Excerpt from An Oration: Delivered Before the Officers of the Militia, and Members of the Volunteer Companies of Boston and the Vicinity, on the Fourth of July, 1832 Alas For France. The storm which had poured upon it in its wrath, has but just passed away, and already the murmuring of a new tempest is heard upon her shores. 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.