The Columbia Democrat. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1837-1850, 1837-07-08

righteous government, founded upon the
principles of reason and justice; but glory
in avowing my eternal enmity to tyranny"
He then proceeds to pourtray, in vivid
colours, the wrongs inflicted by the mother
country, and urging his fellow citizens to
vindicate their injured rights.
In speaking Of the Boston massacre, his
language speaks the emotions his heaving
bosom, the feelings of his indignant soul.
81 come reluctantly to the ilailsactions
of that dismal night, where in such quick
succession, we felt the extremes of grief,
establishment and rage; where heaven, in
anger; suffered hell to take the reins; when
Satan, with his chosen band, opened the
sluices of New England's blood, and sacri-
legiously polluted her land with the bodies
of her guiltless sons.
''Let this sad tale never be told without
tear, let not the heaving bosom cease to
burn with manly indignation at the rela-
ton Oft through the long tracts Of future
time; let every parent tell the story to his
listening children, till tears of pity glisten
in their eyes, or boiling passion shakes their
tender frames.
Ozark and designing knaves, murderous
parricides how dare you tread upon the
earth which has drunk the blood of slaugh-
tered innocence shed by your hands!
How dare you breathe that air, which
waited to the ear of heaven, the groans of
those who fell a sacrifice to your accursed
ambition? But if the laboring earth doth not
expand her laws; if the aif you breathe is
not commissioned to be the minister of DEATH;
yet, hear it and tremble the eye of heaven
penetrates the darkest chambers of the soul,
and you, though screened from human
observation, must be arraigned, must lift
your hands, red with the blood of those
whose death you have procured, at the tre-
mendous bar Of Cod
His boldness greatly exasperated the ad-
herents of the crown, and every artiice was
put in requisition to injure his growing pop
ularity. Amongst them, was his nomina-
ton by the governor, who had uniformly
been his enemy, to the council, hoping by
this stratagem, that lie would, by his accep-
tance, turn the populace against him. BY a
prompt refusal, he defeated the intrigue OF
his enemies, and riveted himselfmore strong
ly on the affections Of those who favored
liberal principles, and rendered himself more
obnoxious to the kings officers. He was
at this time captain of the governors guard,
and was Immediately removed, and as tes-
timony of respect to him, his company
composed of the first citizens of Boston, dis.
solved themselves at once.
The toesin of the revolution was now
sounded from the heights of Lexington;
American blood had again been shed by the
British soldiers; the people sounded the
dread clarion Of the revolution thousands
rushed to the rescue the hireling troops
fled in their flight, they found the messen-
gers Of death stationed on their whole route
retribution met them at every corner the
trees and fences were illumined by streams
of fire from the rusty muskcts of the native
yeOmanry, and many of Brtain's proud
sons slumbered in the arms of death on that
memorable, that eventful day.
The governor, on the reception of this
news, issued his proclamation in the name
of his most Christian Majesty, George the
ILL.,, declaring the province in state of
rebellion, but graciously offering pardon to
all returning penitents, excepting John Han
cock, a. Samuel Adams, who had also rem
dered himself obnoxious by his patriotic
and independent course. A secret attempt
was made to arrest them, but was foiled'
These two philanthropists were preserved
to aid in the glorious cause they had bold
! ly and nobly espoused, and to become shi-
ming lights in the blue arch of liberty, and
bright examples of patriotism to future gen.
erations. Their prescription by the COVER
nor only served to endear them still more
IN their friends and their hleadino countrx