Excerpt from An Address: Delivered on the 9th of August, 1865, Before the Phrenakosmian Society of Pennsylvania College, Gettysburg It has turned out, must always form one of the terrors and one of the glories of History. You were kind enough to renew your invitation to me to address you the following year and this again I accepted, - and the more readily, as no change had occurred to render inappropriate What I had designed to say to you the year before. But strange enough, within less than forty-eight hours of the time when I expected to commence my journey hither, - as if the Rebel General were determined to vent his spite against you or me, the news came to me that my services would not be required, as you were scattering to your several homes in the prospect of another hostile attack though, thanks to a Gracious Providence, the raid then threat. 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.