Excerpt from Complimentary Banquet Given by the City Council of Boston to Rear-Admiral Lessoffsky and the Officers of the Russian Fleet, at the Revere House, June 7, 1864

Our people are drawing near to the close of a des perate struggle, which is to determine the integrity of our National existence. At such a period we are as sembled here in peace and quiet to entertain by becom ing hospitalities the representatives of a foreign nation, whose sympathy has uniformly encouraged our efforts.

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