Oration (Classic Reprint)

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Excerpt from Oration Mr. President and Fellow Citizens: Forty and two years ago, the prophetic eye of a young American adventurer, William Overton of Tennessee, saw here, as he paddled his canoe along the placid Wallamet, the promise of a future commercial emporium. Moved by this vision, he stepped ashore and took possession of the place where now stands the city of Portland, busy with the varied trade and commerce of the surrounding country, far and near. Then, this grand and beautiful panorama of hill and vale, mountain and river, forest and prairie, that greets and charms the eye from every point of view, was practically unknown and unoccupied save by the squalid Indian, living in grovelling ignorance and superstition, with no higher aim or purpose than to satisfy the animal wants and appetites that were common to him and the beasts of the field. 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.