Excerpt from Herman, or Young Knighthood, Vol. 1 It is now presented with little alteration to the reader, less as a picture of the state of things to-day existing among us, than of a state of things from which the war of today is delivering us, -of a state of things into which we may be thrust back to-morrow, if we listen to those who would fain prattle to us of the constitutional rights to tyranny of armed, or vanquished, traitors. 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.