Excerpt from Revolution and Reconstruction: Two Lectures Delivered in the Law School of Harvard College, in January, 1865, and January, 1866It might well have been urged also, that such a counter revolution was but a just punishment for rebellion. Regarded as a punishment, whether any measures should be devised to prevent it from falling upon others than the guilty parties, as by compensation for emancipation, or otherwise, might be the subject of further consideration.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.