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| The Boston papers come to US filed viii
an account Of the imposing cerenonies whicl
accompanied the inauguration Of the statu,
Of Gen Warren, on Bunker Hill. We hay,
room for only the following extracts from
| the eloquent address Of Hon. Edward Kves
cit:
"Nor let il be thought sir, that in erectinI
the statue to Gen. Joseph Warren, and be
slowing the honors Exclusively upon him
we forget the services Of the brave men oI
whatever rank. who partook, with ike cour,
age and patriotic devotion, the perils Of III,
eyer-memorable 18th Of June, IT'S, whesh.
er with him they gave their lives to ths
country, or survived for other iields of dan
ger and other calls of duty. To honor with.
1 out attempting TO enumerate or compare
their nsmes--to mark to the latest genera.
ton the spot where they stood side by side
through the lye-long hours Of thai anxious,
toilsome night and that tremendous day
and braved in their most terrible form, and
most of them for the first time, the perils Of
the battle--is the object Of the time defy.
ing work, which crown the Hill on which
we stand. 1t commentaries no individual
man OF state. 1t stands indeed on the soil
OF Massachusetts,, where the battle was
fought; but there il stands EQUALLY for Con.
necticut, New Hampshire and Rhode Is-
land, and the younger sisters Of the New
| England family Vermont and Maine
whose troops shared With ours the dangers
and the honors of the day. 1t stands for
Prescott aud Warren, but no less for Put
nam aud Greene. No name adorns the
hof 4. h,,f
may become as obscure as those which GOV.
er the monuments of Nineyah and Babylon.
It's uninscribed surface--on which monarchs
might be proud to engrave their titles-will
perpetuate the memory Of the Eth Of June.
1t is the monument Of tho day, Of the event.
of the battle of Buaker Hill; of all the
brave men who shared its perils--alike of
Prescott and Putnam and Warren--,he
chiefs Of tho day, and the colored man, Sa-
lem, who is reported to have shot the gal-
liant Pitcairn as he mounted the parapet.--
Cold as the clods on which it rests, still 40
the silent heavens to which it scars, il il
yet vocal, eloquent, in their undivided
praise. Till tho ponderous and wel.com.
pacted blocks Of granite, which no force
but that of an earthquake will heave from
their bearings, shall fall asunder, it will
stand to the most distant pos,erity grand
impartial illustration natures own mas
sive lithography--of the noble page, second
to Ito other in the annals Of America, on
which history shall write down the names
and deeds of the 18th of June, l775.
But while the ohelisk, unappropriated to
any individual name, however brilliant, for
getful of no individual merit, however hum
bic, towers in serene simplicity, the one inn
partial monument Of the day---it seemed
proper to the muniiieent proposer Of the
work we now inaysurate, and to his liberal
associates in the undertaking, that begin
nlng should At length be made Of sepa-
rate commemoration Of those who render
ed especial service in IN action which gave
a character to the whole succeeding contest;
battle in which the loss of the enemy ex-
ceoded two fold that Of Saratoga, Mon
mouth or Yorktown, or any other conflict in
the war; and which, Disgusting disastrous
defeat with the name of victory, was, in the
language of Gen. Burgoyne, who Witnessed
the engagement. "the loss of the British
Empire in America" No one, | nm per-
suaded, will think it unjust that the first
statue has been erected to Warren; no one
but must desire that the example thus set
shall be followed by those Of Prescott Of
Putnam, of Gardner, of McClary, and Of
whomsoever else u grateful posterty may
deem worthy to be associated with them in
these posthumous honors. | need not tell
You, sir, that it has long been in contem-
platlon to erect permanent lodge on some
portion OF these consecrated grounds, which
shall afford an appropriate place Of deposit
fo' the archiyes of the association and for
the relies and memorials of the battle, and
there 1t is probable, if this design is cxecut-
ed. that the statue We this day inaugurata
Will be definitely set up, to be surrounded,
let us hope, with the busts and statues Of
many others Of the brave men vino stood or.
fell i'll the cause Of the country on that mo-
mentous day.
After all, the obclisks we erect, and the
statues We set up, are but expressive SYM
bols. The proudest monuments to the
memory Of our fathers are not those which
are carved by the skillful artist from blocks
Of marble, or reared by the architect in ma
iest,c plies of granite. These indeed have
their value and their interest. They mark
for the latest posterity the scene Of some
momentons conflict; they redeem from tho
power Of time and decay the features Of
some noble countenance and the proportions
OF some manly form, causing the poor dust
to start into life again from the motion
bronze or the quarried marble. But these
are not the rewards for which Warren and
his associates braved death; not the monu-
ments which will best perpetuatc their fame.
The principles OF free government for
which they laid down their lives; the na-
uonal independence which by united coun-
sells and painful sacrifices they achieved on
hard-fought fields; this great family Of
States which, with prophetic toreslgh they
bound together in fraternal confederacy;
this admirable adjustment OF local and fed
eral govcrnmcnt---the most exquisite con-
trivance Of political wisdom which tho
world has scen-~thesc shail be their endur-
ing monument. Nor less eloquent in their
praise shall be the material prosperity which
has resulted from their wise and patriotic
measures. The world-surrounding ocean,
whitened with the sails Of American com.
merco, which before the Revolution was
hemmed i'll by the narrow limits Of colonial
restrctiou; the hundreds Of cities that line
the coast and crown the banks Of the noble
rivers, and which have started from the soil
since the establishment Of Independence;
the vast wilderness, whose primcval forests
are yearly bowiDg 10 the settlers axe, af-
foraing u home to the redundance Of our
own population and the hungry millions Of
Europe; these boundless prairles over which
the living wave Of population is pouring
like rushing tide, bringing with it to tho
utmost verge Of settlement the last results
Of civilization, railroads following the line
Of the recent Indian trail, electric ieiegraphs
| TO convey intelligence where the mail coach
was thing Of yesterday; great steamers on
the rivers and lakes trayersed within gen.
Grafton BY the bark canoe~-ihese proclaim
IN language moro expressive than inscrlp.
tions Oh tue monumental granite---in forms
more significant than the sculpsured marble
the worth and the memory OF the great and
good men who sowed in weakness the har.
vest which we raise IN power, who in the
doubtful elements Of national greatna,s
which opened upon them in visionary fu-
,ure beheid the germs of this palmy growth.
Of this imperial abundance, as the sculptor
behoids in advance the muscular limb,. the
glowing features, the triumphant expression
Of his marble hero, in tue shapeless BLOCK.
CT A young gentleman, the other day.
asked o young lady what she thought Of t6e
married state in general.
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