Oration Pronounced by the Honorable Robert C. Winthrop, Speaker of the House of Representatives of the United States, on the Fourth of July, 1848: On the Occasion of Laying the Corner-stone of the National Monument to the Memory of WashingtonJ. & G.S. Gideon, printers, 1848 - 67 páginas |
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... interesting ceremonies , which consisted of Messrs . Hen- derson , Maury , and Lenox , and a Building Committee was also , at the same time , created , consisting of Messrs . Carbery , Watterston , and W. A. Bradley , and to which was ...
... interesting ceremonies , which consisted of Messrs . Hen- derson , Maury , and Lenox , and a Building Committee was also , at the same time , created , consisting of Messrs . Carbery , Watterston , and W. A. Bradley , and to which was ...
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... interesting and imposing ceremonies of the day . May it be an omen of the success of the great enterprise ! The procession , which was decidedly the most splendid ever witnessed in Washington , was about an hour in reaching the site of ...
... interesting and imposing ceremonies of the day . May it be an omen of the success of the great enterprise ! The procession , which was decidedly the most splendid ever witnessed in Washington , was about an hour in reaching the site of ...
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... interesting day was closed by a brilliant display of fireworks on Monument Place , prepared by Mr. Brown , who had been employed by the Committee of Ar- rangements for that purpose , and by the pyrotechnists at the Navy Yard and Arsenal ...
... interesting day was closed by a brilliant display of fireworks on Monument Place , prepared by Mr. Brown , who had been employed by the Committee of Ar- rangements for that purpose , and by the pyrotechnists at the Navy Yard and Arsenal ...
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... Interesting , intensely interesting , as these events have been to all who have witnessed them , they have been tenfold more interesting to Americans . We see in them the influence of our own institutions . We behold in We recognize ...
... Interesting , intensely interesting , as these events have been to all who have witnessed them , they have been tenfold more interesting to Americans . We see in them the influence of our own institutions . We behold in We recognize ...
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... interesting ceremony , of laying this corner - stone , should be performed by us , my Masonic brethren , for he , whose name is to make it a great national landmark for all future time , was a Freemason . The soldier , the statesman ...
... interesting ceremony , of laying this corner - stone , should be performed by us , my Masonic brethren , for he , whose name is to make it a great national landmark for all future time , was a Freemason . The soldier , the statesman ...
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