Author : A. Refugee
Publisher : Forgotten Books
ISBN 13 : 9780428789848
Total Pages : 36 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (898 download)
Book Synopsis Letter to the President of the United States (Classic Reprint) by : A. Refugee
Download or read book Letter to the President of the United States (Classic Reprint) written by A. Refugee and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-01-11 with total page 36 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Letter to the President of the United States The immediate occasion which has emboldened me to the liberty upon which I am venturing, may be briefly explained. Not long since, in taking up one of the pa pers of the day, my eye fell upon a printed letter which had been addressed to the President of the United States by the head of a flourishing Western university. I read it with attention - an attention probably the more inter ested because the circumstances and the experiences of the writer, as he presented them, exhibited a singular series of resemblances and contrasts with my own. Your correspondent represents himself in that letter to have been, at the opening of the war, in charge of a flour ishing seminary of learning. He saw himself surrounded by several hundred noble-spirited youths whom he loved with a father's affection, and by whom he was loved in return. He saw them suddenly inspired with the martialspirit. He could hardly restrain them from rushing in a body to the field. He saw them organized into a battal ion and subjected to military drill. He saw some, impa tient of delay, enlisting in the earliest levies, and fighting on the disastrous day of Bull Run. He has since seen many scattered over all the wide arena of conflict, pour ing out their lives for their country, or captured and languishing in Southern prisons, or swept off by disease in unwholesome camps, or stretched on beds of suffering in the homes to which they have returned to die. And besides these, he sees others whom the sword has not yet reached, nor sickness paralyzed, rallying still to the call of that country in whose sacred cause so large a number of their youthful brothers have already laid down their lives. 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.