Excerpt from Influence of the War on Our National Prosperity: A Lecture Delivered in Baltimore, MD March 13th, 1865 Who can comprehend what thousands mean? I stood a few days since and saw a procession seven miles in length, making its way past the point where I stood. An hour and three-quarters the military portion was passing, and passing rapidly along. There were less than ten thousand Of them. Less than ten thousand Of them Oh! Think Of the more than two hundred and fifty thousand that have gone out from us, and have bared their breast, and met death, to preserve to us the liberties which we enjoy, and to hand them down to posterity. Oh no! When we talk Of material prosperity, do not let us for one moment forget the dying, the dead, the mourning, the bereaved. Let us ever bear them in our hearts, and feel that to them, under God, we owe it all. Had they refused to go out, had they remained at home, where would have been our country, where our mate rial prosperity? Desolation and ruin would have marked the North as thoroughly as it now does the South. 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.