Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from The Inaugural Address of Nathaniel B. Shurtleff, Mayor of Boston, to the City Council, January 6, 1868
We are here, at the commencement of a new municipal year, to enter upon the duties for the performance of which We have been severally elected by our fellow-citizens and we cannot be too sen sible of the honor conferred upon us, nor too grateful to our Heavenly Father for continuing, by his kind providence to us, and to the community over whose important interests we have been called to watch, the full enjoyment of that civil and reli gions liberty, which our fathers Won by their valor and patriotism, and for vouchsafing to us so emi hently the inheritance of the great social and moral privileges which they achieved for us as the richest birthrights, and the greatest Of all paternal bless ings.
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