Excerpt from A Discourse: Delivered at the Funeral of Hon. William F. Wheeler; Followed by Addresses and Letters 0 Many years ago there stood in the city of Hartford a remarkable tree that was regarded with a truly human interest and affection by all the inhabitants. The venerable Charter Oak, as it was called, had become a popular idol, because it had safely hidden and preserved in its capacious heart the instrument which insured valued civil rights to that whole com munity. The writer well remembers a wild and stormy night, during whose dark and windy hours the Old monarch, banded about. 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.