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of his ambition, — the shrine of his patriotic and ancestral 

 devotion? — when I listen, amidst the rolling of these 

 waters, for one more trumpet tone from that matchless 

 orsan that is now silent but not forsrotten in the wave- 

 washed tomb at Marshfield, — when I recall the wonderful 

 address made at the very outset of his career, standing on 

 this very spot, invited by this very Society in the natal 

 year of its existence, when, standing on the Rock of Ply- 

 mouth, in 1820, two centuries complete, he uttered here 

 that terrible denunciation of the barter in human flesh 

 which goes ringing down the ages, now that personal 

 weaknesses and party asperities have been long forgot- 

 ten, — when I remember that unapproachable statement 

 he made, of the interlocking, interacting relations and 

 functions of the two sovereignties under which we Ameri- 

 cans of to-day live and move and have our being, — a 

 statement made in December, 1843, before the New Eng- 

 land Society of the City of New York, and never to this 

 hour improved upon — it is hard to believe it ever can be 

 improved upon — I cannot but pause and hold my breath 

 and utter a silent prayer for one more diapason-note from 

 that most miraculous organ. 



But, sir, you ask me for a word in behalf of the Essex 

 Institute which sends me here charged with its greetings 

 and good wishes. The relations of North and South 

 Shore, — of Cape Cod and Cape Ann, have always been 

 friendly and fraternal as they always should be, — never 

 more so than in this present year of grace. We acknowl- 

 edge with satisfaction, — we take pleasure to-day in re- 

 minding you of the debt, — the obligation incurred by 

 the Massachusetts Bay Colony in the visit from your 

 skilled and Godly practitioner, Deacon Fuller, when Gov- 

 ernor Endecott, bitterly bereft in the loss of his courageous 

 wife, found himself burdened with more than he could bear 



