The Inaugural Addresses of Andrew J. Peters, Mayor of Boston: To the City Council, Delivered in Faneuil Hall, February 4, 1918 (Classic Reprint)

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Excerpt from The Inaugural Addresses of Andrew J. Peters, Mayor of Boston: To the City Council, Delivered in Faneuil Hall, February 4, 1918We meet here today for the inauguration of a new city government, and I welcome you gentlemen with whom I share the responsibility for its maintenance in the coming years and to whom I shall turn for counsel and assistance. It is fitting that at a time such as the present the inauguration should be held in Faneuil Hall, replete with its wealth of patriotic associations. From the early days of our country these walls have ever echoed to the voice of patriotism. Our meeting is indeed municipal in its character, but whatever the character of any meeting at this time, the importance and predominance of the national issues must be recognized. We face today one of the greatest moments of our history and of all human history. The civic support upon which Boston prides herself must, for the present, become merged in the stupendous task of placing our nation on a war basis. A peace-loving people has been called upon to vindicate its rights, and at the same time to perform a world service by repelling the wanton attack of a military autocracy.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis 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.