Excerpt from Recollecting of Fifty Years Since: With Glances at the Present Aspects, and Future Portents of the Age and the Times; A Lecture Delivered Before the Young Men's Association of the City of Utica, February 2, 1843 Conformable to the commendable usage of deeper and higher preachers from a more elevated rostrum, by way of indicating the general theme and bearings of their intended discourse, the speaker has adopted as his text a sentiment from the writings of a learned and distinguished jurist and scholar, who now and long has adorned by his wisdom and his eloquence the highest judicial tribunal of our country; and very long may such steady and brilliant lights continue to adorn them But whether there will be found any more clear connection or relation than is sometimes recognized in other orators of another and a graver class between the text and the sermon, remains to be collected from the result. But be that result what it may we shall proceed, as best we can do, in our somewhat excursive ramblings over a broad and bound less field, in which one hardly knows where to start or when to stop; leaving it pretty much to our intelligent hearers to sum up its various heads, and draw from them, if they can. 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.