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Title: Congress hall;
Year: 1895 (1890s)
Authors: Pennypacker, Samuel W. (Samuel Whitaker), 1843-1916
Subjects: Washington, George, 1732-1799 Adams, John, 1735-1826 Congress Hall (Philadelphia, Pa.)
Publisher: (Philadelphia) Printed for the Philadelphia bench and bar
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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rs address was listened to with the greatest atten-tion and pleasure, and with feelings of the liveliest and most 3 profound satisfaction. At its conclusion, Judge Hare, in a fewremarks, referred to the history of the Hall and to his ownlong and happy associations with the place, as well as with hiscolleagues and with the Bar during his judicial career. It wasthe unanimous sentiment of the members of the Bench and Barthen present, in which it was felt that the entire Bench andBar of Pennsylvania would most cordially concur, that thelearned, instructive and interesting paper of Judge Penny-packer should be preserved, and to that end it was resolvedthat the thanks of the Bench and Bar should be presented toJudge Pennypacker, and that the address should be printed. The thanks of the profession were then tendered to JudgePennypacker; and the undersigned were appointed a committeeto cause the address to be printed. Edward Shippen,Samuel Dickson,George Tucker Bispham. O CD o Ien <m co CO
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Address. Gentlemen of the Philadelphia Bar:l When your children ask their fathers in time to come, saying, what mean yeby these stones ? Then ye shall answer them.—Joshua, Chap. IV, Verses 6 and 7. Les grands edifices, comme les grands montagnes, son/1ouvrage des siicles.—Notre Dame de Paris, by Victor Hugo. It is proper and fitting that the Court of Common PleasNo. 2, in finally departing from the building in which its ses-sions have for so longf a time been held, should recall theremarkable associations of the venerable structure. The eventsof human life are necessarily connected with localities. Thecareer of a man is somewhat influenced by the house in whichhe was born and the place he calls home, and in the growth anddevelopment of nations, such buildings as the Parthenon, thePyramids, St. Peters, the Prinzen Hof at Delft, Westminster 1 In the preparation of this address I have used freely Thompson Westcotts History of Philadelphia, as printed in the Sunday Dispatch; John Hillcongresshall00penn

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