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Title: The celebration of the two hundred and fiftieth anniversary of the incorporation of the town of Ipswich
Year: 1884 (1880s)
Authors: Ipswich (Mass.) Kimball, John C. (John Calvin), 1832-1910
Subjects: Ipswich (Mass.) -- History
Publisher: Boston, Little, Brown and company
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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art throbs with a thrillof fervent sentiment while following my honored friend inlaying a small tribute upon the shrines of these good menand their co-workers. The sentiment carries us back two hundred and fifty years,to those admirable men and women from whom not we alone,nor iSTew England, but thousands of the bravest and bestthroughout our great country, love to trace their blood andtheir virtues, whose piety, wisdom, and incredible couragelaid deep the foundation of those twin columns of religionand civil liberty upon which so vast and majestic a templehas been reared. How should we rejoice, and, with gratitude all the moreprofound as the years roll on, celebrate these great anniver-saries and centennials, which recall to us our fathers andmothers of former generations, and which so tend to strengthenthe ties between the past and the present, to fill our heartswith thankfulness, and our minds with wonder, as we reflecton their trials and sufferings, their religious faith and zeal.
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ADDRESS OF HON. LEYEKETT SALTONSTALL. 77 as well as on their far-seeing and prudent management ofpublic affairs! They seem to have seen through the lonervista of years, away ahead, the blossoming and fruiting ofthese great republican institutions which they here planted,and watered with their very lifes blood. We are prone to picture to ourselves the early settlers asstern old Puritans, men of middle age, or older, who had laidaside with their youth the desire to enjoy the sweets of life,and who, from long forbearance, had lost the very facultyand sense of enjoying anything but a long sermon preachedthrough the nose. But this is not so. There were manyyoung men of gentle blood, educated at the universities,some owning estates in England. They brought with themtheir young wives, tenderly nurtured, and accustomed to allthe refinements and luxuries of life, to nurse their babes tosleep, with the howling of wolves, and ofttimes the war-whoop of the savage Indian, for a lullaby. Two centur

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