Excerpt from AddressesA glorious deed is immortal and alone among all earthly achievements will preserve its lustre to the end of time. But glory after all, is but a poor return to you for the love and strength of those upon whom you hoped to lean for the comfort and solace of your declining years.To you, soldiers, who bore a noble part in that struggle which signalized this century, who have sacrificed your strength in the inevitable con¿ict, a reunited country should extend its substantial gratitude.I do not regard the bounty of the government as a reward. I deem it rather the recognition of a debt: the partial discharge of a sacred obligation created when the government was too hard pressed to pay in full. I prophesy that the time will come when the wounded and sick will not be alone upon the pension rolls, but when the record of service and an honorable dis charge shall be sufficient credentials to entitle the soldier to the bounty of a grateful country.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis 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.