The New York Herald Newspaper, April 20, 1875, Page 5

LIBERTY! Centennial Celebrations at Concord and Lexington Yesterday. THE REVEILLE GUN. A Ringing of Bells and a Rattle of Drums. STEPPING ON HALLOWED GROUND. The Sons of Revolutionary Sires on the First Battle Field. AN IMPOSING PAGEANT. Brilliant Gathering of Federal and State Officials. THE PRESIDENT AND CABINET Grations by Ralph Waldé Emerson and George William Curtis at Concord. UNVEILING THE STATUES | Addresses of Charles Hudson and Richard H. Dana at Lexington. A GENERAL STAMPEDE. the Concord Dinner Guests Were Disappointed. How SUFFERINGS OF THE PILGRIMS. Hasty Retreat by All the Distin- guished Visitors. Bosrow, April 19, 1875. The day has been a busy and a brilliant onein Boston, in Lexington and in Concora, snd in- deed all along the route pursued by the British | grenadiers 100 yeara ago, At avery early hour | Immense crowds began to gather both at the Fitchburg and boston and Lowell depots; and, toough each train carried a multitude away with | It, fresh crowds tovk tne place of tne departed Visitors, and at times it was bardly possible to | do more than get within sight o/ the train, THE SCENES. At about halt-past seven Governor Gas- ton, the Council and his staf, accompanied by Vice President Wilson and the of both branches of tne State Legislature, left the State House for the Fitchburg depot nd departed for the scenes of the day’s festivities at eight o’clock. The ancient and honorable artille:y company, always graud im the revival of bisturic events, gathered at their rendezvous at the Cradie of Liberty at an early hour, and, onder the command of Mayor Follett, moved at nine o'clock aud with tne other military companies added to the crowd and con- fusion at the depots. By ten o’clock seven | trains had been despatched from tne Lowell Gepot; bat at that time the crowd was so im- Mense and the coniusion so great that the ticket office had to be closed, and the seiling of tickets | Bnd even the running of trains jor @ short time Were suspendod. Atine Fitchburg depot matters were better Managed; but, even at noon, at least 1,000 people Were there waiting ior transportation. Besides the railway accommodations every avatiable | team in Boston and all the neighboring towns | Of course every one was @ stranger in town, and | hand were well worth seeing. members | | other suitable emblems. bad been pressed into service, a the | jong line of march and retreat of the regulars was — Alled with vehicles of every Kind long voiore the Beep of day, and the pilgrimage continued op tii Siternocn. | the day cawn jena, though the | Moroing wascoid. Unilke (no day of the bastio, {00 years ago, when toe peach trees were in bioom, the Geids oud roads were to-day frozen, Whe thormemotor registering twenty-two degrees six o'clock A, M., The Ovndition of the } fonds sor ching «owas much beter | Shao Obticipated, however, nearly sil the Wveete belog quite dry, with the exception of the thin mud op the sidewalks. All through th snd morning the arrival of carriages was ince | Sant, and overy availiable spot im toe village was the receptacie of vebicles o! all sizes and patterns, Many of toe Visitors wore uuprovided with beds Sud Were compelied 10 wander about all night, But the town was resplendent with bunting ana fecorations, and at break of day y of the townspeople Were still occupied in giving the finishing touches to their aweilings, There was Sardly @ ouilding im the whole village whion tad got put on holiday attire, anda Concord lady, who was, peraaps, not a poetess, but none ti e868 & palriot, expressed the general seuse of isinction When she raid, “Well, if we haven't beat Lexington on fags then | never!” THE MOKNING SALUTE. At the rst streak of aawa a full battery of ar- tulery thaadered along the read from Lexiogion, apd proceeding through the towo to the pau | tnhown as “the artiliertsts,” at toe Old Norton Bridge, they wheeled their guns into position and paid tribute to this beautiial April moretug. found a | The reve: veration of the reveille gon “prompt response in the ringing of church velis and the beating of drums by the military ali aiong tue line, and thus, an hour after s2n- tse, the inaugural features of the cele. bTullon Were ended. As tbe morning pro- gressed, the sounds of martial music Were neard | item one eXtreme of the town to the ovber, and Wiiiteary pageautry was seéa everywhere. The Various organizations, whica had been assigned | 1 the five divisions of the procession, | Marcbea = =nnd countermarchod tii pine | O'ojo*%, When that cammanand te form, Tha | Threanoid.” | Deering (he words “Ho First division met on -Main street, the Second division on Middle street, the Third (or Gubernatorial) division on Sudbury street, the Fourth on Sudbury and the Fif}n on Thoreau | street, The general formation of the procession | was under the direction of General Francis 0, Barlow, Chief Marshal, and nis aids, The lateness of the arrivals precluded the poss bility of a prompt formation, ana tor nearly an | hour it was confusion worse contounded every- where in the neighborhood where the divisions were forming. President Grant spent the night at Judge Hoar’s, and remained indoors all the morning, until 1% was time for him to take his place in the procession. Vice President Wilson occupied his carriage with bim. THE PROCESSION, They bad not long been in this place when the signal for the start was given, and the great pro- ceasion, two miles in length, slowly moved through the village to the first battle ground of | the Revolution, ‘The streets on the line of march were perfectly jammed with spectators, who occupied every con- ceivable point of observation. Especially was this the case on the square occupied by the soldier: monuments, Which is in the centre of the village. The head of the procession reached the battle ground about half-past ten o'clock, put it was nearly twelve before the whole col- umo had arrived on the ground. The exercises in the pavilion were according to the Programme previously announced, and were acarcely interrupted by the breaking down of a part of the platform near where the President was sitting. The accident was barmiess in every re- spect, Judge E. R. Hoar actedas president of the day. Raiph Waldo Emerson unveiled French's statue of The Minute Man. Mr. James Russell Lowell’s poem followed, and the oration of George William Curtis closed the formalities of the day. A? LEXINGTON, in Concord, the first tokens of approaching day were hailed by the ringing of bells and the boom- ing of cannon, The liie and bustle began with the early morning. Organizations were moving to andiro. Bands were playing and gay uniforms were flashing in the sunlight. The costumes of the Minute men, attractive from their antiquity and legance—cocked hat, plumes, knee breeches and leggings—were objects of universal admiration, and crowas of people, who had come merely for the gratification of looking at the sbow, found ample means for gratilying their curiosity. Large companies of civilians wandered about here and there, pausing @ moment in front of the old Har- ringson House, the Buckman Tavern and other Telics of the days of old, to read the mottoes and inscriptions, and exebauge a word in rela ton to those historic times, A‘ soon as the Cary Library, where hundreds of relics were on exhibition, was opeued, many peo- ple improved their leisure in examining the souvenirs of the Revolution. Marshals were in great demand, and every man who wore @ badge was forced to believe himself a walking guide-post, from the many questions put to him, wanted to know all about the celebration, bay almost evers ope he questioned was @ stranger, too; and so away went the questioner none the wiser for bis inquiry. Ip generai the people were in the vest of humor and ieit disposed to make the best of everything, while the sights on every THR DECORATIONS upon the Common where t e battle was fought, on the streets, the public buildings and private Tesidcences were of the most elaborate descrip- ton, and formed one of the most pleasing, as well Qs patriotic, features o1 the ceebration. Most of the nouses im the central part of the own were adorned in hunor of the aay in one jorm or am other, the patriotism of tue inhabitants Moding expression in abundant dispiays of the Stars and Stripes and mottoes. Many of the mottoes con- sisted 0] words used by their ancestors upon thas memorable day, and were inscribed on shields, on red, white and blue camera, mevaliions and TUS LEGENDS mm the historic buildings were of an interesting character, The old Buckman Tavern bore the motto, “One of the Survivors.” The Clarke House, also on Uancock street, near the Common, bore the legend, “The Home of Parson Clarke, the Retuge of Hancock and Adams." Opposice, on ) ington, was the gueat of Ch: | form, the statze of Samuel Adams stcod veiled at | the right of the President of the day, Mr. Thomas M. Stetson, while that of John Hancock wasina temporary position on his leit. ‘Taking bis place on the platform, Mr. Stetson began the proceedings of tue day with the open- | ing address. Etchberg’s National Hymn was then sung, and p: ges Of the Sacred Scriptures, from an old copy of the Bible presented to the Lexing- ton church by Governor Hancock, were read by | the Rev. Joseph W. Cuurchill, atter which Hon. | Charies Hudson performed the ceremony of un- | veiling the statues. Mr, | the oration of Mr. Richard Henry Dana, Jr., fol- | lowed, Sandwiched between them Mr. Whittier’s | Memorial ode was sung, and at the close of the oration the hymn written by Mrs. Julia Ward Howe—“A Benedictus’—closed the exercises at ‘the pavilion, THE DINNERS, which succeeded the real proceedings of the day, both at Concord and Lexiugton, were duil af- fairs. The weather Was too cold for post-prandial oratory, though there were some good speeches, that of Governor Chamberlain, of Soutn Oar- olina, at Lexington, being especially noticeaple, id the immense crowds who had dinner tickets, but could'nt get uear the dinners, helped to spoil everything. The whole situation at ooth places, in the Jatter half of the day, may be summed up in @ few words—a good dinner In acoldtent, with too many people toeat it. Tue chance of getting home or to Boston became the absorbing thought. The railroads were terribly mismanaged, and people got away as best they could, Even THE PRESIDENI’S PARTY was poorly cared for, and thougi Lexington as well as Concord had a share of Grantit was a very small share. Tbe President, during his stay in Lex- Marshal Tower and attended the ball this evening, returning to this city about midnight. The party returns to Boston and Woshington wearled, sick and giad the cele- rations are ov ‘This feeling is shared by everybody, and it may be said thatthe British grenadiers, on the 19th of Monument street, the old John Hudson House bore the inecription, “A Witness of tne Battle 100 _ Years Ago." The Harrington House, on the corner ot Eim avenue and Bediord street, w Danasomely decorated and bore the words, “Toe jouse of Jovathan Harrington, Jr., Who Was Snot Oo the Battlefield sna Died on nis Owo | Decorations wero ais0 made at the Daniel Harrington House, ia Bast Lex+ ingien, aod bere was displayed & sore oi Danie! Harrington, Gere Of Parke: Company. April 19, 1775." At the bouse near the } on of Woburn and Maia Streets, Were displayed the national colors and the motto “Home of Beujamin Merriam, 1175, Taken fora Hospital by the regulars, April 10," Was plaved in & conspicuous position. The green ob the Common, where the battle was jougdt, and where were located the large tente for speeches and the dinner, was, of course, tne centre of attraction, and avout this the decorations were most pro- fuse, At the en'rance was an ren spanning eighteen feet and six inches aud jhirty feet higd, beariog the inscription, “Welcome to the birth. Place of American Liberty.’ The arch was sur- mounted with an American eagle, flanked by American Gags, While the arch was araped with 6 on either side to the ground. Un the rear of the arom were the dates “1775” ana 73" on either side, Voth being encirciea by wreaths of immorteiles, At the entrance to tne Common cords were extended across Hancock and Monu- Ment streets, irom Which depended fags of all Dations, the Stars and Stripes occupying the cen- tre. At the foot oi the American fag over Ban- cock street Was the tutto, “Too few to resist, 100 true to fy; while the one on tie opposite side bore the legend, ‘Don't fire unless fired upon, If they mean War let the Oght begin here.’ THE PUBLIC EXERCISES of the day began at (en o'clock in the large pavil- Jon on the Common; but long betore that hour | every seat was occupied, und there was @ dense crowd about the entrance, almost defytog the effurts of the large force of police offivers in at- tendance. The pavilion was beautifully draped in flags aud counting of mony colors, and on eiiber Bide of the rostrum stood a symmetrical pine and | paimetio tree, embiewatica: of the union of Massacnusetts and South Carolina. Army tropnies Raed in the battia Of Lexineten ware om the Diat | Hudson's address and | NEW YORK HERALD, TUESDAY, APRIL 20, 1875--QUADRUPLE SHEET. House of Representatives of Massachusetts, meia- bers of the Senate and Honse of Representativ Or Massachusetts. IN THE SECOND DIVISION came the United States Marine Band and tne Concord Artillery as an escort to the President of tne United States, General Grant was ac- companied by Vice President Wilson, Secretary Fish and General Babcock. Besides these there were Secretaries Beitknup and Delano, ex-Secre- tary Richaidson, and Postmaster General Jewell, Then there were senators Dawes and Boutwell, General Barnham, Commodore Nichols and Repre- Sentutives Burleigh aud O'Neill, of Maine; Hoar, of Massachusetts, and otners, Then came | United States Judges, IN TUL THIRD DIVISION appeared Governors Dingiey, of Maine; Weston, of New Hampsbire; Peck, of Vermont; Ingersotl, of Connectieut, and Lieutenant Governor Van Zandt, of Rhode Isiand, accompanied by the Portiand Me- chapic Blues, the Amoskeag Veterans of Mauches- ter, N. be; the Putnam Phalanx, of Hartford, Conn. ; the Providence Light Infantry Veteran Asso- ciation, General Burnside, and tne Ransom Guards, of St. Albans, Vt. IN THE OTHER DIVISIONS were the Massachusetts Society of the Clucinnati, the President and Feilows of Harvard Ooliege, the Dean and s'acuity of Harvard College, the cou- mittee of the Massachusetts Grand Lodge of Fr and Accepted Masons, the Councit of the Massacnusetts Historical Society, representatives of the New England Historical and Genealogical Society; officis! delegations from Acton, Bedford, Billerica, Carlisle, Chelmsford, Lincoln, Littleton, Stowe, Sudbury, Westford, Ar- lington, Belmont, Beverly, Boston, Roxbury, Brookline, Burlington, Cambridge, Charlestown, Danvers, Dedham, Everett, Framingham, Lexing- ton, Lowell, Lynn, Lynofiela, Maynard, Mediord, Melrose, Needham, Newton, Norwood, Peabody, Pepperell, Reading, Roxbury, Salem, Somerville, Wakefield, Waitham, Watertown, Wayland, Wes- ton, Winchester and Woburn, with the Acton minute men as an escort; posts of the Grand Army of the Republic, American Brass Band of Providence, citizens of Concord, citizens of otner cities and towns, On arriving at the grand tent the President ana other distinguisned guests entered, and the fol- lowing address was dcliverea by Ralph Waldo Emerson :— RALPH WALDO EMERSON'S ADDRESS. Ebenezer Hubbard, @ iarmer, who inherited the land in the village on which the British troops committed depredation, and who had a deep in- SAMUEL ADAMS, ———— April, 1775, were not more completely nsed up | than wei Indeed, it is doubtful whether os many men were kule the day of which this is the Centennial iversary as to-day; and (he sufferings of the patriots oo the 19th of April, 1875, were certainly greater than those of the 19th of April, 1775, There were, probabiy, 100,000 strangers in Lexiagton ajone during jay, and the scene ‘was in every Way more remarkable {a all ite parts shan the battie day 100 years ago. THE DAY AT CONCORD. Conconn, April 19, 1875. y the old town resounds from end to end with mumic and the reverberating ecno of patriotic cannon, beginning with we salute of 100 guns at sunrise, one jor each year of American jiverty. The day opened cold and clear, the sun suone with an added briliiancy, people were carly aoroad, and the streots were Onght witn gay uni+ forms and flags that overspread them tor miles. The towns presented truly a many of tne houses were most somely decorated, notably those of Judge E. KR. Hoar, Judge Brooks, Mr. Frederic Hudson, and Mr. F. B. Sanborn, The local company miarcned to the Fitcnvu:g depot at hail-past seven A. M, to receive those military orgumizations that came by the early tratus. People poured in by every conceivable avenue, and the tuwa was soon ial. THE PROCESSION Sturted about hali-past ten o’ciock, and was about two mites long, about 6,000 people participating. The cortége pasyed down Main street to the Square, and theuce over the nistoric road to tue battie ground, where Freach’s monument of the Minue man wes unveiled amid the fring of guns. The proce: n Was waguificentiy brilliant, and Was in Ove divisions. THE FIRST DIVISION contained the Fiith Massachusetts regiment, as escort to all the commitices on the mouument and the day; iwe Independent Corps of Cadeis and Goveruur Gaston, of Mussachusetis, anu stat. Then came the Liotitenant Goveruor Of Massachu- Setts aod memvers of the Council, State vilicers, Sveriff of miduiesex, Judges of tue Supreme Judi. cial Court, Juugeso: the Superior, rrobave and other cour.s; toe Newburyport V. A. Association, tae Provident of the Senate Speaker vu: (he House ol Representa Guusetis, the Joint Committee Of the Senaty aud [tme sTaTUR UNVEILED aT LEXINGTON YESTERDAY.) terest in the history of the raid, erected many ‘* gO @ Gagsta® on his land, and never ected to boist she Stars and Stripes on the 19th Of April and the 4th of July. It grieved oim deeply that youder monument, erected by the to" in 1836, should be built om tue ground on Which the @nemy stood instead o| Oo that whien Ieans occupied in Concord’s gat, and be Dequdasued iO his Wil a sum of md oey to tae town OF Coucord OB CORGI'10U lout & Monument should be erevied ou the ientioai ground occupied oF our DiGute Meo and Mista OD that day, aod euolher run Ol Movey on the condition that tue town should bud # footbriuge across the river Where (he vid ridges Ktuod 10 1775, tne town accepied the ‘acy, built the bridge, and ompioyed Vaniel Freneh to prepare a staiue to be erected on ibe specified spol, Meanwiie js at Washington guve io tae town eral is beiore you. ud to-day it ° Work, belie » ky mi best background. ‘Tve statue isthe iret serivus Work 01 our Young towusman, WHO 13 now in Italy pursuing Bis projession. We bad many enemies and many frienaa in Eng. land, but var one Veuelucior was King George IL ‘The tie bud atrived for ‘ne political severance ot America, that it might play tts part in tue bis tory of the yiobe, andthe way Oo! Divine Providence was to give uu imsane King to hugiand. Ja toe Tesistauce of Te culomies ke alove Was immovavie ou the question uf fore’. Eogiuuu wus so aear to UB ‘hat tue Coluuies coud ¥ b# avsolutely united by Vivlenee irom Eagiand and only ove mag could compe: the ree . sot ‘G BECAME INSANE, Parliament ail fhe minisvers wavered, Lora Nortu wavered, bat tue King Had the tusan- My OF one idea. He Was lmovavie; he tastsced ob tee Impossible, So the army Was sent, Awerics Was toStautly united aud tue BaueA Lorn, On toe 19th Of Aprii S00 soldiers, with hostile imei, were seut Bither irom soston. Nature itseir pus on a new fuce that day, You see tie rude feids of this mornin the sume day o. the year 1778 @ ture ior vi the spribg 18 recorded, It appears tuat tue Patriotism vf Che people wus so Hot that it melted ihe suoW and the rye Waved 0 tie ivih of Apri. We see wlud!y around us to day representatives of Acton, Bed.ord, Lincolu end C.used 14 oUF toWu Limits, aud Who were Mindiul O) Wwelr Otuer and risked tueir lives .or wer OD the memovrabie aay we celebrate, Isaa Vavis, OF AClon, Was tue first maityr in our noble acon, We say, *’ Tis auly the arsi step that costs.” He WhO Wil carry vub ihe rule of Tight Midst Oiten tvke his ie iu his cand, We wave Worked to maguily the jacts, Only turee of our mea Were wuied wi (ois bridge and a lew oWe.s Woaudeu, but here the British acmy was Fst iruoted and diivon bag: wen OF ony Oue wan hud first victory, a siviu 1b Was the THUNDERBOLT FALLS ound, but THs light of it Mls the riusd iuStantly rerreateu. We of this larmere Over the Kius’s troupe 7 on an iuen oF ho i4on. The bud DO ciectriG telegrapl, OUL the be Wilaapl or tue curiisie, once iu | dif omy three | 3 hh the country to New York, to Ppila. entucky, to the Caroloas with speed j speed thro geiphia, to upkoown before aud ripened the colonies to in- | evitable decision. oe Yhis sharp beginning of rea! war was followed sixcy days later Ly the battle of Buaker Mill, then by Generat Wasuingou’s arrival in Gamoridge and fs redoubts on Dorchester Heights. in one year and twelve days irom the death o! Isaac Davis aud Aouer ‘Hosier 120 vessels loaded witu General Howe and fis arniy, 8,000 men, and ail their effects sated out of Kosten Harbor sever toreturn. Itis a proud and tender story, 1 chal lenge auy lover of Masaacuusetts to read the siX- tieth coapler of Bancroft’s history without tears Ol joy A poem was contributed by James Russell | Lowell, and an oration by George Wilham Curus, Who spoke in substance as ioliows:— | GRORGE WILLIAM CURTIS' ORATION. | Weare tortuuate that we deaoid thisday, The | heavens \1 beniguly over, the earta biossoms with renewed lite, aud our bearts beat joylully logetuer with one emotion of filial gratitude and patriotic exultation. Cinzens of a great, free And prosperous country, we come hither to honor Whe men, our fathers, Woo, On this spot and upon this day, @ bundred years ago, Strack the frst | blow in the conteat whicn mude that country tn- ; dependent, Here beneath the bills tney trod, by the peaceful river on whose shores tney dwelt, proudly recalling their virtue ana their valor, we come to tell their story, to try ourselves by their Joity standard to know If we are their worthy chile dren; and, standing revereut!y where they stood and fought and died, to swear before God and eaca other, 1n the words of him apon whom in our day the spirit of the Revolutionary fathers visibly de- scenaed, that government of the people by the people for the people shail not perish from tne earth. ‘This ancient town, with its nelgubors who share its glory, has never failed fitly to commemorato this great day of its history. Fiity years ago, while some goidiers of the Concord fight were yet living—twenty-Ove years ago, while still a few venerable survivors lingered—wito prayer and eloquence ana song you renewed the pious vow. But the last living link with tae Revolution has long been broken. Great events and a mightier struggle have absorbed our own generation. Yet we who stand here to-day have a sympathy with the men at the old North Bridge which those who praceded us here at earlier celebrations could not know. With them war wasa name and a tradi- tion, Soswiit aud vast bad been tie change and the development o; the country that the Revolu- tionary clasi of arms was already vague and un- real, and Concord and Lexington seemed to tnem aluwost as remote and historic as Arbela and Sempach. When they assembled to celebrate this day they saw a@ little group of tottering eyes from which the light was fading, § and withered, thin white hairs that fluttered in the wind—they saw a few vener- able relics of # vanished age, whose pride was that beiore living memory they bud been minute men of American Independence. BUT WITH US HOW CHANGED! War is no longer a tradition half romantic and obscure, It has ravaged how many of our homes! 1s has wrung how many of the hearts before me! North and South we koow the paog. Our common liberty 13 consecrated by acommon sorrow. We do not count around usa iew feeble veterans of the contest, but we are girt with a cloud of wit- esses, We are surrounded everywhere by muiti- tades in the vigor of their prime; benola them here to-day sharing in these pious and peaceiul ites, the hovored citizens, legislators, magis- trates—yes, toe Chief Magistrate of the Republic— Whose glory it is that they were minute men of American liberty and union. Tnese men of to-day interpret to us With resisiiess eloquence the men and ibe times we commemorate. Now, Il bever be.ore, We understand the Revolution. Now we Know the secret Of those vid hearts and Lumes, Wecan measure the suerifice, tue courage, the devo.1on, fur We bave seen them ail. of Concord, broad Heids of Middiesex, that heard the voice of Hakcuck and oi Adams, you leard wiso) othe «call Of Liucoin and of Andrew, afu jour Ladd and Wuaitney, your Pres- cutt aud Ripiey aud Meivin, wave revealed to us mure truly tue Davis and the Battrick, the Hosmer aod the Parker of « hundred years v. ‘Lue story Of this Gid WoW is te Distury of New Engiaud. Jt shows us tne people and the ine sticutions (hat Lave made the American Republic, Concord Was the Orst settlement iu New boyand above ude Water, It Was piauted airectly irom the mother country, Rud Was Wuat Was called a Muotuer town, the parent of otuer settlements Laroughout ine wideruess. 1t was a military post ia Kiug Poiup’s war, aud 200 years ago—just a century beiwre the minute mei woom we com- Memorate—the militia of Middlesex wei ized as minute men egaiosc tne Indian: Concord tradition that in tuose stern days, wheo tue farmer tilled these Gelds at tue risk Of Bis ie, Mary Suepard, a giri vf Miteen, was watcning on Oe o1 tue Wils Jor the savages wuLe her brovuers Soreshed lu the barn. Suudenly tue Indiaus up- ared, siew ibe Oiotuers wud carried her away, in (be nigut, While tie save; slept, she untied a | horse wuich they bad stolen, slipped @ sad- die from under the bead Of one of cer captors, mounted, fled, swam tue Nasoua River and rode torougt the jorest home. Mary Shopard e true kucestur of tue Concord matrons re the fame of this day—oi Mrs. James Widow Browa, of Mrs. Amos Wood urts, Wits the otuer iaitaul Women WIT AND ENK&GY ON THis GREAT MORNING sbow buat © og the latuers, aud wally in bot their cuu- Gren way reverence (leir Own best virtues. A | tue later thau PDiUlp’s war, 186 ra ago last Bight, Woile some.or the Urst settiers of Massa- toat King James Li. lad been deturoned, a com- | Pany marched irom tus town aud jomed tnat general uprising of toe cvlony Which tue next Gay—this Very Gay—with old Simon Bradstreet ut its head, deposed Sir Eamuod Audros, tae King’s Goveruur, abd restored (oe aucieat charter vi hue We demana uniy ¢ r cD, 8h novies, as they Seuted William and Mary apoo the tirone. We id the ireomen of Coneord, @ royal povernment in to their homes. highty- st Province! Con- § at Concord, iy the Geneval Court at | Salem were obsiructed, sssemoied in the old | meeting house om tue 11th of Octobder, 174, toe first ludepegaent Legisiature iu Massacausetts and America; aod from soat Qour to tis Tae old wother 1oWu has pever forgotten the words hor jorsWorm the faith of thé Kevolution wick bad been proclaimed hore six Weeks beiore:—'‘No a" all adrigbt, no aim@eu datinud Ud U ia SUppurs of our sigan encounter ceath, we & ponsivie that Gown his We ia suppor Oi bie country.” bor TUS THUR GLORY OF CONCO! ll New kugiand, w y of American yolution & ag tb Old ; Waie in New Bogiaud the great mass Of iree Maile acuite Were electors, And they had deen so frum the laguing as Piymeub, the se(lioca were foroed to govern 'hormseives, Vhey could not coustently reier and appeal to another autoorisy twenty milles wway througy (he Woous, bvery day brought ite duty that muss u dope beture sunses. Koads must by made, sunvol: Dullt, youud men thawed Ww aru agai pavages and the wid cal takes be laid and collected for ali commen purpus wad Who cow preaciing must Le maiutaned; Koow the tihe, the moans aud the Devesmity ao well as the community tise! ? cn Was & little afd @ perect republic, as solitary wod seciuued in the New Enuivod widerness as the SWiss cantubs amoagg the Apa. No otuer practi- cable human losuiution has been devised or cou- ceived to secure the just euds of local goverumeut so jeucitvus as tne town weering. It vroaghy together the tich ANd The poor, tee good and tae vad, dud gave Character, @oqueuce Gud noturul leadersbip ial! aud iree play, it ewavied supericr experience aod sugacity to govern, and virvae auu imteiligence aioue are ralers by diviue riznt ¢ Lories Caled the resulutiou jor Committees of respomdeuce tbe source Oo; the revellion; wut it Was only & correspyaueoce of town meetings From (st correspouvence cage ue couleder tion of tae colonies. OUL Of Wuat arose the Lioser majestic union of the coustitution—ine grearer puceniX burn from Che usues Of the lesser—and tue hationul power and prosperiiy (u-day rest securely valy upon the joundation OF (ge primary Meeuug. that i Where the Gury Of the ettizeu Vewins Neglect of vnatis disiuyaty to joerry. No con- Trivance Will sa%ply its piace. mo excuse absoives the pewiect; ond the American Wu is guilty of that negectis as deadiy au euemy of tis coubtry a8 (we british BuIdier u ceUurUry eo. TUS NEW BNULANDER But here and sow | cannot speak of the New Engiand town meeting Without recalling is g eat gemus, tue New Bngianuer in Wom tue Revol. Tlon seemed to be most sully embodied, aud the lolly prayer 0) WOove 1.¢ Was answered pou tuts Spot and outhia day. He Was wot eloquent, like Uns, no Teehviatly, uke QUaiey, bor Al -lasc.nas- mg, like Warrea; yet oound weart tv near’ wilt These gres, Mes, Lis ITlenas, bie Piaiuest, smMpiest, uuoterest amONS Lheus, Ne gathered ai tuert sop- BPale fits, ANG, udding bo Lue WisOWa, JUsed Lie ela the giow of Wal Guliriig evergy, thas wuerriug perception, that suolime Wily ward NiOVed Delure The Chusen PeOple vi THe Colonts piliur o1 coud by day, of five by aigh'. People pi MassaCMUSoIts, your proud ant wratetul nvurts OUsiTip My Lpsid prouduuciwg ihe Uawe of Satm- uel Adams, bisewhere \o-day, nearer tue spos | Where ae stood With Wis 1MMOrval Ire@ad tsuceck, & NNOdred yours ugy this Werdiug, & s02 0: Maske | dbusabte. Wao Oenie tue Dawe Ui & Iidud vl Seul amid tue fleids that they sowed ana reaped, | Green bilis | ud were like | chasetis Bay stil hogered, whea tue news came | traditiomal rigats of | Here in the wilderness | wows | g AGams. and whose career has honorably iia® ed toe ddelity of your State to human iiberty, pay @ fitting tribute to the true Americap tribone of the people—the father of the Kevolu- tik, as he Was tundiy called. Bat we aiso are Dis enildreo and must not omit our duty. til 1765 samuel Adams did not despair of a peaceiul issue o1 the quarrel with Great Britain, But when in May 0: tuat year the Britsn irigal Komuey saued ‘into Bostou Harbor, and snotted guns were trained upon the town, ne saw that the question was changed, From that mo ment he koew that America mus’ oe ‘Tree oO slave. and toe unceusins ortol his lLe—Dy da: | und might—wirh tongue aud peu, was to nerve nia | feviow colonists to strike wuen tbe hour snvuld | come. On that gray cember evening, twa | years later, when rose in tue Oid South, ana, | in 4 clear, ca m voice. said, “Ibis meeting can do | nothing more to save the country.” and $0 gave the Word lor the march to the tes ships, he com. prenended more c.eariy, perhaps, y Mw colonies tbe immeuse quevees of his Words. He Was read’ throw the tea overboard, because he Was ready to throw overvoard the King and Pariiament of Eng. | land, HE END OF A CENTE ork of this aay as our fathers j could not; we can see that then tae final move- | Ment began of @ proces long und unconsciousiy | preparing which Was to instruct liberty to new | lorms aod institutions that seemed full of bappy promise (or mankiud. And now, ior nearly a cen~ | tury, Whut was formerty calied the exoeri:ment of a representative Kepubie of imperial exteot and tas tt fulfilled the hopes 01 its funnders and the just oxpectations of man kind?’ Ihave already glaocea at its carly and lore tunate conditions, dnd we know tow Vast and Splendid Were its early growth and deveiopm ur material statistics soon dazzied tue world. Europe no longer sneered, but gazed in wonder, | waiting and wateaing, Odr population doubied every filteen years und our weuaitn every ten years. Every littie stream among the bile turned @ mtil; and the great inland seas. bound by the genius of Clinton to tue ocean, became the bighway of boundless commerce, the pata Oi unprecedented empire. Our farms were the Trapary 01 O\her lends. Our cotton flelds made Sugland rich. Still we chased the wale in the Pacific Ocean and took fist to the tumbling seas ot Lavrador. We hung oar irienaly ligats along TuOUsHaUsS Of In\les Of COust to tempt tue trage OF every Cilme; and wherever, on the dim rim of the giove there Was @ barbor, it wus white wita American sails. Meanwhile, at bome tne political forevoding of federalism had died away, and lis very Wail seemed atribute to toe pacitic glories or the land, ‘The ornament of beauty is suspect, Acrow that Hlies in heaven's sweetest air, The government was felt to be but a hand of protection and blessing; labor Was iully em: ployed; capital was secured ; the ariny was a jes! enterprise Was pustypg tarough the Alleghabies, grasping and setting tae El Dorado of tue prairies, and still braving tae wilderness, reached ouc toward the Rocky Mountains, and, reversiu, the voyages of Columbus, rediscovered tue Ob World irom the New. America was the Benjamin of nations, the best beloved of Heaven, and the starry Gay 0: toe United States Gashed a line of celestial ight around the world—the barbinger of Ireedom, peace and prosperity, Such was tne vision and the eXuiting faith of ity years ago, “ATLANTIS HATH RISEN FROM THB OCEAN 1’? eried Euwara Everett to applauding Harvard; and Daniel Webster answered irom Bunker til, “Hf we Jail, popular goverumeats are impossibie,”” S¢ far as tey could see, they stood among the an- changed conditions o: tue early Repudiic, And those conditions are familar. Ihe men wad founded the Republic were ew in number, planted chiefly aloug a temperate coast, remote irom the world. They Were a homogeneous people, ip creasing by their own multiplication, speaking the me ianguage, of the same general religious fait, cherishing the same bisvoric and poutical traditions, udiversady educated, hardy, carilty, with general eq! ty of fortuoe, and long and i telligeat practice o] sell-goveroment, Wulle tag siavery that existed amoug them, inhugan ip itself, Was not seriously defended and was be lieved to be disappearing. But withio toe last half century causes Wen jatect, or wholly Incaiculadle before, bave radically cuanged those conditions, and we enter upon the secund century of the Re+ public Wit responsibilities which neither our jatners nor the men of Mity years ago could posse bly toresee. * * * REPUBLICANISM AND FREEDOM. Remember, teilow citizens, that the impulse of Tepublican government, given a century ago the Old North Bridge, has suaken every gover ment in che World, but Uas been itsell wholiy aa. Shuken by them. ‘It has made monarcny impos. Sivle in France. It has ireed the Kussita seris. 11 bas ubited Germany agaiust ecclesiasiicul wespoe ism, It bas fasned tuto tbe wight of Spaip. it nas emancipated italy and discrowued tne Pope as King. in kngiand, repeauug tue disavilities of | Catuolic and ievrew, it iorecasts the separation of Church and state, aud step by step transiormnd monarchy Into another form of repuviic. And here ui home, how yiorous is story! Ip a trey mendous war between men oi the same viood— men who recogulze aod respect eacu otuer’s valor—we have proved, Waat was always duuanted, the prodigious power, endurance and resoure oO} @ repudlic; aud in ewaneipacng an eigotn ob whe population We have ai last gatmed che Lud op- | portunity of the republican priuciple. Sir, 101d | the signal felicity of toils occasion that on (be oue uuudredta anniversary of the first batue in the war © American tudependence } may salute you, who led to Victory tie ciuzen sok aiers Of Americau liberty, us tue rst elected Presi+ dent of the iree Repuolic o1 tne United states. kor. tunate man! to wow God has given tue prcetess boon of assuciating your Lame Wita tbat triampo | Of ireedoi, which will preseatly vind the East aad the West, the Norto and the Sout in a Clouser aud Wore periect Union for Loe estavlisument o! justicg and tue securliy of the vlessiags of liverty tuag taese States have ever kuowa, Fellow us, that uuiog is the lofty tas& which tis Daliowed Gay aug this sacred sput 1m. pose upon us, Aud Wuat cloud oi doubt so dare wangs over us as that Woich lowered above the colonies When tue troops of the King marcoed tate this town aud the meu of Middlesex resoived te pues Wue briuge? Wito tueir faito aou tae wil ‘we sali ia toeir victory. No rvyal Governor, in- deed, #iC3 In you sta'ely capital, Dy u Gect.or mauy a year bas vexed the waters of our coasis, nor 1s auy army but our own ever likely to tread our soil, Not #uco are our enemies tu-day, They ao not come proudiy stepoing to tue cramveat, with oayonets Mashing in toe morning sum. Bal iis SQuil strain tue ancient | guarantees of ir jom, or vigotry aad ignorance Sdau lay their jatal bands upon education, or tae arrogance oF caste Suall sirke at equal rights, OF corruption shui! powon toe very springs of ow tonal life, there, minute men o lioerty, are your | Leximgtou Green ana © oncord Bridge, and as you | love your couurry aud your kind, aod Would have | ar | we cun see tt | power fas been tried, your cnildren rise Up aud cai you blessed, spare ot the enemy! Uver tue bills, Out of the earta, down ‘rom (he clouds, pour ig resisiless might. | gire irom every ruck aud tree, irom duor und | Window, trou gearthstoge aud chambe: | upon ois Sank aud rear irom uoon tu suis go (hrougy w land biaging With Roly indiynates | hurl (ue hordes of ignorance aud Corrup\ion aad lajustiee back, back, in uiter Saud rua, THE BORNE. | Belore the oration was concluded the eniliest | of winds began to biow, ond daring the extended | remarks oj Mr, Curtlaa large portion of hia aw dionee dispersed, Wulle toe tausic of many bands | disputed with lim for tho peop.e's attenuon. A teee gave Way under the great pressare sent leit velore the Orotion was co ro) Griven, at Dis own request, iD private carriage +o Lexiagtou, Governor Gastua | aod wad gong by trad, By the time tue people | had crushed juto the Gianer teat, @ little Delor two O'clock, the duy was OxXceasiVely Cold, Witt suow iniliag vocasivoally. Judge &. BR, Moar was President of the day, ane Was soated at the side of tue greattent, Oa bw riche Were Ralph Waldo Emerson, the Key, Grima all Reyooids, Chapiain of the day, aad Genera Hawie: Cvaneeticut. On his ieit were George Wiliam Curtis, (be orator 1 the occasion, Speake? Blaine and Sesator Boutwoli. The Governors of th ecupied tables near by With their Staite, wud the otuer invited gues | Were soattered along, | THE DINNER, Alter the dinner was disposed of Judge Boa made an God gave as the drst regular toast, “The l9rh of April, 17° la absence oO! the President, Speaker Biaime respouacd in @ patriotic fashion, “Paul Revere’s Ride’ was toaated and a grand. son of Mr, Revere was called out. Mr. Wood re sponded fur Acton. Senator Boutwelt was then called out and was followed by Governors Ingersoll, of Connecticut; Peck, of Vermout, and Dingiey, vl Maie. George William Curtis responsed tor Rhode Island. George Hawley, of Connecticut, alse spoke. Judge Moar mide au address on some relics and exuibited them, and to close read @ letter irom Frederick Douglass, whieh breathed the trve spirit of the Occasion, Tuis prouzht the ex- ercises to a close, During the detivery of the speeches the aay gradually grew colder, aad the people slowly de serted toe pavilion, uot by the end of tue a ter. dinner ceremon there were not one auadred people presear. DURING THE AFTERNOON all the visiting military companies departed, sq as to reach home early to-morrow, and by sa>per time the village bad assumed a somewhat de seried appeaiauce woen comparsty with the 80.000 «Within §«its) limits af moon, Tue crusaing and crowding at tne cars wa suaply Indescribabie. la tie eveniag @ yrand bat Was given iu Agricultural Lali, w Jally Gecorated jot the occasion. The Presdegt | aod some of his pariy made ther appearages | sooat hal-past ten aud Were tie contre of attrac. | Hom, The scone Wasa very vrilbantone Asap