ISBN: 9781155132952

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustra… Plus…

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1896 Excerpt: ...performance, very much of satisfaction. But it was a satisfaction purely unselfish, for the work was one the usefulness of which had to be left in the main to the generations which are yet to come. Upon his departure from our city, to enter the service of the State, as the editor of the Clinton Papers, the Society, in grateful recognition of the value of his labors in its behalf, ordained that henceforth his collection of plants should be known as the Clinton Herbarium. And so it will be known forever. Good citizens of Buffalo: You may build for yourselves monuments of marble or of granite, to mark your last restingplaces among the dead:--but it will be very hard for you to raise any memorial stone for your graves, which shall outlast this great, unselfish labor of Judge Clinton, or be more likely to transmit your names to the grateful remembrance of those who shall come after you. I have asked the question, did we, while he was with us, fully appreciate how greatly we were favored in the fact that he was our fellow-townsman? Had his home been in Boston, with what elation and pride would the people of that city have lavished their honors upon him, while he lived--with what affection and reverence would they have embalmed his memory when dead! Be not offended when I hold the mirror up to nature. But has this City or this State ever honored, as they ought, the memories of the best and noblest of their citizens? Where, then, is the statue which perpetuates the face and figure of the great statesman, who, regardless of obloquy and ridicule and spite, carried to success the project of the Erie Canal and placed forever in the hands of the people of this State the keys of empire? And if the good people of this city were to cause the scattered writings of Judge Cli... Buffalo Historical Society, Books, History, Publications of the Buffalo Historical Society Volume 4 Books>History, General Books LLC<

ISBN: 9781155132952

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustra… Plus…

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1896 Excerpt: ...performance, very much of satisfaction. But it was a satisfaction purely unselfish, for the work was one the usefulness of which had to be left in the main to the generations which are yet to come. Upon his departure from our city, to enter the service of the State, as the editor of the Clinton Papers, the Society, in grateful recognition of the value of his labors in its behalf, ordained that henceforth his collection of plants should be known as the Clinton Herbarium. And so it will be known forever. Good citizens of Buffalo: You may build for yourselves monuments of marble or of granite, to mark your last restingplaces among the dead:--but it will be very hard for you to raise any memorial stone for your graves, which shall outlast this great, unselfish labor of Judge Clinton, or be more likely to transmit your names to the grateful remembrance of those who shall come after you. I have asked the question, did we, while he was with us, fully appreciate how greatly we were favored in the fact that he was our fellow-townsman? Had his home been in Boston, with what elation and pride would the people of that city have lavished their honors upon him, while he lived--with what affection and reverence would they have embalmed his memory when dead! Be not offended when I hold the mirror up to nature. But has this City or this State ever honored, as they ought, the memories of the best and noblest of their citizens? Where, then, is the statue which perpetuates the face and figure of the great statesman, who, regardless of obloquy and ridicule and spite, carried to success the project of the Erie Canal and placed forever in the hands of the people of this State the keys of empire? And if the good people of this city were to cause the scattered writings of Judge Cli... Buffalo Historical Society, Books, History, Publications of the Buffalo Historical Society Volume 4 Books>History <