Early New York

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Excerpt from Early New York: An Address I am fond of the city of New York, and yet, if you ask me why, I do not know that I could tell. I am fond and proud of the city, I have seen it grow from a very little place, scarcely more than a fair-sized village to a very big place, one of the three biggest cities in the world. I don't think, however, that its mere "bigness" has much to do with my affection for it. It is my home, and as such I know it at least partially, for it is expanding even beyond my acquaintanceship. So many of its inhabitants arc my friends, so many of them seem to know me, and I know so many of them. And then they are the best people in the world, the most generous, the most intelligent, most public-spirited, most upright, most philanthropic. It is not that here alone art, and music, and literature, wealth, sociability, enterprise, have their natural abiding place as in no other city of the continent. There is something more than all this. I think I must be fond of New York because I and my forbears before me have been part of it for many generations. A friend, who is of a poetical disposition, hearing that I was to speak to you, sends me these lines, which perhaps cover my case. Why do I love New York? My dear, Well, were my father here, And his, and his, they three and I Together might make fit reply. My ancestors, however, would run back to a good many more than three. If there is one thing for which a Founder and Patriot longs, it is for facts. When, and Where, and Who, and What are his favorite conundrums, and the charming inquisitive female Founder surpasses the male in that as she does in all things, and is even more omnivorous of dry details. 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.