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Michigan Macomb County
The substance of Dr. Hollister's address is as follows: Ladies and Gentlemen : Citizens of my beloved old Home—The Hebrew bondsman rejoiced in his freedom at the end of fifty years, but it is otherwise with me, It is your semi-centennial, your year of jubilee, out I find myself a captive here to-day, bound to this spot by ties which the years have not broken, by memories that may not be severed.
I stand before you to speak of the events of other years, and as I review them, one by one, there is a kind of mournful sadness in their very silence. Those years that so pulsated with living activities are mute as marble to-day, and if I call to them and bid them recount what they beheld, they only echo back to me the words I speak.
I ask, will they come back to use no more ? And their plaintive-murmur comes back to me in reply, " No more.
Are their pages all turned and their records in all the future to be to us as a sealed book? And they reply, "As a sealed book."
Early Macomb County
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