The New York Herald Newspaper, April 19, 1875, Page 18

CONCORD ORATION. Mr. George William Curtis’ Bril- liant Review. The Revolution Began in Blood and Ended in Glory. ILEROES! 4 HAIL TO THE Lord Percy’s Zeal for His God and King. “Atlantis Hath Risen from the Ocean.” Be Ce yy, ee Bie From the Colony of Georgius Rex to the Em- pire of Freedom and Power. MR. CURTIS’ ORATION. Weare fortunate that we behold this day. The heavens bend benigniy over, the eartn biossoms ‘With revewed life and our hearts beat joyfully together with one emotion of filial gratituve and Patriotic exultation. Citizens of a great, iree and prosperous country, we come hither te honor she men, our fathers, woo on this spot and upon this day,a buudred years ago, struck the first Diow im the contest which made that country (independent. Here bveveatn the bills they trod, oy the peaceful river on whose shores they dwelt, amid the felds that tney sowed and reaped, proudiy recalling their virtue and their valor, we come to tell tneir story, to try ourselves by their joity standard to Know if we are thelr worthy children; and, stand- ing re’ tly where they s*ood ana fought and Gied, to swear before God snd each other, in tue words of rim upon whom in our day the spirit of the Revolutionary fathers visivly descended, that government of the people, vy the people, lor the people, snail not perish trom theeartn. This ancient town, with its ucighbors who share {ite glory, bas never jailed ftiy to commemorate Bhis great day of its history, Fifty years ago, ‘while some suldiers of the Concord fignt were yet Dving—twenty-fve years ogo, while sull a few venerable ivors lingered—with prayer and @loguence ada sung sou renewea whe pious vow. But the jast living link witn the Revolution has long been broken. Great events aud a mightier Straggie have absorved our own genera- tiom §=Yet we who siaad here today nave Beympathy with the men at the old Norn Bridge, whion those who preceaed us here at earlier cele- Drations cold not Know. Wi'i them war wasa Dame 404 w iradition. -o swilt and Vast had been the change and the devel pment of tue country that the Revolutionary clash of arms was aireacy vague end unreal, aud Concord ana Lexingtum seemed to them almost Temote and historic as Arvela and Sempach. When coer ass:moied to celebrate ‘this day they tay @ iittic Rroup of totteriog forms, eyes from whic the jignht was (aiing, arms nervy Jess and witheres, thin white pairs that Mutiered fm the wind—they saw a ew venerable relics ola vanished age, Wuos? pride was (4st before living memory they bad been minute wep of American Indepesdence. But with us how chauged! Woeris Bo longer 4 tradition, Half romantic and ooscure. It nas ravaged bow many of our homes! it bas ‘Wracg how many vi t e near's veiore me! Norta ac South we koow the pang. O r common lib- erty 19 Consecra‘ed by acommou sorrow, We do Bot Count around us a few ieebie veverace Oo: the contest, bat we are girt with @ cloud of wit- messes. We are surrounded evers where oy muiti- tudes ip the vigor of taeir prime—vehold them Bere to-day sharing in (bese pious ana peace- fal rites, the honored citizens, legislators, magis- faies—yes, the Chel Magistrate of the Repuoiic, whose gory it is that they were mimace men of Ameriosn liverty and wuion. These men oi to-day tmterpre: to us with res.stiess eloquence tue mea Qnd toe times we commenior Now, if never ve tore, We understand the Revo. tion. Now we know # old nearts and Lowes, We sacrifie * courage, the devo- tion, for We sare een (a ail. Gieen ullis of Cuncerd, broad felis of Middlesex. (na: heard ee YOKE Of Manoock and vi Adams, jou heard Giso tue cal) of Lincvin and of Andrew, and your Ladd end Wainer, your Prescot: and Ripley aud Méivin. have reveuied o us more truy tne Davis end toe bur . the Hosmer ant the Par- oF 0 @ hundred years ago. The story of this mid town i« the history of New Bagiaud. it stows us tee people ana the lastiva w svat have moue ‘ne American Kepudiic, Concor) was the fret setrem ia New Bugiaod BBvve \idewater, |. was ed directiy irom tee Mother coonrry, and * what was calleda @utner town, the parent other seitle, Bente (tDroughout (he wWilderaess, It was 8 milliery post in King Philip's war, and 200 years Sgo—juse a century belore tae minute men whom ‘We commemorate—tie Militia Of Middiesex were Organize: os winute n against the Io fous, it is a noord ‘Tad.ion that io those Gteen dogs, When (he Jarmer tiJed these fields at the riek 01 is ule, Mary suepard, a { diteen Was watening on ove of tue hile savages, Whe her brothers threshed in thg barn, sua Gesly the indisnos appeared, siew ive brothers @md carted ner away. in the nigat, while toe Gavages slept. soe ustied a boras whic they Bad stoien, lipped & suddin jrom under the head Of one of her captors, moun e swam the Naenua River and rode through the jurest hone. Mary Shepard was the true ancestor of the Woucord matrons wno share ih: jame of this Ony—ot Mrs. James Barrett, of the Widow Brown, of Mts. Amos Wood and Hannan Burns, win the Other jaithal women whore seli-command and feady wit and energy on this grout morning show ‘thi the mothers of New Engian! were like t fatoers, and that equvaily in voto their children erence their uwn best Vir! ues. later than Philip's war, 194 years a fast night, While some of the firs set iors when the news ¢ gsachuse:ts Bay stil lingered, that King James the Secoar a veen de @ compiny marched strom that eeaoers! uprising of re colony ' sb Gay—tnis Very day—with od Simon Bradst at King’s ad, deposed Sir Limund Andros, tw tee ancient cnarter of tt. Governor, and restored | the colony, We demand only tie traditional ights of Eugitsnmen, said the Bngiieh nobiles, suey seared Wiliam aad Mary opon the throne. We ask nothing more, said the freemen of Con- cord, a@ they helped to dissove royal government io America, and returned to toeir nomes. Eighty- , five years later the first Provincial Congress, which had deen called to meet at Concord if | tor any reason the General Courtat Salem were cbstructed, assembled in the old meeting bou-e on tie Lith Octover, 1774, the first inde- pendent wegisiature in Massachusetts and America; aod from that pour to this the old mother town has never forgotten the words nor forswora the faitn of the Revoiution which had veep prociaimed bere six weeks before:—"No danger shall afright, no dii- | ficulties intimidate us; and 1/,in support of our | rigbts, We are called to encounter even death, we are yet undaunted, sensible that he can never die too soon who lays down hig itie in support of the | laws and liberties of his country,” | But the true glory of Concord, as of all Now | England, was the town meeting, the nursery of American independence. When the Revolution | began, of the 8,000,000 of people then living in Ola | England only 160,000 were voters, while in New England the great mass of free male adults were electors, and they had been so trom the landing | | at Plymouth, Here in the wilderness the settlers | Were forced to govern themselves, They could not constantly refer and appeal to another guthority twenty miles away through the woods. Every day brougut its duty that must be done | | before sunset. Roa s must be made, schovls | | built, young men trained to arms aguinst the | savages and the wildcat, taxes must be laid aod coliected for ailcommon purposes, preaching must | be maimtaiaed, and who eouid know the time, the meuns and the necessity so well as the community sell? Thus each town was a little and a perfect | republic, as solitary ana secluded ta the New Eugland @liderness as the Swiss cantons among | the Aips. No other practicable human institution | has been devised or conceived to secure the | gust ends of local government so felicitous as | tne town meeting. 1: broagnt together the rich and the poor, the good and the bad, and gaye | character, eloquence and natural leadersnip full and tree play. It enabled superior experience and sagacity to govern, and virtue and intelli: | gence alone are rulers by divine mght, The tories called the resoluion for committees of cor- | respondence the source of the rebellion; butit | ‘Was only @ correspondence of town meetings, From that correspondence came the contederation | of the colonies, Out of that arose the closer ma- | Jestic union of the consutution, the greater | phcenix born from the ashes of the lesser, and the | Mational power and prosperity to-day rest se- oure'y only upon the foandation of the primary | meeting. Thatis where the duty of the citizens begins. Neglect of that is disloyalty to liberty. | No contrivance will supply its place, no excuse | | abeolve the neglect; aud the American who is | guilty of that negiect is as deadly an enemy of his country a8 the British soldier a century ago. But here and now I cannot speak of the New | England town meeting Without recalling its great | | genius, the New Engiander in whom the Revolu- | tion seemed to be most iuliy embodied, andthe | lofty prayer of whuse life Was @nswered upon this | spot and on this day. He was not eloquent like | Otis, nor scholarly like Quincey, nor ali-fa-cinating | like Warren, vet bound heart to heart with these | great men, his friends, the plainest, simplest, aus | terest among them, he gathered ali their separate | gifts, and add.ng to them his own, fused the whole | in the giow of that untiring energy, that unerring | perception, that sablime will, waich moved be- | fore the chosen people of the colonies a pillar of | cloud by day, @ Ore by night, Peopie of Massa- chusetts, your proud and grateul hearts oustrip my lps im pronouncing the name of Samuei Adams, Elsewhere to-day, nearer the spot where he stooa with bis immortal | iriend Hancock @ hundred years ago this morn- ing, a son of Massachusetts, Who bears the name of a iriendef Samusi Adams, and whose owao career has bonorabiy tllusiratea the fidelity of your State to humaao liberty, whl pay a fitting tribute to the lige American tribune of the peo- ple—the father of the Revolution, as he was fondiy Called. but we also are bis children aod must not omit our duty. » Until 1763 Si muel Adams aid not despair ot hdl ace ju) 1980 the quarrel with Great Britain. ¢ when! im Milly ot tmae yous oritisn ve | d.omney sailed into Boston Harbor, and her snotted | | guns were trained upon the town, he saw that the | | question was changed. From that moment he Anew that America must be iree or siave, and the | unceasing efurt of bis lue by aay and nights, ; Witn tongue aod peo, was to nerve bis fellow: | colonists to stf ke when the hour should come, On teat gray December evening, two years later, When he rose inthe Oid South, aud in @ clear, caim voice sail, ‘This meeting can do nething | more to save the country,” and so gave the word Jor the marca to tue teaships, he comprehended More clearly, pernaps, than any man in the colonies, the immense and eachiog conse | quences of his woras, He wasready to taruw the tea overboard because he was ready to throw | overboard the King aod Pariiament o’ England. During the ten years from the passage of the Stamp act :othe fignt at Lexington and Con- cord, this poor man, in ap obscure provincial town youd the sea, was engaged with the Brisisn Ministry ian one of the mightiest Contests that history records. Not a word in fariiamen: that he did pot bear, not an Sct in the cabinet that he did not ser, With prain &ud heart ana conscience alive, he opposed every hostile order in Council wita a British prece- Gent, ani arrayed agaloyt the governinent of Great Britain tne battery of principies impreg. Radle With the accumulated gtreag:n o| cenvuries Of Britisn conviction. Tae cvld Grenville, the brillant Towssend, the obsequious North, tae Tecciess Hilisborougb, the crafty Dartmvuntn, ali the ermined and coroneted eniets of the proudest aristocracy in tee wo id, derided, deciaimed, de- nounced, laid wojust taxes and sent troops to evi- lect them; cle:red loud.y by a servile Pariiament, the pi te of ahecdstrong King—and tne plain Boston Puritan wid his Gnger on the vital poiat of the tremendous ¢ versy ani held to it inexoraviy King, Loras, Commons, the people 0 Engiand ana tne people of America. Inirencued in ni8 oOWa Honesty, the King’s gold could not buy him. Ensurined im the jove of bis fellow cirizens, the King's writ coma not take him. And wen on this morning the King’s troops marcned to seize Dim, bis sabiime jalth saw beyond the clouds of the moment rne ris.Dg sun of the America twat we benvid, and, carsiess 0; Bim mind ai oaiy 0: his countrr, he exv & glorious morning Yet tits man heid tingly exclaimed, “Ob! what ho office bur that of Clerk of the Assembly, to nico he was yearly elected, and that of constant Moderator of tae town meetiaz jhis Was bis mighty weapon. The town meeting was the alarm bei vita wich he aroused the Contineat. It was the rapier wita when he ieneed With the Ministry. it was the claymore Wilh woich he amove tueir counsels, It Ws toe Onrp of @ thousand strings that He swept into a burst of passiona‘e defiance or an electric Cuil 10 arms of @ proud pwan of exulling iriamph. deflance, chalienge and exultation—all lifting the Continent 10 independence. His in- domitacie Will and command of tne popular con fioence pisyed Bostoa against London—the pio. Vinclal 1OWR meeung against the Parlia ment, Faneuil Hail against St, Step And 60 joug as the American town meeting 13 known iw great genias Will be \evered, who with the town meeting overthrew an empire, so jong as Paneutl Hall stands samuel Adaus will not want his most fitting monument; and when Faneul| Hail falls its nome wish pia wil be found written as with @ sunbeam upon every falthfu: American heart. The first imposing armed movement against the coioules on the 19th of April, 1776, did not, of cou take by surprise a people 8) prepared, For tem years they nud seen the possivility, tor five years the ebility, aud for east a year tie certainty, co Puey quietly orgau- 1 royal Governor, ( was a 6 » Dad re ans of mea. He hud fowrnt with tne provincial at the digody ambuscude of Bradaoce, and be the full oree of the mighty determination that exaiied New Engiand, fe had about 4,000 elective troops, (raimed veterans, witn | Kevere switly rode, that nigutin’ how many those wen aha Women Of Micdicsex migat break, but they c oust. anu as te up and answered the moun, moved sieadiiy song Sn @roured, aod sent iments, ordering siajor nies to hust i enemy they were dixmisseu He Was close at hand. olscover Wirnhio & mile ut [Wo oO iiaas OMecers, who despised and ridiculed the 2 Mita Massacvuserts had provided for a Constitutional army of 16.00 men. Minute com Panies were everywhere organized, and military Supplies Were deposited at convenient towns. Lvervbody was on tae wlert, Couriers were heid ready to alarm the country smuld the Britisn march, and wagons to remove the stores, in the eariy spring, Gage sent oat some ol bis ollicers as spies, aNd two of them came tn disguise us lar as Concord, On the 22d oi Maren the Provincial Coo gress met in this town, and made the lust arrange- Ments lor & possible Daitie, begging toe militia avd minute men fo be ready, but to act only on the As tue spring advanced it was piain that sone moveinent would be made, and on Monuay, we 7th Of April, the Committee o: Saiety ordered part of the stores deposited here to be removed to Sudoury and Groton and the cannon to be s% creted, On Ine day, the sth, Gage, Who had oe- cided to send 101ce to Lou stores, picketed the roads itm boston into Mid; Glesex to prevent any report of tue intended March {rom spreading ito the country, But the Very air Was @leciric, iu tue tension “of popular mind every sound and sight was significant. It Was part O/ Gage’s plau to seize Hancock aud Adams, Who were at Lexington, and on tle even~ ing o: the lsth the Committee of Safety at Cam- bridge sent them word to beware, lor suspicions oMcers were abroad, A britieu wrenadier, in juli uniiorm, went into a siop In Boston. He might a8 well bave prociaimed that ap expediti u was on foot. In the aiternoon one of the Governor's grooms strolied into a siavle where John Maliard was Cleaning a horse. Joon Ballard was a Son of Liberty, and when ihe groom iaiy remarked, ip nervous Lugiisn, hat “there would be heil to pay to-morrow,” ‘ohn’s heart jeaped ana his hand shook, aud ask- ing the groom to finish cleaning the horse, te ran to @ iflend, who carried the news straight to Aut Revere, woo told nim he had already hear it from two otber persons, Tuat evening, at ten o’ciock, 800 troops, under Lieutenant Colonel Smith, took boat at the lout of the Common and crossed to the Cambridge soore, Gage thought that his secret bad deen keps but Lora Perey, Who had heard the people say ob whe Common that the troops Would miss thei alm, undecvived bim, Gage instantly ordered that no oue shouid leave the town. but Dr. Warren was before bim, and as, the troops crossed tne bovevezer Hancock and Adams, wa Koxoury, and Paul Revere was rowing over | deiensive, piver, with bis Iriend Rovert Newmun to sbow lunverns jrom the beliry o: the Old North churca— One if by land ard two if by sea— asasignal of the march of the Britisn. ready the mooa Was Fising, aud while the troops were stealtouy landing at Lechmore Point theirwecret Was fasied out inio the April nigat, and J aul Re- vere, springing into the suddie upon the Char.es- town shore, spurred away Into Miudlesex, How (ar that litle candle throws his beams! | The modest spire yet stands, reverend reii¢ of the Olu town ol Boston, of those brave meu aud of their deeds, Starting tue land that night with the warning of dangel, let it remind thelaud for ever ol the pairiotism with whic that gauger was averted, and lor our chudren as for oursatuers still stana ure, the pharos of American liberty. It was a briliant April night. tne winter had been unusually miid and tle spring very forward, Tne hulls were alicady green. Toe early grain waved in the flelds and rhe alr was blossoming orchards, Aiready ‘he robins whistled, the biuebird sang and the oenedictivn oO: peace rested upou the landscape. moon the svidiers silently marched and gailoping through Med. ford ana West Cambridge, rousing every house us he went spurring for Leamington and Hancock and Acams, and evading th» Britsl patrois who had been sent out to stop the ne Stop the news! Already tae village churcies were beginning toring tie alarm, as te pulpita beneath tuem had been ringing ior many a year. In the awakening houses lights Mashed from win- dow to window. Drums beat faintly far away and vaul rd to destroy ihe | Dorr, wirn a message irom Warten to | riding over the N@ck to | he | river jurther down, to Charlestown, having agreed | sweet with | Under tne cloudiess | NEW YORK HERALD, MONDAY, APRIL 19, 1875, of iWbercy—a faith which his descendants nave plously cherished and tiustrated elore the word, Toe munute men herea hasuly upon the common Tbe citizens, hurryiog irom their homes. secreted 'be military stores, Messenge 8 were sent to the neignboring villa and wh peaceful town prepared for battle. The minute men 0; Lincoln, woose captain was William smith, and Whose ieutenant Was samuel Hoar, a name not unknown Ip Middiesex, in Massachusetis and lu the country, an’ wherever known 8/ ill hopored jor the HobIe-t qualities Of the men of the Kevoiu- OD, Had joined the Concord militia and mipate men, und partot them bad marched down the Lexington road to reconnoitre, Seeing the British, they tell back toward the bill over the road at the entrance of the village, upon which stood ihe iiverty pole, 1t was DOW seven .o’clock, There were, per- haps, 200 men in arms upon the hill, Below them, | upon the Lexington road, a quarter of a mile away Tose ,a thick cloud of dust, prowMy rolliag drums, 80d Brins: pavonets Dashed in the morping sun, The Americans saw that battle where they stood would be mere bu'cnery, und they ell gradually back to a rising ground about a mile north of the meeting house, the spot upon wuich we are Dow assem bled. The British troops divided as they entered the town, the Iiantry coming over the mill roi which the Americans tad retired, the marives and gerenatiers marching by the high road, Ine piace was well known to the British oilicers through their spies, and Colonel Smith, halt img before the Court House, instantly sent de- yachmenis to hold the two bridges and otners 1o destroy tne sror But so carefully hud these beer secreted tM#t during the two or three hours in which they were epgagea in the wok the Br.tish merely broke open about sixty barrels ot tour, hall of whicd Was aiterward saved, khocked off the trunnions of three cannon, burned sixteen new carriage WO els and some barrels of wWoouen spoons and treneners; they threw some 60 pouuds or bals into the pond and wells, cut agown the liberty pole and fired the Court house, ‘The work was hurriedly done, for Colonel Smith, a veteran soldier, Knew his peril, He had advanced twenty miles into @ country of intelligent aud resolute men, Who Were risiig around him. Ail Middiesex Was moving. Krom Acton and Lincola, irom Westiord, Littleton and Cuelis.ord, irom Bediord and Billerica, jrom Stow, and Var toe sous of Indian figoters and of soldiers of the old French war poured aiong the roads, shouidering the fireiocks and jowllog pleces and oid King’s arms that had seea JamoUs Service When the eurlier sectiers had gone out against King Pauip, or the Jater colonists bad marched under the flag on which George White- ficid oad written “Vu desperandum Christo Duce?’—Never despair while Corist 1s Captain; and (hose words the chudren of the Puritans had writte) on their hearts. As the minute men irom the other towns arrived they joined the sorce upon the rising ground pear the North Bridge, where they were drawn into line by Joseph iosmer, of Concord, Who acted as adjutant. By nine o’clock ‘some 500 men Were assembled, and i consultavion 0! officers and chiet cluzeas Was held. Loat group of Middlesex jarmers, bere upon Punsatasset, without thought that tney Were lerves, or tvat the day wud. its deeds were to be so momentous, is a from which, «ii | group a5 memorable as the meu of Kut ou the Swiss Alps, or ‘he barons in (he meadow of Runny mede, They conirouted the migitest empire In the world, thvincible ou lan, supreme on the sea, whose guos had just been heard tp tour cont nents at once, girding the giobe with victory. And that empire was their mocueriand, In whose renown they had saured—the land dear to !their heurts by a Luousand ties of love, pride and rever- ence, They took a sublime and awiul respon bility. Inéy could not know that the other coi- onies, oreven their peignbdors of Massacbusetts, would justify their action, There was as yet no Declarauion of independence, no Conti- pental army. There was, tudved, a gen- erai jeeling that a blow would soon ne struck, but to mistake tne time, the place, the way, might be to sucrifice the great cause ana to rum America. But th ir conscience and their Sudbury | judgment assured them that tue hour had come, | ‘ THE MINUTE-MAN. , the co! stop the sunrise! The the summous crew, Stop the IBurnariog Dight sO earnestly ex- das long & aloug the Syriin was dead, but in and loyal neurt to portend the assing glory oO! Britiso: ominion and the tragical Chance of War, it Whispered .o them wisn ¢ phetic inspiration, “Goud will to men: Ameri 4s born |" There 16 @ tradition that long before the troops reacved Lexington an unknown horseman thon dered at the door 0: Cu) tain Josepn Revolms ia The hearts of d not waver. [hey had counted tne they Kuew what and whow tuey served; MidMEht summons came they started ‘Here am 11” Meanwhile the #ri bayonets, “n clstening in ne road, Uolunel the country was top for reiutore a Wilh sik Compa. the bridges at that » '@ard aod saw vack rite aad ward concord, I evere aad Dorr hud reached Lex- ingion OY Midoleut and hac given tue wiarm, ‘ne men of Lexington stanly iuacered op the green, oUt as there was uomgd of the ) await his coming. Picairn apn r abd Was pot pas rin ‘he morging, Lexing ing house, izing every man : dati I on Toen there Was a genera: ior mil Ten, droms veat, guns Gred anus xiy or seventy of the Lexington miiitia were drawu up in ime upom the greeu. Captain Joun Parker a toward Concord, six mies bey Four aours before raw Kev and Boeuezer Dorr nad jet Leximaton to & cord, and Were §uon overtaken by Dr, Samue: Pr aeott, of that tows, «ao had deen to Lexingion upon & tenver errand.’ A Hritish | atroi captured Revere and Dorr, but Prescovt ieape at wail and dasned on vo Concord. ve one and #0 o'clock in the morhing Amvs Me vin, tae sentiuel at tue Court House, rang tu ov roused tne town, fe sprang OF bervic st Ones of Ws family thirty years betore v in ed a.com any at L wisbarg abd ano wi Point, wht e our ners fyed i the late war, and toe heno 1 2 tntee who perwied are carved our soid ” naent. Wien tne bei first man [hat appeared was Wiliam (uwerson, whe wupister, with iis gon i wand. Lb hig With tia) the scuolay should ve the minute man on every Side. Signal znns fiasbed and echoed. | ‘The Watch dous ba ne trembled with pected, so creaded, so desir the voice rapg out at mi shore, walling tuat grea the same moment the choiring anucls Wompered, “Glory to God in the Mgnest, jor Christ is born,” go, tf {he s*ern alarm 0 twat April bight seamed 'o many a& wistfui Acton, waking every Mau anu Womaa and tue base in the cradie, shouting tvat the regaiars were marching 10 Concora und ‘hat the rendez- vous Was the old Nerta bri Captaia Roooins’ 00, a buy of ten years ru the stuimons im the garret where ne lay, ana ins (cw minutes Was vn bis jatner's old ware, aYoung Pudi Revere, gal loping #long the road (0 rouse Captain Iswac Davis, wio commanded the minure menor ACton. Le Was 4 young ad o1 thirty. a vunemity wy trade, brave and thoogniiu!, abd tend*ri¥ Oud oF Dts wile and Jour ciliren. ‘Lue company assemoled , at bis shop, formed an aed & tie way, when Ge halted ty a returned Jor & MOment to his house, Li to nis Wile, “Lake good eare Oo! tie euildr kissed her, turned fo ois en. gave the order to mutch, aud BAW his home NO More. Such Was (he Wetory OF swi tly avvenced, | thew bead. | The Brilish vayourts, gi ag in the dawn, moved rapidiy towar Piteurn rede ap | Quid angriy ordered tue mi © suireader and Gisverse. But they hela their ground, Lue troops fired over theif @.0%, Stil) tue mite stand shed & Geadiy Vole, viuzed irom iy ine, Gud eig@nt oF the Americau4 ieli dead and tem Wouuded at the doors of (ner homes and in signs ol their Kmdred. Captain varker, seeing thas 16 Was Wassacre. DOL Dili, ordered wis man to dusperse. fhey wbeyed. some feng upon the enemy. The Brite troops, who sad suffered litue, With & loGd huzza of vie.ory, pusned on Before them lay their homes, ang, on the hill be- youd, the graveyard in whicn their foreiathers Sept, Agnarao tne King’s troops opposed their entrance to their own Village. Those troops were @t oat Moment searching their homes, perhaps x their wives and Children. Already they joke a8 Of burning |ouses rising in the a they resolved to march toto the town and upon the (roops I! they were opposed. They Tesvived upon organize, agmre-sive, iorcibie re- sist nee to the military power of Great Britarn, the first that had been offered in the colonies. All uncousciously every hear beat time to the music ol the slave's epitaph in the graveyard that uver- bung the (own— God wills us free: man wills us slave) T will as God wills; God's will be do Isaac Davis, of Acton. drew his sword, tarned towerd his company, and sala, “I naven'ca man that's afraid to go."!) Cowone: Barrett, of Concord, @ave ihe order ts march, In doubie fle ana with trailed arms the men “oved along the causeway, the Acton company in front, Major Joan Buttriek, Captain Isaac Davie, of \cton, and Jolene! Jooh Rovertson, of Westiord, As they approucned the pridge witadrew across it and began to take Up the planks. Mujor Buttriek ordered Ms mea tv Husteo tacir maren. As ame wii bin ten or fiiteeu recs of the bridge a shor was fred by the Bridisb, which Wounued Jonas Brown, one o the Concord minute men, and Luther Bianchard, fifer of the Actoo cvmpany. A Lritish volley ioliowed, and Isaac Davis, of Acton, maxing a Way If nts countrymen, uke Arnold yon Winkeiried at Sempach, veil dead, snot through the beart, By ms side reli his frievd and nei hoor, Aber Mo-mer, a youth of twenty- Seeing them jall, Major bu trick turned Mea, avi, raising 18 NAN, cried, “Fire, idiers: tor sake, Dre!” Joni But wave tue word. ihe cy rang along the ine. \meficans fret, The Rev wntion ve- gan: it vegan here, Let us put off toe si row our ieet, or the piace whereon we stand grouad, One of te Britwh was killed, several were wouuued, and they retreated in coniusion toward the centre vu! the Village. Tne engagement was coudiless seem ty Smith and fitcairo trom the graveyard ii that overlooked the own and t shots were neard by ali the searching partes Which immediatey returoed tn huste order. Coonel Smith justanciv prepared to reare, and at non, |00 yeas ag at tos hoar, tie britis: columys mi. ched out Oo: sonder square. then and there began the retreat of Biitisa power jiom tbe American coionies. ihroogh seven Weary and Wasting years it contioned, From inker iil to Long Island: from Princeton, irevtoa «Qt Saratows; irom tie Brandy win Monmvuts and King's Mountain; through ¢ Diooay snow at Valley Forge, througn the treachery of Arnold and of Lee througa cabais und douvt and poverty aad uempair; buc steadiy Orged bY OMe great heart that strengtuened tne coutinent =the hears oi George Waahingtou—(be British retreat went on irom \oncord Bridge and Lexingion green to t plains of Yo: kiown and me King's acknowledgment of American inde penderce. Os (ue beginning Of this retreat, of that terribie march oO! the exhausted troops trom thia square to boston, | have uo Lime Atiy to tell tne tae. Aimost as S000 a8 It began ail Maesacausetts Was ia motig, Wiliam Preacots muacered pis regiment o minute men at Pepperell and Simotny Vicker: ing at sa and Mai diehead. Vevnain isit no an ob 9 between [.@ ages of sixteen and seventy. fe imiaute men oO Worcester inarched out Of the (own obe Way as the news went our the otier and, fying over the mounrains, sent Berk shire to Bunker Hil, Meanwhiie the men of Con cord ane the neinoorkoud, iehowing the Brith over ine luge, fan along the — hewh nove the Lex agton rod and posted tnem- ves Wo await te enemy, ‘The retreat , birth unr wine sweeping siowiy, NO the hushed As sation he troops rriam's Corner, a litue beyond Concord, ward Was Catiea in, they turn d idecie aed dred avon tae Americans, “Phe twit. | Nberty is the soie guarantee o | marched to die or be tree. | Work before. ote men and militta instan(ly revorned the fre, aud the battle began wat lag cd guril sunset, When Colonel Smith oricred tae retreal although he and bis oficers may have hai some misgivings, they had probabiy Jost them in the contempt of regulars jor the militia, But from the moment of the Uring at Merriam’s Corner they were undeceived, The lundacape Was alive with armed men. ‘They swarmed through every wood th and 0) Way, across the pastures and over the ills, Some came up in order along the roads, as trom Reading und Billerica, from Kast Sudbury fod Bediord, and Jobn Parker's company Irom, Lexingion waited in a woouy defile to avenge the death of, their comraues, The British commn marched steadily ou, while from trees, rocks and Jences, irom houses, barus aud shecs, blazed the withering American fire, ‘The tulis echoed and flashed, the woods rang, the road became an end- less ambuscade of fume, The Americaus seemed to the appulied British troops to drop irom the clouds, io spring irom the earth, With every slep the attack was deadiler, the danger more | time discipline and the ol ‘the peri sustained the order Of tie Briush line: but the stifling clouds of dust, the consumiug thirst, the exhaustion o: utter fatigue, te wawons fuil of wounding men moaning and dying, mnadly pressing through tne ranks [0 the !ront, the constant falling of their comrades, oficers captured and killed, and through ali the Jatal and BONt shot Of AU Unseen Joe, smote with eri or ughty column, which, shrinking, bleeding, Waverlug, reeled through Leximgrou panic stricken and broken, ‘The officers, seeing the dire extremity, ought their way to the front, and threatened the men with death if tuey advanced, ‘The breaking ine recoticd @ littie, aud even steadied under one Ol the sharpest altacks of gay. For noc as yet were slave Americans, and it was Engiish blo d and pluck on both sides, At two o'ciock in the after- noon, a bali mile bevond Lexington meeting house, Just as the English oMcers saw tat de struction or surrender was the only alterna. tive, Lord Percy, with a reimforcement of 1,200 men, came up, and opening witu two cannons upon the Americans, succored nis fying and des- perate comrades, who ieli upon the ground among Percy’s trocps, their parched tougues nanging trom tei mouths. The flower of Genera) Gage’s army was now upon the field, but its commander saw at once that 18 sole hope of saicty was to continue the retreat, Atter naif an hour’s delay the march was resumed, and with it the barvarities as weil as the sufferings of war, Lora Percy threw out flanking parties, which enveyed the tiouses upon the line of mareb, plundering ana burning, The fieids of Menovomy or Arlington, through woich lay the road, “became a plain of bdiood and fire. But the American pursuit was relentiess, and beyond Lexington the lower counties and towns came hurrying to tne battle, Many a man alterward jamous was con- splcuous that day, and near West Camoridge Joseph Warren was the inspiring soul ol Che strug. imminent for some plain extremity gle. it was now past five o’clock, The British ammunition was giving ont. The officers, too miuco exposed tn the saddle, alighted and marched with tie men, Who, a8 they approached Charies town, encountered General Gage bad learned the perilous extremity Ol his army rem a messenger sent by Percy, and had issued & prociamation tlreatening to lay Charlestown 12 ashes li the trooys were attacked in the streets, Tae town hummed with the vague and appalling rumors of the events of the day, and {ust bere sunset the excited imhabitants heard the distant guns and soun saw the Briuish troups runuing alung the old Camoridge road to Cnarlestowo Neck, firing as they came. They nad Just escaped the militia, 700 sirong, Jrom Salem and Ma:b.ehead—the flower of kssex—and as the sub Was selfing they entered Charlestown ana vallted the shelter of their figate guvs,. Then Geneial Heath ordered tse American pursuit to stop and the bacde wasrover. But all that day and aight the news Was fying from mouth to mouth, irom heart to heart, rousing every city, towa and solitary farm inthe colonies; and ve- fore tae last shot of the minute men on the British retreat rom Concord Bridge was fired, or the last wounded grenacier had been rowed across the river, the whole country Was rising; Massachusetts, New England, America, were closing around the city, aud the siege of Boston ana the war of Awerican incependence had pegun. Such was the opening battle of tie Revolution, a conflict which, §o lar as we can See, saved civil Noerty in two hemispheres, Saved Engiand as well as America, und Whose magaificeat results shine through the world as the beacon tignt of Iree popular government, And who won tiis victory ? The minute weu and muita, wuo in the history of our Engiiéu race have veen nlways the vanguard Of (reedom. The minutes mau of the American Kevo- lution ~ who was be? He was the busoand ans fatuer Who, bred to love liverty, and to know that lawiul peace and prog- Tess, leit the plough in the furrow and the tiam- Mer on the benca, and, Kissing wie and emldren, He Was the son and lover, tae plain, shy youth of the singing school aud ilage choir, Whose heart beat to arms Jor bis Country, aud he let, thoagh ne could not | gay, With the oid English cavaue T could not love thee. deare, Lov.d I not honor more. 0 much, The minuie man of the Kevulution. He was th old, the middie-aged ana the young. He wag be weot Guptato Miles, of Concord, who suid tai to battie us he went to churen, He was Captaim Davis, 0! Acton, who :eproved ois men jor jesting onthe march. fie was Deacon Josian Haynes, of Sudoury, eighty years old. who marched with ius coupauy to the souta Briage at Concord, taen joined in the hot pursuit to Lexington, anwiell as joriuusiy as Warren at Banker Hill, He was lames Hayward, of Actou, twenty-Lwo years old, foremost lu that deadiy hes irom Concord to Caarioston, who raised lis Mece at tue same mo- ment with a British soi each excmiming, “You are a dead man!” Tue Briton dropped, saut through the veart. Jame» Hayward tel: mortaily wounded. “Father,” ne said, “4 started with :orty bails; IL have three ieft. i never did such a day’s ell mother Hot to Mourn too MUCK y and tell ter wnoml love more toau my moiner ‘hat Lum not sorry | taroed out.” ‘his Was the Huinte man oF the Revolution, the roral citizen trained in the commun scnooi, the eburch, and the town meeting, Wao carried a Dayonet taat thougut, and Waise gun, loaded with B princivle, brougit down bot @ mao, DUL a sys tem. Him we gratefully recwii to-day. yoo maniy figure wrougot in the metai which but JTeeviy typities his iexorane will, we commit in is iMMortal youth to tue Teverence o| our chil- Gren. And here amon; these peace:ul fields; here ib the county Whose children Orst gave their biood lor American union and independence, aud eighty-six years jater gave it frst aiso for a truer upon ana @ larger lioerty; here, in the heart of Middlesex, comniy of Lexingion and Concord and Bunker itil, stand jast, Sop of Liberty! as the minute man stvca at toe oid North bridge. But savuld we or our sescequanis, false to iiberty, faise to justice aud humanity—vetray in any Way their cause—spring into ié as a huadred years azo, take one step, descend and iead us, as Goe led you, iG saving America, 10 suve tue Lopes ol man. At tue end of acentury we can see the work of this day as our latners Cudid nots We can see that theu the tiual movement bean of a process loog AW UuconscioUsiV preparing, Which was to in- trust liverty to new forms aod mstitutions tiat see wed juli of hapgy promise jor mankind, And now jor wi @ century waat was lormeriy galled the e: Iinent ol a seutative repuo- re lic Of imperial exient and power has beea tried, Has it iuitines ¢ ; opes of its louuders and tae ust: Xp ukind? 1 have alreacy .a lortanate ¢ Bdruons, acd id splendid te Carly growth apa development were, Odr material statistics soon dazzied the word. Europe no longer red oul gazed iu wonder, waiting and Our population doubled every fiifen d our wea every ten years. very 1@ siream amucg the hills tora amid; ana the great ivianu se.s, bound by tue genus of Chotoo to the ocean, became we hinhway ol yuNnGless CoMMmerce, (he pata Oi ab Uoprecedenied empire, Our iarus were the gfumary of vtuer lanas. Our covion feias made Eugiaud rich, Sil We chased tue wuaie in ihe Pace Ocean, and took Osu in the tumbling seus of Labradur. We bung out iriendly lights aong thousands o| miles Ol coast to tempt Lue trade oO: every clime; aud Wherever on the dim iin of the g.obe there was @ harbor it was whe with American sans, Mean Waile at home the poutical Joreooding of lederal ism had dicu away, and 1's Very Wall seemed & tribuie to the pacific giories of vué land. rornament of beauty is of A crow (wat ies in heaven's sweetest air. The governinent was jeit to be bat # Baud Of pro- tection aud ule labor Was sully emp.oyed; Capiiai Was secure; tie ayMY Was a jest; enter- Prise WAS busing inrough ihe Alieghuuies, hrasp jug and setting the «| Dorado of tue prairies, aud SUli, oraving the *1ideruess reached out toward the Kocky Mountains, aud, reversing the Voyaxes 9! Columbus, reviscoverea the Old World irow the New. America Wa. ‘ne Beajamiu oO! nations, the best bewved 9 ieaven, and tue starry fag o1 the United Siatos ‘ished ‘a ioe Of celestial light around the world, the harbinger o: ireedom, peace and provp ] Was the vision &@ the exulting faith of flity years ugo, “Atlantis hath risen from tue ocean ere| Edward Everett to applauding Harvard; aud Daniel Weovster answered irom isuower Hill, “ii we Jail popuiar goveroments ure ImMpossibie.”’ So jar as they could sve tuey atoud among the uuchanged condinous of the early Republic. Ad tuvse conditions aré familiar, ‘The men woo founded tae Republic Were few in num- ber, planted cuiehy along & Vemperace coast, re- mote irom the word. They were & homogeneous peopic, increasing by their Own muitipication, S)eaking the Sime langoage, of the same geueral reiwious faith, ecnerishmg the same misto:te And political ‘travitions, universally eaucatea, har! taritiy, with general uaity of Jo-vune, ud long ana iMteiligent practice d: Feil government, while the avery that existed among them, inhuman tn itse:, was Not seriousiy Gerended. and Was vereved to be disappearing. Buy within the las’ ball century causes then latent, ° jOily iWealcniaole helore, have radically changed those conuitions, and we enter upon the secon © the Republic with responsibiit ties whic er our juuners nor the men of fllty years ago could possibiy foresee, inink. or instance, of the change wrougnt by foreign jaunigration, with ali its Lecessary con sequences, in ine » of MaSsachtisetts (o- ay the number tizens of soreiwn birth wi ve no tradi‘ional association with the story ¢ n erd and Lexington is larger than tie entire poptiation of the State on the day o} iho frst fity years vier the bathe brougit to the whole country iewer immigrants thao sre now living in Masswchuse alone, At the end of ur. Everett stood here, “0 lees Coa 400,000 loreign Lmgranls bad Come to | back, 1 utver defea that bali centary, wir the | Hegsians hired to en- | directed, to assimilate w: the hottest fire of the day, | —-La—— this country, but in the ofty years that have sine elapsed, that immigration lias been more that 9,000,000 of persons, The ceed gd population io the lase Ofty years has advanced somewhat mou than three-iold, the foreign immigration more {nao thirty-fold, so that now immizrants and the children of immigrant narter of the who popuiation, Lhis enormous influx of foreigne: a8 added ao Immense ignorance and entire un- fumiliarity with be acre ge ideas and habits ta the voting class. It has brought other poiitical traaitions, other languages and other religious Jats, If has introduced poweriul ana organized influences not friendly to the republican principle of treedom o/ thought and action. It is to the change produced by inmigration that we owe t first serious questioning of the public school sse tem, Which was the nursery oi the early republic, and which 1 to-day the pailadium of iree popu government. Do not misunderstand me. I not lamenting even in thougnt the boundiess hospitality o! America, J do Rot forget that the whule Europeap race came hither but yesterday, and has been do- mesticated here not yet three hundred years, I am not insensivle of the proud claim of ‘America to be the reruge of the oppressed of every cline, nor dol doubt in her Maturity her power, tfauly je nations, tf need asin her iniancy sie acbieved her independen end iu her prime maintained her unity, sut it she has bevn the hope of the world, and 18 so still, 118 because yshe as Understood both the condi- tous aud the perils of freedom, and wato' care. fully the changing conditions uoder woich repub- lican liberty 18 to be maintained, She wil sui) welcome to her ample bosom all wno choose to be called ber children, but if she 1s to remaim the mother of liberty it will not be the result -ot those craven counsels whose tyye is the ostrich burying his head in the sind, bUL of that wise and verole Statesmanship whose symbol is her own heaven-soaring eagle, gazing undazzied even the spots upon the sun. Again, within the century steam has enormonsl, expanded tue national domain, and every adde mile 18 an added strain co our system. The mar- yellows ease Oo! communication both by rail and telegraph tends to obliterate conservative local lines and to make @ fatal centratization more possible. ‘The telegraph, which instantly ecaoes the central command at the remoiest pi int, be- comes both @ faciiity and a temptation to exe: cise command, While below upon the rail the armeu blow swiltly jollows the word that flies along the wire, Steam concentrates popula tion in cines. Bot when the govern- ment was lormed tie peovle were stricuy rural, and there were but six cities with 8,000 inhavitants or more. In 1790 only one-thir- tletn of (ne population was in cities; iu 1870 more than oue-flith, Steam destroys (he vatural dit culties of communication; but tnose very dificule ties are barriers against lnvasion, and protect We indepensence of each littie community, the true joundation of our [ree repudi:can system. Lo New Engi.nd the characterisuc Vilage and iocal lire of the last century perishes in the age of Meanwhile the eno: mous accumulation of engaged in great enterprises, with unscrupulous greed of power, constanily 'ends to muke itseil leit in the corruption of the press which mouids pubic opinion, and of the Legisiavure whic makes the laws, [bus steum anu the telegraph tend to the concentration of capiial and the consolidation of jitical power, a tendency which threatens ioerty, and ‘which was Wholly unkpown wien the republic began, and was unsuspected fy years ago, Sweet Liberty is u mountain nymph, because mountains baile the pursuer. But tie toventions that level mountains aud ane nibilate epace alarm that gracivus spirit, who sees her greater insecurity. But stay, heaven eyed maid, and stay turever! Behold, our aevoted Wills snuil be thy invincible Atps, onr loyal hearts thy secret bower, the spirit of our fathers a cid o: adamant that engineering skul cau never pierce no. any jue can scale! But the most jormidayle problem for popular governmen* which the opening of our second century presents springs irom a source which Was uususpected a wundred years ago, and Wuich the oracors of filty years siuce Jorbure to name, This Was tbe system Of slave labor which vanished in civil war, but slavery had not been the latal evil that 16 was, Mf with its abolition ite consequences had disappeared. It hoide ua suii in mortmaio. Its aead hand is strong as its living power Was terrible, Ewancipation has leit the Republic exposed to anew and extraor ainary trial of tue principles ana practices ot free government, A civilizauion resting upon slavery a8 formerly in part of the country, how. ever polished and ornate, ix necessarily Aristo cratic aod hostile to republican equality, whie the exigencies Of suck a society lorbid that universal education which is ind:speasaoie to wise popular government. When war emancipates the siaves and makes (hem equal citizens, the ignorance and Venaiity wiich are cue fatal legacies of slavery te tho suvject Class, whether white or black, aud the paturat alicnation of the master class, woich alone has Vesta Kuuowledge and e€Xx+ perience, with all tne secret conspiracies, the reckless corruption, the political Knavery, springing naturally from such @ situation aud euding olfen im menacing disorder that seems to invite the military interierence aod supervisivn of the government—all this accamu- ation oO: difficulty aud danger lays @ strain along the very fibre vi [ree institutions. For it suggests the twoiold question wether the vast addition oi the ixnurance of tue emincipated vote to that of the immigrant yove ‘may not overwhelm che inieiizeut vote ui the country, and whetuer (he constant appeai to the cenital hana 0! power, however necessary It may seem, and for whatever reason 0: unmanity and jastice itmay be Urged, must Not necessarily destroy that local self-reliance waich Was the Very seed OL the American Republic, and fatally tamilarize the Gountry wiih that ewmpivywent of miliary power Which is inconsistéat with Iree insticutions, and bold resistance 'o which bas jorever consecrated the spot ou Which we siand, These are some of the more onvious changes in the conditions under whic« toe Repuodlic 18 to be maintainea. I mention them rely; out every wi patriot sees and pouders them. Does ne tueretore vespond! feavea jortia! When was there ever on auspicious Gay tor humanity ti Was not one of douvs and of conflict? ine rooust morai Manncod of America Conironts the luture with steadfast faith aod indomitavle will, raising the old ba'Ule ery of tne rece jor surer 1aw aud Jarger liverty, It sees ciouds, indeed, as Sam Adams saw them when tis day dawued. But ‘With nim it sees through and through them, and with him thanks God tor the glorious moraing. ‘There is, 1adeed, @ Jashion of scepticism Of Adierl+ can principies eveu among some Americans, out if is one of the oidest and worst lashiene mm our history. There cynicisin whion Jondiy tances that ih 118 beginmivg the American Republic moved proudy towara the jutare with ail the splenuid assurance of the Persian Xerxes descending oN the shores ot Greece, but that it sits to-day among saattered hopes, like Xerxe@ avove Mis ships at Sulamis, And when was tig goloen age? Was it when Jonn Adams app id Irom the baseness of his own time to tae greate candor and patiiotisin oF th Was uw wheo Fisuer Ames mourned over iost America, like Rachel tor ner ciidren. aad would not be com- jorved ? Was it when William Wirt said oe sought in Vain for a man fil ior ine Presidency or jor great it when Chancelior a Li threatening — future responsivility? Was ingsron saw only because Congress Ww so feeviet Was it Wien we oUrseives saw the industry, the commerce, tue society, the Churen, the courts, the statesmansnip, the couscieuce of America seemmyly ;rostrate under the joot of Biavery ? Was tis tw golden age of these senti- Mental sight—tiis the region behind \he perth wind «f these reproachiul regrets? Aud 18 it tua young naiten wich, with prayer and futn, with untiring devo\ton ond ancouqueraole will, bag liited its brursed and broken body irom ve near Me crushing heel Whose suture 18 dis tusied ¥ Nay, this very cynicism is one of the foes that We must mee: ana conquer. Remember, iellow Cit Zeus, thal (le Impulse Of repurican govero ment, given a ceniury «go at the vid . orth Bitaye, has shakeu every goverament in (he worid, but bas oveu iraeli Wholly unssagken by them. It hag Mase mouarcay imposs.oe in France. It nas ireed the Kasstan seris, [t nas uuited Ger Many agains: eccesastical despuiism. It bus fasced inte tee ait OF Spam. It bas eman- Cipated italy, und discrowned the Pove as GiUg. beland, repealiog (ue disabilities of Catnoite and Heorew, tt jorecasts tue separation 0 Churca Aud State, a dS e> os Step traus.orme monarchy into avocier form of ;epuolic. And here at howe How wiottous 18 story! tua tremeudous war u tween men of the same bloo. —men who recognize ani respe-t cach ofhe:'s valor- we wave proved Wildl Fas always dowvled, tae prodigions poser, endurance and resources of & repuviic, aod Im eMancipatius ap ¢1.ut) of ‘he popaiaton we have Ab last vained tue iii ppo.taniy oF the repuuli- cau pribeiple. Sir, 15 $8 Gas signal felicity of this Occasion that ou the iaoureth anoiver- Bary of the Urat bat in the war of Amer. Jesh inde,encence, | may salute you, wna Jed to Viclory tne citizen sulciers of American Loerty, as tae frst elected President cl tne free Kepubic oO tie Caved States, Fortunate man} to Waom God has gi the priceless VON Of asso clating your name with that triumph of freed Wh ch Wil presently bine the Bust aod the W the Norta and the 5 uth, ina closer and more pede t uuton jor the establisament ot justice and Lhe securl y vu) the Diessings Of livery than these States nave ever Kuown, Fellow citizens, that anion is the lolry task witcu this hallowed day and this sacred spot impose upon us, And what ciond Of doubt so dark hangs over us 4s that which lowered above the colonies When tne troopa of the King marcheo into this town, aud the men oF Middiesex resvived to pase coe bridge’ With their fut h and their will we shall their victory, No royal Governor, indeed, in yon stately capital, no Nestle Heet ioe many @ year has vexed the wacers of vur coasts, nor is aay army bat our own ever likely to tread our soil, Notsuch are our enemies to-day. ‘iney dy not come proudly avepping to the drum-oeat, With bayonets Hasning in whe morning sun, Bul wherever party spirit shali strato the ancient guarantees of freedom, or bigotry und igno rance shall lay thetr fatal hands upon ean cation, or the urrogance of caste shat strike al equal riguts, or corruption shall poison the very springs of national itie, nere, minute men of liberty, are your Lexington green ang Concord bridge, and as you love your country and your kiud, and would have your emidren rise uy and cali you blessed, spare wot the enemy f Over the bis, oat or the earth, down from tne pour in resistiess mint. Fire trom every na tree, trom door and window, trom Weorthatone and chamber; hang apon his flank and rear irom noon fo eunset, and so tnrougn jand biaging Witt boly indignation hurl the hord ol ignorance And corrapTion and injustice back al FUL, — a | | I