Kenosha tribune & telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1856-1859, 1858-11-04
Correspond
Notes from Boston.

MEssRS. EDIToRs:
Mankind seem uni
Versally imbued with feelings of venera.
tlon-bordering perhaps on superstition
for places which have been the thea
tres OF great events. We love to stand
on spot that has been signalized by
great deeds, that have exerted an infiu.
ence on the destinies of nation-pIaces
sanctified by the blood of heroism,
that has seemed to possess a propagating
influence far beyond the graves of their
martyrs; and in the place of one fallen
hero, hundred or a thousand others
are started into life, or animated with
new vIgor. Who, that has visited Bos-
ton has not also visited Bunker Hill, and
stood on the spot where our fathers
gave practical evidence that they had
more bravery and patriotism than pow
der, and assembled that tall granite mon.
ument which comes we'll under Millions
description of Satan's spear
ITO equal which the talest pine
Hewn on Norwegian hills be the asst
oisome great admiral were but a wand?"
Yet how few who have stood there.
and thought thus, were aware that there
is, in this vicinity, place where events
occurred ofstill greater importance in the
history of our contest with Great Britain,
than even the battle of Bunker Hill. I
allude to Dorchester Heights, in what in
is now South Boston. 1t was here that
the works were erected in one night,
which aStoniShed the British the next
morning quite as much as had their dis
covery of the works on Bunker Hill, and
which eXtorted from General Howe the
Illuminating exclamation, "The rebels
have done more in one night than my
whole army would do in q month"; 1t
was here, on Dorchester Heights, that
the rebels were enabled, for the first
time, to dictate terms of submission or
retreat to both the army and the fleet of
England. There was no battle, for a
storm prevented it, till the Americans
had SO strongly entrenched themselves
that there was no hope of dislodging
them. Yet the victory was no less com
iplete, no less valuable, no less glorious,
than it would be had it been won by
force of arms, and by q contest which
in all probability, would have involved
on the one hand the destruction of the
British fleet, and on the other the con-
| Migration of Boston.
have lately made visit to this in
teresting historical place, to refresh my
memory with the recollection of its ev-
ents, and to impress myself with the re-
Election that the victory won there was
far greater than that CT a more bloody
field. There were two hills that went
by the name of Dorchester Heights, the
least important Of which has been partly
demolished to make way fer streets; the
other is enclosed by an iron fence, and
will probably remain its own monument
for all time. Still further on, near the
waters edge, at point of land which
commands the channel Of the harbor, is
an old battery, in such an excellent state
OF preservation that, with little repair
1t might again be put in good working
order butwe have larger and stror ger
forts now. Fort Winthrop has already
been four or five years in building. and
is not yet completed; and Fort Warren.
which commands the entrance of the
harbor, was not completed till at least
ten years of labor had been bestowed
on it. Verify, necessity is great spur
to exertion.