Juliet signal. [volume] (Juliet [i.e. Joliet], Ill.) 1844-1???, 1848-11-07

VOLUME 6. NUMBER %.
A Revolutionary Lo,alilr..

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The Sunday Dispatch gives the follow.
ing Interesting narrative and anecdote.
"lhe hrsi Continental Congress assem-.
bled on the forth Of September, l7S4s at
Carpenters Hall, Carpenders' court.
Ches street. between ThirddE Fourth,
Peyion Randolph was the FIRST Pre- sident.
Charles Thomson, Secretary. Bishop
White was the Chaplain The as.
ssnhling OF this body was the first step to.
wards those occurrences which afterward
resulted in the Declaration of indepeDd.
ence. and made Ameries free. Its mem.
bers were the most diSinte rrestedly nat.
rioiie which have ever beea couyened :.
IL seems as it Providence bad brott& ht IN
getheF the men best fitted for the emer.
geney, by greatness Of mind, sAill, and
taF-seeing wisdom. The cause of the
selection of such men is to be found in the
then purity OF election, made such by, the
intensity of devotion which prevailed all
ranks of society. No selfish or arivats
aims then biased them; all hearts slowed
with patriotism of the most elevated char.
acter. The following very interesting
anecoote of the organization of the first
Congress was told DIR. Thomas G.. James
by Bishop White. AS soon as the body
bad organized. all seemed impressed With
sense OF the high responsibility they
assumed, and a most profound silence
ensued, as if 10 say, What next. None
seemed willing 10 break the eventful sil
once, until gravelooking member. in
. plain dark suit of minister gray and
unPowdered wig, arose: All became fix.
ed in attention upon bim. Then il was
that all seemed to feel sense of resret
that the seeming country parsop should
so far have mistaken his talents and the
theatre for their display But as he pro.
eeeded, he evineed such unusual force of
argument, and such novel and impas.
stoned eIoquence; that he soon electrified
the whole house Then the excited ia
curry passed from man to man, Who is it,
who is it?' The answer from the few
who knew him, was. 1T Is Patrick Hen.
ry" The honorable body thus having
received it's impulse, moved on with en-.
ergy and concord. II was on the same
occasion that George Washington, then
delegate from Virginia, was observed
to be the only member to kneeI when
Bishop White first offered his prayer to
the throne of Grace, as if he was thus
early impressed with sense of his and
theirdspendence upon the God of Battles
Carpenters Hall was erected by the
Society of Carpenters which still own
it. Ii is one of the spots worthy of being
consecrated in the affections of every
An erican heart. Those walls, which
echoed with the eloquence of Adams and
Henry-with the sober, less ornate, but
sensible disceurses of Jefferson and Shsr.
man. and the calm, common sense views
OF Westinghouse now delivered over
to the tender nercies of the auctionesr.
and resound with the stentorian elamor Of
How much do heart Goinal goinRl
goneP The Hall, where once the Fa.
hers of Liberty sat, has become store
room for old broken bedsteads and bro.
Ken down stoves. Still the place is &C.
'red to every lover of HE country. and
will always be visited by the pious pilgrim
with awe and respect" -.