Excerpt from An Address: Commemorative of the Part Taken by the Inhabitants of the Original Town of Leicester, in the Events of the Revolution, Delivered at Leicester, July 4, 1849 I have thought these remarks were dhe to the occa sion when assembled, as we are, to commemorate the part which one of these towns took in the struggle for our independence. Humble as this part may have been, and limited as were her means to urge forward the great enterprize of the nation, we shall, if I do not greatly mistake, discover in her unpretending history, the same Springs of action, the same sacrifices, the same hopes and the same causes of discouragement which give to our national annals, of that period, so much of their ex citing interest. 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.