Oration Delivered Before the City Government and Citizens of Boston: In Music Hall, July 4th, 1874Rockwell & Churchill, printers, 1874 - 55 pages |
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୧୧ 23ª Day acts of Parliament American American liberty Anno Domini Article Assembly Asso Association bodies politic Britain celebrated centenary Charlestown aforesaid chosen Christian civilization Committees Commonwealth CONSTABLE Constitution convened crown Declaration of Independence declare them independent delegates devised Dorchester duties establish public authority exercised expressed Faneuil Hall fidelity Fortunes to Support founders Freeholders Greenleaff Hampshire happy effects Honble Continental Congress honor House of Representatives Inhabitants will solemnly inheritance institutions Kingdom land late Honble House Legislature Lives and Fortunes living forces Massachusetts Bay matured the Declaration Meeting House ment moulded municipality nation noble organic law Parliament peace persons Philadelphia pledge political action political unit present qualified question relation Representation republic Republican Government Resolved Revolution Roxbury safety seen slavery solemnly engage Sover Sovereignty spirit Stamp Act thirteen thirteen colonies tion to-day Town Clerk Town of Boston unanimously Union United Colonies virtue Voted Warrant whig words
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Page 17 - Thou, too, sail on, O Ship of State! Sail on, O UNION, strong and great ! Humanity with all its fears, With all the hopes of future years, Is hanging breathless on thy fate...
Page 25 - That a committee be chosen in every county, city, and town, by those who are qualified to vote for representatives in the legislature, whose business it shall be attentively to observe the conduct of all persons touching this association...
Page 24 - And therefore we do, for ourselves, and the inhabitants of the several Colonies whom we represent, firmly agree and associate under the sacred ties of virtue, honor and love of our country, as follows : FIRST.
Page 18 - Who made each mast, and sail, and rope, What anvils rang, what hammers beat, In what a forge and what a heat Were shaped the anchors of thy hope! Fear not each sudden sound and shock, 'Tis of the wave and not the rock; 'Tis but the flapping of the sail, And not a rent made by the gale ! In spite of rock and tempest's roar, In spite of false lights on the shore, Sail on, nor fear to breast the sea ! Onr hearts, our hopes, are all with thee...
Page 10 - Light of the Gospel was directed here by the Finger of 'GoD, it will doubtless, finally drive the long! long! Night of Heathenish Darkness from America: — So Arts and Sciences will change the Face of Nature in their Tour from Hence over the Appalachian Mountains to the Western Ocean; and as they march thro...
Page 49 - Court, whether that, if the honorable Congress should, for the safety of the said colonies, declare them independent of the kingdom of Great Britain, they, the said inhabitants, will solemnly engage, with their lives and fortunes, to support them in the measure.
Page 10 - O! ye unborn inhabitants of America ! should this page escape its destined conflagration at the year's end, and these alphabetical letters remain legible, — when your eyes behold the sun after he has rolled the seasons round for two or three centuries more, you will know that in Anno Domini 1758, we dreamed of your times.
Page 24 - I will raise one thousand men, subsist them at my own expense, and march myself at their head for the relief of Boston.
Page 24 - Massachusetts Bay, to the execution of the late acts of parliament; and if the same shall be attempted to be carried into execution by force, in such case, all America ought to support them in their opposition.
Page 52 - It is essential to liberty, that the legislative, judicial, and executive powers of government be, as nearly as possible, independent of, and separate from each other...