An Address Delivered at a Barbacue
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Excerpt from An Address Delivered at a Barbacue: Given by the Citizens of Boyle County, K. Y., At Danville, July 4th, 1851 Dear Sir, Your aide and eloquent address in commemoration of this national jubilee, was listened to to-day with delight by many of your fellow-citizens, but owing to the large audience present, there were a great number of persons who were unable to hear at the distance they were removed from the stand. At the instance of many of your fellow-citizens, and in accordance with our own feelings, we earnestly solicit a copy of your address for publication. In common with other of your fellow-citizens, we believe the publication and dissemination of the principles inculcated in your address, will accomplish much good. We therefore trust you will comply with our request, and advise us at your earliest convenience. Gentlemen of the Committee: I have received your note of yesterday in reference to the publication of the address delivered on that occasion. In reply, I must say that I am persuaded either that you did not hear it, or that personal kindness towards the author has transferred itself to it. In return for that kindness, I feel constrained to place the copy at your disposal. While I regard it as due to myself to say, that the time allowed for its preparation was so short, and that little time so crowded with more pressing duties, that it will require to be read with all the indulgence ,.with which it was heard... 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.
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