Address of President Roosevelt on the Occasion of the Laying of the Corner Stone of the Pilgrim Memorial Monument, Provincetown, Massachusetts, August 20, 1907
- Author
- Theodore Roosevelt
- Language
- English
- Subjects
- Pilgrims (New Plymouth Colony) · Speeches, addresses, etc. · Provincetown (Mass.)
- Shelves
- Category: Essays, Letters & Speeches · Category: History - American · Category: Politics
The opening, in English.
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WASHINGTON GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE 1907
It is not too much to say that the event commemorated by the monument which we have come here to dedicate was one of those rare events which can in good faith be called of world importance. The coming hither of the Pilgrim three centuries ago, followed in far larger numbers by his sterner kinsmen, the Puritans, shaped the destinies of this continent, and therefore profoundly affected the destiny of the whole world. Men of other races, the Frenchman and the Spaniard, the Dutchman, the German, the Scotchman, the Irishman, and the Swede, made settlements within what is now the United States, during the colonial period of our history and before the Declaration of Independence; and since then there has been an ever-swelling immigration from Ireland and from the mainland of Europe; but it was the Englishman who settled in Virginia and the…
