Opening of the book
Portrait Benjamin Harrison
SPEECHES
of
BENJAMIN HARRISON
Twenty-third President of the United States
A COMPLETE COLLECTION OF HIS PUBLIC ADDRESSES FROM FEBRUARY,
1888, TO FEBRUARY, 1892, CHRONOLOGICALLY CLASSIFIED; EMBRACING ALL HIS CAMPAIGN SPEECHES, LETTER OF ACCEPTANCE, INAUGURAL ADDRESS, AND THE NUMEROUS SPEECHES DELIVERED
DURING HIS SEVERAL TOURS; ALSO EXTRACTS FROM HIS MESSAGES
TO CONGRESS
COMPILED BY
CHARLES HEDGES
NEW YORK
UNITED STATES BOOK COMPANY
SUCCESSORS TO
JOHN W. LOVELL COMPANY
142 TO 150 WORTH STREET
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PREFACE.
Iǵ is not the purpose of this book to present a few selections of oratory, laboriously prepared and polished, or occasional flashes of brilliant thought. From such efforts, prepared, perhaps, after days of study and repeated revision, one can form but an imperfect idea of their author.
Such a compilation might show the highest conceptions of the man, and evidence a wide range of thought and a surpassing grandeur of expression; but it would be but a poor mirror of the man himself in his daily life.
It is due to the people that the largest opportunity be given them to observe the character of their public servants, to come into closest touch with their daily thoughts, and to know them as they are—not when prepared for special occasions, but day after day and all the time. It is with this view that this collection of the speeches of
President Harrison is offered to the public. It is a series of instantaneous photographs that have caught him unawares. The studied pose is wanting, but the pictures are true to life.
There are included the letter of acceptance, the inaugural address, the letter to the commercial congress, extracts from his last annual message to Congress, his patriotic message on the Chilian affair, and a
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