Book excerpt: Excerpt from Oration Delivered Before the City Government and Citizens of Boston, Music Hall, July 5, 1875 Admit that you, Mr. Mayor, and you, gentlemen of the City Government, have already given us the real pre paratory lecture before next year's centennial. Your splendid celebration of the Battle of Bunker's Hill, conspicuous as a magnificent pageant, was vastly. 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.