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Excerpt from A Rejoinder to Mr. Bancroft's Historical Essay on President ReedTo the editor or the monthly magazine. Sir The following are extracts from letters of the late General Sparks' Writings of W'ashington, Vol. Ix, pp. 28, 100, 121, 295.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Boo...

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Excerpt from Address Delivered Before the Philomathean Society of the University of Pennsylvania: Thursday, November 1st, A. D. 1838 Relinquishing the path which my predecessors have pursued, I invite your attention to a subject that commends itself by its intrinsic interest, its patriotic associations, its moral and political value. It is a theme worthy of more minute illustration than can now be given to it: the origin of our Revolutionary ...

Excerpt from The Life of Esther De Berdt: Afterwards Esther Reed, of Pennsylvania My motives in writing this volume are honestly stated in its first pages. It has been prepared (and this the critical reader will easily detect) at different times, and in the brief intervals of leisure which professional work allows. Its composition has been a source of enjoyment in contrast with the uniformity of my daily labour, and I can truly say that when ...

Excerpt from Oration Delivered on the Occasion of the Reinterment of the Remains of General Hugh Mercer Before the St. Andrew's and Thistle Societies It was the pious enthusiasm of a Scottish pilgrim to revisit the graves of his country's martyrs, and freshen the record of their virtues, their suffering and glorious deaths. His pilgrimage was from churchyard to churchyard, and when his eye rested on the fading memorials of those who had virtu...

Excerpt from Life and Correspondence of Joseph Reed, Vol. 2: Military Secretary of Washington, at Cambridge, Adjutant-General of the Continental Army, Member of the Congress of the United States, And President of the Executive Council of the State of Pennsylvania Entered, according to Act of Congress, in the year 1847, By william B. Reed, In the Clerk's Office of the' District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania. About the Publish...

Excerpt from Life and Correspondence of Joseph Reed, Vol. 1: Military Secretary of Washington, At Cambridge, Adjutant, General of the Continental Army, Member of the Congress of the United States, And President of the Executive Council of the State of Pennsylvania It would be great affectation to disguise the active motives which have stimulated me in the publica tion of this work. One is altogether personal, and may be candidly described as ...

Excerpt from President Reed of Pennsylvania: A Repy to Mr. George Bancroft and Others, February, A. D. 1867 In his honoured grave, I am called on to vindi cate his name. Instead of partisan misrepresentation (to use a mild word, ) being allowed to die with the passions of a period of revolutionary excitement, it has been industriously kept alive, until at last, in the second and almost the third generation, the necessity of correct ing and re...