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IS 294.2
Story of an Emigrant.
Delaware by Maj. Geo. O. White. As near as can be
estimated there were fully fifteen thousand people present,
and the interest manifested by that vast audience can best
be understood from the fact that thousands stood upon
t heir feet during the whole proceedings, which lasted three
hours.
OLD SWEDES CHURCH AT WILMINGTON. •
The festivities commenced at two o’clock in the afternoon
with a musical selection by Cappa’s band, at the close of
which the audience was welcomed by myself in the
following words:
" The discovery of America was the greatest event which had taken place
from the days of Christ till it was made, but the settlement of America
by the right kind of people was, in its beneficial effects upon the human race,
a matter of still greater importance. It seems like an order of Divine
Providence that this new world was left in its natural or savage state during
all the dark centuries of schooling and experiments in Asia, Africa and
Europe, in order that it might remain a virgin soil for the higher civilization
which was to follow.
" To establish this civilization, based upon true principles of government
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