Excerpt from Patriotic Addresses in America and England, From 1850 to 1885: On Slavery, the Civil War, and the Development of Civil Liberty in the United States The Addresses gathered in this volume come from various sources. Some are reprinted from the files of The Independent, in Whose columns they originally appeared. The ser mons delivered just before the war and during its first two years are taken from a volume of Mr. Beecher's discourses, entitled Freedom and War, issued under the careful editorship of Mr. Frederic Beecher Perkins in 1863. The speeches in England are from the te ports published by the Union and Emancipation Society, Manchester, England, in 1864. Of that edition - the only authorized one ever before published - the editor of the present work, at Mr. Beecher's request and with his cooperation, in 1872 began a revision, for the mak ing of some such volume as is here gathered; but other matters intervened and the project lay in abeyance, until the sad event of Mr. Beecher's death suggested a more complete collection of his political contributions than that earlier day could have furnished. The dis courses since the war are reprinted from the reports in Plymouth Pulpit, and some of the addresses have been gathered from contemporary newspaper reports. The one before the Society of the Army of the Potomac is from the published minutes of that body. In all cases effort has been made to secure the best reports of his spoken addresses. Those delivered in America were nearly all taken down by Mr. T. J. Ellin wood, who from about the year 1858 was Mr. Beecher's authorized stenographer, not only in all church meetings but on public occasions when there was especial desire for a full record; and to his fidelity and trained accu racy we owe very much of the great legacy to be found in Mr. Beecher's words. 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.