This speech was given to the Young Men’s Society of Lynchburg, August 26, 1838.
I Appear before you, gentlemen, in compliance with
an invitation which deserves my grateful acknowledgments. To have been
deemed capable of offering one thought proper to guide your minds in the
pursuit of truth, is an honor which I beg you to believe I highly
appreciate. In proportion to my sense of it, has been my anxiety not to
disappoint your favorable anticipations. I have felt that it was my duty
to give my best thoughts to the selection of some topic worthy of your
attention. In my choice, I have been aided by the obvious reflection,
that you would naturally expect from me a discourse on some subject not
remotely allied to the studies of the youth committed to my charge.
With
these you had reason to suppose me most familiar; and it became me to
believe that your invitation was dictated more by a wish to hear
someihing connected with them, than by any misjudging partiality for
myself.
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