Purchase of this book includes free trial access to
www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books
for free. Excerpt from book: Document I. Opening Address At The
Formal Inauguration Of The American Congress Of Bibliography And
History At Buenos Aires. This meeting was opened by the Argentine
Minister of the Interior. The address was delivered by Dr. Chapman
in Spanish. It will be published in Spanish in the volume which
will record the acts and proceedings of the Congress. textit{Most
Excellent Minister, Mr. President, Fellow-Delegates, textit{Ladies
and Gentlemen: I desire, in the first place, in the name of
California, whose University I represent on this occasion, to
felicitate the Argentine Republic upon having completed, with such
happy fortune, one hundred years since the Declaration of her
Independence. Well may you felicitate yourselves, for the history
of the world does not record a more stupendous advance than that
which Argentina has made since those memorable years when, under
Liniers, she repulsed the attacks of a foreign power which was
trying to take possession of her. Then, for the first time,
Argentina was revealed to herself, and it was a matter of a few
years for a Belgrano, a San Martin, and other illustrious generals,
to assure the independence of the country. It is difficult for me,
a historian by profession, to leap from that moment to the present,
without reminding you of the great men, well known though they be,
who contributed, by their fervent patriotism and warlike valor, to
the growth of this powerful Republic, whose greatest blasonry finds
itself represented in this magnificent city of today. Argentina's
mighty forward advance along the highway of progress is
indisputably the determining cause why this Republic, which, a
hundred years ago, possessed little more than the potential wealth
of its soil and the valor of its men, may today preside over an
textit{intellectual Congress, whose re...
General
Is the information for this product incomplete, wrong or inappropriate?
Let us know about it.
Does this product have an incorrect or missing image?
Send us a new image.
Is this product missing categories?
Add more categories.
Review This Product
No reviews yet - be the first to create one!
Welcome to Loot.co.za!
Sign in / Register |Wishlists & Gift Vouchers |Help | Advanced search
