Excerpt from The History of Liberty: A Paper Read Before the New York Historical Society, February 6, 1866 That in the late terrible struggle for liberty, and the rights of man, the love of freedom, imbibed from our forefathers, enabled us to crush a gigantic rebel lion whose corner - stone was slavery, and which, if it had been successful would have destroyed this last best hope of earth. 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.