Proceedings of the Bunker Hill Monument Association at the Annual Meeting |
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... finally gained that little square of ground which cost Britain more men than Wolfe's victory at Quebec that gave her the dominion over a third of the continent . But although this is the time when , artistically speaking , the painter ...
... finally gained that little square of ground which cost Britain more men than Wolfe's victory at Quebec that gave her the dominion over a third of the continent . But although this is the time when , artistically speaking , the painter ...
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... finally resulted in an amicable adjustment and the excellent plan according to which this now beautiful quarter of the city has been developed . Upon this commission Mr. Standish represented the city of Boston . Mr. Standish became a Di ...
... finally resulted in an amicable adjustment and the excellent plan according to which this now beautiful quarter of the city has been developed . Upon this commission Mr. Standish represented the city of Boston . Mr. Standish became a Di ...
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... finally embraced nearly fifty officers of the Revolutionary army ; it was led by one of the best men that Massachusetts ever produced . He was a lieutenant - colonel in a Worcester County regiment on the day of the battle of Bunker Hill ...
... finally embraced nearly fifty officers of the Revolutionary army ; it was led by one of the best men that Massachusetts ever produced . He was a lieutenant - colonel in a Worcester County regiment on the day of the battle of Bunker Hill ...
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... finally met , with adroitness , but entire fair- While the ratification must be positive and explicit , while to have annexed any condition would have deprived it of any force , it was competent , while accepting the Constitu- tion ...
... finally met , with adroitness , but entire fair- While the ratification must be positive and explicit , while to have annexed any condition would have deprived it of any force , it was competent , while accepting the Constitu- tion ...
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... finally , staked on the experiment intrusted to the American people . " From the masses of the people expressed in many ways , from public meetings , from the most eminent citizens at home , from friends of the country and republican ...
... finally , staked on the experiment intrusted to the American people . " From the masses of the people expressed in many ways , from public meetings , from the most eminent citizens at home , from friends of the country and republican ...
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17th of June A. C. FEARING ABBOTT LAWRENCE Address amendments AMORY anniversary Annual Meeting Battle of Bunker British BUNKER HILL MONUMENT celebrated CHARLES DEVENS citizens Colonies commemorate conflict Congress cordial Declaration died Directors DOUGLAS PUTNAM EDWARD elected England erection EVERETT FRANKLIN DARRACOTT FROTHINGHAM gentlemen GEORGE CROOK Granite Lodge Fund GRENVILLE H guished the mechanics Hamilton Hampshire HENRY H HENRY LEE HENRY LYON highest in number HILL MONUMENT ASSOCIATION honor Honorary Members interest on Granite Israel Putnam JAMES DANA JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL July JUNE 18 land LEVERETT SALTONSTALL liberty Light Infantry live Madison Maj.-Gen Massachusetts ment MILES MONU NORCROSS officers Ohio OSMYN BREWSTER passed patriotism PERKINS Prescott President ratified the Constitution received repairs respect Rufus RUSSELL SAWYER Senate SHERMAN Society soldiers Standing Committee Standish THEODORE LYMAN THOMAS TIMOTHY tion to-day Treasurer ture United URIEL CROCKER Vice-President Virginia Washington WHIDDEN WILLIAM H WILLIAM PERKINS Winthrop York
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Страница 33 - ... it would be peculiarly improper to omit in this first official act my fervent supplications to that Almighty Being who rules over the universe, who presides in the councils of nations, and whose providential aids can supply every human defect, that His benediction may consecrate to the liberties and happiness of the people of the United States a Government instituted by themselves for these essential purposes, and may enable every instrument employed in its administration to execute with success...
Страница 34 - Congress, he said to them, and through them to the country and to mankind, that the " preservation of the sacred fire of liberty and the destiny of the republican model of government are justly considered as deeply, perhaps as finally staked on the experiment intrusted to the American people.
Страница 19 - The busy day, the peaceful night, Unfelt, uncounted, glided by ; His frame was firm, his powers were bright, Though now his eightieth year was nigh. Then, with no throbs of fiery pain, No cold gradations of decay, Death broke at once the vital chain, And freed his soul the nearest way.
Страница 26 - States — the two oldest of the sisterhood — the State which framed the first written constitution, and the State whose founders framed the compact on the Mayflower; the State which produced Washington, and the State which summoned him to his high command ; the State whose son drafted the Declaration of Independence, and the State which furnished its leading advocate on the floor ; the mother of John Marshall and the mother of the President who appointed him ; the State which gave the general,...
Страница 19 - Director in 1833, has this day, in the eightyseventh year of his age, completed a half-century of faithful service. I call upon you all to rise and unite with me in offering our thanks and congratulations to our valued associate and excellent fellow-citizen and friend, URIEL CROCKER, and in expressing the earnest hope that he may long be spared in health and strength, not only to this Association, but to the community in which he has been so conspicuous an example of that industry, integrity, public...
Страница 18 - Simple in manners and readily approachable by all, punctual and precise in business, scrupulous in honesty, industrious and energetic in action, the city in which he dwelt was better and happier for his presence in it during the whole of his long business life. That life began when, as a boy of fourteen years, he entered the counting-room of Robert G. Shaw, and ended only with his death at eighty-three, thus covering a space of nearly seventy years. Although Mr. Perkins's early education was strictly...
Страница 47 - But in the meantime he unaccountably revealed his intentions by ordering George Clark, commanding the light infantry, to take an advanced position along the water's edge. "I was sent immediately forward with four companies of the corps of light infantry within about 400 yards of the works of the enemy, where we lay covered under the bank of the water and other banks extending to our left,
Страница 26 - We spoke at our last meeting of the convention to form the Constitution of the United States, which was in session a hundred years before in Philadelphia.
Страница 26 - ... those of Nathan Dane, and Rufus King, and Manasseh Cutler, beneath the supreme name of Washington. Representatives of Virginia and Massachusetts, themselves in some sense representatives of the two sections of the country which so lately stood against each other in arms, they will bear witness that the estrangements of four years have not obliterated the common and tender memories of two centuries.
Страница 21 - We believe that they have done some good in the world, and it is a pleasure to an old printer, when thinking of the many millions of pages issued from our press, to know there is ' Not one immoral, one corrupting thought, No line which, dying, he could wish to blot.