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Excerpt from Addresses by His Excellency Governor John An; Andrew, Hon. Edward Everett, Hon. B. F. Thomas, and Hon. Robert C. Winthrop: Delivered at the Mass Meeting in Aid of Recruiting, Held on the Common Under the Auspices of the Committee of One Hundred and Fifty, on Wednesday, August 27, 1862
I greet this patriotic and enthusiastic gathering of uncounted thousands of the people of Massachusetts with the most cor dial and grateful homage. I would that I might coin my very heart into words, that by some fitting phrase, by some power of real, inspiring eloquence, I might speak to you, heart to heart, man to man, citizen to citizen, brother to brother, the last word perhaps it may be my fortune to utter before the grand army of Massachusetts now called from peaceful life to join their gallant breth ren in the field shall march from our reverend and holy soil. You are here, drafting yourselves together at the call, - the gathering of the clans of liberty, the heroic sons, the patriotic citizens of Massachusetts, parading yourselves to gether in voluntary pageant, preliminary to the voluntary march. 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.
