Peace Under Liberty

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Excerpt from Peace Under Liberty: Oration Delivered Before the City Authorities of Boston, on the Fourth of July, 1865 Heretofore on occasion of our National Anniversary the speakers summoned to address you have sometimes pressed on your hearing ideas and sentiments respecting which you earnestly differed from them and one another. And hereafter, should the exigencies of the country at any time require, Boston cannot lack courageous men, instant in season, who will speak the unwelcome truths which she ought to hear. But the task of to-day, though perhaps not less difficult, is more agreeable. The duty you have imposed upon me, if I rightly apprehend it, is to aid in giving utterance to the feeling which now fills all our hearts. In saying this, I assume that the feeling itself is right, a patriotic joy, exultant with the ecstasies and tender over the agonies of successful war, - a joy full of gratitude for the deliverance already vouchsafed, and causing us to renew our solemn vow that no promise to man, contained in the Declaration of Independence, shall be left unfulfilled. 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.