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I could give you nanies of scores of these boys and girls, and show you, in the sterling record of their industrious, pros- perous, and honored lives, the "hall mark " of their school days in Framingham.
The result is the orderly, respectable, progressive com- munity that is the Framingham of today.
A town which through all its industrial and business development has maintained the character of its dignified past and well preserved the traditions of the older time.
You have largely developed from within by the prudent ventures of your own town folk.
Few communities have so distinctly preserved old family names in the front of business and municipal life.
Read the names of the men who were incorporated in 1700, and you are calling the roll of Thomas Drury's Company at Bunker Hill.
The sergeant's call of Framingham boys on every field from Bull Run to Petersburg is but an echo of the muster roll of the town in Queen Anne's War or the names on the registers of those district schools.
There were Rices, and Clayes, and Hemenways as select- men, and deacons, and town clerk in 1700, and you choose Rices, and Clayes, (now Cloyes) and Hemenways for select- men, and deacons, and town clerk in 1900.
I am embarassed with a rush of tender memories of the men and women of the generation I have known.
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I would like to take you into the town meetings of fifty years ago, and paint you pictures of Warren Nixon, and Joel Edmunds, and Swift Bennett, and Henry Richardson, and Joseph Fuller, and John Wenzell, and Charles Capen, and Jonathan Greenwood, and Moses Edgell, and George Phipps, and William Hastings, and Ebenezer Stone, and James W. Brown, men as prudent, as faithful, as honest in the manage- ment of municipal affairs as of their own business. They accepted public trusts for the public good and the duties modestly assumed were faithfully performed.
I would like to tell of the women of Framingham whose lives were a benediction to their generation. Goodly matrons who were the helpful leaders and gracious conservers of society, queens of hospitable homes, but earnest workers in deeds of mercy and charity. Their advice and co-operation was an inspiration and aid in all that made for the interest and improvement of the community.
Many of them sleep in the "God's Acre," their labors adorned, but their works do follow them, graven deep in the social and religious life of the town.
I could tell you of godly ministers who led their flocks with dignity and holy zeal ; of physicians as tender-hearted as they were skillful ; of lawyers of ready wit and eminent learning ; of soldiers who brought laurels home, or sleep on the fields of honor ; of men and women who have borne the Word of God to the islands of the east and west ; of a Christ- ian gentleman who opened the gates of China and ministered to sick body and sick soul ; of architects whose structures are models from Massachusetts to the Rockies ; of engineers who have constructed railroads and bridges from ocean to ocean ; of business men whose enterprise brought wealth with honors ; of farmers whose well-tilled fields were models in the school of agriculture ; of teachers, and scholars, and statesmen, and skilled artisans.
Men and women of today, you have beautified and adorned your ancient town. On every hand are monuments of your thrift and enterprise. You have appropriated to your use and comfort the appliances of modern art and science. You have opened wide the doors of schools of every grade. You have
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gathered a treasury of books on the shelves of your free library. You are liberal in deeds of mercy and charity. You minister through skilled physician and gentle-handed nurse to the sick within the cheerful walls of your hospital.
Peace is at thy wall and prosperity within thy gates.
But across the chasm of two hundred years comes the call of brave men in the wilderness of your heritage for still higher and nobler works in the vindication of the old idea, the triumph of which shall weave the gospel of faith in God and Love to man into the warp and woof of the life of Framingham.
Just as Mr. Hurd was introduced by the President of the Day, and was making some introductory remarks welcoming old friends and old faces, he noticed Senator George F. Hoar upon the platform, and said :
" It is my pleasure and I know the pleasure of all to see with us today the Senior Senator of Massachusetts. He is always welcome in Framingham, and we welcome him at this time, as a Concord boy. Concord is the elder sister of Framingham and we have always been proud to keep up the relationship. I know that you will be glad if I abbreviate my address so that we may have the opportunity to liear from Senator Hoar."
At the conclusion of Mr. Hurd's address, the President of the Day presented the Senator to the audience, by whom he was received with great enthusiasm.
THE PRESIDENT .- We have as one of our guests today the Senior Senator of this Commonwealth in Congress and I know that all present will be pleased to hear from him, and I have the pleasure of introducing as our next speaker the Hon. George F. Hoar of Worcester.
ADDRESS BY HON. GEORGE F. HOAR.
I had congratulated myself on my own shrewdness in selecting for my visit to Framingham an hour when I could safely listen to other men and escape any demand on myself.
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But I am glad, and feel highly honored by your cordial salu- tation. Certainly, there is no other more interesting occasion than this ; there is nothing like it on the face of the earth,- the celebration of the birthday of a New England town. Other lands have fair cities and ancient towns, each with its own honorable history. But the towns and cities of other lands are the work, the product, of but a few hands and a few brains.
A New England town, a Massachusetts town, a Middlesex town, is the work of almost every man and woman within its borders. As you recall the wonderful growth of Framing- ham, as you recall her honorable and stainless history, each of you has a right to say when you think of yourself and your ancestry, It is I, it is I, who have helped to build up this fair structure.
Now, fellow-citizens, the keynote of this occasion is not, after all, memory or retrospect ; it is hope. Our friend, the Orator of the Day, wisely and wittily told you what had been wrought by 22,500 English men and women "at compound interest," as he expressed it. What do you think is to be wrought for humanity, righteousness, liberty and America in the next 200 years by the 12,000 men and women of beautiful Framingham, when they are put out at compound interest ?
I am an old man : my life, short as it seems when I look over it, extends over considerably more than a third of the life of this ancient town. Vet, if I know myself, the one single passion which dwells in my bosom is the great Christian virtue of Hope, which includes Charity and Faith, which the great Apostle places as the centre of that great triumvirate, that mighty group which are forever to abide.
I am full of hope for America, Massachusetts and humanity.
It is sometimes said - I heard it said at a gathering only the other day -that the peculiarity of old men is that they dwell in the past, and that the peculiarity of young men is that they dwell in the future. I do not think so. It is perhaps the peculiarity of manhood - of healthy manhood everywhere and always-to dwell on the things which belong
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alike to the past, present and the future. If you will read the lives and sayings of the Puritans, of the men of the Revolution, of Washington, Jefferson, Franklin, and Adams, you will be struck, if you read with that point in view, to see how absolutely they seem to contain nothing which speaks only to the generation to which they are addressed. Wash- ington's Farewell Address, the letters of Jefferson and Adams, the opening sentences of the Declaration of Independence, the wisdom of Franklin, seem as fresh, as sound today as on the day when they were uttered. They would have done as well for Athens or Rome as for America, and they will do as well today as then, and as well a thousand centuries hence as today.
The opening sentences of the Declaration, the great maxims of Washington's address, the sermon that was uttered at Delft Haven, are all as young as the great doctrines they inculcate. They speak to us of two things - speak to old men and young men - to old countries and young countries-to the past and the future-two things that are to live in the life of a country or a city, or it can bear no life- RIGHTEOUSNESS AND LIBERTY.
They were true at Delft Haven, they were true at Ply- mouth Rock, they were true at Concord, at Yorktown, at Appomattox - they were true at Santiago, and as sure as God liveth, they shall yet be true at Manila.
At the conclusion of Senator Hoar's address, which was received with great enthusiasm, the entire audience, esti- mated at 5,000 people, rose and joined with the Bi-Centennial Chorus and Band in the familiar strains of "Auld Lang Syne." Following this the benediction was pronounced by the Rev. John F. Heffernan.
ATHLETIC EVENTS.
In the prize contest for silver cups at the links of the Framingham Golf Club on Pincushion Hill on Wednesday afternoon, there were eighteen contestants in the gentlemen's
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class and five in that of the ladies. First prizes were respect- ively won by Howard K. Brown, Esq., and Miss Margaret Kennard.
At Wayside Park, Saxonville, there were several closely contested Bicycle Races. Local interest was mostly centred on the race for the one mile town championship which was won by Chas. N. Hargraves, F. G. Foster being second, and John Lavelle, third. Time 2 min. 41 3-5 sec.
THE BANQUET.
As the last and crowning event of Wednesday came the Bi-Centennial Banquet at the Armory. Under the efficient leadership of Chas. L. Curtis, the Committee on Banquet began its duties months before the event by selecting a handsome design for a souvenir plate to be used on this occasion. The design had for its centre piece a photo- gravure reproduction of the beautiful ivy covered Memorial Library at Framingham Centre, with its bronze statue of the " Minute Man " in the foreground. On either side of its rim, set in a floral wreath, were the town seal and a small cut of the stone building formerly occupied by the Framingham Academy.
The order for fifteen hundred of these plates was placed with Jones, McDuffee & Stratton of Boston, English Wedgwood ware being selected. Each purchaser of a banquet ticket was entitled to a souvenir plate and those remaining were all sold for a like purpose.
The decorations of the Armory were the same as had been put in place for the ball of the evening before, with the addition of bouquets of cut flowers which adorned the tables, and boutonnieres of roses for each participant.
The arrangement of tables in the hall and the seating of guests was under the direction of Chief Usher Walter S. Leland. Seats were reserved for guests of the town, and tickets for the remaining capacity of the tables were early disposed of, the only vacant places being those assigned to guests who were not present.
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The following list does not repeat the names of invited guests, which have been already given, but is thought to be a correct list of townspeople who participated in the enjoy- able occasion.
Mr. Samuel B. Bird, President of the Day. Mr. Walter Adams, Toastmaster.
Mrs. Walter Adams.
Mrs. H. C. Bachelder.
Dr. S. O. Baldwin.
Mr. Geo. A. Barrett.
Dr. and Mrs. Geo. F. Beard. Mr. and Mrs. C. A. Belknap. Mr. and Mrs. S. F. Blodgett. Mrs. J. J. Boynton.
Mr. and Mrs. C. T. Boynton. Mr. and Mrs. Luther Bridges. Miss Lillian Bridges.
Miss E. M. W. Bridges.
Dr. and Mrs. W. I. Brigham. Mr. and Mrs. J. L. Brophy. Mr. Melbert C. Brown. Mr. and Mrs. Albert J. Brown. Mr. and Mrs. Mark J. Brown. Mr. and Mrs. J. T. Butter- worth.
Mr. and Mrs. C. E. B. Chase. Mr. and Mrs. Geo. L. Clapp. Mr. and Mrs. J. C. Cloyes. Col. Albert Clark.
Mr. Samuel Cochran.
Dr. O. W. Collins.
Mr. Andrew Coolidge. Mr. L. E. Coolidge. Mr. and Mrs. R. T. Cronin.
Mr. Chas. L. Curtis.
Mr. Jesse Curtis.
Mr. and Mrs. S. M. Cutting.
Mr. and Mrs. Jas. Daisley. Miss Louise C. Daisley. Miss Alice E. Daisley. Miss Mary Daisley.
Mr. and Mrs. H. L. Daven- port. Mr. and Mrs. O. O. Davis.
Mr. and Mrs. G. H. Davis.
Mr. and Mrs. A. M. Eames.
Mr. and Mrs. Geo. H. Eames.
Mr. and Mrs. C. Sidney Eames. Mr. E. L. Eames.
Rev. L. R. Eastman.
Mr. and Mrs. J. F. Eber.
Rev. and Mrs. F. E. Emrich.
Mr. and Mrs. J. R. Entwistle. Miss Rebecca Ephlin. Mr. and Mrs. F. M. Esty.
Mr. and Mrs. R. L. Everit.
Mr. Frank H. Fales. Miss Ella W. Fisk. Mr. and Mrs. A. H. Fiske.
Mrs. J. M. Fiske.
Mr. and Mrs. A. M. Fitts.
Mr. M. E. Fitzgerald.
Mr. and Mrs. Clifford Folger.
Mr. and Mrs. M. E. French.
Mr. and Mrs. Chas. H. Fuller.
Mrs. C. U. Fuller.
Mrs. L. F. Fuller.
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Mr. and Mrs. John H. Goodell. Miss Florence Goodell.
Mr. Wm. F. Gregory. Mr. and Mrs.C.E.Haberstroh. Mr. M. E. Hamilton.
Mr. Jas. E. Hall.
Mr. Chas. R. Harding.
Mr. Edward C. Hardy.
Mr. and Mrs. A. V. Harring- ton.
Mr. J. Minot Harrington. Mr.andMrs. Wm. H.Hastings.
Mr. Patrick Hayes.
Dr. and Mrs. J. A. Hayes. Mrs. Wm. Hayward.
Mr. and Mrs. A. J. Heath.
Mr. and Mrs. E. L. Hearn. Rev. J. F. Heffernan.
Mr. A. J. Hemenway.
Mr. and Mrs. F. E. Hemen- way.
Mr. C. A. Hemenway.
Miss Helen M. Hills.
Mr. and Mrs. J. S. M. Holly.
Miss H. B. Hodge.
Mr. and Mrs. F. B. Horne. Mr. H. M. Howe.
Mr. and Mrs. Willard Howe. Mr. and Mrs. Alexander Hoyt. Mr. and Mrs. O. W. Humes. Rev. and Mrs. Geo. E. Hunt- ley.
Rev. and Mrs. Franklin Hutchinson.
Miss Florence Hutchinson.
Mr. and Mrs. Wm. Johnson. Mr. Abner Jones.
Mr. and Mrs. J. W. Jones. Mr. and Mrs. H. C. Kingman.
Mr. and Mrs. W. A. Kings- bury. Mr. and Mrs. A. D. Leland. Mr. Ira L. Lewis.
Mr. and Mrs. J. A. Lightbody. Mr. H. J. Lucas. Mr. Chas. P. Mason. Mrs. A. F. Mason.
Maj. and Mrs. I. N. Marshall. Mr. and Mrs. A. E. Martin.
Mr. Jas. E. McGrath.
Capt.and Mrs.J. S. McNeilly. Mr. and Mrs. C.J.McPherson. Miss Lucy McPherson. Mr. and Mrs. B. F. Merriam. Mr. and Mrs. J. M. Merriam. Mr. and Mrs. C. A. Merrill.
Mr. and Mrs. F. W. Meserve. Mrs. A. T. Metcalf.
Miss Irene Metcalf.
Mr. J. R. H. Moore. Dr. and Mrs. W. R. Morrow.
Mr. Wm. Nicholson.
Rev. and Mrs. L. A. Nies.
Mr. and Mrs. F. L. Oaks.
Mr. and Mrs. J. S. Overhiser.
Dr. and Mrs. L. M. Palmer. Miss Gertrude Palmer.
Mr. and Mrs. Peter Parker.
Mr. W. D. Parlin.
Mr. and Mrs. W. W. Pease.
Mr. Sidney A. Phillips.
Miss Mary E. Phillips.
Mr. J. S. Phillips.
Mrs. F. E. Phinney.
Mr. F. E. Porter.
Mr. and Mrs. Edgar Potter.
Dr. Frances W. Potter.
Mr. W. H. Pratt.
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Mr. C. H. Pratt.
Mr. and Mrs. F. M. Pratt.
Mr. H. G. Ridley. Mr.and Mrs.David Robertson. Mr. and Mrs. Geo. A. Reed. Mr. M. J. Shannon.
Mr. E. C. Simpson.
Rev. Geo. A. Small.
Mr. Wm. H. Smith.
Mr. F. H. Sprague.
Mr. and Mrs. F. B. Sprague. Mr. R. Sprague.
Mr. M. L. Stacy.
Mr. and Mrs. S. O. Staples.
Mr. F. G. Stearns.
Mr. A. B. Stearns.
Mr. and Mrs. Geo. T.Stevens.
Mr. and Mrs. A. D. Swan.
Lieut. G. W. Sullivan.
Miss Grace Sullivan.
Mr. and Mrs. John H. Temple. Mr. and Mrs. C. F. Thayer. Mrs. W. H. Tower. Mr. and Mrs. D. Murray Travis.
Mr.and Mrs.C.O.Trowbridge. Mr. and Mrs. H.F.Twombly. Mrs. P. J. Twombly.
Mr. J. J. Van Valkenburgh. Mr. and Mrs. N. C. Videto. Mr. and Mrs. T. H. Videto. Mr. and Mrs. W. H. Walsh. Mr. and Mrs. Geo. A. Wads- worth.
Mr. James P. Welsh.
Mrs. E. M. White.
Rev. F. T. Whitman.
Mr. and Mrs. H. M. Winch.
Mr. and Mrs. S. S. Woodbury.
Mr. and Mrs. C. A. Williams.
Music for the occasion was furnished by Powers' Orchestra of Boston, H. Howard Powers, Conductor.
PROGRAM.
MARCH. - Singing Girl. Herbert.
OVERTURE. - Ungarische Lustpiel. Kela Bela.
SELECTION. - The Ameer. Herbert.
CONCERT WALTZ. - Tales from Vienna Woods. Strauss.
BALLET MUSIC. - from " Faust." Gounod.
SELECTION - The Rounders. Englander.
STRING QUINTETTE. - Selected.
OVERTURE. - Banditenstreiche. Suppe.
SELECTION. - Carmen. Bizet. MARCH. - Runaway Girl. - Caryll.
The handsome designs for the cover of the Menu Card were drawn by Ludvig S. Ibsen of Boston and will be given as illustrations.
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Messrs. T. D. Cook & Co. of Boston, caterers, served the following menu :
CONSOMME
RADISHES BREADSTICKS
LOBSTER A LA NEWBURG CUCUMBERS
ROAST FILLET OF BEEF, MUSHROOM SAUCE STRING BEANS POTATO DELMONICO
APRICOT FRITTERS
TOMATO AND LETTUCE SALAD
OLIVES SALTED ALMONDS
ASSORTED FANCY CAKE
FROZEN PUDDING BISCUIT GLACE
SMALL FANCY ICES
STRAWBERRIES
CRACKERS
SWISS CHEESE
COFFEE
NOBSCOT SPRING WATER
The divine blessing was invoked by Frederick E. Emrich, D.D.
After an hour or more had been given to the enjoyment of the viands and the music, the company was called to order by the President of the Day, who briefly introduced Walter Adams Esq., as Toastmaster, and the latter assumed charge of further proceedings.
THE LITERARY EXERCISES.
THE PRESIDENT. - As we are nearing the close of our Bi-Centennial I wish to thank the members of the Committee, and all others who have helped to make it a success, and I now have the most pleasant part of my duties, to turn over the exercises to the toastmaster of the evening ; and it gives me pleasure to introduce to you as toastmaster our fellow- citizen, ex-representative Walter Adams, Esq.
WALTER ADAMS, TOASTMASTER.
Mr. President, Reverend Clergy, and Ladies and Gentlemen : I thank you for this very kind reception. Of the many honors
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heretofore conferred upon me, by the Town of Framingham, none has touched me more deeply or awakened in me a more profound sense of gratitude than the honor you have con- ferred upon me by making me, through your Committee the toastmaster of your Bi-Centennial Banquet - an honor which you can confer but once, and upon but one.
I do not propose to trouble you with any speech now. There is a long list of gentlemen here to whom it will be your privilege to listen, and to whom such time as can be given to speaking tonight belongs. Let me only say this, - that in the course of forty-five years' residence here it has been my privilege sooner or later to come in contact with almost every member of this community. Those with whom I have not come in contact are very few. If there is any one in the whole Town of Framingham tonight with whom for any reason, and to whom for any reason or for any cause I heretofore have been a stranger, or who has heretofore been a stranger to me, I beg that hereafter we be strangers no longer. Mr. Chairman, Ladies and Gentlemen, again I thank you.
The first toast of the evening is the " United States of America." As is proper and befitting, the exercises of this evening have been opened with an expression of our devotion and our loyalty to almighty God. Next to our devotion and our loyalty to almighty God should come our devotion and our loyalty to our common country ; a country great, rich, free, prosperous, happy and reunited, the beacon light of the world, and the guiding star of the nations.
That great ship of State in which are embarked the hopes of humanity, for the enlightenment, the civilization and the freedom of the world.
And so I give you all-
"The ship of State ;
Freedom's great venture is her precious freight ; God speed her, keep her, bless her as she steers Amidst the breakers of the coming years.
Lead her through dangerous seas with even keel, And ever guide the hand that holds the wheel."
It was expected by your committee that Col. Charles K. Darling of the 6th Mass. Regt. and United States Marshal
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for the District of Massachusetts would be here to respond to this toast, but at the last moment this telegram has been received :
"Have found it impossible to get away and think better not now to come at the eleventh hour. Therefore thanks for kind invitation."
As we are disappointed in any response to this toast, I will ask the band to play " America " and the audience to rise.
"America " played by the orchestra, the audience standing.
The next toast in the order of the evening is the Common- wealth of Massachusetts - pledged to religion, liberty, and law, and ever in the front rank of progress and enterprise ; may her sons, wherever their abiding place, give her their constant, earnest support, and thereby endeavor to prove that love of country and devotion to the cause of truth and liberty are characteristic of those whose homes and hearts are in the old Bay State .:
It was expected that the Governor of the Commonwealth would respond to this toast, and that the Speaker of the House of Representatives would respond to the toast of "The Great and General Court;" but unfortunately the Governor of the Commonwealth is absent tonight, and therefore I shall ask the Speaker of the House of Representatives to respond to the toast - The Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
I have the honor and pleasure of introducing to you the Honorable James J. Myers, Speaker of the House of Repre- sentatives of Massachusetts.
SPEECH OF HON. JAMES J. MYERS.
Mr. Myers said in part :
Mr. Toastmaster and Ladies and Gentlemen of Framingham, and Invited Guests : A mau needs a gifted tongue on any occasion, and with the most elaborate preparation, to speak for the Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
A man who should undertake to sum up in a ten-minute speech, which my friend tells me is the utmost limit I can
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have, -who should undertake to sum up in a sentence or two that wealth of proud and historic memories that makes the history of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, without even speaking of her glorious present or her wonderfully promising future, would indeed have a theme which no tongue could equal. He would have to begin way back where my friend Olin is going to begin, in the colonial days and times, and tell the proud history of the heroic deeds of the early founders ; he would go back some seventy or eighty years beyond the incorporation of your town, which is two hundred years old, and he would tell of the struggles and sacrifices that attended those early days in the wilderness, and that attended all those earlier years of the Commonwealth.
He would see those men and those women whose lives so well illustrate what was written, as I remember it, upon the entablature of that beautiful peristyle there at Chicago, in the "White City "-
" But bolder they who first off-cast their mooring from the habitable path, and ventured chartless on a sea of storm."
Those were the leaders who brought to these shores the first chart -the first charter, the seed, the beginning of so much the world has reason to be proud of, and for which it has reason to be so thankful.
He is an American with dull imagination, and with little fervor of patriotism, who can even think of those days without being filled with a wealth of imagination as he thinks of those struggles, and of that striving and effort to plant what they planted - he is, I say, a dull man who is not fired with such a thought. But he is a prosy man indeed who looks at Massachusetts as she is today, and thinks she is made up merely of a set of money-making and hard working citizens. The man who sees her as she is sees so much more. He sees her growing wealth and prosperity, her happy citizens in cities and villages ; and he sees that bound up in her is the promise of the future. He knows, if he knows the history of his country, that Massachusetts has led from the first; that she has been in the van of states in everything that made for human uplifting and human progress. He knows that her
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General Court-and I venture to touch upon that for a moment - that her General Court, after all criticisms have been uttered, after all jokes have been made, is still the body that passes more legislation that becomes real leading legis- lation - a guide and landmark for other states - than any other legislature in this country.
Massachusetts with her many children, one of whom is two hundred years old today - Framingham - is proud and happy. She sits here today, as she has ever since her government was founded, looking upon a past of which she gradually grows more and more proud as the years go by ; looking at the present with a calm, determined view ; looking into the future with her eyes lifted high, her face lighted by the sun of a bright and a prosperous and a glowing future; and believing that the best that can come to Americans citizens comes to those who dwell within the borders of the old Commonwealth.
I should prefer to have confined myself to my own topic ;- my duty fell along other lines; I have dealt with it as I could ; - but one thing I know we are all sure of - that we believe in Massachusetts, we have every confidence, and we have every hope in her future ; and we believe when another century shall have rolled over Massachusetts and Fram- ingham the people will gather as they gather today in far greater numbers, and perhaps in a more prosperous and happy condition, to look back to this day and forward to another two hundred years of prosperity under the flag we see everywhere about, still singing the old hymn that has been sung so many years
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