Excerpt from Public Spirit and Mobs: Two Sermons Delivered at Springfield, Mass, on Sunday, February 23, 1851, After the Thompson Riot I intended this morning to preach with reference to the late disturbances among us but finding that there had unavoidably entered into my discourse much that was civic and municipal, and that it was a very painful and troublesome subject, I concluded to defer it to the afternoon, and to prepare our minds for that duty by something in which we could have greater religious enjoyment and repose. I propose therefore to you the text, on which I shall first have something to say of the person, of his act, and of the reason for it. 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.