Excerpt from An Address Delivered at Lexington: On the 19th (20th) Of April, 1835 Nor is it our purpose to rekindle the angry pas asions, although we would fain revive the generous enthusiasm of the day we celebrate. The boiling veins - the burning nerves - the almost maddened brain which alone could have encountered the ter rors of that day, h: ave withered into dust, as still and cold, as that with which they have mingled. There is no hostile feeling in that sacred depository. N o cry for revenge bursts from its peaceful enclos ure. Sacred relics' Ye have not come up, from your resting place in yonder grave-yard, on an errand of wrath or hatred. Ye have but come a little nearer to the field of your glory - to plead that your final resting place may be on the spot where you fell; - to claim the protection of the sods, which you once moistened with your blood. It is a reasonable request. There is not an Ameri can who hears me, I am sure, that would profane the touching harmony of the scene, by an unfriendly feeling; - and if there is an Englishman present, who carries an anglo-saxon heart in his bosom, he will be among the last to grudge to these poor re mains of gallant foes, the honors we this day pay to their memory. Though they fell in this remote transatlantic village, they stood on the solid rock of the old liberties of Englishmen, and struck for Free dom in both hemispheres. 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.