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Title: The life and times of C.G. Memminger
Year: 1893 (1890s)
Authors: Capers, Henry D. (Henry Dickson), 1835-1910
Subjects: Memminger, C. G. (Christopher Gustavus), 1803-1888 Union Party (S.C.) Nullification (States' rights) States' rights (American politics)
Publisher: Richmond, Va. : Everett Waddey Co., publishers
Contributing Library: Lincoln Financial Foundation Collection
Digitizing Sponsor: The Institute of Museum and Library Services through an Indiana State Library LSTA Grant

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athy. Like you. we, too, are endeav-oring to fit ourselves for the life that lies before us, and we trust thatwe shall one day meet you in the fields of labor, or wherever else ourduty shall call us, ready to do our city and our State true and unselfishservice, and to express our gratitude by our acts. We greet you, Mr. Mayor, and gentlemen of the Council, with ourthanks for the liberal supplies you have so cheerfully voted for our sup-port ; for the interest you have always manifested in our welfare, andfor your presence to-day to give dignity and importance to this occasion. We greet you, gentlemen of the Board of Commissioners, with ourcongratulations on your wise and successful administration of this no-ble charity, and with our warmest gratitude for the untiring zeal andtender care with which you have watched our comfort, our improvementand our happiness. To you. Reverend Sirs, who from Sabbath to Sab-bath break to us the Bread of Life, we bring our heartfelt greetingsand thanks.
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HIS PARENTAGE AND CHILDHOOD. 15 We bring our warmest greetings to you, our beloved Principal, Teach-ers and Matrons, and to you, our dear and kind Physician. We have no words to express all we owe to you. In your wise and gentle hands the cold charity of the world has beenwarmed into the melting tenderness of home and household. The Godof the Fatherless alone can give you your wages. Again, we greet all that are present here to-day, with the prayer thatthis day, so eagerly anticipated and so keenly enjoyed by us, may be tothem, a day of mingled peace and blessing in all their happy homes. It was at this Home that the orphan boy of Nayhingenfound a sweet solace for the woe that had deprived him of afathers care and a mothers love, and it was here that theimpress of manly virtues became fixed in his mind. Hereit was that the foundation was laid upon which the youthand the young man afterwards erected the splendid super-structure of his character. Here that he found a friend inMr. Thomas

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