Oration on the Centennial Anniversary of the Declaration of Independence: Delivered in the Music Hall, at the Request of the City Government, Boston, 4 July, 1876Press of J. Wilson & Son, 1876 - 55 páginas |
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4th of July adopted ago to-day American Independence Boston Britain British Cæsar celebrate Centennial Anniversary certainly Charles Thomson Charter civil claim commemorate Constitution continent Continental Congress Declaration of Independence delegates destinies eloquent enlightening the World Faneuil Hall Fathers Fellow Citizens forget Fourth of July Germania Band glorious glory grand grandly Hancock hearts heroic honor hour human hundred years ago institutions James Otis Jefferson John Adams King land laration lives look Lord mankind Massachusetts masterly pen Mayor and Fellow memories ment nation need not say never noble occasion Old England Old State House omit Oration ourselves Parliament patriotic Peyton Randolph Philadelphia President principles proclaimed remember Resolution Revolutionary Richard Henry Lee rights of Englishmen Samuel Adams SERVICES AT MUSIC side signature South Carolina spirit stand subvert our rights thank thee thing Thirteen Colonies tion Union Virginia whole William Plumer WINTHROP words
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Página 54 - It will be all over with me in a moment ; but you will be kicking in the air half an hour after I am gone.
Página 84 - Determined to keep open a market where MEN should be bought and sold, he has prostituted his negative for suppressing every legislative attempt to prohibit or restrain this execrable commerce.
Página 31 - If the Lieutenant-Governor or Colonel Dalrymple, or both together, have authority to remove one regiment, they have authority to remove two, and nothing short of the total evacuation of the town by all the regular troops, will satisfy the public mind or preserve the peace of the province.
Página 86 - O thou sword of the Lord, how long will it be ere thou be quiet ? put up thyself into thy scabbard, rest, and be still.
Página 59 - If taxes are laid upon us in any shape without our having a legal representation where they are laid, are we not reduced from the character of free subjects to the miserable state of tributary slaves...
Página 61 - ... that search may be made in the book of the records of thy fathers : so shalt thou find in the book of the records, and know that this city is a rebellious city, and hurtful unto kings and provinces, and that they have moved sedition within the same of old time : for which cause was this city destroyed. We certify the king that, if this city be builded again, and the walls thereof set up, by this means thou shalt have no portion on this side the river.
Página 54 - I was determined," he used to say, "to see how all looked, as they signed what might be their death warrant. I placed myself beside the Secretary, Charles Thomson, and eyed each closely as he affixed his name to the document. Undaunted resolution was displayed in every countenance.
Página 62 - The King set himself, and his Ministry, and Parliament, and all Great Britain, to subdue to his will one stubborn little town on the sterile coast of the Massachusetts Bay. The odds against it were fearful ; but it showed a life inextinguishable, and had been chosen to keep guard over the liberties of mankind.
Página 55 - That they are in favor of the measure, though the instructions given by some of their representatives are not : That the voice of the representatives is not always consonant with the voice of the people, and that this is remarkably the case in these middle colonies : That the effect of the resolution of the...
Página 36 - As their lives themselves were the gifts of Providence, who is not willing to recognize in their happy termination, as well as in their long continuance, proofs that our country and its benefactors are objects of His care?