents After the Dinner was removed, it was announced, by the Chairman of the Committee of Arrangements, that the President of the Day would announce the Toasts prepared for the occasion: Mr Webster, the President of the Day, then rose, and addressed the Company to the following effect: I rise, gentlemen, to propose to you (he name of that great man, in commemoration of whose birth, and in honor of whose character and services, we have here assembled. I am sure that I express a sentiment common to every one present when I say, that there is something more than ordinarily .solemn and affecting in this occasion. 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.
The Fourth of July, Thanksgiving, Washington's Birthday, Memorial Day, Columbus Day, Labor Day, Martin Luther King's Birthday, and other celebrations matter to Americans and reflect the state of American local and national politics. Commemorations of cataclysmic events and light, apparently trivial observances mirror American political and cultural life. Both reveal much about the material conditions of the United States and its citizens' identities, historical consciousness, and political attitudes. Lying dormant within these festivals is the potential for political consequence, controversy, even transformation. American political fetes remain works in progress, as Americans use historical celebrations as occasions to reinvent themselves and their nation, often with surprising results. In six engaging chapters 'assaying particular political holidays over the course of their histories, Red, White, and Blue Letter Days examines how Americans have shaped and been shaped by their calendar. Matthew Dennis explores this vast political and cultural terrain, charting how Americans defined their identities through celebration. Independence Day invited African Americans to demand the equality promised in the Declaration of Independence, for example, just as Columbus Day—celebrating the Italian, Catholic explorer—helped immigrants proclaim their legitimacy as Americans. Native Americans too could use public holidays, such as Thanksgiving or Veterans Day, to express dissent or demonstrate their claims to citizenship. Merchants and advertisers colonized the American calendar, moving in to sell their products by linking them, often tenuously, with holiday occasions or casting consumption as a patriotic act.