Ezra Cornell

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Excerpt from Ezra Cornell: An Address to the Students of Cornell University on Ezra Cornell Centennial Day, April Twenty-Sixth, 1907Nor did national affairs escape the young man's attention. He was an ardent Whig and plunged into the 1840 campaign, in which he was prominent. Later he was a delegate to the convention at Pitts burg, which organized the Republican Party No doubt I saw his tall figure among the delegates, for even while a telegraph-messenger boy I was a keen free-soiler and ever on the lookout for the celebrated delegates who were then the gods of my idolatry.Col. Beebe had failed in the panic of 1837 and the mill was converted into a woolen factory. In 1841, trade grew dull in Ithaca. Our hero was forced to look around for a new field, which soon presented itself. He came into contact with the men who were nursing that mysterious infant, the Tele graph, much troubled to know how the stranger from a strange world was to be nursed. It was an uncanny visitor, whose evident connection With occult forces staggered those in whose charge it lay. Cornell was then in his thirty-sixth year, just in his prime.Always interested in mechanical inventions, he purchased the patent rights, for Maine and Georgia, of an improved plow, and, visiting Maine to introduce it, he made the acquaintance of Mr. F. O. Smith, Member of Congress and Editor of the Maine Farmer. Their relations became cordial, and in 1843 Cornellagain visited Maine, walking the 160 miles from Ithaca to Albany in four days, from Albany by rail to Boston, thence on foot 100 miles in two and one half days, and all this so late as 1843. Let us pause here one moment and re¿ect upon the lightning speed at which the Republic has developed. NO parallel exists, and what of the future, when even to-day the pace is, if anything, increased? What are we coming to? Nothing less than to be the giant nation of the earth, all others being pigmies.Cornell's account of what happened when he called upon his friend Smith is worth recording.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis 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.