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Dear Sir-The undersigned, having read your late speech at Roxbury with deep satisfaction, and knowing that many of their fellow-citizens regard it as a true and eloquent expression of the feelings of the aroused, patriotic, national heart, concerning the great events and exigencies of the day, and believing that a similar address by you in this city would be of great public utility, respectfully request you to address the citizens of New York, at the Academy of Music, at the earliest day that will suit your convenience. GARDINER SPRING, M. H. GRINNELL, JOHN J. CISCO, AUGUST BELMONT, MOSES TAYLOR, HENRY W. BELLOWS, JOHN A. DIX, WILLIAM H. ASPINWALL, JAMES HARPER, WM. E. DODGE, GEO. P. MORRIS, GEO. W. BLunt, WM. H. APPLETON, BOSTON, 10th June, 1861. GENTLEMEN : I have received this day your letter of the 28th ult., inviting me to deliver an address in the Academy of Music, on the great issues now before the country. I feel much honored by such a call, and I shall have great pleasure in obeying it at an early day. It has been suggested to me that the Fourth of July would, as a public holiday, be a convenient day for the purpose. The anniversary of the great Declaration would certainly be an appropriate occasion for an attempt to vindicate the principles, now so formidably assailed, on which the Independence of the United States, as ONE PEOPLE, was originally asserted. I am, Gentlemen, most respectfully yours, EDWARD EVERETT. P. S.-Understanding that it is proposed to issue tickets of admission, I would respectfully suggest that the proceeds should be applied to the relief of the families of the New York Volunteers. TO HON. L. BRADISH, RT. REV. BISHOP POTTER, HON. GEO. BANCROFT, HON. HAMILTON FISH, VALENTINE MOTT, M.D., MAJOR-GENERAL DIX, And the other gentlemen whose names are subscribed to the invitation. THE QUESTIONS OF THE DAY.* An Address delivered in the Academy of Music, New York, on the Fourth of July, 1861, by Hon. Edward Everett. WHEN the Congress of the United States, on the 4th of July, 1776, issued the ever-memorable Declaration, which we commemorate to-day, they deemed that a decent respect for the opinions of mankind required a formal statement of the causes which impelled them to the all-important measure. The eightyfifth anniversary of the great Declaration finds the loyal people of the Union engaged in a tremendous conflict, to maintain and defend the grand nationality which was asserted by our fathers, and to prevent their fair creation from crumbling into dishonorable chaos. A great people, gallantly struggling to keep a noble framework of government from falling into wretched fragments, needs no justification at the tribunal of the public opinion of mankind. But while our patriotic fellow-citizens, who have rallied to the defense of the Union, marshaled by the ablest of living chieftains, are risking their lives in the field; while the blood of your youthful heroes and ours is poured out together in defense of this precious legacy of constitutional freedom, you will not think it a misappropriation of the hour if I employ it in showing the justice of the cause in which we are engaged, and the fallacy of the arguments employed by the South in vindication of the war, alike murderous and suicidal, which she is waging against the Constitution and the Union. PROSPEROUS STATE OF THE COUNTRY LAST YEAR. A twelvemonth ago, nay, six or seven months ago, our country was regarded and spoken of by the rest of the civilized world as among the most prosperous in the family of nations. It was classed with England, France, and Russia, as one of the four leading powers of the age.† Remote as we were from the complica Large portions of this Address were, on account of its length, necessarily omitted in the delivery. + The Edinburgh R view for April, 1861, p. 555. |