Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from Two Speeches of Rev. Robert J. Breckinridge, D. D., LL. D, on the State of the Country: I. At the Opera House, Cincinnati, on Tuesday Evening, May 20, 1862, by Invitation of Many Leading Citizens of That City; II. During a Debate in the Presbyterian General Assembly, at Columbus, Ohio, on Thursday, May 22, 1862
Is it not more than justice, and is it not overwhelmingly our duty - and will not the shades of our ancestors cry to us to-day will not posterity tax our memory if we do not exert ourselves to preserve the Union which our glorious ancestors handed to us, and in the' way that it may run on as it has run for the last cen tury in its glorious career? And we trust it will go on prosper ing and to prosper. [cheers. 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.
