Excerpt from Address of the Hon. James Sidney Rollins, of Missouri, on the Progress of Our Country: Delivered Before the Alumni Association of the Indiana University, at Bloomington, on Tuesday Evening, June 27th, 1871 To me this is an eventful occasion. I come before you under circumstances rarely associated with the life of any man circumstances fraught with personal considerations that gladden the heart, and quicken the understanding. Forty-one years ago, in September next, when but a lad of seventeen years of age, I here graduated; and, favored with the honors of this then infant institution, I took my departure, with my parents, for the far West, to seek a home beyond the Father of Waters. I left Bloomington a boy without experience: I now return to this sacred spot, for the first time since, a man of ripe years, and with more than ordinary experience in public and in private life. 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.