{"1": {"fulltext": "F 44\\nL2 L2\\nCopy 1", "height": "3285", "width": "1818", "jp2-path": "centennialcelebr00lanc_0001.jp2"}, "2": {"fulltext": "6\u00c2\u00b0^\\n-o^^^^^f^V V^^\\n^4 f\\\\ *H\\nh -^tx cy f.\\nV V*^ V-^\\n^o^-^,^\\n^0^ c\\nc", "height": "3285", "width": "1818", "jp2-path": "centennialcelebr00lanc_0002.jp2"}, "3": {"fulltext": "\u00e2\u0096\u00a0X VAi\\nl-f-.\\n-y^i^v\\n^lea J\\n_ \u00c2\u00b0.y^^^i-\\nV\\n1;\\n.V\\no\\n\u00e2\u0096\u00a0i^-\\n-^0^\\n0\\n\u00e2\u0080\u00a2=1.\\n^oV\\nQ^\\nV, \u00e2\u0080\u00a2-!%af.*\\\\\\n.0\\nA\\n.o^*^ kmi:.\\n.0-\\nr^ r\\nV\\no^_ **T /V* aO\\n,0*\\nV^^ J\\n,0^", "height": "3285", "width": "1818", "jp2-path": "centennialcelebr00lanc_0003.jp2"}, "4": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3285", "width": "1818", "jp2-path": "centennialcelebr00lanc_0004.jp2"}, "5": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3285", "width": "1818", "jp2-path": "centennialcelebr00lanc_0005.jp2"}, "6": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3285", "width": "1818", "jp2-path": "centennialcelebr00lanc_0006.jp2"}, "7": {"fulltext": "TUf]\\nCENTENNIiL CELEBMTION\\nin: SKTTI.E3IKNT OV TUK\\nTOWN OF LANCASTER, N, H\\nlULY U. 18( 4\\nIlKl i r,Tl-.Ii i;y i. m. \\\\v ^\u00e2\u0080\u00a2E]^l;I^\u00e2\u0096\u00a0\u00e2\u0096\u00a0^()^\\nCOXCOKD, X. II\\nr 1 s T i) Y M F A L .V N D .v .T.E N K S\\n]S()4.", "height": "3285", "width": "1818", "jp2-path": "centennialcelebr00lanc_0007.jp2"}, "8": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3285", "width": "1818", "jp2-path": "centennialcelebr00lanc_0008.jp2"}, "9": {"fulltext": "THE\\nCENTENNIAL CELEBRATION\\nSETTLEMENT OF THE\\nTOWN OF LANCASTER, N. H.,\\nJULY 14, 1864.\\nREPORTED BY J. M. W. YERK1 T0K\\nLANCASTER\\nPUBLISHED BY E. SAVAGE, BOOKSELLER,\\nMAIJf ST., TfEAK THE LOWER BRIDGE.", "height": "3285", "width": "1818", "jp2-path": "centennialcelebr00lanc_0009.jp2"}, "10": {"fulltext": ".M f ARLA.ND JENKS, nilNTEKS,\\nCONCORD, N. H.", "height": "3285", "width": "1818", "jp2-path": "centennialcelebr00lanc_0010.jp2"}, "11": {"fulltext": "CENTENNIAL CELEBRATION.\\nIn accordance with a notice extensively circulated by a\\ncommittee of the citizens of Lancaster, N. H., the one\\nhundreth anniversary of the settlement of that town was\\ncelebrated on Thursday, the 14th of July, 1864. Invitations\\nhad been extended to very many of the former residents of\\nthe town, now scattered throughout the broad Union, to\\nre-visit their early home, and take part in the exercises of\\nthe occasion. To these invitations a lai ge number responded\\nin person or by letter. Among the prominent gentlemen\\nfrom abroad were Hon. Edwabd D. Holton, of Milwaukee,\\nWis. John B. Brown, Esq., of Portland, Me. Nathaniel\\nWhite, Esq., of Concord, N. H., and I. B. Gorham, Esq., of\\nSt. Johnsbury, Vt.\\nA national salute, fired from two old field pieces, taken\\nfrom the British by Stark, at Bennington, the display of flags\\nand the ringing of bells, ushered in the day. At an early\\nhour, the stream of travel from the neighboring towns, on\\nboth sides of the river, commenced, and soon the usually\\nquiet town presented an animated and holiday aspect. In\\nthe village itself, all labor was suspended, and the people\\ngave themselves uj) to the unrestrained enjoyment of the day,\\nand the exercise of a general and cordial hospitality.\\nThe day was one of enchanting loveliness. Nature, with\\nradiant smiles, welcomed her truant children, returning from\\ncrowded city or town to her motherly embrace, and fanned\\nthem with the breath of gales that winnowed fragrance\\nround the smiling land. VYell might these wanderers from", "height": "3285", "width": "1818", "jp2-path": "centennialcelebr00lanc_0011.jp2"}, "12": {"fulltext": "the lovely valley where their youth was cradled repeat the\\nlines of Gray, on revisiting Eton\\nAh, happy hills ah, pleasing shade\\nAh, fields beloved in vain\\nWhere oft my careless childhood strayed\\nA stranger yet to pain\\nI feel the gales that round ye blow\\nA momentary bliss bestow\\nAs waving fresh their gladsome wing,\\nMy weary soul they seem to soothe,\\nAnd redolent of joy and youth,\\nTo breathe a second spring.\\nA procession was formed at 9J o clock, on the south side\\nof Elm street, the right resting upon Main, which, soon after\\nten o clock, moved in the following oi der\\nAid. Marshal-in-Chief. Aid.\\nLancaster Cornet Band, Lt. Albert F. Whipple, leader.\\nNorth Star Cotnmandery of Knights Templar,\\nSir Kt. J. I. Williams, commander.\\nAid. North Star Lodge No. 8, A. F. A. M., Aid.\\nB. F. Hunking, W. Master.\\nEngine Company, No. 1.\\nState and Town officials.\\nAid. Committee of Arrangements. Aid.\\nOfficers of the Day and Committees.\\nPresident of the Day.\\nDistinguished Yisitors in cai riages.\\nCounty officials and Government officers.\\nSoldiers bearing the National Flag.\\nYenei able settlers and residents of the Town, in carriages.\\nThe Eeverend Clergy.\\nLancaster Glee Club.\\nAid. The Sabbath Schools Aid.\\nconnected with the various churches.\\nAid. Citizens of Lancaster. Aid.\\nAid. Citizens of other towns. Aid.\\nAppropriate banners and flags were displayed by the sev-\\neral societies, and the glorious stars and stripes, conspicuously", "height": "3285", "width": "1818", "jp2-path": "centennialcelebr00lanc_0012.jp2"}, "13": {"fulltext": "exhibited at several points, thrilled the heart with their\\npatriotic associations.\\nThe route of the procession was up Main street to the Lan-\\ncaster House, where the President of the day, with other dis-\\ntinguished guests, was received; thence up Main to North, and\\ndown Main to the space adjoining the Congregational Church,\\nwhere the literary exercises were to take place a window\\nhaving been removed from the north side of the church, and\\na temporary platform erected, that all, both inside and out,\\nmight have an opportun,ity to see and hear.\\nThe church was soon crowded to its utmost capacity, and\\nthe space adjoining well filled by a large comj^any, waiting\\nthe commencement of the exercises. The number present\\nwas variously estimated at from two to three thousand. In-\\nside the church, several of the most venerable citizens\\noccupied the front seats. Among them were Emmons Stock-\\nwell, Eeuben G. Freeman, Francis Wilson, Douglass\\nSpaulding, Ephraim Stockwell, Spencer Clark, William\\nHoLKiNS, Hon. Benjamin Hunking, and Beniah Colby.\\nAt 11 o clock, the exercises were commenced with music\\nby the Cornet Band, at the conclusion of which, Col. Kent,\\nChief Marshal, said\\nMy friends, I regret to commence the exercises of the\\nday by making excuses or apologies but it is necessary I\\nshould do so, in order to a correct understanding of the\\nremaining part of the programme. It was thoroughly un-\\nderstood that Col. Farrar, of Oregon, was to deliver the\\noration, and he gave me his personal pledge, on the 5th inst.,\\nthat he would be here without faiL He was in Washington a\\nfew days ago, and the recent rebel incui-sion iijto Maryland,\\nsundering the connection between that city and the rest of\\nthe countr}*, has, I suppose, rendered it impossible for him to\\nbe here. Several gentlemen, who were invited, and also ex-\\npected to be present, His Excellency, Governor Andrew, of\\nMassachusetts, and His Excellenc} Governor Gilmore, of\\nthis State, among others, have found it impossible for them\\nto be here, in consequence of the business that has been\\nthrust upon them from the same cause the rebel raid. I", "height": "3285", "width": "1818", "jp2-path": "centennialcelebr00lanc_0013.jp2"}, "14": {"fulltext": "have received letters from several of these gentlemen, which\\nwill be read at the proper time.\\nBut I am happy to say, that on this anniversary of the\\nsettlement of our good old town, we are not to be without\\nspeakers who will entertain us. There are gentlemen present\\nfrom abroad, who, having served their country honorably in\\nposts of danger, have come back to join with those who\\nremain at home in celebrating this glorious anniversary, and\\nothers, who, in civil life, have honored by their success the\\ntown of their nativity. From them, you will be glad to hear.\\nI take pleasure in saying that the programme at the dinner\\nwill be fully carried out.\\nAnd now, fellow-citizens, I am happy in introducing to you\\nthe President of the Day, Hon. David H. Mason, a Lancaster\\nboy, whom you will rejoice to welcome here to-day, who will\\npreside on the occasion, and will address you, in the absence\\nof the orator.\\nEev. David Perry, of Brookfield, Vt., then invoked the\\nDivine blessing upon all the proceedings of the day; after\\nwhich, the following song, written for the occasion by Henry\\nO. Kent, Esq., (music by L. O. Emerson, of Boston,) was\\nsung by the Glee Club in a most acceptable manner\\nI.\\nThe mountains look down in their grandeur and pride,\\nOn the home of our childhood to-day\\nOn the wandering children who stole from their side\\nTo gather rare flowers by the way.\\nThey re united again in the dear old town,\\nMong the streams and the woods of yore,\\nThey have fought well the fight for gold and renown.\\nAnd they turn to their childhood s door.\\nII.\\nThere are those who have lingered around the old home,\\nWhile their brethren were far in the strife\\nThat have tilled the old fields through the years that are flown.\\nIn the quiet and comfort of life\\nThese welcome ye back with hearts full of joy,\\nA joy that commingles with pride.\\nAs they greet with warm fervor each wandering boy\\nTo the town where his forefathers died.", "height": "3285", "width": "1818", "jp2-path": "centennialcelebr00lanc_0014.jp2"}, "15": {"fulltext": "III.\\nWe gather to-day among scenes so endeared,\\nTo crown with the fame of her sons,\\nThe time-silvered locks of the mother revered,\\nWhile an hundred long winters have flown\\nTo wreathe a full chaplet of daughters warm love\\nMid the silvery sheen of her hair,\\nAs enduringly pure as the azure above\\nThat smiles on a homage so fair.\\nIV.\\nAVelcome home, from the East and the West and the South,\\nWelcome home, on this dear natal day\\nThe kiss of some loved one is warm on each mouth\\nYe have tarried a long time away.\\nWelcome home, and forgetting the wearying care\\nThat compassed the pathway ye trod,\\nThrow oft the chill years and be young again here.\\nIn the smile of a love born of God.\\nV.\\nWelcome home, to each spot so remembered of yore,\\nWelcome home, to each love that endures\\nGather strength for the journey that stretches before,\\nEre our sails leave these vanishing shores.\\nGo forth fr.om among us with tokens of love.\\nGlad burdens that weary not down\\nSo shall memory s banquet be spread as ye rove\\nFrom the hon^ that s behind ye our dear old town.\\nThe President. We will commence with the opening\\nchapter of the history of Lancaster. I therefore call upon\\nOssian Eay, Esq., to read the Charter of the town.\\nMr. Eay. Mr. President The original document is not to\\nbe had upon this occasion. Whether it was deposited, like\\nsome ancient charters that we read of in history, in the hol-\\nlow of a tree in this town, or elsewhere, and has thus been\\nlost, I know not. But we have, at any rate, a fac simile of\\nthe original document, nearly as old as that. I propose to\\nread from that copy.", "height": "3285", "width": "1818", "jp2-path": "centennialcelebr00lanc_0015.jp2"}, "16": {"fulltext": "8\\nCHAETEK.\\nLANCASTER PROVINCE OE NEW-HAMPSHIRE.\\n[l. s.] George the Third, b}^ the Grace of God, of Great\\n_ Brittain, France and Ireland, King Defender of the\\nJFaith, and so forth. To all persons to whom these presents shall\\ncome, Greeting Know y^ that we, of our special grace, cer-\\ntain knowledge and mere motion for the due encouragement\\nof settling a new plantation within our said Province, hy and\\nwith the advice of our trusty and well beloved Benning Went-\\nworth, Esq., our Govonor and Commander in Chief of our said\\nprovince of New-Hampshire, and of our council of the said\\nprovince, Have, upon the conditions and reservations here in\\nafter made, given and granted, and by these presents, for us,\\nour heirs and successoi s, do give and grant in equal shares\\nunto our loving subjects, inhabitants of our said Province of\\nNew-Hampshire and our other Governments, and to their\\nheirs and assigns forever, whose names are entered on this\\nGrant, to be divided to and amongst them into seventy-six\\nequal shares, all that tract or parcel of land situate, lying and\\nbeing within our said Province of New-Hampshire, containing\\nby admeasurement Twenty Three Thousand and forty acres,\\nwhich tract is to contain miles square and no more;\\nout of which an allowance is to be made for highwaj^s and un-\\nimprovable land, by rocks, ponds, mountains! and rivers one\\nthousand and forty acres free, according to a plan and survey\\nthereof made by our said Governor s order and returned into\\nthe Secretary s office, and hereunto annexed, butted and\\nbounded as follows, viz Beginning af a stake and stones\\nstanding on the bank of the Easterly side of Connecticut\\nEiver, which is the Southwesterly- corner bounds of Stoning-\\nton thence running south fifty -five degrees East seven miles\\nby Stonington to the southeasterly corner thereof, then turn-\\ning of and running south sixty-nine degress west ten miles;\\nthen turning of again and running north twenty-six degrees\\nwest to the Connecticut River thence up the river as that\\ntends to the stake and stones first above mentioned the bounds\\nbegun at, and that the same be and hereby is incorporated into\\na township b}^ the name of Lancaster. And the inhabitants\\nthat do or shall hereafter inhabit the said Township are here-\\nby declared to be enfranchised with, and entitled to, all and\\nevery the privileges and immunites that other towns within\\nour Province by law exercise and enjoy. And further, that\\nthe said Town, as soon as there shall be fifty families resident\\nand settled thereon shall have the liberty of holding two Fairs,\\none of which shall be held on the and the other on\\nthe annually, which Fairs are not to continue longer", "height": "3285", "width": "1818", "jp2-path": "centennialcelebr00lanc_0016.jp2"}, "17": {"fulltext": "than the respective following the said and that\\nas soon as the said Town shall consist of M\\\\y families a mar-\\nket may be opened and kept one or more days in each week\\nas may be thought advantageous to the inhabitants. Also that\\nthe first meeting for the choice of Town Officers, agreeable to\\nthe laws of our said Province, shall be held on the^^rs^ Tues-\\nday in August next, when said meeting shall be notified by\\nDavid Page, who is hereby also appointed the Moderator of\\nsaid first meeting, which he is to notify and govern agreeably\\nto the laws and customs of our said Province, and that the\\nannual meeting forever hereafter for the choice of such officers\\nfor the said Town, shall be on the second Tuesday of March\\nannually. To Have and to Hold the said tract of land as\\nabove expressed, together with all the privileges and appur-\\ntenances to them and their respective heirs and assigns for-\\never, upon the following conditions, viz\\n1st. That every Grantee, his heirs or assigns, shall plant and\\ncultivate five acres of land within the term of five j^ears, for\\nevery fifty acres contained in his or their share or proportion\\nof land in said Township, and continue to improve and settle\\nthe same by continued cultivations, on penalty of the forfeiture\\nof his grant or share in said Townshi]), and of its reverting to\\nus, our heirs and successors, to be by us or them regranted to\\nsuch of our subjects as shall eff ectually settle and cultivate\\nthe same.\\n12d. That all white and other pine trees within the said\\nTownship, fit for masting our Eoyal jSfavy, be carefully pre-\\nserved for that use, and none to be cut or felled without our\\nspecial license for so doing first had and obtained, upon the\\npenalty of the forfeiture of the right of such Grantee, his\\nheirs and assigns, to us, our heirs and successors, as well as\\nbeing subject to the penalty of any act or acts of parliament,\\nthat noAv are or hereafter shall be enacted.\\nod. That before any division of the land be made to and\\namong the Grantees, a tract of land as near the centre of said\\nTownship as the land will admit of, shall be reserved and\\nmarked out for Town lots, one of which shall be allotted to\\neach Grantee of the contents of one acre.\\n4th. Yielding and paying therefore to us, our heii s and suc-\\ncessors, for the space of ten years, to be computed from the\\ndate hereof, the rent of one ear of Indian Corn only, on the\\n25th day of December annually, if lawfully demanded the first\\npayment to be made on the l^th day of December, 1763.\\n5th. Every propi ietor, settler or inhabitant, shall yield or\\npay unto us, our heirs and successors, yearly ai!d every year\\nforever, from and after the expiration of ten j^ears fi-om the\\nabove said twenty -fifth day of December namely, on the Ibth day", "height": "3285", "width": "1818", "jp2-path": "centennialcelebr00lanc_0017.jp2"}, "18": {"fulltext": "10\\nof Decemher which will be in the year of our Lord, 1773, one\\nshilling proclamation money for every one hundred acres he\\nso owns, settles or possesses, and so in proportion for a greater\\nor lesser tract of the said land which money shall be paid by\\nthe respective persons above said, their heirs and assigns, in\\nour Council Chamber in Portsmouth, or to such Officer or\\nOfficers as shall be appointed to receive the same; and this to\\nbe in lieu of all other rents and services whatsoever.\\nIn Testimony whereof, we have caused the seal of our said\\nProvince to be hereunto affixed. Witness, Benning Went-\\ntoorth, Esquire, our Governor and Commander-in-Chief of\\nour said Province, i\\\\\\\\Q fifth day of July, in the year of our\\nLord Christ, One Thousand Seven Hundred a,nd Sixty-Three,\\nand in the third year of our reign.\\nB. Went WORTH.\\nBy his Excellency s Command,\\nwith advice of the Council.\\nT. Atkinson, Jun., Secretary.\\nProvince of JSTew-Hampshire, July 6th, 1763. Eecorded\\naccording to the original charter under the province seal.\\nT. Atkinson, Jun., Secretary.\\nTHE names of the GRANTEES OF LANCASTER.\\nDavid Page,\\nDavid Page, Junior,\\nAbraham Byam,\\nKeuben Stone,\\nJohn Grout,\\nJohn Grout, Junior,\\nJonathan Grout,\\nSolomon Wilson,\\nJoseph Stowell,\\nJoseph Page,\\nWilliam Page,\\nNathaniel Pago,\\nJohn Warden,\\nSilas Bennett,\\nThomas Shattuck,\\nBenjamin Man,\\nDaniel Miles,\\nThomas Kogers,\\nEphraim Shattuck,\\nSilas Shattuck,\\nJohn Duman,\\nNathaniel Smith,\\nCharles Howe,\\nIsrael Hale,\\nIsrael Hale, Junior,\\nDaniel Hale,\\nWilliam Daggett,\\nIsaa? Ball,\\nSolomon Fay,\\nJotham Death,\\nJohn Sanders,\\nElisha Crossby,\\nLuke Lincoln,\\nDavid Lawson,\\nSilas Kice,\\nThomas Carter,\\nEphraim Steans,\\nJames Bead,\\nThomas Whitney,\\nThomas Kice,\\nDaniel Searles,\\nIsaac Wood,\\nNathaniel Eichardson,\\nEbenezer Blunt,\\nJohn Harriman,\\nEphraim Noys,\\nBenjamin Sawyer,\\nJohn Sawyer,\\nJohn West,\\nSamuel Marble,\\nJoseph Marble,\\nJonathan Houghton,\\nJohn Eogers,\\nAbner Holden,\\nStanton Prentice,\\nStephen Rines,", "height": "3285", "width": "1818", "jp2-path": "centennialcelebr00lanc_0018.jp2"}, "19": {"fulltext": "11\\nJolin Phelps, Hon. Joseph Newmarsh, Esq.,\\nWilliam Read, Nathaniel Barrell, Esq.,\\nBenjamin Baxter, Daniel Warner, Esq.,\\nMatthew Thornton, Esq., James Nevin, Esq.,\\nAndrew Wiggins, Esq., Rev. Mr. Joshua Wingate Weeks,\\nMeshech Weare, Esq., Benjamin Stevens.\\nMaj. John Talford,\\nHis Excellency, Benning Wentworth, Esquire, a tract of\\nland to contain five hundred acres as marked, B. W. in the\\nplan, which is to be accounted twaof the within shares. One\\nwhole share for the incorporated (Society for the propagation\\nof the Gosi:)el in Foreign parts. One Share for a Glebe for\\nthe Church of England, as by law established. One share for\\nthe first settled Minister of the Gospel, and one share for the\\nbenefit of a school in said Town.\\nProvince of New-Hampshire, July 6th, 1763. Kecorded\\nfrom the back of the original Charter of Lancaster, made\\nunder the Province Seal.\\nT. Atkinson, Jun., Secretary.\\nPlan of Town,\\n23040 Acres.\\nProvince of New-Hampshire, July 6th, 1763. Eecorded\\nfrom the back of the original Charter of Lancaster, under\\nthe Province Seal.\\nT. Atkinson, Jun., Secretary.\\nThis certifies that the within and the above is a true copy\\nof the record. Attest,\\nJ. Pearson, Secretary.\\nThe President. This is a day of jubilee, and I propose to\\ncall for three cheers for the quaint old charter. My friend,\\nthe Chaplain, says it is all right, even in a meeting-house.\\nCol. Kent will lead off in the cheers.\\nThe audience responded to this call with three hearty\\ncheers, which Avas followed by another song, entitled Our\\nLancaster, written by Mrs. Mary B. C.Slade. (This song,\\nalso, was set to music by Mr. Emerson.)\\nThe sturdy tree of Pilgrim stock\\nIts root had struck neath Plymouth Rock\\nAnd sweet savannahs smiled to see\\nThe coming of the Chivalry\\nWhen, turning from the vales of ease.", "height": "3285", "width": "1818", "jp2-path": "centennialcelebr00lanc_0019.jp2"}, "20": {"fulltext": "12\\nOn lowlands washed by sunnj^ seas,\\nWith heart of hope, a noble band,\\nCame toiling up our mountain land.\\nThrough dark pine forests, JSTorth and West,\\nThe warwhoop rushed across their rest,\\nWhile creeping up the eastern sky,\\nThe British thunder-cloud drew nigh.\\nBut Coos smiled, the meadows rang,\\nSinoogannock SMa|t echoes sang;\\nAnd circling hill^nd placid wave\\nTheir welcome and protection gave.\\nHere, loyal sons, your patriot sires\\nEnkindled Freedom s altar-fires\\nThe Fathers watchword ours shall be,\\nThe Union, God, and Liberty\\nHere grew they free and strong and brave.\\nTill fierce Oppression crossed the wave\\nAsk storied battle-fields how, then.\\nFor Freedom stood the mountain men\\nThe Aloe drinks the sun and rain,\\nNor blooms her answer back again.\\nTill, lo a flowery crown she wears.\\nThe blossom of an hundred years.\\nThe mountain winds, the valley s stream,\\nThe winter s snow, the summer s gleam,\\nA hundred years have brought to her\\nTo-day s bright bloom, our Lancaster\\nWhere, long ago, the Indian found\\nA resting place and hunting ground.\\nTo beauty s pilgrims rest we lend,\\nEre they to snow-capped heights ascend.\\nGod of the Mountains! bless our home,\\nWhile through its paths to thee we come\\nTill o er its purpled heights we see\\nThe White Hills of Eternity", "height": "3285", "width": "1818", "jp2-path": "centennialcelebr00lanc_0020.jp2"}, "21": {"fulltext": "13\\nADDRESS OF HON. DAYID H. MASON.\\nLadies and Gentlemen A hundred years ago, the last act in\\nthe drama of the French and Indian war had just closed.\\nFrance and Spain had ceded all claimed rights to the posses-\\nsion of territory east of the Mississij^pi river, and England\\nheld undistui-bed sway in the vast country, stretching from\\nthe Gulf to the Arctic sea, and from the Atlantic to the Pa-\\ncific ocean.\\nThe last great struggle of the native Indians to recover\\ntheir hunting grounds was over. The brave Pontiac, with his\\nfive and twenty Indian tribes, scattered all along from the\\nShenandoah to the great lakes, and down the Ohio to the very\\nbanks of the Mississippi, over the mountains and through the\\nprairies, had buried the tomahawk and the scalping-knife,\\nand smoked the pipe of peace.\\nAt thetfirst dawn of security the indomitable sons of the\\nPilgrims plunged into the wilderness with their axes and\\ntheir rifles, to plant new homes for themselves and their\\nposterity.\\nOn the 19th of April, A. D. 1764, Captain David Page, his\\nson David Page, Jr., about 18 years of age, and Emmons\\nStockwell, with perhaps one or two others, having pushed\\nup the Connecticut valley from Petersham, Massachusetts,\\nthrough the town of Haverhill, reached the spot where we\\nnow arc. They were charmed by the natural loveliness of this\\nvalley, and their fondest desires were gratified. Standing on\\nyonder elevation, with those majestic mountains behind them,\\nthe unrivaled Pilot range on their right hand and the green\\nhills on their left, with those bald sentinels guarding the 2)a8-\\nsage before them, they gazed down into this paradise of\\nmeadows, with the meandering river, like a silver cord, run-\\nning through them, all clothed in the fresh verdure of the\\nopening Spring. What a heaven was here spread out before\\nthem With hearts full of gratitude, they thanked the God\\nof nature that his mysterious providence had guided them\\nhere.\\nThey came on the 19th of April, a day since made sacred", "height": "3285", "width": "1818", "jp2-path": "centennialcelebr00lanc_0021.jp2"}, "22": {"fulltext": "14\\nin the nation s history the day on which was shed the first\\nblood of the Ee volution on Lexington Green the day on\\nwhich flowed in the streets of Baltimore the first northern\\nblood in the war of the Eebellion the same day on which\\nwas founded the first Normal school in the new world, that\\ncrowning glory of our system of jDopular education. It was\\nfortunate for our ancestors that they came to this valley, and\\nthat was a fortunate birth-day for our beautiful town.\\nThe war for existence had passed; the war for principle\\nwas approaching. The North American Colonies had cost\\nthe mother country, at the close of the French war, nearly\\nseven hundred millions of dollars. Her treasury was ex-\\nhausted by the long and fierce struggle with the continental\\npowers. In looking about for some way to restore the equili-\\nbrium between her magnificence and her means, she fell upon\\nthe plan to tax these colonies. The right to do this was indig-\\nnantly denied. Her peerless statesman, the immortal Pitt, to\\nwhose genius and wisdom she owed the chief glofies of the\\neighteenth century the true friend of the colonies was no\\nlonger in ofiice, and the young king had called to his council\\nmen of moderate ability. The war of the Kevolution fol-\\nlowed.\\nAt the period of its commencement, our town contained but\\neight fomilies. None of its inhabitants joined the army; they\\nwere too few in numbers, too far from the strife, and were out\\nof sight in the wilderness. Their families were exposed to\\nthe depredations of the savages, and in common with all the\\nnew settlements along our northern frontier, they suffered\\ngreatly from dangers and privations, through that long and\\nbloody war. Their stern duties at home were paramount to\\nall public considerations. They had, however, in many ways,\\ntheir courage and their patriotism. The dauntless Stockwell\\nwas in one of the expeditions which went up for the invasion\\nof Canada, during the French War. He was an orphan boy in\\nhis native town, bound out to service dui-ing his minority.\\nIn order to encourage enlistments and fill the ranks of our\\narmy, a regulation was made that indentured apprentices\\nshould be entitled to their freedom, if they would enlist in the\\npublic service. Stockwell, though a mere boy, possessed the", "height": "3285", "width": "1818", "jp2-path": "centennialcelebr00lanc_0022.jp2"}, "23": {"fulltext": "15\\nspirit of a man, and took advantage of the provision which\\ngave him his liberty. On his return from this unfortunate\\nexpedition, with a few stragglers he came down the Connecti-\\ncut river, and for the first time beheld the magnificent valley.\\nIts atti actions led him, a few years later, with those hardy\\npioneers, to choose it for his futui e home.\\nSome of the Kevolutionary heroes settled in Lancaster\\nafter the close of the war. I remember very well Major Moses\\nWhite, of Eutland, Mass. He was a true gentleman, of the\\nold Revolutionary school. He had filled many high positions\\nin the continental army with ability and honor, and was re-\\nwarded by a grant from the government, through General\\nHazen, of the Catbow tract of land in Lancaster, where he\\nfixed his residence and passed the remainder of his life. He\\nattained very great consideration in his adopted State, and\\nwas very widely and favorably known. Wherever his Muty\\ncalled him, he never lost his dignity or forgot the courtesies\\nof life.\\nWhen our independence was acknowledged and peace was\\nrestored, our settlement began to inci ease in numbers. But\\nthe country no where prospered as was confidently expected.\\nWe had no national credit and no commerce to bring us trade.\\nThough we were independent upon the land, England was still\\nmistress upon the sea, and it soon became apparent if we would\\nprosper as a nation, our flag must be respected and our com-\\nmerce built up. The impressment of a few seamen was not of\\nvast public importance, but the great principle that the flag\\nof a nation shall protect its citizens on the land and sea, was\\nof inestimable value; and for this, the second w^ar with Eng-\\nland was waged. Its triumph was complete; and we came\\nout from that controversy with our honor vindicated and our\\nrights established.\\nIn this second national war, our citizens bore an important\\npart. You all remember Major John AV. Weeks. On the 5th\\nday of July, A. D. 1S14, by a brave and timely movement of his\\ncommand, he turned the tide of victory at Chipj)ewa. He\\nwas the Captain of the 1st Company, 11th Eegiment of In-\\nfantry, and held the extreme right of our line. Having\\ndiscovered the enemy advancing upon the centre with a heavy", "height": "3285", "width": "1818", "jp2-path": "centennialcelebr00lanc_0023.jp2"}, "24": {"fulltext": "16\\ncolumn, he threw his command, by a quick movement, upon\\ntheii flank, and delivered a destructive fire, which broke their\\nranks and hurled them back in a disastrous retreat, leaving\\ntheir dead and wounded upon the field. He was promoted\\nfor his gallantry to the rank of Major. He came to this town\\nin 1787, when only six years of age. He learned the trade of\\na house-joiner, and received his education from the scanty\\nmeans the settlement afi orded. He arose to various high posi-\\ntions in public life, and represented his district in Congress\\nwith credit, at a time in our history when to be in Congress was\\nan honor, and men of the highest ability and character were\\nchosen to the national councils. He was a man of strong\\nand comprehensive mind, a great reader and close reasoner,\\nwhoso opinions and judgment upon public questions were re-\\nspected by our public men in the State and country.\\nBy his side at Chippewa were other citizens of Lancaster.\\nThere was Alpheus Hutchins, of whose bravery and bearing\\nI have often heard his commander speak in terms of great\\ncommendation. There was Benjamin Stephenson, also, who,\\nnow in a happy old age, is reaping the rich rewards of an\\nhonorable life.\\nSince the close of the second war, the prosperity of the\\ntown as well as of the country, for nearly fifty years, has been\\nrapid and uninterrupted. The number of its voters and its\\nmaterial wealth have quadrupled, and to-day we find its hills\\nand its valleys covered with handsome habitations and an\\nindustrious and a happy people. Would to God that the\\ndarkness which now hangs over our national prosperity would\\ndisappear, and reveal a future as propitious as the past\\nWe celebrate to-day the termination of the first century of\\nmunicipal life. One centennial space is filled in the history of\\nLancaster. We have arrived at a point of time convenient\\nfor the measurement of our prosperity. Standing, therefore,\\nas we do at the end of a century, we can look across the\\nchasm that separates us from its beginning, and contrast the\\ndifference in the appearance and condition of our town. For-\\ngetting intervening events, we will look into the first years of\\nits settlement, and place what we see beside the developments\\nof this day, and mark the pi Ogress and the change.", "height": "3285", "width": "1818", "jp2-path": "centennialcelebr00lanc_0024.jp2"}, "25": {"fulltext": "17\\nThe charters for the towns of Lancaster and of Lunenburg,\\nopposite to us, bear the same date, were granted on the same\\nday, to the same person, by the same hand and these names\\nwere given to us in memory of the two towns similarly\\nsituated, n*ear the early homes of the first settlers in Massa-\\nchusetts, and thus they sanctified their new homes by the\\nfond recollection of those of their youth. The whole country\\nwas then a dense wilderness not a highway had been con-\\nstructed in or to our ancient town. The pioneer settlers found\\ntheir way by marked ti*ees through the woods. They drove\\nbefore them some twenty head of cattle, with bags of salt,\\nprovisions and farming tools fastened on their horns. They\\nerected their first camp on the Holton meado\\\\YS, and cleared,\\nthe first spring, twelve acres of land on the old Stockwell\\nplace, which they planted with corn. It grew so luxuriantly\\nthat b}^ the 25th of August it was twelve feet in height and\\nfnll in the milk but on the fatal night which succeeded, it\\nwas utterly destroyed by the early frost. Although our town\\nis 800 feet above the sea, in this high latitude, and in the midst\\nof lofty mountains, such a calamity has happened but three\\ntimes in sixty years. Our persevering settlers, not discour-\\naged by this disaster, cut their grass on the open lands on\\nBeaver Brook, and thus kej)t their cattle through the winter,\\nand were ready to renew the struggles of another year.\\nIt was many years before any traveled public way was con-\\nstructed. The nearest mill was perhaps at Plymouth, but the\\nmost accessible was at JS o. 4, in the town of Charlestowu.\\nFrom that place they brought their meal andgrain, traveling\\non foot, on horseback, or upon the river in their bark and log\\ncanoes, which they paddled with wonderful skill; and many a\\njoyous feast did our ancestors have from the rare luxury of\\nbrown bread and Indian pudding, the rewards of their jjerilous\\nand arduous journeys, I can almost see the young Mrs.\\nStockwell preparing for some gi eat occasion, sitting before\\nher blazing wood fire, watching her baking bannock, which\\nshe had spread upon a huge chip, and set up between the\\ngreat andirons a style of cooking not quite obsolete in this\\nancient town twenty-five years ago.\\nThe canoes were their only carriages, and were made with\\n2", "height": "3285", "width": "1818", "jp2-path": "centennialcelebr00lanc_0025.jp2"}, "26": {"fulltext": "18\\ntheir own hands from the trunks of the huge pines, or from\\nbark peeled from their own trees. They were strong enough\\nto be trusted on the deepest waters, and light enough to be\\ncarried upon their shoulders around the falls, or from pond to\\npond. The strong women rowed these same rude barks up\\nand down these rivei s, from settlement to settlement, fi-om\\nStockwell s to Bucknam s, or Avhenever they went out to spend\\nthe afternoon, or on some errand of business. It will not be\\nsupposed that the settlers depended upon the food transported\\nfrom Charlestown for their daily use. Their more common\\nfood was prepared by means contrived by themselves; our\\nancestors had no patent for their invention which stood for\\na mill. Have you never heard of the good old-fashioned\\nThump Emmons Stockwell kept a huge mortar, which\\nheld about two bushels; into this they put their corn, beans,\\nand rye then they pounded it with a great wooden pestle, as\\nnone hut them could pound. With this they mixed potatoes,\\nwell baked and peeled, and the varieties of vegetables their\\ntastes might select, and the whole was baked together into\\nmagnificent thump. Seasoned with good appetites, it was\\nfound a delicious dish by the early inhabitants of our glorious\\nold town.\\nThe tables of these hardy pioneei-s had other dainties. The\\nrivers and streams were full of fishes, and the forest of moose\\nand game; and our ancestors of both sexes could use the\\nrifle and the fishing-rod with astonishing skill. It is somewhat\\nremarkable that no deer or wolves were found here till long\\nafter the country was first settled, and it is said there were no\\neels in the river till the extermination of the beaver. But\\nthe moose were abundant, and were most mercilessly slaugh-\\ntered by the wicked hunters, for the mere pleasure of killing.\\nOne Nathan Caswell killed ninety-nine in a single season, and\\nleft most of them to decay in their native woods. All honor to\\nthose humane settlers who turned him out of their houses as a\\nrewai d for this ignominious sport. I can never forgive those\\nAfrican and South American explorers for their wanton\\ndestruction of the noble beasts of the forests nor can I under-\\nstand how they can wish to couple the history of such exploits\\nwith that of their noble discoveries.", "height": "3285", "width": "1818", "jp2-path": "centennialcelebr00lanc_0026.jp2"}, "27": {"fulltext": "19\\nThe first mill erected in our town was turned by horse\\npower, and was but little better than the old Stockwell mor-\\ntar. Major Jonas Wilder built the first grist and saw-mill.\\nMajor Wilder brought his large and very respectable family to\\nLancaster in 1780. He had acquired a little fortune, for those\\ndays, in his native State, and some few years before had pur-\\nchased here a tract of land one mile square, which included\\nthe present burying-ground.- In 1779, being chosen on a com-\\nmittee to select a public burying-ground, he presented this\\nmound to the town, to be used lor that purpose. He com-\\nmenced to build the cellar of the Holton house on the famous\\ndark day. The town meeting was held at his house in 1779^\\nand he was chosen one of the selectmen, which was his earliest\\nappearance on the oflScial records of Lancaster. He was a\\nvery valuable accession to this settlement, and has left a record\\nof his life of which his descendants may w^ell be proud.\\nGovernor Page, so called by way of distinction merely,\\nnever was a resident of Lancaster, though named in the char-\\nter. He was only a st)rt of director of the settlement, making\\nfrequent journeys to visit the new colony, and by his counsel\\nand his services rendering them great aid in the management\\nof their afi airs. His daughter, Euth Page, came here a\\nspinster. On the night of the great frost, the 25th of August,\\n1764, she slept in the woods in Orford, on her way to Lancas-\\nter, where she arrived the last of that month. She came to\\ncook the food and do the work for the little colony, then more\\nthan forty miles from their nearest neighbors. She was the\\nfirst white woman who came to our town. The next year she\\nmarried Emmons Stockwell, and began house-keeping on the\\nold Stockwell place. She was then eighteen years of age, and\\nhe was twenty-three. They lived together more than fifty-\\nfive years, and had fifteen children seven sons and eight\\ndaughters all of whom grew to maturity and in her old\\nage, Mrs. Stockwell could call around her one hundred and\\nninety living descendants, three of whom yet survive\\nEphraim, Emmons, and John Stockwell whose combined ages\\nare two hundred and forty-seven years. She died at the age\\nof eighty-two her husband at seventy-eight. David Stock-\\nwell, their oldest child, was the first son of Lancaster. After a", "height": "3285", "width": "1818", "jp2-path": "centennialcelebr00lanc_0027.jp2"}, "28": {"fulltext": "20\\nlong and useful life, he perished a few years since in the con-\\nflagration of a portion of his dwelling.\\nEdwards Bucknam, a young follower of Governor Page,\\nsoon after married another of his daughters, and settled at the\\nmouth of Beaver Brook, whore for many years Mr. Benjamin\\nAdams resided. A hunter, named Martin, caught vast num-\\nbers of beaver, which abounded in the stream running through\\nthese meadows. The ingenious hunter gave his name to the\\nmeadows, and the ingenious animals to the stream they occu-\\npied. Bucknam was an accomplished surveyor, a man of\\nunbounded hospitality, and of great usefulness to the colony.\\nHe could let blood, draw teeth, and periorm the mar-\\nriage service, before the minister and doctor arrived. He did\\nthe business of the colony which requii-ed education. He laid\\nout a large portion of the town, and many of the highways.\\nAt the beginning of the present century, there was a very\\ngood road leading up the river by his residence. In a few\\nyears, the settlers in that vicinity crept back from Martin s\\nmeadoAVs, and cleared off the hills behind them. They all\\nlived in log huts, quite rudely constructed, with roofs made of\\nbark. They had no school, and what to them was an infinitely\\ngreater hardship, no place of worship. Bucknam had six\\nchildren, from whom have descended the Moores, the Howes,\\nthe Mclntires and Bucknams. His daughter Eunice, the first\\nchild of Lancaster, was born in 1767.\\nDavid Page, the son of the Governor, so called, came here\\nwith the first settlers, married his cousin, of Haverhill, and had\\nthirteen children. The Page family were highly respectable.\\nAny alliance with them was honorable. It was not so diffi-\\ncult for Stockwell and Bucknam, poor as they were, and lowly\\nas their condition had been, to marry into high life. The\\nyoung ladies, so elevated in society and beautiful in person,\\ncould have had no better overtures in this settlement, which\\nthe young gentlemen were emboldened to make and the young\\nladies to accept, because it was plainly the only change to\\nwhich they seemed eligible.\\nStockwell possessed prodigious strength, and was caisable of\\ngreat endurance. He could not read or write till he was taught\\nby his accomplished wife. He had a firm and vigorous mind,", "height": "3285", "width": "1818", "jp2-path": "centennialcelebr00lanc_0028.jp2"}, "29": {"fulltext": "21\\nwith a large share of common sense. In the days of the Eev-\\nolution, he was the salvation of the colony. The hardships\\nand dangers which surrounded them, the successive faikire of\\ntheir crops, the capture of two or three of the settlers by the\\nhostile Indians, and the stormy future prospects of the coun-\\ntry, shook the resolution of the settlers, and they met at\\nStockwell s house to discuss the abandonment of the town.\\nThe dauntless Stockwell declared, notwithstanding these\\nthings, My family and I sha n t go. He had seen this valley\\nin 1759, and was enamored with its loveliness. He had chosen\\nit for his home, for the better or for the worse, and he knew\\nno such thing as fiiilure. A few families rallied around him,\\nand the settlement was saved.\\nFor many years there were no school-houses or schools.\\nMrs. Stockwell was a respectable scholar for those early days.\\nShe could read the psalter, and write and cypher very well,\\nand in her own house taught the children of the settlers. She\\nhad wonderful general capacit}^, which supplied all the wants\\nof this new colony. She was one of those remarkable persons\\nwho could do every thing that was necessary, and did every\\nthing well.\\nIn 1791, the inhabitants of Lancaster voted to build a meet-\\ning-house and in town meeting chose, as a committee to locate\\nand build it, Col. Edwards Bucknam, Col. Jonas Wilder, Capt.\\nJohn Weeks, Lieut. Emmons Stockwell, Lieut. Joseph Brack-\\nett, Lieut. Dennis Stanley, and Capt. David Page. From the\\nmilitary titles of the committee, one would expect great dis-\\npatch in this work but the structure was not completed for\\nsome years afterward. Taxes were assessed, payable in wheat\\nrye and corn, labor, and lumber at certain fixed prices, to aid\\nin its construction. In 1794, the first town meeting was held\\nin this meeting-house. Previous to this date, they met at pri-\\nvate houses to transact their business, and, as their numbers\\nincreased, selected larger houses. Col. Wildcr s splendid new\\nmansion answered well till the meeting-house was ready.\\nThere was no regular preaching of the gospel, and no set-\\ntled minister, till the eighteenth of September, 1794, when the\\nRev. Joseph Willard was settled here as pastor over a church\\ngathered in July previous, consisting of twenty -four per-", "height": "3285", "width": "1818", "jp2-path": "centennialcelebr00lanc_0029.jp2"}, "30": {"fulltext": "22\\nsons. He presided over the religious affairs of the town for\\n28 years. He had been in the continental army through the\\nEevolutionary war. He had a noble, commanding presence,\\na firm and measured step, which he preserved through his life\\ntime. You may all thank God that in his providence he sent\\nto the town of Lancaster, such a man as Joseph Willard. He\\nwas a noble specimen of goodness and religious faith; was\\nwise in counsel, learned in doctrine, and full of true charity\\nand grace. All honor to the memory of the Eev. Joseph\\nWillard.\\nThe church was an imposing structure for those days. It\\nwas erected upon the plain, on the very brow of the hill just\\nsouth of the village. It had a tower at each end, with two\\nporches for entrance, and a broad entrance on the side. It\\nhad a high gallery, a lofty pulpit, crowned with a high sound-\\ning-board, and, what is yet more characteristic, the seats were\\nall so arranged in the square pews that they could be raised\\nduring prayer, w^hen the congi-egation stood up, and when the\\nprayer was over would fall, one after another, with a horrible\\nclatter. The old church has passed away, or rather been\\nmoved away, down the hill, dismantled of all its sacredness\\nand made into a house of merchandise, except the pleasant\\nroom which i*ejoices in the name of the Town Hall. Even its\\nfoundations have been dug awa}^ not a vestige of the long\\nflight of stairs now remains, and the places that knew it shall\\nknow it no more for ever. It will only live hereafter in the\\nsongs and chronicles of its exterminators.\\nIt was many years after the first settlement of the town\\nbefore school houses were erected. I think the church pre-\\nceded the school house. It was some yedrs before they built\\neven framed huts with a single room. The Stockwell and\\nBucknam houses, of very moderate proportions, on the old\\nhomesteads, you will remember. The two first splendid man-\\nsions, as they then called them, were the famous Holton house\\nand the old Wilson tavern, at the north end of the street. The\\nlatter, and the little red cottage on the opposite side of the\\nstreet, below it, were the two first painted houses in Lancas-\\nter. I think a portion of the present Stockwell house and\\nthe llolton mansion are all that now remain of those very old\\nstructures.", "height": "3285", "width": "1818", "jp2-path": "centennialcelebr00lanc_0030.jp2"}, "31": {"fulltext": "23\\nThe first town meeting which assembled in Lancaster was\\nat the house of David Page, in 1769. Capt. Thomas Burnside\\nwas moderator Edwards Bucknam was chosen clerk, to\\nwhich office ho was reelected for twenty-one years. They\\nchose five selectmen. Unfortunately, the dwelling-house of\\n3Ir. Bucknam was destroyed by fire in 1772, and with it per-\\nished the town records to that year. It is well known that\\nBucknam and Stockwell, Pago, Wilder and Weeks, composed\\nthe town government for nearly thirty years. The salary of\\nthe settled minister was fixed at fifty pounds, one third of\\nwhich was payable in cash and two thirds in produce. This\\nwas to increase as the inventory of the town increased, till it\\nreached eighty pounds.\\nThe first lawyer in Lancaster was Eichard C. Everett. He\\nwas born in Providence, E. I., and was left an orphan early in\\nlife. He was at one time, during the Eevolutionaiy war, a\\nservant of General Washington. He came to Lancaster in\\nOctober, 17S7, and with two other hardy men cut out the road\\nthrough the Notch for the purpose of transporting salt to\\nupper Cods. He saved his earnings, and went through Dart-\\nmouth College studied law in New-York and at Haverhill,\\nin this State, and in 1793 began practice here. He rose to\\nbe district judge, and to a high position as a sound and honor-\\nable man, and has left a spotless character in the memory of men.\\nThe first bridge erected was the old Stockwell bridge, across\\nIsrael s river, and the right to cross it first was put up at auc-\\ntion, and bid off by Emmons Stockwell for five gallons of\\nbrandy, which cost him forty -two shillings a gallon.\\nIt was many years before any wheelwrights or wheels were\\nfound in Lancaster. The eai ly settlers transported their mer-\\nchandise upon two long poles, fastened together by a cross-\\npiece. One end answered for shafts, to which the horse was\\nattached, the other dragged upon the ground. It was similar\\nin construction to the modern truck, without the wheels.\\nThere are many present who will remember the caravans of\\nfarmers who, every winter, carried their produce to the l*ort-\\nland market in sleighs, where they purchased their annual\\nsupply of luxuries for domestic use and the} will remember,\\ntoo, their adventures and frolics, when, snow-bound on the", "height": "3285", "width": "1818", "jp2-path": "centennialcelebr00lanc_0031.jp2"}, "32": {"fulltext": "24\\njourney, they were compelled to wait, sometimes for days, till\\nthe fierce storms were over and the roads were passable.\\nI have thus given you, to-day, only the outlines of a picture\\nof Lancaster a hundred years ago. The same heavens are\\nindeed over our heads, the same mountains wall in the valley,\\nand the same river winds gracefully through the meadows,\\nbut all else, how changed It will not be thought invidious,\\non an occasion entirely our own, to say, in compliment to our-\\nselves, that we may defj the world to produce a lovelier village,\\nor more beautiful farms, or a better and happier people, than\\nare found in our noble town and with its natural scenery?\\nembracing mountains and valleys, rivers and lakes, what\\nspot is there on the earth of which we could feel prouder,\\nand to which we could return with more delight and how can\\nwe wonder, as the summer approaches, that men leave the\\ngreat cities, their business and their homes, to look on this\\nscenery, and breathe the air of these mountains, and drink\\ntheir inspirations\\nIt may not be unprofitable to enter the chasm between the\\nbounds of our century, and learn something of the causes of\\nour municipal growth and success. We owe much, my friends,\\nto the moralitj of our community. I am inclined to think\\nthat the theology of our early days was derived, in some\\nmeasure, from the great Doctor Wheelright, who, banished\\nfrom Massachusetts, settled in the vicinity of Exeter, and\\nthere led the religious development of our northern New-Eng-\\nland. He was a little more tolerant and less bigoted than the\\nfull-blooded Puritan, but just as firm in his faith and unyield-\\ning in his opinions. They tried and hung the witches he only\\ntried them. He had a mantle of charity, small as it was they\\nhad none at all, and gloried in their severity. I am inclined\\nto believe that we have enjoyed a softer persecution between\\nreligious sects, a more tolerant theology, for which we are\\nindebted to this gifted preacher.\\nWe owe much to the richness of our soil. The first settlers\\nof this town regarded the productions of their meadows in\\ntheir earliest cultivation as Avonderful. The grass grew so\\nluxuriantly that rakes were in disuse, and the pitchfork was\\nonly needed to gather up the enormous crops. All kinds of", "height": "3285", "width": "1818", "jp2-path": "centennialcelebr00lanc_0032.jp2"}, "33": {"fulltext": "25\\nvegetation, when the spring was open, came forward with\\nsuch rapidity, and with such a wealth of verdure, as they had\\nnever known before and if a market were lying at your\\ndoors, to stimulate the use of modern applications to bring\\nforward vegetation early, your meadows would now find no\\nrivals in their productiveness and value.\\nWe owe much to natural sceneiy; and in this connection\\nI will only say, that the early settlers had a quick eye for the\\nbeautiful. I can not help thinking that one of our oldest\\ninhabitants Mr. Edward Spaulding, a descendant of the\\nfamous Mrs. Dustin who was brought here, when a mere\\nchild, in his mother s arms, afterward fixed his residence on\\nthe spot where he lived and wherehe died, because of the\\nexceedingly lovely landscape there spread out before him and\\nthere is not a single spot in our beautiful town which exceeds\\nin beauty that where Spaulding lived. He was a noble and\\ngenerous man. too good ever to be unkind. He has gone to his\\nrepose, and left an honored memory.\\nI need not apologize for the distinction in saying to you\\nnow, that I believe we are largely indebted to the energy and\\nprinciple, the faith and the works of Stockwell and Bucknam,\\nfor the prosperity and real value of our ancient town. They\\nwere good, and, in their way, great men. In our country,\\ngreat and manly qualities are found in every class and condi-\\ntion of men. Extreme wealth and extreme poverty furnish\\nmost of the profligacy and licentiousness of society. Its chief\\nstrength, health and vigor are derived from the gi cat middle\\nclasses, which represent the labor and the sound judgment of\\nthe country. I have often heard it said that the race of great\\nmen is dying out in our land. This is not the fact but great\\nability seeks now the avenues of trade, commerce and agricul-\\nture, because they yield a better reward than statesmanship,\\nor the pi-ofessions, and men of second-rate ability, with more\\ncunning than wisdom, have been permitted to stand in the\\nplaces of the giants of former years. You will recognize in\\nthe names of the descendants of these pioneers the large part\\nthey have borne in our material wealth and prosperity. How\\nlarge a portion of our population can look back with distin-\\nguished pleasure to these, their worthy ancestors Almost", "height": "3285", "width": "1818", "jp2-path": "centennialcelebr00lanc_0033.jp2"}, "34": {"fulltext": "5^6\\nall of their descendants have settled among us. They have\\nfalsified the truth of history, which declares that a stock of\\nvirtue in a family will run out in three generations for the\\ngreat qualities of these first settlers have come down through\\ntheir children to this day unimpaired. All honor to the names\\nof those noble pioneers and to the memory of that brave\\nand noble-hearted woman, who, at that tender age, came\\nthrough the wilderness to aid the infant settlement, and nuj-sed\\nit for more than three-score years into life and prosperity, and\\nleft such a long list of mourning descendants, we pay our grate-\\nful homage.\\nWe owe much of our prosperity to the little academy stand-\\ning there by the grave-yard, in its new dress to-day, which I\\nhave never seen before. It shows that it is prosperous, and\\nthat the old ancestral fires have not yet gone out. I tell\\nyou, seriously, that the education found within its walls for\\nthe past thirty years, for all the practical uses of life, has been\\nnot much inferior to that of our colleges; and in proof of what\\nI saj^, I adduce the history and success of its numerous gradu-\\nates, both men and women, to show how well, in practice and\\nin fact, they have stood beside those who received their educa-\\ntion in our great schools and universities. Having received\\nhere the best instruction in elementarj^ studies, the student\\nhas gone out into the world as well prepared for the struggles\\nof life, and to advance alone in the higher walks of attain-\\nment, as is commonly the case where they have pursued a\\nregular course of coUcffe education. Our students have studied\\nhere in maturer life, with firmer health and better constitu-\\ntions. They have taken in and appropriated what they have\\nlearned. It has formed their characters and given shape and\\nvigor to their minds. I know it may be said they are defi-\\ncient in higher literary culture, which gives a finish to educa-\\ntion. I grant this but they have here gained the strength\\nand will to climb alone to higher and more rugged ways in\\nafter life, and through their lives, than any mere refinement of\\nschools or colleges could give them. I do not, by this, mean\\nto give any preference for the mere culture of earlier days, or\\nto reflect upon that of our own but I do mean to say that\\nthe times and ways of business have pressed upon us the", "height": "3285", "width": "1818", "jp2-path": "centennialcelebr00lanc_0034.jp2"}, "35": {"fulltext": "27\\nnecessity of educating our youths at too early an age, and\\nthat elementary studies are too much neglected so that we\\nlose more in strength than we gain in advantages. I wish we\\nmight retain the great virtues of earlier times, to be added to\\nthe improvements of more modern systems and if our chil-\\ndren do enter upon active life later, they will have more char-\\nacter and strength for the duties and perils that await them.\\nOf what benefit is stud}^, if the knowledge we get is not our\\nown, and does not in some way enter into the character of the\\nman The little particles of matter absorbed by the roots,\\nascend through the body to the limbs and leaves, and when\\npurified and prepared, become a part of the great tree, with\\nits mighty trunk, its broad branches and rich foliage. And so\\nis the growth of character from the particles of knowledge,\\nexperience and truth, which, under the blessing of Almighty\\nGod, are gathered up in life.\\nMy friends, I have thus imperfectly sketched the settlement\\nand condition of this ancient town. This is a day of jubilee.\\nWe welcome home her children. The citizens of the town\\nhave opened their houses and their hearts, and bid you wel-\\ncome. You can here see the old familiar faces you left behind\\nyou, the pictures on the walls, the old curtains by the win-\\ndows, the crockery on the table. They will recall to your\\nminds pleasant reminiscences of your earlier days they will\\nfill the canvas of memory with images of the past they will\\nspeak to you of childhood, and you will live over again, in a\\nfew brief hours, childhood s happy days. In 3 ^onder mound,\\nformed by the hand of nature for a country church-yard,\\nrepose the ashes of our fathers; and the gi*een turf of the\\nnew-made graves tells us of some fresher griefs. Sadness and\\njoy, sorrow and gladness, are strangely commingled in a day\\nlike this. But such is the lesson of life its little history is\\nfilled with events of which the experience of this day is but a\\nbrief epitome. When we again leave these homes of child-\\nhood, may we go with fresh strength and firmer wills to the\\nperformance of all the duties of life and as geneinition after\\ngeneration shall come and go in future centuries, may the vir-\\ntues of our ancestors never be forgotten, and may peace and\\nprosperity for ever dwell in this lovely valley", "height": "3285", "width": "1818", "jp2-path": "centennialcelebr00lanc_0035.jp2"}, "36": {"fulltext": "28\\nThe President. I see here to-day a gifted son of Lancas-\\nter. I refer to Hon. Edward D. Holton, of Wisconsin. The\\naudience are waiting to hear him.\\nADDRESS OF MR. HOLTON.\\nMr. Chairman, and Ladies and Gentlemen\\nThe first thing I desire to do here to-day (although it\\nwas not upon my programme when I left home), is to thank\\nKing Cleorge the Third. I never heard the magnificent char-\\nter of this old town read before, and I come here to thank\\nthat good old king, we called him good in those days,\\nthough we did not like him a few years after, and had a good\\nround turn with him, I come here to thank him that, among\\nother things, he laid down grand laws for the government of\\nthis town. How wise was that provision which granted a\\ntract of land for the suppoi t of the ministry! Parson Willard\\nenjoyed the benefits of that provision up there on his farm;\\nand th^ benefits were mutual. Although the Puritans differed\\nfrom him in some matters, yet there was the grand, magnifi-\\ncent fact, a gosjiel for man; the great foundation principle\\nof man s progress and welfare.\\nMr. Chairman, the grand tribute which you have just paid\\nto the memory of Stockwell, and Page, and Bucknam, most\\nthoroughly agrees with all that I have heard of those noble\\nmen. There were other men, it seems, who came to Lancaster\\nwith them but it remained for Stockwell, particularly, as the\\nlearned orator has told us, to stay the infant settlement. I\\nam told that, the first year, the corn grew well for a time, and\\nthe people, who had lived upon suckers and clams taken out\\nof the river, were looking with hope and confidence to the\\nlittle patches of corn in the meadows but the frost came in\\nAugust and killed it all, and with it destroyed all their hopes.\\nSeveral of those men then said It is no use to live in this\\ncountry. Here are beautiful meadows and streams, to be sure\\nthe aspects of nature are grand; but food man must have;\\nand here, right in the midst of summer, it is all cut off, and\\nwe can not live here we must leave you. Stockwell said\\nI shall not go back, and I beg you not to go back. We\\nmust go back. Well, I shall stand here. I will go into the", "height": "3285", "width": "1818", "jp2-path": "centennialcelebr00lanc_0036.jp2"}, "37": {"fulltext": "29\\nwoods and kill the wild beasts in wintei I will stand here\\non the spot. And stand he did.\\nMr. Chairman, it is a blessed thing, growing out of our\\nEnglish character, this love of home, this grand old Saxon\\nidea of home. When I got your message, bidding me come\\nhere from a thousand miles away, I was so circumstanced that\\nit was exceedingly difficult for me to leave. But I remem-\\nbered my early home; I remembered that here was the place\\nof my bii th and though I had traveled far, and seen many\\nflourishing communities, and been cognizant of numerous set-\\ntlements that had sprung from the wilderness, as Lancaster\\ndid, still none of these had taken the place of that loved\\nhome; and though I got oif from a sick bed, my heart bounded\\nwith joy when I turned ray face homeward. When I got to\\nChicago I met Jim, and Nat, and Selden (three of the White\\nbrothers), and as we rode along we talked, and laughed, and\\njoked, and were like boys again. What a ride w^as that!\\nWhen we went out we had to journey a thousand miles,\\nthrough a country much of it occupied by savages we had\\nto walk or ride on horseback a great part of the way and\\nnow, on our return, we came careering on twenty-five miles\\nan hour, so that in fifty hours we spanned the thousand miles\\nbetween our far western homes, and this, our natal spot.\\nAs we were riding along in Canada, a gentleman who sat\\nbehind me called my attention to a range of mountains across\\nthe magnificent St. Lawrence, and said: Those mountains\\nlook splendidly. Do you know whether they are in New-York\\nor in Yermont Well, said I, I don t think we have\\ngot down to the Yermont line yet; I think they must be in\\nNew-York. Well, said he, they look good to me. I\\nhave n t seen any mountains for ten years. I was born among\\nthe mountains. Ah where wei e you born I was\\nborn in New-Hampshire. What town in New-Hamp-\\nshire (I always claim kindred with New-Hampshire people\\nwherever I meet them. I claim them as cousins, and gener-\\nally kiss the women feeling at liberty to do that.)\\nThe President. I warn my friend not to come cousining\\ndown to Boston in his way. (Laughter.)\\nMr. Holton (resuming) Well, said he, I was boi-n in", "height": "3285", "width": "1818", "jp2-path": "centennialcelebr00lanc_0037.jp2"}, "38": {"fulltext": "30\\nLancaster. Indeed that is my native town, sir. Pray\\ntell me j our name. My name is Derby. Indeed you\\nare a descendant of Isaac Derby. Yes, said he, my\\nfather was Andrew Derby. Indeed and your mother was\\nMary Greenleaf Yes. Ah! I went to school to your\\nmother, Mary (Ireenleaf Where do you live At Cedar\\nEapids, Iowa. What is your business? I am a mer-\\nchant there I sell books. He had made his way through\\nthe States, as hundreds of others have done, as a schoolmaster,\\nand finally found himself located in that magnificent country,\\nthe most beautiful that human eyes ever rested upon the\\nvalley of the Cedar river and has carried out there, from the\\nold hearth-stone, the fires that shall now be planted by him, in\\nhis turn, in that new country. He said there was another\\nLancaster boy on the train, and presently he brought hira\\nalong, and introduced him as a Chesman boy. Thus we met,\\nchildren of this good old town, and recalled the pleasant\\nmemories of by-gone times.\\nI do not know that I am right, but it has always seemed to\\nme that Lancaster was a better town than Percey (formerly\\nStark), or Guildhall, (I hope our friends from those towns will\\npardon me) and I have often reflected what it was that thus\\ndistinguished my native town. I believe all that the learned\\norator has said in regard to the influence of Lancaster to be\\ntrue but what are the causes that have produced this influ-\\nence It will be profitable for us to consider that question\\nas we meet here to-day. He has said that Mrs. Stockwell\\nwas the mother of fifteen children, and counted, before\\nher death, one hundred and ninety descendants. Why did\\nyou not clap your hands when he made that statement?\\nThere is not so honorable a person in the world as she who\\ngives human life. Stockwell, and David Greenleaf, who had\\ntwenty-one children, ought to have monuments to their\\nmemory.\\nThe President. Their children are their monuments.\\nThese are their jewels.\\nMr. Holton continued What are the principles that pro-\\nduced these results Mrs. Stockwell was a model woman.\\nShe not only read the Psalter, as the orator has told you, but,", "height": "3285", "width": "1818", "jp2-path": "centennialcelebr00lanc_0038.jp2"}, "39": {"fulltext": "31\\nin the absence of a settled minister, she drew the people\\naround her, in her own house, to hear that great principle\\nwhich stands first related to human welfare, namely, obedi-\\nence to God.\\nBut it is not alone of those early people, of whom I know\\nnothing except from hearsay, that I would speak. I come\\ndown to people within my own memory a goodly company.\\nI remember Parson Willard well. So stately was he, so\\naugust his manner, so magnificent his bearing, that we boys\\nwere rather afraid of him. I recollect that I used to run\\nacross the street Avhen I saw him coming. But that fear did\\nnot keep us quiet in meeting, and sometimes we received a\\npointed rebuke from the pulpit, or the deacon came up into\\nthe gallery to pinch our ears. (Laughter.) But who shall\\nmeasure the influence and power of such a man He stamped\\nhis influence upon all who came around him. Every man and\\nwoman even those who did not go to his church felt it.\\nNor was he the only man who exerted an abiding influence\\nfor good. I well remember when other good men came here.\\nI came back in the days when Eev. Mr. Peck was here, and\\nother men of the same class. And what a power were those\\nmen in this community, even in the last half of this century\\nPeck, and Hilburn, and Orange Scott, and Wheelock And,\\nby the way, Mr. Wheelock lives out in Wisconsin now, nearly\\nninety years^ of age; and an efficient man he has been for\\ntwenty-five years in every good and noble work in that State.\\nI hav^ met him often in conventions that have had for their\\nobject the promotion of the moral and religious welfare of the\\ncommunity. We have had energetic men in Lancaster and\\nin this neighborhood. The successors of those early settlers,\\nBucknam and Stockwell, were men of power. Here, too,\\nwere the Weekses, and old Major White, (my friend has done\\nno more than justice to that glorious man) and old Colonel\\nWilson. These were sterling men these were men of force\\nand power, and they have left their mark upon the town.\\nThen there has been a class of educated men among us. I\\nhave often reflected upon that. At the upper end of the\\nstreet, when I was here, there was Pearson, there was Farrar,\\nthere was a lawyer by the name of Sheafe, a very accom-", "height": "3285", "width": "1818", "jp2-path": "centennialcelebr00lanc_0039.jp2"}, "40": {"fulltext": "32\\n\u00e2\u0080\u00a2plished man. These were men of mark these were men who\\nmade their influence felt in this community. Beside these,\\nthere was A, N. Brackett, a modest, unassuming man, not a\\nman of education self-made, almost entirely. My mother,\\nwho relied upon him for counsel in times of adversity, used\\nto send me down to his house, and I always found him read-\\ning or studying. I heard him deliver one or two orations\\nhere. I remember him as a man of great philanthropy, emi-\\nnently just and patriotic, and a good man in the community.\\nWhat a man of power was John W. Weeks I remember\\nmeeting him on one occasion, and he laid his hand on my\\nhead and said Young man, you are one of Mrs. Holton s\\nsons, ar n t you Yes, sir. What are you going to do\\nI do n t know; I shall dig my way along, I suppose. Why\\ndo n t 3-ou go West? If 1 had ten boys, I would spank every\\none of them if they did n t go West. [Laughter.] That\\nwas a blunt remark but he was a steady, thoughtful, and\\ncautious man. Edward Spaulding has been alluded to. I re-\\nmember him as a most excellent man. Then there was William\\nLovejoy, a neighbor of ours. My recollection of him is of the\\nmost satisfactory kind. He used frequently to come, with his\\nbasket in his hand, and saddle-bag of tools on his back, to\\nhis daj^ s work as carpenter and joiner. I have seen him\\nmany times wheeling his bushel of corn down to the mill to\\nbe ground. I recollect him as a man of singular beauty and\\ndignity of character. How did vii tue stand out in his life,\\nand how is it seen streaming along down through a goodly\\nfamily I want to say, once more, that the lives of such\\nmen fill the world with goodness. Well have I known some\\nmembers of this family. I wanted, above all things, to see\\nJohn Lovejoy here to-day, and exceedingly regret that I\\ncan not.\\nNow, how has it been with those sons of Lancaster who\\nhave gone out from this valley to try their future in other\\nparts of the land So far as I can reckon them up and I\\nhave endeavored to keep an eye on a few of them they\\nhave done tolerably well. Perhaps I may be permitted to\\nsay leaving the two speakers on this occasion out that,\\nso far as I know, none of them have gone to the State Prison,", "height": "3285", "width": "1818", "jp2-path": "centennialcelebr00lanc_0040.jp2"}, "41": {"fulltext": "33\\n(lauglater,) none of them have dishonored their town. On\\nthe other hand, many of our Lancaster men have ornamented\\nthe various walks of life. If you want to buy any sugar, go\\nto Portland, and buy of Mr. Brown. If you want to buy any\\nclothing, you will find the White boys, at Chicago, fair deal-\\ners. If you want any scales, go to St. Johnsbury, and buy of\\nBaker, Bingham Porter. Those St. Johnsbury scales have\\na great reputation there is not a merchant on the continent\\nwho would think he could get along without them, and I be-\\nlieve there are no better scales in the world but I think they\\nwould have failed without our Lancaster boys, Oliver Baker,\\nChandler Porter, and Mr. Bingham, Then we have a distin-\\nguished representative of Lancaster on the bench, in the\\nperson of Judge \\\\Yoodruff; so, if you have suits to be tried,\\ntry them before him. If you want a lawyer, go to Oregon\\nand get Farrar; but be sure you get him here before your\\nsuit comes on (Laughter.)\\nMr. Chairman, the hours are rapidly passing away. I shall\\nnot trespass much longer upon your patience. There is a\\nlong list of names that I have run over in my mind, as those\\nof men particularly worthy of mention on an occasion like\\nthis but, in the hasty remarks that I have made, many of\\nthem have slipped from my memory. These men deserve to\\nbe remembered and honored, for they laid broad and deep the\\nfoundations of public and private virtue in this town, without\\nwhich the welfare of no community can be secured. Let\\nevery man, and especially these young men, understand this,\\nthat in this day of our country s peril and our country s need,\\nwhen there is accumulating upon us such a burden of debt,\\nprivate virtue is the only thing that will shield us in these\\ntrying hours. It is the virtue of the individual men and\\nwomen who have lived within her borders that has shielded\\nLancaster in the past it is that which has brought us to-\\ngether here, and made us joyful beyond measure in the\\ngreetings of this Centennial day.\\nLet me say, in conclusion, that I come home with inci-eas-\\ning love for my native town. And let me exhort you to stand\\nby the principles of your fathers. I shall go back to the\\nWest feeling more and more the imi)ortance of those princi-", "height": "3285", "width": "1818", "jp2-path": "centennialcelebr00lanc_0041.jp2"}, "42": {"fulltext": "34\\npies, and feeling called upon to gird myself up, so long as 1\\nlive, to maintain those principles, and help to lay the same\\nfoundations that our fathers laid.\\nThere is one other matter to which I wish to refer. You,\\nsir, alluded to our first Preceptor, Mr. Wilson. I also want to\\nthank him. They used to thrash us most tremendously,\\nthose old school-masters. No doubt the boys and girls needed\\nconsiderable whipping, but they pounded us most unmerci-\\nfully. When Mr. Wilson came here, he turned over a new\\nleaf. He said, You are gentlemen, and fine fellows. That\\npleased us amazingly. We accepted his word, and he never\\nhad occasion to whip any of us, I think. I want to say that\\nI owe a great deal to Mr. Wilson for the noble reformation\\nthat he made in this respect. He first taught our school here\\nin the old school-house, and then assumed the charge of the\\nacademy. I had the pleasure of attending just one term at\\nthe school and then one term at the academy; and I never\\ngained in my life, from any one mind, so much benefit as I\\nderived from that gentleman s instruction in those few brief\\nmonths. I have always attributed much of my success in\\nlife to the excellent ideas and excellent spirit which he incul-\\ncated. Be careful, you that are engaged in teaching, how\\nyou deal with young minds. Learn from him to deal gently,\\nkindly with them. To lead is better than to drive. We are\\nall able to speak of the excellence of that school, which has\\nexisted now the major part of half a century.\\nMy friends, this is indeed a joyous day. You, sir, spoke of\\nthe beauty of our town. I come back to testify to the same\\nthing. I have had an opportunity to look over this country\\nquite extensively, and I can say that you enjoy one of the\\nmost fixvored spots that are to be found in this whole land.\\nSo far as healthfulness of climate, soil and temperature, and\\nthe other great elements that go to make up the prosperity of\\nany country are concerned, I should scarcely know where to\\ngo rather than to this very locality. In 1862, I had occasion\\nto travel through New-England, when the land was suff ering\\nseverely from drouth, and as I approached Portland there\\nwere a thousand acres on fire; the roots of the grass were\\nbeing burned up all that region was as barren as a desert. I", "height": "3285", "width": "1818", "jp2-path": "centennialcelebr00lanc_0042.jp2"}, "43": {"fulltext": "35\\ncame to Lancaster, and this beautiful valley was green as the\\ngarden of Pai adise. It is so to-day. All through the West\\nwe are suffering from a severe drouth. The farmers are not\\nexpecting to get half a crop. Wisconsin, Iowa, Ohio, are\\nsuffering dreadfttlly. But everything here is green and beau-\\ntiful; and, take it year by year, I do not know where you\\ncould go to better your fortunes. Not but that you can find\\nmagnificent openings in the West; but the man who has got\\na good home, let him not sell out that home because he ex-\\npects to find a better. He may find a better one in some\\nrespects but I tell you, look far and long before you part\\nwith these green fields and these magnificent slopes, because\\nof any hearsay story of better lands.\\nMr. Chairman, I have trespassed too long upon your pa-\\ntience. We shall not meet at Lancaster again, at the end of\\nanother century. Time, with many of us, flies quickly. Let\\nus act well our part, upon the principles that have been sug-\\ngested, and whether we meet here again or not, all is well.\\nThe President. My honorable friend has not trespassed\\nupon our patience. I would beg leave, however, to make a\\nsimple correction of one of his remarks. When he spoke of\\nthe Lancaster boys who had not been to the State Prison, he\\nexcepted himself and excepted me. I desire to relieve him\\nfrom excepting me. He shall enjoy that distinguished honor\\nalone. (Laughter.)\\nAnother piece of music was then performed by the band,\\nafter which the procession was reformed and marched to the\\nfield a short distance south of the church, where a rustic\\nbower of evergreens and maples, covering two thirds of an\\nacre, had been constructed, affording a pleasant and grateful\\nshade. In this bower tables had been spread for two thousand\\nfive hundred people, and were abundantly supplied with sub-\\nstantial and attractive viands, to which the ^arge company,\\nfilling the capacious bower, did full justice. Prayer was\\noffered by Rev. Mr. Fay, of the Congregational church, and\\nthen a half hour or more was spent in discussing the bountiful\\nrepast, which was served by a committee of ladies, who de-", "height": "3285", "width": "1818", "jp2-path": "centennialcelebr00lanc_0043.jp2"}, "44": {"fulltext": "36\\nvoted themselves assiduously and untiringly to the comfort of\\ntheir guests. The wants of the physical natui-e having been\\nsatisfied, the President called the company to order.\\nThe President. The ladies are requested, as far as possi-\\nble, to be seated. For the first time in all the world some of\\nthem are obstructions. (Laughter.) I am not aware of any\\nway by which we can contrive to be heard, unless the audience\\nremain silent.\\nWe have a few gentlemen present, whose names are promi-\\nnent in our minds, and we shall desire to hear from them, for\\nthey must have something to say. Having occupied your\\nattention so long this morning, I will not preface the exercises\\nhere with any remai ks of my own. I therefore call upon the\\nMarshal for the first regular toast.\\nCol. Kent. In the absence of the toast-master, (Jacob Ben-\\nton, Esq.) various toasts, sentiments and letters have been\\ncommitted to my care. I will read them, prefacing the read-\\ning, however, by saying that I have been so occupied in com-\\npleting the other arrangements for this celebration, that I\\nhave had but very little time to arrange or systematize them,\\nand consequently they must be received with indulgence.\\nThe Officers and Soldiers present. Amid the quiet scenes of\\npeace, we by no means forget the services of those brave men\\nwho have dared the dangers of battle to secure us in the\\npeaceful enjoyment of scenes like the present. The citizen\\nsoldier of the American Eepublic, who does his whole duty,\\nbravely, quietly and unflinchingly, has a claim upon the respect\\nand support of the people which they in their turn are always\\nready to manifest. It is with peculiar pleasure that we wit-\\nness these men, representatives of other of our brave boys\\nnow in the field, with us to-day.\\nThe President. We have scarcely referred to-day to .the\\nmilitary spirit of our ancient town, and yet I think it may\\nbe remembered with pride. There occur to me at this moment\\nthe names of many of our citizens who have done noble ser-\\nvice for their country; and I desire to read a little notice,\\nwhich I find in the Brooklyn (N. Y.) Union, of the services\\nof a gallant gentleman whom I see before me.", "height": "3285", "width": "1818", "jp2-path": "centennialcelebr00lanc_0044.jp2"}, "45": {"fulltext": "37\\nIn front op Petersburg,\\nThiu sday, June 23. j\\nThe time of the Sixty-seventh New-York Volunteers bet-\\nter known as the First Long IsLand Eegiment having\\nexpired, they left for home yesterday. This regiment was\\none of the first three years regiments mustered into the ser-\\nvice, and has pai-ticipated in nearly every battle of the war.\\nLeaving Fort Schuyler in June, 1861, for Fort Hamilton, it\\nwas shortly afterward sent to Queen s Farm, near Washing-\\nton, where it was placed in the brigade in which it has ever\\nsince remained. The first campaign participated in was the\\ncelebrated one made to Manassas, by McClellan, when our\\ntroops discovered plenty of wooden guns, but no enemy.\\nThe I egiment next took part in the Peninsula campaign, and\\nwas one of the first to land at Old Point. It was activel}\\nengaged at Yorktown, Williamsburg, Seven Pines, and Fair\\nOaks (at the latter fight losing 185 men); then in the seven\\ndays battle, Chantilly, Antietam, Williamsport, and subse-\\nquently, under Burnside, at Fredericksburg. At second Fred-\\nericksburg, it stormed Mary s Height and Salem Height, when\\nthey were compelled to recross at Banks Ford, the First Long\\nIsland, with eight other regiments, under command of Col.\\nCross, covering the movement. Was with the Sixth, when\\nthat corps crossed the Eappahannock, as Lee moved on with\\nthe. rebel army to Pennsylvania, and subsequently was en-\\ngaged two days at Gettysburg. When Gen. Newton took\\ncommand of the First Corps, the Sixth was near Westminster,\\nand marched thirty-six miles between 9 o clock P. M. and 4\\nA. M., and went into the fight under Gen. Sykes, just in time\\nto render important service. After the afi airs at Rappahan-\\nnock Station and Mine Run, the regiment was sent to John-\\nson s Island to guard pi isoners, and last April was again sent\\nto the front, and rejoined the Fourth Brigade, First Division,\\nSixth Corps, and has participated in nearly every battle of the\\npresent campaign, in the Wildei ness losing 12o out of 270\\nmen. In the Wilderness, Col. Cross assumed command of the\\nbrigade, after Gen. Shaler had been taken prisoner. At\\nS^iottsj lvania, the colors were pierced in twenty-three jolaces\\nby bullets, and the flag-staff was shattered and the color-\\nbearer killed.\\nThat is a truthful description of the noble part taken by\\nCol. Cross in the present war. It speaks for itself. I have\\nread it because it is a record so honorable. He has been in\\nevery fight; he has done his duty faithfully, and comes here\\nto-day, having passed unharmed through every danger. I\\nnow beg leave to call upon Colonel Cross, G7th N. Y. Reg., for\\na few remarks.", "height": "3285", "width": "1818", "jp2-path": "centennialcelebr00lanc_0045.jp2"}, "46": {"fulltext": "38\\nSPEECH OF COL. NELSON CROSS.\\n3fen and Women of Lancaster I beard of your celebration\\nin the army, some weeks before my time expired. I was then\\nso circumstanced that I thought it doubtful, in more than one\\nview, whether I should be able to be with you to-day. I\\nthought your celebration was to be on the 12th, and I took\\nthe evening cars on the 11th, determined to be here at the\\nclose of the exercises, if I could not before. But on my way\\nI met some friends on their route, who informed me that it\\nwas to be on the 14th, and that I was still in time. I was\\nglad to know it. I wished to be here, to meet my old friends,\\nand to witness that reunion of Lancaster people which I\\nknew would be so productive of pleasure to us all. I wished\\nto come simply to mingle with you as one of your citizens,\\nnot to take an active j)art and when I was asked to address\\nyou here, I rather declined. I wished to be a simple looker-\\non. I never felt less like speaking than I do to-day. This\\ncoming together of old friends this thronging upon me of\\nold memories, the dearest of my life this standing amidst\\nthe old scenes of my boyhood, is too much for me. It utterly\\nunmans me, and unfits me to address you as I should.\\nMy career in the army has been alluded to. It is true I\\nhave been in the army for three years. I went there, not\\nbecause I ^ad been bred to the profession of arms, not be-\\ncause I had any liking for that profession, for I had not, but\\nbecause I saw the country in danger, and I felt that the great\\ndanger arose from the fact that we were not a military nation.\\nWe had become one of the greatest commercial nations on the\\nface of the earth we had become a great agricultural people\\nbut we had devoted less time and money to military training,\\nto preparing ourselves for human butchery, than any other\\nnation in existence; and I felt, as a citizen, called on to go\\nforth to the field, and I gave up all and went. I spent some\\ntime in organizing a regiment in Brookl}^, New York, where\\nIJiappened to be living, raising and organizing it in opposi-\\ntion to some of the leading politicians of the place but when\\nI called upon the General Governtnent to accept it, they\\nthought they did not want it they thought they had enough", "height": "3285", "width": "1818", "jp2-path": "centennialcelebr00lanc_0046.jp2"}, "47": {"fulltext": "39\\nseventy-five thousand men, they thought, were mox e than\\nsuflicient to crush out this rebellion. Finally, however, they\\nwere prevailed upon to take us. On the 20th of June, 1861,\\nwe were mustered into the service, and from that time to this\\nwe have participated in the campaigns of the army of the\\nPotomac. Further than this, for myself, I cannot say. We\\nhave done our duty. We have gone wherever we liave been\\nsent; we have stayed wherever we have been put. I brought\\nhome but the fragment of a regiment. That is the saddest\\npart of it all. The soil of Virginia has been made sacred in\\nthis war as it was never made before. Among you, how\\nmany there are who have cause to mourn the loss of some\\nrelative or friend, who has been left on the field, or here, on\\nyonder sacred hill, sleeps among his dearest friends, whose ca-\\nreer has been cut short by this terrible war, w4iich, I fear, is\\nnot yet near its end I have this to say for the citizen sol-\\ndiers, however, as a general remark. No better soldiers ever\\nlived, no braver men ever went forth to battle, than the men\\nwho have been sent forth by your State and by other States,\\nmen Vho, from the counting-house and the plough, all\\nunskilled in the art of war, sprang to arms when their coun-\\ntry was threatened, and went forth, as I said before, to the\\nfield. They have done all that is vested in human power to\\ndo; they have combatted an enemy as fearless, as determined,\\nas persistent, as ever an enemy was, and have failed to over-\\ncome him, simply because they have met him as a general\\nthing at great disadvantage, and frequently, too frequent-\\nly, with overpowering numbers opposed to them. During the\\nlast campaign, we attacked him in his fortified positions,\\nand eveiywhere we found him ready to receive us, and in\\nforce equal to our own. You wonder, perhaps, why liicli-\\nmond has not been taken. If you had been with me, if you\\nhad passed through the scenes I have passed through, you\\nwould know why Richmond has not been taken, and you\\nwould know that 3 ou have got more to do at home before\\nEichmond can betaken. You must make further sacrifices;\\nmore men must go forth to battle. I would it were not so.\\nBut let us rest where the old Roman rested, on whose sword\\nwas inscribed, Draw me not without cause sheath me not", "height": "3285", "width": "1818", "jp2-path": "centennialcelebr00lanc_0047.jp2"}, "48": {"fulltext": "40\\nwithout redress on patriotism and valor. You have\\ndrawn the sword in the most sacred cause in which man was\\never engaged the preservation of your liberties. I beg you\\nnot to sheath that sword until the work is accomplished\\nuntil the power of the rebellion is crushed, and the country is\\nrestored to peace.\\nI hope you do not think I am making a political speech. I\\nam no partisan; I have given up party, and I know but one\\nprinciple, and that is, to stand hy the country at all times, at\\nall hazards, and under all circumstances. (Applause). When\\nthe chairman told me I was to say something to-day, I felt as\\nI have told you utterly unprepared to give voice to the\\nfeelings that crowd upon my soul. I feel so now. Instead\\nof offering a sentiment to call up some one individual, I will\\nconclude with a sentiment which addresses itself to all, which\\nI have prepared since I was invited to speak, and you will\\nexcuse me from saying more now. I would say, however,\\nthat there is no individual among you who experiences a\\nhigher pleasure or a sincerer gratitude to God that he is per-\\nmitted to mingle with joii to-day than I do. A few years ago,\\nin Milwaukee, I met the gentleman who has addressed you\\n(Mr. Holton), and we had some conversation in regard to a\\nreunion of Lancaster people but the war broke out soon\\nafter that, and these things were forgotten. But in spite of\\nthe war, you determined to bring about such a reunion, and I\\nrejoice that you have been so successful in drawing together\\nLancaster people from all parts of the country, and have\\ngiven occasion to every one to rejoice in the embrace of old\\nfriends.\\nOnce again the blooming valley\\nOffers up its grateful charms,\\n\u00e2\u0096\u00a0And the circling hills securely\\nFold you in their shielding arms.\\nLo, the mountains famous ever\\nIn the architectural plan,\\nThus it is that God, the Father,\\nHere reveals himself to man.\\nIn these -wondrous works behold him,\\nSee his image, hear his voice,", "height": "3285", "width": "1818", "jp2-path": "centennialcelebr00lanc_0048.jp2"}, "49": {"fulltext": "41\\nWho liatli made the hills to blossom,\\n^And the mountains to rejoice.\\nBeared within these classic borders,\\nEdged and tempered for the strife.\\nYe have probed the world s disorders,\\nLeading men to better life.\\nArt and science, manifestations\\nOf the Infinite and True,\\nYe have spread among the nations,\\nForemost where there s work to do.\\nBring your laurel branches hither,\\nLay them on the altar s hearth\\nThey will keep your memory greener\\nIn the land that gave you birth.\\nThe second regular toast was then read, as follows\\nThe Day we celebrate. Prom the shadowy past throngs\\nof those who have left forever their earthly home seem\\nhovering near, as we celebrate the centennial of the town\\nmade pleasant and rich by their labor. We welcome to-day,\\nbeneath the hills and among the streams of their 3^outh, those\\nwho have labored in other fields, but who retain children s\\nregard for their early home. Nerved by the duty of the\\npresent, and encouraged by memories of the jiast, may this\\nday prove as a white stone among the years of our lives, and\\nserve, by its associations, to bind more closely together the\\nhearts and sympathies of all Avho have ever called Lancaster\\ntheir home.\\nThe Phesident. Some years ago, I happened to be travel-\\ning through the western country, and came to the city of\\nMilwaukee. It presented a New-England aj)pearance. I\\nalways find that I can trace New-England people by the New-\\nEngland houses and scenes around them. Take a New-Eng-\\nland man and cast him into the wilderness, and he will sow,\\nas far as he can reach, New-England principles and habits.\\nOn inquiry, I found in that city a New-England man, whom\\nthey told me was one of the fathers of the place having\\nlived through its entire history. I remember that only thirty\\nyears ago Wisconsin was made a territory, and it has been a\\nState but fifteen years. I find that it is six times as large", "height": "3285", "width": "1818", "jp2-path": "centennialcelebr00lanc_0049.jp2"}, "50": {"fulltext": "42\\nas the State of New-Hampshire, and has 150,000 children\\nin the public schools. Who could stand with such pros-\\nperity? Who could lead and direct it; who create it Well,\\nmy friends, I will show you the man who contributed to it\\nlargely; one of my old schoolmates, Edward D. Holton. And\\nnow, if he is here, I would like to know what he has .to say\\nabout Wisconsin. There was one thing more that I saw in\\nMilwaukee. I went down to the market, and found there a\\ncart load of salmon-trout floundering about, that had not been\\nout of the lake, apparently, more than half an hour. They\\nwere as large as calves [Loud laughter]. It is the greatest\\ncountry I ever saw, out there; and Milwau.kee is one of the\\ngreatest places and this gentleman [Hon. Edward D. Holton]\\nis one of the greatest men in that place. (Renewed merriment.)\\nSPEECH OF HON. E. D. HOLTON.\\nI wonder if there is any Justice of the Peace here? I want\\nto have this young man indicted. [Laughter]. He has dealt\\nmost profusely in broad statements, which I think^ought to\\nexpose him to a great deal of censure. I think he is indicta-\\nble, though I am not much of a lawyer. Now about those sal-\\nmon, big as calves That is a big story. Old Billy Ingerson\\nnever saw as big salmon as that in the Connecticut, in all his\\nlife, although he saw awful big salmon, as well as big bears.\\n(Laughter).\\nI heard the name of Milwaukee, the city whei*e I have the\\nhonor to live, mentioned by our excellent and esteemed Presi-\\ndent. Well, friends, it has been my fortune to see what, per-\\nhaps, falls to the lot of but few persons of my age to see. I\\nhave witnessed every brick raised in that city of noAV sixty\\nthousand inhabitants. When I went to Milwaukee it was a\\nhamlet, and there was but a single brick house a one-story\\nbuilding. Now it is literally a city of bricks. One of the\\npeculiarities of the town is, that there is an extraordinary\\ndeposit of clay, that makes a yellow or cream-colored brick.\\nThose bricks are found all over the country. There is scarcely\\na city in the United States that has not noAV some handsome\\nstructure, built of those bricks. The} make a peculiarly", "height": "3285", "width": "1818", "jp2-path": "centennialcelebr00lanc_0050.jp2"}, "51": {"fulltext": "43\\nhandsome material for building. Milwaukee is a cream-eolored\\ncity the natural color of the bricks. Very superior bricks\\nare these; they are equal to marble for endurance. It has\\nbeen my privilege, also, to see that people grow. I -have seen\\nthe people come trooping in until the State has reached a pop-\\nulation of a million. Many of these people ai-e Germans. I\\nhave seen a great deal of the Germans, and I have come to\\nlove them very much. At least twenty or twenty-five thou-\\nsand of the inhabitants of Milwaukee are Germans. They\\nare a noble people. They have some peculiarities. They are\\nvery fond of lager beer, and deal in it almost everywhere;\\nbut now and then a Yankee likes a little lager. But still, they\\nare a most industrious, law-abiding people, and a people of\\ngreat productive power. To illustrate the stability of the\\nGermans, I will mention that I took a lad, twelve years old,\\nfrom the street, who was indentured to me, in the old fash-\\nioned way, for six or seven years. That was in 1842, twenty-\\nfive years ago; and that boy has remained with me from that\\ntime to this that is, in the difterent stations I have occupied.\\nHe is.now a bookkeeper in one of the banks, to which I intro-\\nduced him, having brought him up to that business. This\\nsteadiness and tenacity in business are what we need, and we\\nshall borrow them from the German character.\\nAnother characteristic of the German is his love for home.\\nAny Yankee will go to work and fix up a farm, and then sell\\nit right out, without even asking permission of his wife, if he\\ncan get his price. Not so with the Germans, Mr. Chairman.\\nI can take you to man}- a German who would not sell you\\nhis farm if you covered it Mnth gold. It is worth twenty\\ndollars an acre, perhaps. You say to him, I will give you\\ntwenty-one. No. I will give you twenty-two. No.\\nI will give you twenty-five. No; you can t buy it at all.\\nWhy not It is my house my home. Well, this sta-\\nbility of character, united with the characteristics of our\\npeople, is really going to improve us. A good cross is an\\nadvantage. That boy to whom I have referred is now a\\nyoung man, and is worth $25,000, which he has accumulated\\nby little savings. I want to call the attention of j oung Amer-\\nican men to this element of the German character steadi-", "height": "3285", "width": "1818", "jp2-path": "centennialcelebr00lanc_0051.jp2"}, "52": {"fulltext": "44\\nness, perseverance and economy. It is an element which we\\nneed to incorporate into the American character. So in Mil-\\nwaukee, I congratulate myself at the new type of character\\nthat the German population will bring among us. They are\\npeculiar in some things, as I said before. They have departed\\nfrom the old faith of Luthex to a considerable extent. They\\nare a little degenerate in the matter of theology, but that we\\nhope to remedy. Our schools are open the New-England\\nelement comes in, and wo hope to gather up all the children\\nto meet together in our common schools. We hope to keep\\nourselves well up with the times in that regard. We have\\nnow nine school-houses, three stories high, which have cost\\nfrom fifteen to fort} thousand dollars apiece. I know of no\\npublic buildings around there that are so handsome and ele-\\ngant as they ai-e. Into those schools wo introduce the best\\ntalent that can be got, as teachers. Our common schools will\\ncarry the young man or the young maiden up to the lan-\\nguages, and perfect them in eveiy thing they need. And we\\nare spreading this education broadcast, as you do, to all those\\nGerman, and Irish, and Scotch, and Welch, that come among\\nUS J and thus we will produce a homogeneous population, that\\nshall spead out, and produce, we hope, a higher order of char-\\nacter than we have jet seen on the continent, in that valley\\nof the Mississippi. God, we trust, will bless the efforts that\\nare being put forth, not only by Milwaukee, but by other\\ncities and towns in the West. The great city of Chicago\\nmight be instanced, in a far grander sense than Milwaukee,\\nfor they have done nobler and better in all those matters that\\nstand related to the highest welfare of the community. By\\napplying these instrumentalities we hope finally to prepare a\\npopulation that shall be, Avith you here, a sheet-anchor, that\\nshall hold the nation against any force that may be brought\\nagainst it.\\nThe President. This is an occasion when the forms of\\nmen rise up before us swifter than thought. Of the oldest\\ninhabitants, I can not help mentioning the name of Barnard,\\nwhose white locks and venerable appearance I well recollect,\\nfor he was aged when I came to Lancaster. He was a man\\nof extensive culture, a fine speaker, and an honorable gentle-", "height": "3285", "width": "1818", "jp2-path": "centennialcelebr00lanc_0052.jp2"}, "53": {"fulltext": "45\\nman. He has gone from among us, but his life and character\\n\u00e2\u0096\u00a0will be valuable, now and always. I remember, too, Eichard\\nEastman, one of the most honored and honorable men in our\\ntown. He was a man without reproach. Fortunate is he\\n\u00e2\u0096\u00a0who successfully follows his example. Henry Ward Beecher\\nonce said that he wanted to live among the hills, where there\\nhad been trouble; where there had been steam power, which\\nhad thrown up, in some grand convulsion, great mountains.\\nIt was a very ancient engine that burst when these hills were\\nblown up from their deep foundations. There is a gentleman\\nhere to-day who has always been familiar with steam power,\\nand on the train of fortune. But he loves his mountian home.\\nHe is a son of Lancaster, who went out into the world alone,\\nand has come back, bearing the record of an honorable and\\nsuccessful life. I mean Nathaniel White, Esq. He sends\\nme this sentiment, being too modest to speak\\nMay our town always keep on the track of prosperit}^, and\\nmay her merchandize be transjjorted as successfully as this\\noccasion transports us.\\nThe third regular toast was then read, as follows\\nOur Friends from abroad. We give a cordial welcome to\\nour brothers and sisters who come from their distant homes\\nto gather around the old hearthstones of their infancy. The\\ncurrents of their lives have run in different channels, but\\nto-day they unite in a broad and peaceful stream, bearing on\\nits bosom a precious freight of warm memories and cordial\\nlove. As we separate from around this board, and narrate in\\neach cheerful home the history of the years that have gone\\nsince last we met, let us all bear in mind that among the\\naffections incident to human nature there is no emotion more\\nchaste, pure and noble, than the love of early scenes and early\\nfi iends. Our welcome to you is sincere may your experience\\nprove it agreeable.\\nThe President. The gentleman who was expected to\\nrespond to that toast was the first Preceptor of the Academy\\nin this place, Nathaniel Wilson and I know there are many\\nof his old pupils here to-day who will be delighted to see and\\nhear him. He claims not to have educated me wholly, but", "height": "3285", "width": "1818", "jp2-path": "centennialcelebr00lanc_0053.jp2"}, "54": {"fulltext": "46\\nonly half of me. I am sorry to say, however, that in that he\\nis mistaken it was her sister. (Laughter). The value of the\\nservices that gentleman has rendered the town cannot be cal-\\nculated. His pupils all speak of him with respect and affec-\\ntion. If present, I wish he would come forward and address\\nthem a moment.\\n[Mr. Wilson did not respond, and the President continued]\\nMy friends, before any of you retire, there is a little\\nbusiness to be transacted. I propose that when adjourn,\\nit be to meet again at this place on the fourteenth of July,\\n1964, (laughter and applause) and I venture, in behalf of the\\ncommittee of arrangements, to invite all of you to be pres-\\nent. (Renewed merriment). The orator will by that time be\\nready to deliver his oration, and the Governors of Massachu-\\nsetts and New-Hampshire will be able to attend. If it is\\nyour wish, when we do adjourn, to adjourn for a hundred\\nyears, and to meet as proposed, you will say Aye. Aye,\\naye. It is a unanimous vote; therefore, you will all\\nbe here. (Great merriment.)\\nCol. Kent. I have been requested to offer this toast, and\\nI have also been assigned to respond to it\\nOtir honored Dead. The affectionate remembrance of a\\ngrateful community is the noblest homage we can pay to the\\nworth and noble services of those devoted sons of our town\\nwho have laid their lives a willing sacrifice upon the altar of\\ntheir country, during the present war. Heroic and chivalric\\nin their lives, there is not a blemish upon their escutcheon in\\ndeath. Without fear and without reproach, may fittingly\\nbe written upon their monument. Among the first to spring\\nto arms, the sons of this town have made practical their\\npatriotism. Amid the fierce fire which blazed along the\\nheights of Fredericksburg in the hoarse thunder which\\nrevei berated above that valley of death at Gettysburg from\\nalong the blue waters of the Potomac, the bright Eappahan-\\nnock, and from the southern coasts, as well as from the\\ncrowded wards of army hospitals, their souls have gone up to\\nthat God who watches over the widowed and the fatherless.\\nTheir names are all dear to us, their memory dearer; and we", "height": "3285", "width": "1818", "jp2-path": "centennialcelebr00lanc_0054.jp2"}, "55": {"fulltext": "47\\nrecni %Yith sad pleasure, to their heroic devotion, on this anni-\\nversary of that town they loved so well in life, and over\\nwhich, let us hope, their spirits are hovering to-day.\\nMr. President: In nothing but my deep love for the old\\ntown of my nativity, and for the soldiers who have gone out\\nfrom among us, am I fitted to speak to this toast. I can truly\\nsay that I have never experienced more pleasure upon any\\noccasion than upon this for if there is any emotion of my\\nheart which is pure, and strong, and undying, it is love for\\nthe town of Lancaster, and for its people; those older than\\nmyself, and those who were the friends of my boyhood, who\\nnow are, or who have been, residents of this town and I\\nshould illy appreciate the evidences of public confidence and\\npersonal regard, which it has been my proudest satisfiiction to\\nhave received, did I, on a day like the present, amid scenes\\nlike these around me, fiiil to give utterance to the warm love\\nthat I entertain for my native town and its people. Certainly,\\non an occasion like this, when we are assembled from all sec-\\ntions of our common country, to celebrate the hundredth\\nanniversary of this town, it is very fitting and appropriate\\nthat we should remember, in a peculiar manner, those who\\nhave gone from among us and given up their lives for their\\ncountry. They are all equally honorable. Whether a soldier\\nfell at the head of his brigade in a fiery charge, or whether\\nhis life went out silentl;;^ from the wards of a hospital, he\\nequally gave up his life for his country, and is equally worthy\\nof remembrance by the people of this town.\\nOur roll of honor is long. Every quota has been filled;\\nand I am happy to say to our friends from abroad, who take\\nan interest in the old town, that Lancaster to-day stands\\nahead of all the calls that have been made upon her patriot-\\nism, having a handsome surplus. She sent forward a company\\nto the first regiment that went from this State; but, that regi-\\nment having been previously filled, it was unable to join it,\\nand was sent to the second, w^here it remained, participating in\\nevery battle of that gallant corps, until its members were dis-\\ncharged from the service at the expiration of their enlist-\\nment.\\nLancaster has been represented in nearly every regiment.", "height": "3285", "width": "1818", "jp2-path": "centennialcelebr00lanc_0055.jp2"}, "56": {"fulltext": "48\\nLong as has been the roll of honor, the list of our dead is also\\nlong. I have endeavored, since I was assigned to respond to\\nthis toast, to gather the military statistics of the town, which\\n1 now present, with a list of the brave men who have fallen,\\nand who should be honored by our people as having sacrificed\\ntheir lives for the common good, and for the peace and pros-\\nperity that we enjoy to-day.\\nFrom the beginning of the war to the present time, Lan-\\ncaster has sent 179 men into the field; there have also been 9\\nre-enlistments making an aggregate of 187 men out of a\\npopulation of 2024. Of these, 163 were enlisted for three\\nyears, and 34 for nine months. The list embraces all ranks in\\nthe service, from colonels to corporals and privates all good\\nmen, and equally deserving. Of this muster-roll, and includ-\\ning the names of three, John H. White, Jr., Edward Allen,\\nand Charles Cady, who were serving in commands outside\\nthe State, 31 have either been killed in battle or have died in\\nthe service.\\nThe names of these martja s, so far as I can now give\\nthem, are Col. Edward E. Cross, Lt. John C. Lewis, Francis\\nHay ward, John H. White, Jr., Lt. M. W. Humphrey, Sergt.\\nLewis P. Summers, Corp. James S. Kent, Corp. R. O. Young,\\nCorp. E. E. Jones, Timothy Grannis, F. A. Wentworth, C. H.\\nKane, Cyrus Savage, Edward B. Wilder, Wm. H. Allen, Ed-\\nward Allen, Louis La Point, John G. Sutton, Patrie McCaf-\\nfrey, Philip 3IcCaffrey, Jared Grey, Aurin Morse, Freeman\\nPerkins, Wm. Farnham, E. Jarvis, W. Jarvis, Charles Cady,\\nJ. K. Hodge, Ha G. Douglass, Frederick Ingerson, Lucien\\nThomas.\\nAt the head of the list in rank, though not in bravery for,\\nas I have already said, all were equally brave and all are\\nequally to be honored is the name of the lamented Col. Cross,\\nwho fell about a year ago, and whose body rests in yonder\\ncemetery. It was with emotions of the deepest grief that I\\nheard of his death, for he was the friend of my boyhood,\\nsharing, fully, many of the warmest feelings of my heart.\\nHe earl}^ took his position in the field, raising a regiment and\\ndisciplining it with wonderful skill for that early period; a\\nregiment which was distinguished for its bravery and daring,", "height": "3285", "width": "1818", "jp2-path": "centennialcelebr00lanc_0056.jp2"}, "57": {"fulltext": "49\\namong all the brave and daring regiments of the army; a\\nregiment always the first to meet the foe. He poured out his\\nlife bravely at that fearful battle of Gettysburg, on the right\\nof the second corps, when ordered up to support Sickles corps,\\nas it gave \\\\vaj on Thursday. He Avas a brave, chivalric and\\nnoble man; impulsive and hasty in his utterance, but always\\nmaking good, by his acts, eveiy thing he said. I know there\\nwas nothing to which he looked forward with more anxious\\nlonging than the close of the war, that he might return to the\\nplace of his nativity, and mingle with the friends of his youth;\\nand he earnestly wished that if he fell on the field, his ashes\\nmight be laid among kindred and friends at home.\\nA brave man fell when Lieutenant John G. Levv is, of the\\n9th Regiment, was killed rallying his company upon the\\nheights of Fredericksburg. He was not a native of this town\\nby birth, but by adoption. No more unassuming, no braver\\nman, than Lieut. Lewis, ever went out from among us.\\nWe lost a young man, loved and esteemed b}^ all who knew\\nhim, when Frank Hey wood died in the hospital at Bladens-\\nburg. An appropriate tribute was paid to his memory, in the\\nsteps that were taken by his fellow-townsman to bring him\\nback, and give him fitting burial among the friends he loved\\nso well.\\nJohn H. White, Jr., a young man much esteemed, was a\\nmember of the Chicago Mercantile Battery, and died of a se.\\nvere wound received at the siege of Vicksburg. Lieut. Hum-\\nphrey was killed in the recent battles before Petersburg\\nCorporal Kent was killed by a sharpshooter, the day after the\\ngreat battle at Gettysburg Corporal Young died of fever\\ncontracted on the Chickahominy Corporal Jones was shot at\\nSpottsylvania J. K. Hodge fell at the Wilderness; Fred In-\\ngerson died of fearful wounds received at Fort Wagner; Gran-\\nnis fell dead in his tent, from sudden disease Kane returned\\nto meet with kind nursing at the hands of friends, and Sum-\\nmers, Wentworth, Savage, Wilder, the Alden boys, the Mc-\\nCafi reys, Grey, Morse, Douglass and Thomas, breathed out\\ntheir lives away from home and friends, in the wards of army\\nhospitals. Of the cause of death of the others in the list, I\\nregret to sav that I am ignorant. Many of these departed\\n4", "height": "3285", "width": "1818", "jp2-path": "centennialcelebr00lanc_0057.jp2"}, "58": {"fulltext": "50\\nbraves were brought back, through the affectionate love of\\nrelatives and friends, and they now sleejD quietly in the church-\\nyard where they played when boys. Others have found burial\\nwhere they fell, or where they lay down from the weary\\nstruggle with wounds and disease; in each case, leaving be-\\nhind a record untarnished, and ennobled with the virtues that\\nmark the career of the volunteer soldier.\\nI may have omitted the names of some, but have gathered\\nsuch as I could, in the brief time I have had for preparation,\\nand present them here to-day, that they may receive as I\\nknow they will the warmest affection of every person here\\ncongregated.\\nI welcome here to-day all the friends from abroad who have\\ngathered together on this occasion. I sincerely hope that the\\nexpectations that have induced them to undertake the long\\njourneys that many of them have made may be fully realized.\\nI trust that the day may be one of pleasant incidents as it\\npasses, and of pleasant remembrances hereafter and I trust\\nthat, as we recall this day at Lancaster, amid the scenes of our\\nearlier life, we may cherish, with fondest memory and the\\nkindest and most undying regard, the names of those brave,\\nloyal, and patriotic sons of our town, who went out from\\namong us, and have laid down their lives upon the altar of\\ntheir country, that we may enjoy, in common with the country\\nat large, the peace that smiles upon this State and upon this\\ncommunity to-day. (Loud applause.)\\nThe President. I do not mean to say, ladies and gentle-\\nmen, that Lancaster has ever felt very materially any of its\\ngreat losses, because its resources have been so unbounded.\\nIt has, however, been quite a custom in times past, for inquir-\\ning young men, and also, sometimes, for sober, serious and\\ndisconsolate older ones, to make pilgrimages to our mountains,\\nto recuperate their health and restore their spirits. They\\noften came to Lancaster for relief, and, for a spiritual medi-\\ncine, carry off our daughters, to adorn other homes, in other\\nStates. I have seen here to-day one of these fortunate men\\nfrom Massachusetts, a valued acquaintance and friend of mine\\nfor some years. If Mr. Ezra C. Hutchins is in the audience,\\nI would like to ask him what sentiment he cherishes for the", "height": "3285", "width": "1818", "jp2-path": "centennialcelebr00lanc_0058.jp2"}, "59": {"fulltext": "51\\ntown of Lancaster, the bii-th-place of liis better half? I know\\nhe has very happy feelings and a most thankful disiDOsition\\nconcerning us. I will venture to say he is a very fortunate\\nman, and must know it. (Laughter.)\\nMr. HuTCHiNS sent up the following toast May the daugh-\\nters of Lancaster be found as lovely in the future as they have\\nbeen in the past.\\nFourth regular toast\\nOur Common Country. While we gather here to celebrate\\nthe hundredth birth-day of our goodly town, let us remember\\nthe glorious history of that common country throughout\\nwhos^ limits our homes are scattered. May treason and re.\\nbellion meet the reward they merit. May a restored Union and\\nthe enforcement of the constitution and the laws, soon mark\\nthe end of this unhappy struggle which ambitious and wicked\\nmen have forced upon the country.\\nThe President. I have been requested to call upon Daniel\\nC, PiNKHAM, Esq., to respond to this toast.\\nLi the necessary absence of Mr. Pinkham, the next senti-\\nment was announced by the toast-master\\nThe Ancient Fraternity. Almost co-existent with the settle-\\nment of the *town is the date of the old Lodge, represented\\nher to-day. To it and to the Commandery we give a cordial\\nwelcome, remembering that their history is so interwoven\\nwith the history of the town and the acts of its settlers as to\\nalmost make them identical. The institution has merited well\\nat our hands. May it flourish an honor to the principles\\nwhich underlie its existence.\\nCol. Kent. I will call upon Sir Knight Jared I. Williams\\nto i-espond to that sentiment. He was early connected with\\nthe revival of the Order in this town, and it is as much in-\\ndebted to him as to any person for its present flourishing\\ncondition.\\nSPEECH OP SIR KNIGHT J. I. WILLIAMS.\\nI could wish, sir, that some older member of the Fraternity,\\nsome one better versed in its history, and whoso eloquence\\nwould do better justice to it than any words of mine, had", "height": "3285", "width": "1818", "jp2-path": "centennialcelebr00lanc_0059.jp2"}, "60": {"fulltext": "52\\nbeen designated to respond to this sentiment but as I make\\nit a rule never to shrink from trying, at least, to do my part,\\nI will say a few words.\\nIn 1797, 1 think, authority was given to Mr. John Weeks\\nand associates to establish North Star Lodge. From that\\ntime down to the Morgan excitement, the Lodge worked on,\\nwith that varying fortune that marks all human institutions\\nsometimes meeting with a high degree of pi^osperity, and at\\nother times sinking to a very low state. At that time, when\\nunprincipled politicians then, as always, ready to seize upon\\nany thing to accomplish their ends grasped at the alleged ab-\\nduction of a worthless citizen to raise an outcry against the\\nOrder, the lodge languished, and finally the charter was re-\\nturned to the Grand Lodge, where it remained until 1852,\\nwhen Dr. Eliphalet Lyman procured its restoration. Since\\nthen it has prospered to a great degree, and now numbers\\nsome hundred and fifty members. What we have accom-\\nplished for the good of the town, how far our lessons of love\\nand kindness taught in the lodge have gone toward uniting\\nthe people of this town, will only be known when the last\\nrecords are made up, and we all stand before our Master and\\nwait his final inspection. This much we know, ^hat the hon-\\nored names of those who have presided over us, and who have\\nassisted us in all our undertakings, are those of our most re-\\nspected citizens men of worth, whose names are suflicient\\nvouchers that we have been engaged in nothing wrong, but\\nthat we have always wrought for the best interests of our na-\\ntive town. The names of Weeks, and. Savage, and Wilson,\\nand Chapman, and others familiar to the older citizens of this\\ntown, are good sureties for our well meaning, and, I think, for\\nour good conduct. To-day we have met together and can-ied\\nbefore you the banner of the knights of old, the emblem of\\nour Order. With pleasure we have done it; and we hope it\\nhas reminded you, as it ever reminds us, that in our course\\nof life the cross of our blessed Saviour should be our only\\nguide.\\nI would here remind my brother masons that this is the\\nfirst time that we have been called out on an occasion of fes-\\ntivity. Our meetings have been generally those of sorrow", "height": "3285", "width": "1818", "jp2-path": "centennialcelebr00lanc_0060.jp2"}, "61": {"fulltext": "53\\nand mourning. Soon after the restoration of our Lodge we\\nwere called to lay the remains of Dr. Lyman in the silent\\ntomb, and pay to them the last sad honors which were denied\\nby his kindred. We recorded his virtues upon our records,\\nand threw over his frailties the mantle of Masonic charity.\\nSince then we have been called upon to bury many of our\\nmost influential members. I was struck with the mention, by\\nthe Marshal, of Col. Cross, Lieut. Lewis and others, who have\\nfallen in this civil war, and whom we have laid in the grave.\\nEut, citizens of Lancaster, as we joyously assist you on this\\noccasion, so we ask you to assist us with your smiles and your\\nencouragement, that our Masonic trowels may be more efficient\\nin spreading the cement of love and union j that our Masonic\\nswords may be sharper to smite asunder the arrows of temp-\\ntation, and that our armor may be proof against them.\\nThe next regular toast was then read, as follows\\nThe Volunteer Army. The world never saw a more magnifi-\\ncent army than the volunteer force of the United States. All\\ngood citizens, they sprang to arms, to sustain the government\\nthat protected them. When the war shall favorably end, we\\nshall welcome the members to their usual avocations; ever\\nremembering the services they rendered in times of danger.\\nCaptain F. M. Erodes, formerly of the 14th N. II. Vols.,\\nwas called upon to respond to this sentiment, but did not come\\nforward.\\nSeventh regular toast\\nThe Federal Navy. Grown to dimensions unequalled in the\\nnaval records of the world, the modest bravery of its officers\\nand sailors is as marked as its recognized supremacy. In the\\ndark days presaging open war, not a sailor was false to his al-\\nlegiance. We recognize in the recent combat of the Kear-\\nsarge with the pirate Alabama an earnest of the result that\\nmust always follow a fair fight. The victorious vessel, built\\nin a New-Hampshire port, named for a New-Hampshire moun-\\ntain, and partially under the command of a descendant of the\\nold Eevolutionary stock of the State (Thornton), will be re-\\nmembered in history along with the old Constitution. The", "height": "3285", "width": "1818", "jp2-path": "centennialcelebr00lanc_0061.jp2"}, "62": {"fulltext": "54\\ncrews of other vessels only require a similar opportunity to do\\nequally effective service.\\nCol. Kent. I desire to call upon a son of Lancaster to re-\\nspond to that toast; a young man whose bravery is only\\nequalled by his modesty Avho has gone through the several\\ngradations in the navy, until he now holds the honorable posi-\\ntion of Lieutenant. I refer to Alfred T. Snell, late of the\\nship Lancaster.\\nThe President. I happen to know something of the man-\\nner in which Lieut. Suell has performed his duties, and it has\\nbeen so creditable that I am sure his name will be written\\namong the honored sons of the town.\\nLieut. Snell having left the bower, Col. Kent said\\nI desire to call for a toast from an old and respected citizen,\\nwhose long and honorable career has been without spot or\\nblemish; whose descendants -have sprang up around him, and\\nwhom we all rejoice to see here to-day. I allude to Col. John\\nH. White. Will he flivor us with a sentiment, or some re-\\nmarks\\nCol. White said he had no speech to make, but he would\\noffer as a sentiment\\nLancaster as it was one hundred years ago, a howling wil-\\nderness, now blossoming like the rose. Never need a son look\\nbeyond his own town to find anything surpassing the sublime\\nbeauty of its scenery.\\nEighth regular toast\\nThe Churches and the Sabbath Schools. We hail, as an omen\\nfraught with pleasing results, the cordial commingling of\\nchurches and sabbath schools on this occasion. It is eminently\\nfitting that we should cast aside, on occasions like this, all dis-\\ntinctive badges and societies, and unite as the followers and\\nbelievers of one God, in celebrating the anniversary of a town\\nwhere all have enjoyed freedom of conscience, and grown to\\nthe stature of manhood under his impartial protection. May\\nit mark an era of genuine good feeling among different\\nchurches and sects; among whom no contention should ever\\nexist, except that noble contention, oi rather, emulation, who\\ncan best serve our common Benefactor.", "height": "3285", "width": "1818", "jp2-path": "centennialcelebr00lanc_0062.jp2"}, "63": {"fulltext": "55\\nTo this toast there was no response, and the next was read\\nas follows\\nThe early Settlers of our Town. Surrounded by all the com-\\nforts of life, we shall do well to reflect upon the sterling vigor\\nof those men who tamed the wilderness, and those women\\nwho, by their patient endurance and cheering assistance, en-\\ncouraged them in the pioneers career. Undergoing the hard-\\nships incident to a new settlement; situated far in the forests\\nin fact a very outpost of civilization their steady effort over-\\ncame all obstacles, until we to-day are reaping the rich fruit\\nof their planting. Their descendants have in all cases done\\nhonor to the stock from whence they sprung, and they may\\nwell refer to-day, with pardonable pride, to the labors of their\\nancestors.\\nSPEECH OP REV. WM. R. JOYSLIN, OF BERLIN, VT.\\nMr. President, Ladles and Gentlemen I thank you for the\\ninvitation to respond to this toast. I am one of those who\\nrevere age, and it is exceedingly pleasant to me, when I come\\nback here, to see so many reverend and revered meii and\\nwomen, who have given character to our town. The earliest\\nsettlers have passed off the stage. Stockwell, Buckman,\\nSpaulding they have passed off, as individuals, from the\\nstage of action, but their descendants remain and this town,\\nin the families of the Spauldiugs, the Savages, the Stockwells,\\nthe Weekses, and their descendants, directly and indirectly,\\nwith their comfortable homes, attests the character of those\\nsettlers. They were industrious, thrifty, sturcfy men, and\\nthey gave character and life to this town. Their descendants\\nare of the same class, and we know as we look abroad over\\nour community that they are its bone and sinew. Our\\nfathers endured stern hardships and jDrivations. Mr. Edwai-d\\nSpaulding, who settled upon the hill, was brought here in the\\narms of his mother the first infant brought to this town.\\nMany came from Massachusetts, as we have heard. They\\ncame into the wilderness and laid the foundations upon which\\nour prosperity has been built up. Among other things and\\nit may become me to speak of it, my friends they brought", "height": "3285", "width": "1818", "jp2-path": "centennialcelebr00lanc_0063.jp2"}, "64": {"fulltext": "56\\nwith them and established the Gospel and its institutions.\\nThe early settlers reared the old meeting-house, and there the\\nfamilies gathered in those pews every pew representing a\\nfamil}^; and thus the people of this town were brought\\ntogether in a bond of religious and spiritual union a union\\nthat will outlast all other unions. Our stability, my friends,\\nis in following the example that Jias been exhibited by the\\nlives and the actions of the early settlers; holding fast to the\\ntruth, building upon the foundations that they laid, and stand-\\ning by the principles that have been committed to us by a\\nchristian and pious ancestry. I believe that in this rests our\\nstrength, and that by this we shall conquer.\\nMay we, my friends, be as faithful in our day and genera-\\ntion those who are coming upon the stage and those who\\nare now in middle life as the early settlers of this town;\\nand may the prosperity of this town henceforth be an honor\\nto us, as it has been an honor to them. May we all stand in\\nthe principles that were left tons, and be a united and a happy\\npeople.\\nCol. Kent. In this connection, I will read a communica-\\ntion that has been received from Judge WooDRurr, of Ohio,\\nwhose wife, as you all know, is the daughter of Hon. John H.\\nWhite, of this town.\\nMr. Preside7it Having some years since become allied to\\nthe ancient and honorable family of the Whites, who have\\nlong lived within view of the White Mountains of New-Hamp-\\nshire, and a branch of which I took the liberty of transplant-\\ning into the genial soil of Ohio, may I be allowed the privilege\\nof addressing a few words to this intelligent assembly upon\\nso interesting an occasion.\\nA hundred years, to our finite minds, occupies an immense\\nspace of time, and yet how short compared with the thousands\\nthat have passed, or with the countless ages 3-et to come. In\\nthis short space of a centurj howevei the close of which you\\nhave met to commemorate, Avhat momentous events have\\ntranspired. Nations have risen and fallen the fixce of the\\nmoral, and indeed of the religious and political world, has\\nassumed many varied aspects; the march of mind has been", "height": "3285", "width": "1818", "jp2-path": "centennialcelebr00lanc_0064.jp2"}, "65": {"fulltext": "57\\nmore rapid in that period than in any other ten centuries.\\nNeed I nieution the wonderful application of steam to all the\\ndepartments of commerce, agriculture and manufactures, and\\nto the art of printing, and the art of war; or the mysterious\\noperations of the magnetic telegraph, and the thousand other\\ninventions and improvements which have with magic speed\\ndarted into being\\nLook at this beautiful valley in which you are now assem-\\nbled. Many of you yet living have seen the Indian canoe\\ngliding silently and rapidly upon the smooth surface of this\\nbeautiful stream (the Connecticut). Some sought homes\\namong these granite hills almost at the beginning of the cen-\\nturj^ you celebrate, bringing with you your wives and children\\nto a then cold and cheerless home. Now, how changed the\\nscene Smiling landscapes, enlivened on all sides by neat and\\nthrifty villages, manufacturing towns and well-worked farms,\\nall brought into such close proximity with the milder climates\\nof the country, that what nature has denied to you in the way\\nof tropical luxuries, is now brought within your daily reach,\\nleaving you still in the enjoyment of the bracing air and fer-\\ntile soil of your mountains and valleys.\\nWhat a happy people we ought to be surrounded in all\\nparts of our country with such unnumbered blessings as the\\nGod of Providence has provided for us Yet how undeserv-\\ning Instead of a united and a prosperous country, we have,\\nthrough the infernal spirits which infest the land, become dis-\\ntracted, and our soil deluged in blood. But, thanks to God,\\nthere is a spirit yet prevalent among the people, which, by\\nhis aid, will send these hellish influences down, down, to the\\ninfernal pit from whence they came, and the American eagle\\nwill yet soar triumphantly through the skies, bidding defiance\\nto these powei-s of darkness that would pull down the fair\\nfabric of Liberty, reared by our immortal ancestors.\\nCol. Kent continued Several other toasts have been\\nhanded in by various parties during the day, to which no per-\\nson has been assigned to respond. I will read them now\\nBy Nathaniel Wilson, Esq., the first Preceptor of the Acad-\\nemy, of Orono, Me.\\nLancaster. In the grandeur and beauty of her natural", "height": "3285", "width": "1818", "jp2-path": "centennialcelebr00lanc_0065.jp2"}, "66": {"fulltext": "58\\nscenery, unrivfiled but, in her social relations more notable\\nmore truly beautiful. As her generations in the past century\\n\u00e2\u0096\u00a0were distinguished in all the elements that constitute an intel-\\nligent and virtuous community, may the present and the\\nfuture rival the past.\\nBy Rev. John Lovejo} the chaplain designated for the occa-\\nsion, who, much to our regret, is unable to be with us to-day\\nLancaster. Beautiful for situation the joy of all resident\\nand absent citizens. Surrounded by the Mountains of God,\\nmay her love for liberty, education, religion, and religious\\ninstitutions be as permanent as the White Mountains.\\nThe United States. The most glorious, the happiest, the\\nmost magnificent dwelling for men on earth. Its disunion is\\nsought by worthless men. Let the language of every loyal\\nheai t be, The Union must and shall be preserved. May\\nthe eternal God be its refuge, and underneath, the everlasting\\narms.\\nThe Ladies. No celebration is complete without the pres-\\nence of the ladies. At this time we welcome them with pecu-\\nliar pleasure. We attribute the present position of the town,\\nin wealth, culture, and influence, to the force of their example\\nand the effect of their labors. While we cherish with the\\nwarmest affection the name of the town of our youth, we can\\nnever forget the dear ones that have made and still render it\\ndoubly dear.\\nThe Committees of the Occasion. Better labor was never\\nmore cheerfully rendered than that by our men, matrons, and\\nmaids, in prej)aring this enthusiastic welcome to the old home.\\nMay the efforts they have shown in our behalf bear abundant\\nfruit in the harvest of pleasant recollections that will spring\\nfrom the seed here planted.\\nThe Citizens generally. From the farm, the office, the shop,\\nand the countei-, the people have come up to enjoy this day s\\nfestivity. As we glance over the luxuriant fields and among\\nthe evidences of prosperity that surround us, we may well", "height": "3285", "width": "1818", "jp2-path": "centennialcelebr00lanc_0066.jp2"}, "67": {"fulltext": "59\\nLave reason for a day s festive congratulation on the peaceful\\nprogress that has passed over the happy valley. During long\\nyears to come, may we, the people of this good old town,\\ndwell in harmony, peace, and plenty striving for the common\\ngood, and diffusing influences that shall endure long after they\\nhave lain down to sleep beneath the shade of the hills that\\nsmiled over their cradle.\\nThe Sons and Daughters of Lancaster. May those of them\\nwho have left their homes, honor their native town by their\\ndeeds as much as she has honored them in their birth.\\nI hold in my hand a letter from a gentleman, not a citizen\\nof Lancaster, but a native of the county, who has honored it\\non many a battle-field. I allude to Maj. Gen. John G. Foster,\\na native of Whitefield\\nBaltimore, Md., April 3, 1864.\\nCoL. Henry O. Kent, Marshal-in- Chief\\nDear Sir: I have the honor to acknowledge the receipt of\\nyour note of the 28th ult., and beg you to accept my thanks\\nfor your kindness.\\nIt would afford me great pleasure to be present at the cen-\\ntennial celebration at Lancaster, IST. H., on the 14th of July\\nnext, as I am a native of \\\\Yhitefield, Coos county. But I ]|ery\\nmuch fear that I shall be too much occupied at that time to\\nbe absent from my duties.\\nI have been off duty for several weeks from the effects of\\nan injury to my wounded leg, received in East Tennessee, and\\nwould hardly like to ask for leave of absence in July, which\\nwill probably be the busiest period of the coming campaign,\\nin which I hope to take an active part. Again accept my\\nthanks, and believe me, very truly yours,\\nJ. G. FOSTER, Maj. Gen. Yols.\\nThe following note has been received from Ilis Excellency,\\nGov. Gilmore\\nState of New-Hampshire,\\nExecutive Department, j\\nConcord, July 0, 1SG4.\\nMy dear Col. I am in receipt of your ftivor of the 8th", "height": "3285", "width": "1818", "jp2-path": "centennialcelebr00lanc_0067.jp2"}, "68": {"fulltext": "60\\ninstant. I am sorry to inform you that our Legislature will\\nsit all of next week, and it Avill be impossible for me to be at\\nLancaster on the 14th, which I most truly and sincerely regret.\\nI am, my dear Sir, your friend, very truly,\\nJ. A. GILMOEE.\\nCol. Henry O. Kent, Lancaster, N. H.\\nCol. Kent also read extracts from several other letters, from\\ngentlemen in various sections of the country, which will be\\nfound in fall in the Appendix.\\nThe President. My friends, we have had some disappoint-\\nments to-day, but I am sure we have had also considerable\\nhappiness. It is hardly pi oper for us to pass by, with a single\\nsentiment, the labors of the several committees here to-day.\\nThey have been so well performed, and in all respects are so\\ncreditable, that I think the children of Lancaster who reside\\nout of the town and the State ought to give them some special\\ncommendation. I therefore propose that the thanks of the\\nsons and daughters of Lancaster be given to the various com-\\nmittees of arrangements, for the highly satisfactory manner in\\nwhich they have discharged their duties. Those in favor of\\nthat proposition will say Aye. Aye Aye. Con-\\ntrary minded, No, [No response.] Every body is satisfied\\nwith those committees. (Applause.)\\nAnd now, my friends, it remains for us simply to congratu-\\nlate ourselves that we have had such a beautiful day. Provi-\\ndence has smiled upon this occasion in a pecuhar manner.\\nThere is much felicity in what has been siiid and done. It has\\nbeen clearly demonstrated to-day that the love and friendship\\nof the people of Lancaster are stronger than their politics and\\nparty spirit. Not one word has been uttei ed reflecting upon\\nany man or set of men under heaven. It a precious blessing,\\nand a cause of rejoicing, that there are still some occasions in\\nlife when we can meet in friendship and harmony. I trust\\nthat w hen we separate we may go with the right temper and\\nright feeling, and with a fixed determination that we will\\nhereafter do nothing which will reflect dishonor upon our\\nnative town that we shall go forth self-reliant, and with the\\nfirm purpose to accomplish whatever we undertake, as becomes", "height": "3285", "width": "1818", "jp2-path": "centennialcelebr00lanc_0068.jp2"}, "69": {"fulltext": "61\\nthe sons of Lancaster. I trust, too, that we shall be true to\\nourselves and the virtues of our fathers, and as often as we\\nremember them, renew the resolution that their posterity shall\\nnever be unworthy of them.\\nCol. Kent. My friends, this closes the exercises of the day.\\nA levee will be held at the town hall, this evening, which we\\nhope will be made one of the pleasant incidents of this occa-\\nsion by the presence of our friends from all pai-ts of the\\ncountry, and the interchange of cordial greetings and senti-\\nments of friendship. We hope to see you all to-night, and\\nthat you will extend this notice as much as j)ossible, that there\\nmay be a large attendance.\\nThis meeting stands adjourned until the 14th day of July,\\n1964. (Laughter and applause.)\\nThe President. Col. Kent will conduct the exercises on\\nthat occasion. (Eenewed laughter.)", "height": "3285", "width": "1818", "jp2-path": "centennialcelebr00lanc_0069.jp2"}, "70": {"fulltext": "62\\nLEVEE AT THE TOWN HALL.\\nThe festivities of this interesting occasion were fitly termin-\\nated by a levee in the evening, at the town hall the an-\\ncient meeting-house, the first erected in the town, and itself,\\ntherefore, a link between the present and the past which was\\ncrowded to overflowing by the residents of the town, and their\\nfriends from abroad. The hall was handsomely decorated\\nwith flags and wreaths of evergreen, while a magnificent\\nboquet, gigantesque in size, but arranged with exquisite taste,\\nhung over the platform, like the breath of Imogen, perfuming\\nthe room. The gathering was an informal one, and the prin-\\ncipal portion of the time was sj)ent in the exchange of friendly\\ngreetings and conversation, in which the reminiscences of the\\npast held a conspicuous place. Old friends, long parted by\\ntime, and widely separated by distance, here mef, to renew\\nonce more the intercourse of early years, and revive the pleas-\\nant memories of the past.\\nThe following songs, written for the occasion by Henry O.\\nKent, Esq., and Mrs. Mary B. C. Slade, were sung, in a spirited\\nand effective manner, by the Glee Club\\n1 In the grateful shade of our mountain home\\nA glad throng gathers to-day\\nTo welcome with joy to the old hearth-stone\\nCompanions so long away.\\n2 And list, mid our welcome resounding clear,\\nA plaintive strain from afar,\\nThat sweetly falls on our gathering here\\nThrough the list ning summer air.\\n3 The greeting of friends to the olden home,\\nNow rested from mortal strife\\nWhose spirits attend ye, as back ye come\\nTo haunts of their earthly life.\\n4 Warm is the greeting and strong the embrace\\nThat welcome ye home again\\nWhich bid ye forget the wearying race\\nThat led from this peaceful plain.", "height": "3285", "width": "1818", "jp2-path": "centennialcelebr00lanc_0070.jp2"}, "71": {"fulltext": "63\\n5 Eing the glad chorus full joj-ously out,\\nWhile the old, old tales are told\\nLet silvery laugh and echoing shout\\nProve hearts that have not grown cold.\\n6 Aye, the sturdy old town is glad to-day,\\nAs she welcomes home her own,\\nAnd her jocund smile is as blithe and gay\\nAs that of her j oungest born.\\n7 Ye have done her honor where er ye strove,\\nHer dead have been leal and true\\nThe pride of her sons and her daughters love\\nBeen pure as our mountains snow.\\n8 Let us strengthen hero this union of ours,\\nNear the graves of loved ones gone;\\nKenevv at this altar our youthful vows.\\nAnd cheerfully journey on.\\nWELCOME HOME.\\n1 Mountain winds and singing waters\\nSound our old home s gladsome strain\\nClimb the hills, my Sons and Daughters\\nWelcome, welcome home again\\nClimb the hills, my Sons and Daughters\\nWelcome, welcome home again\\nClimb the hills, my Sons and Daughters\\nWelcome, welcome home again\\n2 Haste from prairie, lake and ocean\\nFrom the crowded cities come.\\nAnd afar from war s commotion.\\nSoldiers, brothers, welcome home\\n3 Come, unseen ones, at our calling,\\nWho, our glory and our loss.\\nNobly fought, as nobly felling.\\nWith the brave and gallant Ckoss\\n4 Lovely spot, sweet home of beauty.\\nOn her birth-day bright and clear,\\nAt the call of love and duty.\\nAll shall find a welcome here.", "height": "3285", "width": "1818", "jp2-path": "centennialcelebr00lanc_0071.jp2"}, "72": {"fulltext": "64\\n5 Crown witli love each joyous hour,\\nWrite each name so dear to her\\nOn the hundred petaled flower,\\nSweet wild rose of Lancaster\\nIll the course of tlie evening, Albert Holton, Esq., of Ban-\\ngor, proposed that the natives of Lancaster, now resident\\nabroad, should purchase the field where the dinner had been\\ngiven, iind present it to the town for a public common, as a\\nmemorial of their affection for the place of their birth. The\\nproposition was heartily seconded by Nathaniel Wilson, Esq.,\\nof Orono, Me., and J. B, Beoavn, Esq., of Portland, A sub-\\nscription paper was drawn up, and considerable progress made\\nin obtaining the requisite amount. A resolution was also\\npassed authorizing Col. Kent to procure all available statistics\\nin regard to the history of the town, to be printed with the\\naccount of the celebration.\\nAt 10 J o clock the company separated, (the band playing\\nHome, Sweet Home to seek their several homes, their souls\\nstrengthened, and their hearts inspired, we trust, by the events\\nof the day, and a store of fragrant memories treasured up for\\nthe years that are to come.\\nAs a matter for future reference in this connection, we insert\\nthe names of those officials who were present, and acted on\\nthe occasion.\\nPresident David H. Mason, Boston, Mass.\\nVice Presidents Nathaniel White, Concord; John B.\\nBrown, Portland, Me.; L. C. Porter, St. Johnsbury, Yt. Ed-\\nward D. Holton, Milwaukee, Wis.; Nathaniel Wilson, Orono,\\nMe. Spencer Clark, Lunenburg, Yt. John W. Lovejoy, Hat-\\nfield, Mass. Pteuben G. Freeman, Guildhall, Yt. Charles Baker,\\nRoyal Joyslin, J. E. Stickney, Horace Whitcomb, Allen Smith,\\nWm. Lovejoy, Seth Savage, Wm. Holkins, Wm. Burns, Doug-\\nlass Spaulding, Emmons Stockwell, Warren Porter, Amos Le-\\ngro, Porter G. Freeman, Joseph Howe, John H. White, Benj.\\nHunking, Turner Stephenson, J. W. Williams, James W.\\nWeeks, Ephraim Cross, Charles D. Stebbins, Richard P. Kent,\\nSamuel Mclntire, Gilman Wilder, Ephraim Stockwell, Beniah\\nColby, Daniel Stebbins, Wm. Moore, Lancaster.", "height": "3285", "width": "1818", "jp2-path": "centennialcelebr00lanc_0072.jp2"}, "73": {"fulltext": "65\\nCommittee of Arrangements J. W. Barney, Wm. E.\\nStockwell, J. I. Williams, Samuel H. Legro, Edward Savage,\\nH. J. Whiteomb, E. E. Kent.\\nMarshal-in-Chiep Henry O. Kent.\\nAids to the Marshal Levi B. Joyslin, Edward E. Kent,\\nIra S. M. Gove, Frank Smith, Loren B. Porter, Chapin C.\\nBrooks, Wm. C. Spaulding, Oscar F. Bothel, H. G. Hodgdon,\\nn. F. Whitcomb, Sylvanus Chesman, Wm. Warren, James S.\\nBrackett, E. D. Stock well, G. H. Emerson, Philastus Eastman,\\nFred. H. Colby.\\nSpecial Marshal for Sabbath Schools Harvey Adams.\\nAssistants Joseph C. Marshall, Seneca Congdon, Geo. M.\\nSmith, Albert T. Johnson, C. M. Winchester.\\nIn the absence of the Orator selected Wm. H. Farrar, of\\nOregon addresses were delivered by David H. Mason, of Bos-\\nton, Mass, and Edward D. Holton, of Milwaukee, Wis.\\nChaplain Kev. David Perry, of Brookfield, Yt.\\nToast-Masters The President and Marshal-in-Chief.\\nEeader of the Charter Ossian Eay.\\nCommittee on Dinner Frederick Fisk, E. E. Kent, A. H.\\nAspinwall, G. H. Watson, W. F. Smith, C. E. Allen, G. 0.\\nEogers, H. J. Whitcomb, L. B. Porter, E. Spaulding, J. B.\\nMoore, W. D. Weeks, J. Moore, E. L. Hodgdon, W. J. Harri-\\nman, Chas. W. Hodgdon, Francis H. Wentworth, Alonzo P.\\nFreeman, Dudley IN Hodgdon, 2d, Barton G. Towne, James\\nLegro, Hiram Savage, John W. Spaulding, J. W. Savage, O. F.\\nBothel, Warren Marden, E. G. Kimball, Joseph Colby, Zeb.\\nTwitchell J. S. Brackett, Geo. W. Webster, S. H. Legro, C. D.\\nAllen, Chas. Mclntire, JSTelson Kent, William Darby, C. B.\\nAllen, Wm. L. Kowell, B. F. Hunking, L. F. Moore, W. H.\\nClarke, J. C. Marshall, George Cotton, Nelson Sparks, John E.\\nField, and their wives Horace Spaulding, Henry Webb, and\\ntheir sisters; Geo. S. Stockwell, Phineas E. Hodgdon, Miss Ee-\\nbecca Colby and Miss Abigail Colby.\\n5", "height": "3285", "width": "1818", "jp2-path": "centennialcelebr00lanc_0073.jp2"}, "74": {"fulltext": "APPENDIX.\\nExecutive Department,\\nBoston, June 27th, 1864.\\nHenry 0. Kent, Esq., Marshal-in-Chief, c., c.\\nMy dear Sir I am very glad to believe that nothing will\\ninterfere to prevent me from accepting, now, your very kind\\nand cordial invitation to attend at the Centennial Celebration\\nat Lancaster, on the 14th. A sight of the beautiful region of\\nNorthern New-Hampshire will be far more refreshing to me\\nin this summer heat than any thing I can do or say there can\\nbe to your good people, and I anticipate great pleasure from\\nray visit.\\nI am, very truly, your friend and servant,\\nJohn A. Andrew.\\nLebanon, July 11, 1864.\\nFriend Kent: 1 have cherished the hope that I should be\\nable to attend your Centennial Celebration this week, in com-\\npliance with your kind invitation; but I am compelled to\\nabandon the idea, and to say I can not come.\\nThe celebration is to be a home affair, and, strictly speak-\\ning, I have no business there. The sons and daughters of\\ngood old Lancaster are invited home, to exchange friendly\\ngreetings, to look once more upon the beautiful river and those\\ngrand old mountains, to revive the memories of their common\\nbirth-place, and review their family records.\\nSuch a meeting can not fail to be both joyous and sad. It\\nwill bring to mind the days of childhood, and many -pleasing", "height": "3285", "width": "1818", "jp2-path": "centennialcelebr00lanc_0074.jp2"}, "75": {"fulltext": "67\\nassociations that cling around tbe dear familiar places. Mem-\\nory will unfold many forgotten scenes, and the forms of dear\\nones gone will be mentally photographed, even upon their\\ntomb-stones.\\nThe influences of such a meeting are pure and holy. They\\nappeal to the tenderest emotions and sympathies of human\\nnature, and subdue unworthy passions. They suggest the\\nidea of mutability, and forcibly admonish us that this is not\\nour abiding place. They teach the doctrine of brotherly\\nlove of honor and fidelity. They smooth the rugged way\\nof life lighten its burdens, and elevate the soul in all its\\nmoral and social attributes.\\nThe century which Lancaster has lived has been one of the\\nmost remarkable centuries. Our loved Eepublic had its be-\\nginning soon after it was ushered in. It includes the history\\nof this young and vigorous nation its noble youth, its demo-\\ncratic sentiments, its rapid growth in population, in material\\nwealth, in learning, in art, in religion indeed, in all the ele-\\nments of true national greatness. The century closes in the\\nmidst of a great struggle for national existence. The Repub-\\nlic is in danger Twenty millions of free people are auda-\\nciously challenged by traitors to yield up their liberty, their\\ngovernment, and their property. It loill not he done. The na-\\ntion will live and treason will die Let us have undoubting\\nfaith that the same hand of Providence which led our fathers\\nthrough the Revolution, will lead us safely through this strug-\\ngle, and that our nation will rise from this terrible ordeal to\\npurer and more exalted life and that, many centuries hence,\\nour descendants, while honoring the patriotic dead, may cele-\\nbrate the glories of a united, regenerated, free and prosperous\\ncountry.\\nTruly yours,\\nA. H. Cragin.", "height": "3285", "width": "1818", "jp2-path": "centennialcelebr00lanc_0075.jp2"}, "76": {"fulltext": "68\\nCincinnati, O., April 21, 1864.\\nEdward Savage, Esq. Sir I have just received the invita-\\ntion of your Committee of Arrangements.\\nShould I not be so favored as to be present, permit me to ex-\\npress the hope that all things will be done so decently\\nand in such order, that every member of the vast congre-\\ngation assembled may realize his highest expectations, while\\nno one will do or see done any act, which, dying, he could\\nwish to blot.\\nPlease to accept, sir, for yourself and all the other members\\nof your committee, the assurance of the high consideration of\\nyours.\\nVery respectfully,\\nA. Curtis.\\nCincinnati, May 1, 1864.\\nEdward Savage, Esq., Secretary, c. Sir Your circular of\\ninvitation to attend the Centennial Anniversary of the settle-\\nment of Lancaster, is received. The call for 30,000 one hun-\\ndred days men for garrison duty, the impending draft for\\n18,000 men for the field, and my own small affairs, will not\\npermit me to be with you on that occasion, but they do per-\\nmit me to send you my estimate of good old Coos, her work,\\nher spirit, and her children.\\nSuch a spirit makes the land of Adams and Webster the\\ncynosure of the Eepublic. The dawn of such light should be\\ncelebrated the heralds of those ideas deserve lasting remem-\\nbrance lives pervaded by such conceptions are worthy of\\neulogy. This spirit is the normal mental atmosphere of New-\\nEngland. It is genial to symmetrical culture. It fosters the\\nharmonious growth of the soul. It grows human beings as\\nour beautiful valley does the pine.\\nThe true child of Coos has no superstition, no license, no\\nlash, no fatality, no antiquity, but is a rational force, armed\\nwith multitudinous facts, exhaustive conceptions and compre-", "height": "3285", "width": "1818", "jp2-path": "centennialcelebr00lanc_0076.jp2"}, "77": {"fulltext": "69\\nhensive principles j guided by personal neatness, attractive\\nmanners, elocutionary correctness, grammatical accuracy,\\nrhetorical purity, logical consistency and philosophical insight,\\nand ruled by temperate aj)petites, innocent pleasures, warm\\naffections, varied utilities, solid virtues, charming tastes, and\\nexalted piety.\\nEespectfully,\\nE. H. Stockwell.\\nFennimore, Grant Co., Wis., June 19, 1864.\\nW. Berry, J. I. Williams, and others, Committee of Arrange-\\nments.\\nGentlemen Your very kind invitation to be present at\\nthe Centennial Celebration of the settlement of Lancaster,\\nwas received in due time. It is now nearly twenty years\\nsince I left Lancaster, the place of my nativity; but the pleas-\\ning recollection of my boyhood days my old playmates, who\\nused to roam with me over the beautiful hills and mountains\\nof our native land, breathing the pure and bracing air which\\nsurrounded them my class-mates in school, who used to vie\\nwith each other in the pursuit of knowledge under diflficul-\\nties the spelling-school, which broke the monotony of day\\nschool life by the trial of who should spell down the so-\\ncial evening party, the domestic fireside, the many relatives\\nand friends who did then, and do still there reside, these.\\nand. many other pleasing reminiscences, will never be forgot-\\nten. They are stamped indelibly upon the page of memory.\\nBut where are the old pioneers of this, our native land the\\nfounders of this town, whom we all so much admire and love\\nThey are all gone. Peace to their ashes May their industry\\nand their many virtues be imitated by those who are now\\ncarrying on the work of improvement they so nobly begun,\\nand which I trust will bo continued in the future, until the\\nnative and adopted sons and daughters of Lancaster shall be\\nable to say, We have the prettiest village, the best cultivated\\nfarms, the most virtuous, intelligent and industrioiis inhabit-", "height": "3285", "width": "1818", "jp2-path": "centennialcelebr00lanc_0077.jp2"}, "78": {"fulltext": "70\\nants of any town wbicli nestles among the Granite Hills of\\nNew-Hampshire, or even in New-England.\\nTrusting that your Celebration may prove an entire success,\\nI will conclude with this sentiment\\nThe native and adopted Sons and Daughters of Lancaster,\\nrepresentatives of nearly every State and Territory in the Union\\nMay their influence be felt throughout the length and breadth\\nof the land, in aiding the Government to crush out this ac-\\ncursed and wicked rebellion, and establish the Eepublic upon\\na permanent foundation a foundation, the corner-stone of\\nwhich shall be freedom to all within her borders.\\nWm. W. Field.\\nChicago, June 22, 1864.\\nEdward Savage, Esq., Lancaster, N H., Secretary of Committee\\non Centennial Celebration.\\nSir My attention has been called to the celebration in my\\nnative town, of its One Hundredth Anniversary, on the 14th\\nJuly proximo, and nothing would give me more pleasure than\\nto be present; on that occasion.\\nI was born in Lancaster, Nov. 11, A. D. 1825; my family\\nmoved into Vermont, however, when I was four years of age,\\nsince which time I have not known much of the land of my\\nnativity; but I have always felt proud of originating in a\\nland where sometimes it is bleak and dreary, but the hearts\\nof its people are always warm, and noted, the world over, for\\ngenuine hospitality and I have yet to learn of the first man\\nwho has not always felt a pride in being a son of New-Hamp-\\nshire. It will always be a pleasure to me to hear from any of\\nyou, and to strike hands with old Coos.\\nFraternally yours, John E. Haynes.\\nChicago, HI., July 7, 1864.\\nMessrs. John W. Barney, J. L Williams, Wm. B. Stockwell, and\\nothers, Committee, c.\\nGentlemen Until within a very brief time I have confi-\\ndently calculated on being with you, and joining in the exer-", "height": "3285", "width": "1818", "jp2-path": "centennialcelebr00lanc_0078.jp2"}, "79": {"fulltext": "71\\ncises of your Centennial Celebration, to which I acknowledge\\nyour kindly bidding, and for which I thank you but Time,\\nthe thief, has got ahead of me, and my business engage-\\nments will not permit me that satisfaction.\\nNot being able to attend, I join with a very considerable\\nnumber of natives of old Cohos, and not a few of the town\\nand village of Lancaster, who have located here beside the\\nbright waters of Lake Michigan, in sending you greeting, and\\nwishing for you all auspicious circumstances that ever wait\\non such celebrations,\\nand pleasure,\\nWithout stint or measure.\\nW,e beg to assure you that we do not, never can, and never\\nicill, forget the grand old mountains, the bright valleys, pure\\nstreams, and fair lakes of our native State, though far away;\\nnor the clinging recollections of childhood, youth, and early\\nmanhood nor, dearer than all, the old folks and young folks,\\nleft in our good old homes. Few will ever return, but to\\nmost of us there is no brighter spot on earth than the Con-\\nnecticut valley through Coos, and no lovelier village than\\nLancaster, nestled down beside its two rivers and among the\\nmountains.\\nAgain wishing you a good time generally, I send you as my\\npersonal rejjresentative the following\\nFor more than a himdred hundred years,\\nMay Lancaster echo the hearty cheers\\nOf freemen, true to a freeman s vow,\\nThat our country shall number a hundred States,\\nFrom the Land of Fin to Behring s straits,\\nAnd never a single one less than now.\\nThat our flag shall wave while the world revolves,\\nUpheld hy strong arms and firm resolves\\nThat living or dead we ll be\\nTrue to the trust by our fathers given.\\nTrue to our Flag, though battle riven,\\nTrue to our God and free\\nYours, very truly,\\nJ, W. Merriam.", "height": "3285", "width": "1818", "jp2-path": "centennialcelebr00lanc_0079.jp2"}, "80": {"fulltext": "72\\ny\\nBoston, July 10, 1864.\\nEdward Savage, Esq. Dear Sir It would give me great\\npleasure to be present at the Centennial Celebration of the\\nfirst settlement of my native town, to be held on the 14th\\ninstant, but circumstances over which I have no control pre-\\nvent me. The venerable faces of the\\npioneer settlers are now fresh in my recollection. The Pages,\\nStockwells, Bucknams, Brackets, Weekses, Spauldings, Love-\\njoys, Eastmans, Willards, Savages, Adamses, Stephensons,\\nMoores, Lyons, Willsona, Whites, Everetts, Farrars, and\\nothers to whom I was accustomed to bow with reverance,\\nwhere are they and where, in a few years, will be their de-\\nscendants now living, and those who shall assemble to com-\\nmemorate the Centennial of 1964 Echo answers, where\\nI trust the day of celebration may be propitious, and that\\nevery thing may pass off pleasantly. I shall be with you in\\nmind, though not in person.\\nIf you please, you may present at the festival the following\\nsentiment\\nThe rising generation of Lancaster. IMay they emulate their\\nancestors in prudence and industry, and, in virtue and knowl-\\nedge, excel them all.\\nMy own, my native land,\\nI love tliee still.\\nVery respectfully,\\nEdavard B. Moore, M. 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