New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1859-02-04

GIN ISRAEL PuTSAM AT BUNKER HILL-PRE-
sIsrATIOS OF HIS SWORD TO THE HISTORICAL 80
eIrrY.-The Connecticut Historical Society assem-
bed at Hartford on Wednesday, to s'gnalZe the 0c-
sscn of the presentation of the battle sword Of Gen.
Israel Putnam to the Society by Henry G. Deming, IN
behalf Of the representatives Of the late Lemuel Put,
nam Grosvenor Of POmffet MIR. DemDg delivered
an admirable address. Among other things, he said,
T. in HAS Connecticut had foreseen her secesslties
and made herself hero she would have forfeited her
reputation for common sense If she had not made pre-
cisey such one az Gen. Putnam. He was exactly
adapted to our peculiar wants. With an Alexander
Cromwell, or a Napoleon, we should have done
nothing except to offer ourselves as one meal Tor his
jnsatiate maw We needed hero OF dauntiess pluck,
of upwesrisome endurance, shrewd, generous, self
sbncgatiDg fertile in expedlents, with more genlus fOr
fre warfare than for pitched battles and complicated
man Of muscle and might and will,
capable of intense wrath and involable obstinacy,
who could bend or bre TX into military subordlnahon
and trustul self surrender the Connecticut leves raw,
verdant awkward as soldiers, but independent and
telf.complacent freehOlders; who after the cam
psgn could render exact account OF receipts
and disbursements, to the commissioners OF the pay
tsble-a hero shaped more like Cincinnatus than
Cesar, who in the breathing times of peace, could
Join his feOw-citizens IN productive industry ana
support the Gospel and sit in the General Assembly
though thus shaped for the times there was enough
in him to have stamped his any epoch;
enough TO have made Hercules, a LeOnidas, or a
Ceur de Lion, or a Mcdonald.
Hon. Judah Dana, q grandson Of Putnam, and
once u. =. Senator from Name, lett tnls graphic
sketch of Putnam:
In his person for hht the middle size erect
hkse muscular and firm in every part MS eoahlehaoo
OPEN strong I'd spmaed the features OF his iaceAse
well pro portioned each other and 10 his whole hse ms
teeth till death His osans and senses were al
he heard quickly saw TO an Immense
ance and though he sometimes hammered IN converse
ton voice remarkably heavy strong and COMMANDING
Though fsceous and dpsssonse In private when animated
the Of battle his cOunenance was herce ana teI1e
md his voice like thunder His whole manner admirably
calculated TO inspire his soldiers with and CONFIDENCE,
his enemy with terror The faculties OF MS mnd were no'
Inferior TO those his body his penetration acute his de-
on rapid vet remarkably correct and the more de,psrae
bis situation the collected and nndsuned WIN the
lion he had heart that melted az the sight OF as
es he could never witness suffering IN any human oelng
without becoming sufferer himself; the operation OF
oodleng has caused him to faint In viewing the hed OF
battle exquisite, until he had Afforded friend or
be all the relief In his Once alter battle on ehaun
a wound through the head Of iayorte oce Capt
Whiting who died field, be tainted and was taken Up
for dead Martial music reused him to the highest poh while
solemn sacred music him into In bis disposition lie
open and almost to fault; he never disguised
In socisl relations of life never eNcelsd
The sword is plain old weapon, single. edged fat
backed and slightly curved. Mr. Lemuel Grosvenor
ays -,-.,.......
The sword a century old have always understood
hat IL was with Putnam Breeds and Bunker HILL aud
though have positive proof OF the st believe ths was
the last occasion which pubicly used The sword
broken when 1t given 70 my grandsther Ger
mue four inches Of Its blade being lost ana
the ,cabbard bstSIed that ssndathet got the present
ore made and the sword ground OF again 20 point
ave heard the ord thus broken IN the Pbc
eyioe and though my grandfather did not tell me so de-
youy believe this the yerabe whch oea
many hwans Hpon the heads I'D shoulders OF the refractory
rhes AZ the decisive and which history Informs
then and there broken" Hartford ffess' Jsh' -