Excerpt from Oration Delivered Before the City Council and Citizens of Boston: On the One Hundred and Twentieth Anniversary of the Declaration of Independence, July 4, 1896Reverentially and with bared heads they visited the graves of the illustrious dead in the King's Chapel and Granary burying-ground, thrown Open, I believe, for the first time in years, and traced on their copy books the inscriptions from the headstones. As they gazed about in silence and wonder on the graves of these old revolutionary heroes, they might well have exclaimed.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 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.