Excerpt from History of the National Peace Jubilee and Great Musical Festival: Held in the City of Boston, June, 1869, to Commemorate the Restoration of Peace Throughout the Land Upon the writer's return from Europe, after an absence of sev eral months, he found the wish of the committee had not been carried out; and many calls being made upon him for pamphlets, circulars, programmes, or anything that might serve as souvenirs of the great Festival, the supply of which was not equal to the demand, the thought suggested itself, May I not prepare an account of the Jubilee myself, weaving into it the various docu ments of interest? I am familiar with every step Of its progress, from its inception to its consummation but can I write it out so as to make it interesting to the general reader? That is the ques tion. Well, I can try! The result of the trial and a very severe trial it has been l is this volume, which the author gives to the public with great reluctance, feeling it is not in many te epcots what is expected, nor what it ought to be. Still he hopes its shortcomings may be overlooked, it being his first, and in all probability his last, efl'ort in the field of literature. 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.