CHAPTER III. 



LECTURE AT TREMONT TEMPLE. 



ECTURING in the towns I purposed 

 visiting was an after consideration of 

 secondary importance — a sort of adjunct 

 to the journey and the objects I had 

 in view. It was thought tiiat it might 

 afford some facilities for meeting large 

 numbers of people face to face in the 

 different sections of the country through 

 which I designed to pass, and thus 

 enable me the better to learn something of their social 

 customs, industries and general progress in the arts 

 of civilization. 



The subject decided upon for the lecture was 

 " Echoes from the Revolution,'^ and was intended to 

 be in keeping with the spirit of the Centennial year. 

 The fact that I had been a cavalryman during the 

 War of the Rebellion and the novelty of an equestrian 

 journey of such magnitude would, I estimated, very 

 naturally awaken considerable interest and a desire 

 on the part of many to hear what I had to say of the 

 heroes of " 76." 



My lecture was a restrospective view of the leading 

 incidents of the Revolution, with especial reference to 

 some of the sturdy heroes and stirring scenes of that 



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