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

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The Sunday Dispatch gisesthe follow.
ing interesting narrative and anecdote.
1.-THE first Continental Congress Assem-.
bled Onthe forth of September, l734. at
Carpenters Hall, CaIpenders' court.
Chest street. between Thirds Fourth,
Peyion Randolph was the FIRST President,
ShArles Thomson, Secretary. Bishop
White was the Chaplain The as
ssnbling OF this body was the first step to-
wards those occurrences which afterward
resulted in the Declaration of ipdepeDd.
ence, and made Ameries free. Its mem.
bers were the most disinterres,edlv NAT.
riOlie which have ever beea eopyened
II seems as it Providence bad brotG hit to.
getheE the men best fitted for the emer.
geney, by greatness of mind, shill,, and
far-seeing wisdom. The cause of the
selection of such men is TO be found 10 the
then purity OF election, made such by the
intensity of devotion which prevailed all
ranks of society. No selfish or Srivats
aims then biased them; all hearts Hlowed
with patriotism of the most elevated char.
acter. The following very interesting
anecdote of the organization of The first
Congress was ted DIR. Thomas C. james
by Bishop White. As soon as the body
bad organized, oil seemed impressed With
sense OF the high responsibility they
assumed, and a most profound silence
ensued, as if TO say, What next. None
seemed willing TO break the eyentfuI SD
once, until gravelooking member. in
plain dark suit of minister gray and
unpOwdered wig, arose. All became fix.
! ed in attention upon bin. Then il was
that all seemed TO feel sense Of regret
that the seeming country parsop should
so far have mistaken his talents end the
theatre for their display! But as he pro.
eeeded. he evinced such unusual force OF
argument, and such novel and impas.
stoned eloquence; that he soon electrified
the whole house Then the excited in
curry passed from man TO man, 'Whoisit-
who is it?' The answer from the few
who knew him, was. 1t IS Patrick Hen.
ry" The honorable body thus having
received its impulse, moved on with en-.
srgy and concord. II was on the same
occasion that George Washington, then
a delegate from Virginia, was observed
u 10 Tue only ueIDbSr 10 kneeI W0en
Bishop White first offered his prayer to
the Throne of Grace, as if he was thus
early impressed with sense of his and
theiridspendence upon the God of Battles
Carpenters Hall was erected by the
Society of Carpenters which still own
it. 1t is one of the spots worthy of being
consecrated in the affections of every
An eriean heart. Those walls, which
echoed with the eloquence of Adams and
Henry-with the sober, less ornate, bul
sensible disceurses of Jefferson and Sher.
man, and the calm, common sense views
of Westinghouse now delivered over
to the tender mercies of the auctioneer,
and resonnd with the stentorian clamor Of
How much do heart Going! goinRl
goneP The Hall, where once the Fa.
theirs of Liberty sat, has become stors
room for old broken bedstsads and bro.
ken down stoves. Still the place is &c.
cred to every lover of HE country. and
will always be visited by the Pious pilgrim
with awe and respect" ts,.