Excerpt from Circular LetterBefore we enumerate the civil duties, performed by Mr. Heister, it may be useful to enquire, what his opposers say with regard to his services in the revolution. The address of Mr. M. Carey and others, alluded to in our last, says, that the signers of it, are unable to perceive the claims of Mr. Heister, that he has been long in public life, but that his career has little to distinguish it. This, if it may be called an objection, is also to be found in many of the anonymous attacks upon Mr. Heister The annals of the revolutionary war, says one his assailants, are silent on the subject of his military services - strange argument, indeed, to address to the freemen of Pennsylvania, so many of whom were colonels, subalterns or privates, in the gallant army of 1776 yes, they all staked their lives, fortunes and honor; many of them were wounded, and many more made prisoners; but, say the opposers of Mr.

Heisterr the annals of the war are silent about them, and as they, were only Colonels or privates, how dare they aspire to public honors, or hopeior public gr at1tude In Novemberglas't indeed.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis 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.