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Story of an Emigrant.
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required not onl}’ wisdom and strength, but toleration, brotherhood,
justice and exalted virtue. The people chosen for that great work came trom
different countries and different conditions of life,—the English Pilgrims to
New England, the Dutch, the Swedes and the Quakers to the middle
country, the English Cavaliers, the Scotch Highlanders and the French
Huguenots to the South,—and in them all, combined and intermingled, were found
the elements of body and of mind, which have given to the world its best
government, its greatest nation, and its highest civilization.
" Since the English were the largest in number their language became the
language of all, and for that reason, perhaps, history has been partial to
those who first spoke it. Memorials and anniversaries have often been
celebrated over the landing of the Pilgrims and the valor of the knights; their
just praise has been written and sung a thousand times, so that their
honored names have become precious household words among the generations
of our day, while the others have often been forgotten or ignored.
"Fully recognizing the merits of all, we have assembled here to-day from
many parts of the United States to commemorate a great historical event,
—in celebrating the two hundred and fiftieth anniversary of the landing of
the Swedes on the Delaware, and to do honor to their memory in prayer,
song and speech, and to this intellectual feast 1 bid you all a hearty
welcome. "
This celebration was unquestionably the largest and most
important gathering that ever took place among the Swedes
in America ; great attention was paid to it all over the
country, and it contributed greatly toward placing the
Swedes rightly in the estimation of the people, throwing a
clearer light on the achievements of the past, and
emphasizing the importance of the Swedish-Americans of the
present.
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