Excerpt from An Address Delivered Before the Soldiers and Citizens of Bedford, Pa: July 4, 1844 Dear sir - Allow us, in behalf of the Volunteers we repre sent, to return you our sincere thanks for the very learned, patriotic, and eloquent address you didlus the kindness to deliver this day - and to ask the favor of a copy of the same for publication. 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.