Proceedings of the Bunker Hill Monument Association, on the Occasion of Their ... AnniversaryPress of Geo. C. Rand & Avery, 1888 |
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... died there , and of the cause for which they died , and its warning to each succeeding generation to be worthy of their great forefathers . The reason why the 17th of June has not become a general national holiday is readily seen in the ...
... died there , and of the cause for which they died , and its warning to each succeeding generation to be worthy of their great forefathers . The reason why the 17th of June has not become a general national holiday is readily seen in the ...
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... died at his residence here on July 13 , 1887. He was the son of Samuel Perkins , a merchant of Boston , and bore the name of his grandfather , Captain William Perkins , who commanded a company in Little's regiment and did gal- lant ...
... died at his residence here on July 13 , 1887. He was the son of Samuel Perkins , a merchant of Boston , and bore the name of his grandfather , Captain William Perkins , who commanded a company in Little's regiment and did gal- lant ...
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... died at his summer residence in Cohasset on July 19 , 1887 , at the advanced age of nearly ninety - one years . His name has stood at the head of our list of Vice - Presidents for many years . He was earnestly urged to accept the ...
... died at his summer residence in Cohasset on July 19 , 1887 , at the advanced age of nearly ninety - one years . His name has stood at the head of our list of Vice - Presidents for many years . He was earnestly urged to accept the ...
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... dying , he could wish to blot . ' ' Mr. Crocker did not confine the sphere of his activity to his immediate business solely . He was interested in railroad matters , alike in those which concern the business of Boston and those at a ...
... dying , he could wish to blot . ' ' Mr. Crocker did not confine the sphere of his activity to his immediate business solely . He was interested in railroad matters , alike in those which concern the business of Boston and those at a ...
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... died to preserve the Union shall be enshrined with that of those who died to create it , so his fame shall live forever a part of the just pride and glory of the country . And if war should ever come to us , or those who are to come ...
... died to preserve the Union shall be enshrined with that of those who died to create it , so his fame shall live forever a part of the just pride and glory of the country . And if war should ever come to us , or those who are to come ...
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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 F. W. LINCOLN FRANKLIN DARRACOTT FROTHINGHAM gentlemen GEORGE CROOK Granite Lodge Fund GRENVILLE H 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 patriotic PERKINS Prescott President ratified the Constitution received repairs respect Rufus RUSSELL SAMUEL H SAWYER Senate SHERMAN Society soldiers Standing Committee Standish THEODORE LYMAN THOMAS TIMOTHY tion to-day Treasurer ture URIEL CROCKER Vice-President Virginia Washington WHIDDEN WILLIAM H WILLIAM PERKINS 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 19 - ... been elected a Director in 1833, has this day, in the eighty-seventh year of his age, completed a halfcentury 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 fellowcitizen 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,...
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 25 - Virginia and Massachusetts have the right to claim and to receive a peculiar share of the honor which belongs to this occasion. They may well clasp each other's hands anew as they survey the glory of their work. These two 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...
Страница 18 - ... 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 commercial, his later life found him engaged...
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 46 - App. 5, pp. 370-380 (1887). ment and are now going on compleating other works on this ground. At the beginning of the attack Charlestown was set on fire, and the whole by the day after was laid in ashes, part of the terrible effects of a civil war. " ' The rebels were very numerous and behaved far beyond any idea I could ever have formed of them.