Excerpt from The Republic at Peace: A Discourse Delivered on the Occasion of the National Fast, June 1st, 1865, in the Church of the Redeemer, Cincinnati, Ohio So, already, ' 1s it appearing that the death of.' this man was not the work of a malignant fate, but the, dispensation of 11 Providence as benign as it is awful, which smites only to heal, and, through the most fearful periods of human wrath, works steadily towards the broadest human welfare. 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.