The Dearborns Author:Daniel Goodwin Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: At the close of Mr. Goodwin's lecture, Hon. John Went- worth moved that the thanks of the Society be tendered to Mr. Goodwin for his able and interesting address... more », and that a copy of the same be requested to be placed in the archives of the Society. And he wished the audience would excuse him for saying that he hoped that the research that Mr. Goodwin had manifested, and that the very interesting manner in which he has handled his subject would be a model for other lectures. "Some of our lectures abound in facts; but these facts are not handled in a manner to make them interesting, whilst other lectures abound in eloquent expressions without the facts to make them instructive. This lecture will bear repeating; and if Mr. Goodwin was only a professional, it would be a good one to travel over the country with. I am surprised that we have never heard from Mr. Goodwin before, and I hope we shall often hear from him hereafter. I see many around me who are in the habit of passing their summers in the vicinity of Hampton, N. H., at the ocean beach, where the birthplace of Gen. Dearborn is pointed out. Since this lecture, that place will possess additional interest. "Having expressed my views elaborately as to the public services of Gen. Dearborn, at the unveiling of the Memorial Tablet to mark the site of old Fort Dearborn, 21 May, 1881, I will say no more of him than that history records no other man who was at the battle of Bunker Hill, the surrenders of Burgoyne and Cornwallis, and then took an active part in the war of 1812. He was among the very first men to respond to the call of his country, and among the very last to leave the field of battle. I doubt if there has been a man of such humble pretentious with so valuable and long-continued public services. Although born and rai...« less