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Excerpt from Oration at the Inauguration of the Statue of Benjamin Franklin: In His Native City, Sept; 17, 1856 We come, on this birth-day of our ancient Metropolis, to decorate her municipal grounds with the image of that one of her native sons, whose name has shed the greatest lustre upon her history - proposing it as the appropriate frontispiece and figure-head, if I may so Speak, of her Executive and Legislative Halls forever. We come, at this high noon of a new and noble exhibition of the products of New England industry and invention, to inaugurate a work of Art, in which the latest and best efforts of American genius and American skill are fitly and most felicitously embodied in the form and lineaments of the greatest American Mechanic and Philosopher. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.