The Centennial Milestone: An Address in Commemoration of the One Hundredth Anniversary of the Incorporation of Quincy, Mass July 4, 1892 (Classic Reprint) - Softcover

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Excerpt from The Centennial Milestone: An Address in Commemoration of the One Hundredth Anniversary of the Incorporation of Quincy, Mass July 4, 1892

Some months ago I had occasion to discuss certain details of the celebration we are now engaged in with a greatly valued friend of mine, bearing a name inscribed on many pages of the records of Old Braintree, and who, in his own person, is one of the few remaining specimens of the antique stock, - the town-meeting stand-bys of former Quincy. In the course of our discussion I referred to an address as one mode of commemoration, telling him frankly that in my judgment the day of such addresses was over, - that we had, in fact, of late been deluged with them, especially since what may well enough be described as the epoch of revolutionary centennials came in. The not unnatural result had followed; and, as we all know from our own experience, we now turn with a sense of weariness, if not, indeed, of surfeit, from that page of a daily paper the columns of which are headed with an announcement that yet one more commemoration has been observed in the customary way. These historical orations and addresses had, as I then went on to argue, at one time served their purpose, and it was a useful purpose; for in them is recorded much of historical worth which otherwise might not have been preserved: but this was before the days of town histories and historical societies; and now the oration or address had become the medium by means of which a quantity of rhetoric or sentiment of small present, and, so far as my observation went, of no future, value was forced on the jaded eye and ear of an inattentive public.

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