"Here is a famous Thanksgiving Day Greeting/Toast proposed by Daniel Webster during Webster's lifetime. When I read it, I was/am touched very deeply by it, as I'm sure Horace Mann was also.
Here's what Webster said:
"We have come to this Rock, to record here our homage for our Pilgrim
Fathers; our sympathy in their sufferings; our gratitude for their
labors;
our admiration of their virtues; our veneration for their piety; and
our
attachment to those principles of civil and religious liberty, which
they
encountered the dangers of the ocean, the storms of heaven, the
violence of
savages, disease, exile, and famine, to enjoy and establish.
And we
would
leave here, also, for the generations which are rising up rapidly to
fill
our places, some proof, that we have endeavored to transmit the great
inheritance unimpaired; that in our estimate of public principles, and
private virtue; in our veneration of religion and piety; in our
devotion to
civil and religious liberty; in our regard to whatever advances human
knowledge, or improves human happiness, we are not altogether unworthy
of
our origin." --Daniel Webster
Happy Thanksgiving 2004
Submitted by Yazz Cudd aka David Allen, Antioch College Alumnus and also Antioch College history enthusiast.
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