Excerpt from Addresses and Proceedings at the Celebration of the One Hundredth Anniversary of the Founding of the American Whig Society: Of the College of New Jersey, Princeton, N. J., June 29th, 1869 Fathers and brethren or the american whig society z - Y'our partiality has assigned to me the pleasing duty of gathering from the past, not the floating traditions that cluster around a venerable in stitution, but the well authenticated facts known to all who love our Society, or those which may have been hidden in remote corners and thus escaped the attention of men whom the absorbing cares of life render impatient of painful investigation. With un affected diffidence I say that I wish that it had been assigned to abler hands. I approach the duty, how ever, with a reverence that increased as the work advanced, and with an affection for the Whig Socie ty that has been augmented with each passing day. O friends, and ye fair loving gentle folk, Would I could better tell a tale to-day; But hark to this. 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.