. Centennial celebration at Danvers, Mass., June 16, 1852. dinner, towhich above 1200 guests sat down in a gigantic tent, the same senti-ment of mutual friendship gave a pleasing tone to all the speeches. Itwas not an official display, nor was any political party addressed by it;politics were avoided. Those present were a fair specimen of the mercantile, agricultural,and working classes of New England ; and if the same spirit animatesthe same classes in other great districts of the Union it is a cheeringand pleasant indication. Had the Queen of Great Britain been theSovereign of their allegian
. Centennial celebration at Danvers, Mass., June 16, 1852. dinner, towhich above 1200 guests sat down in a gigantic tent, the same senti-ment of mutual friendship gave a pleasing tone to all the speeches. Itwas not an official display, nor was any political party addressed by it;politics were avoided. Those present were a fair specimen of the mercantile, agricultural,and working classes of New England ; and if the same spirit animatesthe same classes in other great districts of the Union it is a cheeringand pleasant indication. Had the Queen of Great Britain been theSovereign of their allegiance, her name could not have been receivedwith warmer demonstrations of respect and regard. The Hon. Ed-ward Everett made the speech of the day—an eloquent exposition ofthe civilizing effects of commerce—in compliment to the class to whichMr. Peabody belongs. It is rarely that a private gentleman receivessuch a proof of public admiration, but the feeling of community be-tween the two nations it expressed was its most pleasing distinction to AN HISTORICAL SKETCH PEABODY INSTITUTE, WITH THE ^rombings iit famng tlje Corner-Stone, AND AT THE DEDICx\TION. 136 PREFATORY. The following pages contain an account of the proceedings at the laying ofthe corner-stone of the Peabody Institute, and also those at the dedication ofthe building after its completion. The Institute was peculiarly fortunate in ob-taining the services of distinguished and eloquent men on these interestingoccasions. The words of the Hon. Abbott Lawrence, himself a noble bene-factor of many of our institutions of learning and benevolence, are worthy ofperpetual remembrance, and will be read with new interest now that death hasplaced its consecrating seal upon his name. The address of Mr. Choate pre-sents the true idea and office of the Lecture in connection with tlie Library;and his luminous and eloquent exhibition of the relation of hearing lectures toreading and studying books, cannot fail to have a m
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