Excerpt from Annual Address to Lafayette Post No; 140: Department of New York, G. A. R Comrades: - Of all the duties of my life I have never found any more beneficial than to review the past. If in looking over the records of a year, we may find satisfaction, we are stimulated thereby for better deeds and bler purposes even, than those we approve; and, should we find barren spots in the field, green perhaps with verdure from the seed we have sown, we are inclined to improve in the future where we have been remiss in the past. The past year has been one, to me, rich with many blessings; perfumed with the closest association of Comrades whom I have learned to call my friends, and glorified with the superior loyality of those who hored me with the command. No one can ever kw the reluctance with which I accepted the mination for office realizing, as I did, the prominent position where my predecessors had placed the Post, and its magnificent history to be maintained; but this feeling is w greatly changed, for Commander can fail when relying upon the support of the ble men of this Post who stand on guard to supply all deficiencies and to carry out any project which may be proposed. 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 techlogy 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.