Litchfield enquirer., 1843-06-22

your education. You come hsTe, some OfyOu. sO As receive, peFhaps another and lasI blessing besOw. ed in love and iears oi nged mother, who has and happiness Ifthose family recoections- those tender associations Of early life, have brought you heFe wlth soEething Of extraordinary alacrity, and gwen iron yOO 2 aO us and from G' ,G you some.hng ed lo every American, from any and every spot, who has up here this day to tread this sacred field with American feelings and who respires with plea sures m atmosphere reolenl of the sentiments OGl775 Of the seventeen Millions of happy people who com. pose our American community. there is nOs one now who has interest in that structure. just there is not one who has not deep and abiding interest in l the events which it was designed to commemorate. The responsibility, may say the sublimity, of that structure depends entirely on lis Nationality. IL IS all--aI American Its sentiment is comprehensive enough to embrace the whole American family, from North South, from East to West, and it will stand
 hope, forever, embematic of tha! Union which en.
 ds us We bede that man ,n, wno .hs cones n nP here ican! WO beIide him who shall venture to stand here with the sIriie of local ieaIouses local feelings or local enmtes burning In tns bosom All our nap piness, all our glory, depend on our Union. That Monument itself in all thot is commendahle m lts sentiment and character. depends on our Union. do not mean to say that it would not keep ns posi-
 on if all the States were rent asnnder by faction 1r violence l do not know that the heavlng earth would move it from it's base, that it would actually otter to its fa ifdsmembermen should be the attic- ! its fragments with the fragments of broken Consti' tuition. But in the happening of such events, who would dare to look up 10 it? Who is there that from such 0id cn5 Who is there that would not expect his eyebals to be scared by the intensity of it's silent reproof2 For my part, Isay that if it he misfortune designed cX Providence for me to live to see such day, will
 look no more will avert my eyes from n torever
 IL is no, a mere military encounter of hostile ar. mics that the Battle of Bunker Hill founds !s pElncl anrAn vaf l as mere battle, there are circumstances attending it of extraordinary character, and giving It peculiar claims to distinction. It was fought upon this em. hence, in the neghborhood of wonder city, m the presence of spectators than there were combat l ants in the fght--nen, women and children drawn from their homes filling the towers of their churches covering the roofs ofpuhlic buildings and their own dwellings, anxious for the result of cones, of whose impora they had the deepest convlcIlon On the 18th of June, under bright sum- these fields exh5'' ted nothing but verdnre and culture there was m. deed wful note of prepa ration in Boston, but here all was peace and the fields, then rich with the loads of the early harvest, told of nothing but tran guilty. The morning of the l7:h saw every thing changed on this eminence redoubt had arisen ln l the night, and breastwoTk been thrown up by a few hardy men, under the direction of Col. Prescott
 As the molning dawned, they were perceived by the floating batteries on the water and the land on the other side of Charles River.
 suppose it would be difficult, in military point of view, to ascribe any just motive to either party for the Provincial army to hem in the British in Boston by force little nearer when that coNldl probably rear On the other hand i. is quite evident that it the British had no other object than to dsiodge the occupants of Bunker Hl from that post. ss they com: the the on e HRs sds and appsoach each other in the rear o !hls pos'to It perfectly practicable to cut off his con1munica. ton with the American nes' and reduce rresces' to day for such calculation on either side The truth is, both parties were ready and anxious anu oeer mined to try the strength of .hs arms. The pride of the British could not bear that redoubt of the reb els, as they were called should he here and stand n their face. and defy them to their teeth. Without calculating the cost, caring for it. their object was destroy the redoubt at once by the power of the security On the other hand. Prescott and his gal
 ant followers, fully 2ursuaded that the time was near when the controversy must break out into open hos,i,ies, had long, .hrsted for the contest They wished to try it, and to try t now, and that was the motive which place them herr.
 will not attempt to described what has been so often described better than can do i.-lhe cannon ading from the waer--the attacks from the laud- the coOlness with which the Provincial Army, tt it might be so caled met the chasge of the foe; the valor with which they repulsed it; the second attack
 finally the closing scene of the retreat of the Militia of New. England the Neck, leave to the pen of History But in it's consequences. the Battle os Bun. ker Hill stands among the most important tha: ever
 
 great contest in the Revolutionary war, and in my judgement it was no, only the first bow struck, but it was the blow that determined the issue of that con-
 test It certainly did not put m end to the war. but it put the country in state Of open hostility Il put the contest to the arbitrament ot the sword and made one thing certain that alter Warren had fallen -ater the raw evies of the NewE England States had been able meet and repulse the attacks Of British | regulars-peace could never be re-estabished be- tween the two countries but upon the basis of Amer Independence of,hese States was certain. No event
 "nS ~hee ~as formally declared. It rests. know, on indisputabe authority that when Gen. Washington, having just then received his appointment as Commander of the American Army, was told that; from want ot ammu; 1 to the English he asked if the Militia of New Eng. land stood tke fire of the British regulars, and being told tha, they did, and reserved their own ill the en. emy were within eight rods and then delivered ], with fearful efFect-he instantly observed, Then the Liberties o tAe Country are sete Great cheering)
 The consequences, then of the Battle of Bunker Hill are of just the importance Of the Revolution it. self. If there is nothing oi vaine-no,hng worthy of the regard of mankind in that Revolution-hen there is nothing of worth in the Battle Of Bunker Hill and consequences flowing from it. But # the American Revolution be an era in the history Ot the Human Race-an era favorable to human happIness,-ifit he an event which has marked the progress o( mankind from Despotism to Liberty-if IL be an event which has shed vast influence over not only this continent l but the world-then that Monument is not raised without cause--then is Bunker Hill not unworthy of enduring memorial! fu.-l ...
 THE BUNKER HILL MONUMENT.
 The Corner.Sio of the Monument was laid in 1925 by LAFAYETTE and DANIEL WEBSTER pronounced on that occasion one of the most eloquent and admired Orations that ever fell from the lips of man. Among 1 his ouditOrs he had A hout thirty survivors Of