New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1855-07-06
The Fourth at Dorchester, Mass.
GRAFTON BY EDWARD EVERETT.
fs.n Our Reporter.

The good chip Con- -~crweaIth with Der tsrrene con
tiuuotcrs took U.s. on Tuesday night to the city which
Washington saved from the flights Of Dorchester.
skort ride and We At Dorchester tsef-e quiet
village shady with mighty trees and sdoro-s OF
clever newly movn. Old houses with an air OF 40
.idy ond substance about then staod there bene VII
the influences which fail from Meeting House HI.
The village, ordinarily quiet very unqniet o1
Wednesday Thee sober Dorchester hslses seemed 10
have for often all about dignity and pFopriety an 10
we whh .seh other rhioh should wear most 4ags anu
banners and notices they looked az Quaker bon
net would II trimmed with rcd and blue ribbons
Some Of them had archss over the front gate made Of
flowers and evergreens and patriotic sentiments.
Gov Ghrdrers added 20 this fountain The oil
farmhouse, wSh double-p pitched roof where Everett
was born, ald he little ones,oy house IN which the
sehool-d6me taught bin his c, were lsbeied IN
great letters So iha. sl the world might reed. And
almost TO- 600 did rs7ds great many for Dorchester.
All her truant sons and daughters remembered her on
Wednesday, and came back 10 see her and each c--nr
once more The old bell which was brought over
from Er gland, and 81 the other bells. had Been
ringing in tie morrirg, and unw0nted salyCes
Of artillery had been beard from the neighboriey
hills. School children, with hower-wreaths ens
happy faces were rasged in order TO join
the procession when it should come. At abont
noon IT came under the eseort Of a corps OF cadets
There were in carriages the Governor, judges, Con-
gTessnep. uilit6ry men and the Orator of the day,
Edward Everett. After item followed large eavai-
cade Of dseg siicus from other towns and from Har-
vtrd College and the Dorchester Antiquarian Society
and Fro Department They rode with band and
banners up Webster Ill., where tent had been
pitched ia which 5000 1000 could be seated. The
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set together IN the center The piarform filed
from tie procession tho children seated, and the
few remaining seats in the tent were occupied. Many
distinguished from most of the ststes Of the Union
were present. piece of bread as dry and as
cradle a. two centuries aud quarter could make it
was exhibited by Luther Pierce. 1t brought over
from England in 1890, the year Dorchester was set
tied and bis ancestors AMI he have kept until
A chair ws5 on the platform which was once owned
by Elliot, the teacher Of the Indians All about the
tent were nenorabe sentences from Everetts former
orstious apples of gold in pictures OF evegreens and
flowers
The President. Of the day, Marshall p. Wilder called
the meeting to order. and the exercises commenced.
Drawer was Offered by the Rev. Nathaniel Hall,
PRAYER full sf the spirit of freedom and ungratefu to
Southern ears; HYMN by the Rev. s. G. Bulfnch
was finely sung by the Dorchester born Choir, and
the Declaration os independence read by John b.
Tiest. n.
The President shen INTRODUCED the Hon. EDW ARD
EVERETT amid grs at cheering. Dir. Everett who
ed to be in fine health and spirits, spoke nearly fol-
lows:
Among the numerous calls TO address public meet
ines with which have been honored during my life
have never received with greater pleasure than
that which brings me before you this day. Drawn up
with unusual precision and core by a skilul pen
subscribed by more than hundred and fifty OF your
leading citizens and placed in my hands by most
respected comm tee of their uumber-it apprses me
that " the citizens of Dorchester without distinction
"of party actuated by motives OF public good, and
" beneving IN the salutary teachings Of National
evenls, when contemplated with an iaqurlng spirit
aud On eDl ghtened judgment, are dcsirous OF cee-
bTaing the 4th OF July 1854 In manner that shall
"pT0yc sredinblc to that ancient town. instructive to
Z" the ,ouag, TcnOvaung to The aged, nnd morally
"proitubls TO the NGon; end II invites me, as nl-
tive citizen OF tie town, 10 JON You IN carry M this
matter into effect. You well acquainted, fellow
citizens sin the cir uIDs'1nces that prevented my APP
penriug hcior You last year III pursuance ot lis invl-
tat0n. | might siin sHeOut lmpToprety onec You
sufficient excuse IN the state of my health tDr shrink
ing from the fort OF addres sing audience ike ths
ard fcl Ceeply my inabiiity under auy crcun-
staucer, 10 miEn the conditions OF your invitation
o. have iust repeated them. But | confess have
not been able 10 forego this first oppOrlunity-thc
last also 10 doubt shall ever enjoy Of pablicy ad
dressing the citizens of DoTcheser-the place o. my
birth OF my early education, and OF all the kindly
associations OF my childhood. | have felt a. lrresis
bic attraction 20 the spot. behold around ne the o1y
mails Of the earliest impressions upon my mind
which neither time nor the cares OF crowded life nave
effaced Some fy-six or seven years have passed
since, az a school-boy, lcimbed-Summer and Winter
what then seemed to me the steep activity OF Meet
ing House Hill The old SchOO-hOuse 10 was then the
new SchoO-hOuse but recoileci that which preceded
HaNaHfH Ia IN KrFIfs
was baptized is 10 longer standing. The venerable
pastor whose afc,ionGtc smile still lives Ia the men,
Ory Of many who listen TO me, has ceased from ms
HbOis the entire generation 10 whOm lOokel up as
10 aged or even grown departedi but the I'M
ages Of al that has passed away have been cast AMI
abide with more than Photographic truth, upon the
mOst chambers OF my memory lCheersI. Some oi ~,
NV friends companions of scaO0lboy days, remain 10
chuh the thought of the past to mediate on the lapse
of yoars and the events they have brought FORTH and
TO rejoice in the growth aud Improvement OF our native
town. We have pursued different paths in le. Prov
denoe has sent intO different heds OF duty and use
fitness of action aud sufferng but am sure there il
not one of us who has wandered or who has NAMED,
tla docs nOt still feel duiilu interest IN the place Of
biz birth: and who does not experience something more
than usual seusibili on an occasion like this.
In those things, which in rapidly improving
conn unity are subject 10 change there few places
within nv knowledge which within fifty years have
undergone greater changes than Dorchester. The
uorulsi ION in loo was ASH IN 1850 il was little
sLort OF sO0e. What was then called ' the NecA,'
the most secluded portion OF DE oid togn, although
lie psit which led its being first pitched upon a.
place of settlement, was IN 1904 annexed % bos,oh'
III be;n0 united It'll the city BY tNo bridges, has Oog
tse excanL ed the retirement of village fOr the he
N movement OF a metropolis. The pickax Is making
.sd raveees upon one OF the venerable nights OF Dor
chester: lie iuirenchneuts Of the other longer
masking tie deadly engincry ofwar, are filled with tie
elr,shing waters OF COchliuate Lake. New roads
have been opened in every part OF our ancient iowa
and Two railways traverse i from north 10 south. TIE
arcini Innas MN Lnlnre tie Revolution have nor all