The Carolina Spartan. [volume] (Spartanburg, S.C.) 1852-1896, 1857-07-09

| BUNKER Hill ASSOCIATION: Honored bv
your gracious invitation TO witness this
grand and imposing spectacle, / had thought
i came here rs witness only. had moi
thought that should be called upon to be.
come an actor IN the scene. | am, for the
flrst time, present at Bunker Hill. and in
the presence Of the descendants and success.
ors OF that gallant and devoted band who
laid down their lives upon this soil that we
might live rs fieemen. They have left you,
my couniryinen, heritage that has been
unknown TO the world since the most pal,nv
days OF Greece and Rome-they have left
you the heritage Of an immortal! name; and.
more, they have left you the heritage of
their example.
"Who were theyl The country people
assembled in a hurry. To meet whomY
The veterans of old England. Where?
Upon the soil of an English colony. Wbyl
That they might convince the world, as thew
convinced the foe, that they possessed the
spirit OF resistance 10 tyranny from any
quarter 1t might come, applause;l aud that
gallant man, whom you in honoring honor
yourselves; that gallant man who was The
most distinguished victim upon that distin-
gulshed field, could be have returned from
II, although he could not have said, like his
spartan predecessor at Thermopyle did,
20, stranger, and tell it at Lacedemon that
we laid down our lives in obedience to
The laws of Sparta" because ut that
day, my countrymen, we had no law: the
empire of the British rule had ended; The
empire of American rule had not begun:
there was no law but the fixed. indom,table
purpose, the stern and iron rule. and the
ready hand 10 achieve what was there
achieved; although he could not have used
Tie Spartan language, he might have said
TO Massach usetts, Tell il to your sons in
Massachusetts, tell il 10 your sister colonies.
and let 1t be handed down f,om generation
to generation, that here, upon Bunker Hill,
was iald the cornerstone Of American in
dependence, cemented with our blood"
lAppIause.
My coun,rymen have been well end
beautifully told by the jus,ly-distinguished
gentleman who was the orator of the dav.
that al Bunker Hill, eighty.two years ago.
when the revolution was inaugurated, the
rule OF the British empire ceased upon this
continent. Other battles were fought, other
sutferings were endured, privation that would
be Incredible 10 those who did not witness
them were sustained without murmur.
but the British rule ended on this continent
eighty.two years ago. Applause. have
said Mr.. President, that ii that lust and
gallant man could have returned from the
battle field and told Massachusetts TO hand
down the memory of that day from genera.
ton 10 generation, he would have founI his
request fulfilled. -Four generations have
passed by, and We are here in the fifth now.
| shall tell it in Old Virginia, when | re.
turn TO her blessed hills, that found the
spirit of Massachusetts rs buoyaut, as patri
otic, as completely filled with the emana.
tons that should govern patriotism when
visited Bunker Hill as il was when that
battle was fought. Loud applause.
feel authorized 10 ask why this mos,
inspiring assemblage; why that intermina
ble procession OF which formed, bv your
kind invitation, very humble part; why
these streameis from every house and from
every windew, and why was all the beauty
OF your beautiful city assembled waving
Their handkerchiefs and streaming their
banners of welcome 10 The commemorators
OF this great day! shall feel myself au
ihorized 10 say 10 the people of Virginia
that the spirit Of Bunker Hill yet remains
at Bunker Hill. Applause And now,
my countrymen, something WAS said by
the very eloquent and honored gentleman
who represents the State of Connecticut in
depreciation Of that dishonored day which
should witness this great confederation bro
ken into fragments. | sympathize with
him, | am here 10 day TO say to you, peo-
pie OF Massachusetts, that our government,
Is government whose ouIy sanction is in
the honor and in the good faith or the
States OF this Union, applause, and TO
proclaim that so long rs there are honor
and good faith in the States and in the
people OF the States the Union will be per
petuated. Removed applause.
| invoke YOU here on Bunker Hill, com
ing from my own honored State in the
far South-l invoke Of you all that ydH,
shall require Of those who shall represe
You that they administer the government
rs 1t WAS formed bv our fathers under the
constitution, applause, aud not otherwise.
! would ask the spirit of that patriot who
has departed from US, if he can look down
again upon the earth which hs once honor
ed, TO inspire you all with that feeling which
would require that the government should
be administered under the constitution in
honor and in good faith Mr.. President.
thank you again, and the association of
which you are tho worthy head, for having
gwen me the opportunity Of witnessing this
great spectacle on Bunker AIHl, and ena.
bling me to take back to my people, as
shall do, the assurance ihat the spirit Of
Bunker Hill yet lives in Massachusetts.
loud and long continued applause
WHAT UNCLE SAN HAS DoNE.-The fol.