Excerpt from An Oration Delivered Before the Kentish Artillery and Citizens of Apponaug, R. I: On the Seventy-Eighth Anniversary of American Independence, July 4, 1854 Dear Sir: - At a meeting of the Kentish Artillery, held last evening, at their Armory, Col. Westcott in the Chair, a Committee -was appointed to solicit, for publication, a copy of your Oration, delivered before said Company and the citizens of this village, on the 4th inst. Dear Sir: - Yours of the fifth, communicating a vote of the Kentish Artillery, requesting for publication, a copy of my address, delivered before that Company, on the 4th inst., was duly received. With an expression of my gratification at this mark of the approbation of your Company, I transmit to you the copy which you desire. 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.