The weekly Portage sentinel. [volume] (Ravenna, Ohio) 1854-1861, 1860-08-08
GBe 4ortage Sentinel,
Wednesday, August 8, 1880.
From the Boston Post, July 2Oth.l
Mr. Douglas at Bunker Hill.

D. OpOHoIuI JEs NOtlCe VI DlS coming mao
been duly given, and large crowd, (num-
bering perhaps, two or three thousand)
waited TO welcome him, and when he reach.
ed the grounds he was wurmly cheered.-
The original intention was, that the speech.
es should be delivered at the monument, but
the crowd was go great and SO eager to OBJ.
tain sight Of the distinguished Senator,
that il was thought advisable to give up this
plan, and Mayor Dana, accordingly request,
ed the multitude to give way, and allow
Judge Douglas to walk round The monument
stating that welcoming ceremonies would
afterwards be performed ut the steps front
ing High street. After a few moments,
Judge Douglas and his friends made their
appearance at this place. Mayor Dane was
addressed by Hon. Charles Thompson as
follows:
REMARKS OF HON. CHARLES THOMPSON.
Mr.. MAYOR On this sacred ground
consecroted 10 freedom and by the blood and
treasure of our forefathers, and since trodden
by the feet of Webster, a Jackson, and
other worthless, we have now before US an
ilustrious stronger-O stranger to US per.
sonally, but known to the whole country
through his deeds and acts. 1t is fitting and
proper that gentleman OF his standing, and
of his character and eminence, should visit
Bunker Hill, and should be shown to the
citizens who reside on the SUBMITS of Bun.
ker Hill and around it. Sir, it is my honor
and privilege to introduce to you my friend,
the champion of the rights OF man, Zap.
plause,] whose lubors 10 the Senate of our
country hove done us much, to say the least,
as those Of any other living man, to sustain
the great fundamental principles Of non in
terventioD ond popular sovereignty-the
corner stones upon which the citadel of our
liberty stands, and must stand. When these
fail, the supersruc'ure must foil.
Sir, it is my pleasure to introduce to you
the Hon. Stephen A. Douglas, ol Illinois,
[Three cheers.
SPEECH OF MAYOR DANA.
JUDGE DOUGLAS AS the chief executive
officer of this city, and as the organ of my
fellow citizens, it gives me pleasure in thei-
behalf, to extend TO you o cordial welcome
to this city. We desired that you, before
you left this section of the country, should
stand upon this sacred ground that you
should tread upon the soil once pressed by
the feet Of Putnam, of Warren, OF Prescott,
of Stark, and of those other heroes whose
deeds on this spot have made tie name o.
Bunker Hill immortal. We are glad, sir, to
have you stand under the shadow Of that
m.jestic shat, and see what tribute CRATE
iul sons have paid to heroic sires. But, sir,
we have also invited you to visit us, because
we wished TO see one who fills high place
in the high councils of our nation; because
we desired 10 see one who has filled and
does now fill SO l4rge space in the minds
OF the people of this country. ["Amen''-
Good" "Good," and three cheers Sir,
you see around you a large number Of your
political friends. We cannot all Ogree with
all your views ON the policy OF the country,
but, sir, we cen oil respect and admire the
man who, not propPed by ancestry or the
power OF his friends, by his own genius and
indomitable energy and industryi has risen
from the humble walks of life to fill some oI
the highest places in the nation. Ap
plause.
Sir, this audience are waiting to heal
from you, and will no longer detoin them
but agaiu, in behalf of the citizens of this
Monumental city, bid you welcome to the
city. [Applause, and three cheers for Doug
lus
SPEECH OF JUDGE DOUGLAS.
Mr.. MAYOR AND Fellow CITIZENS 81
have just returned from pilgrimage to Lex
ingtoD, preparatory TO visiting this sacred
spot where we are now assembled. Of oil
the battle fields end all the places consecra.
ted to the patriotism by the blood of our
| ol,,t;o Toi ic doar To he
American heart as Bunker Hill. ["Hear
hear" and applause. There is not an
American citizen upon the face of this broad
continent, no matter whether he moy be
from the South or the North, or whether he
may come from the plains OF the Northwest
or the shores of the Pacific, who does moi
claim for himself and his posterity share
in the glories which that monument was
erected to commemorate. Applause. l.
You moy imagine that the monument is Pc
Culiar to Charlestown, and that you have 9
deeper interest in that work than the Amer;
can citizen who may be 10 the remotest parts
Of the Republic, or sailing upon the broad
ocean but | will assure you that there is
not one of you who claims greater pride,
either in the work itself, or 10 the glorious
dee0S WHICH u Wdb maui " CVmMSWoi"NC
than the citizens Of my own Illinois J.
["Hear, hear" and applause. This has
been to me q day which shall long cherish
and remember. have seen the spot where
the first American blood was shed, which
gave rise to the American Revolution, and
now have the honor Of addressing you from
the place Of all others Nb!sh gave the impe'
tus to the REVOLUTION that resulted in the
establishment Of our independence and o.
| our liberties. Let the sons Of these brave
sires prove true to the principles which gave
rise to the Revolution which formed the
foundations OF our whole political system
and upon which alone this Republic can be
maintained in it's unity and 10 its purity for
ever.
The American Revolution originated in
the assertion, by the people Of the colonies
Of the right Of self.government by each cell
ony in everything that related to their do
mestic and internal polty. Our fathers
were willing to recognize the paramount
authority of the British Parliament and the
British crown over all mattersand things
which were imperial and not cd hial-over
all that affected the general welfare of tht
empire, without interfering with the loca
and domestic affairs of the people, OF tht
colony; but our fathers said to the British
government, "you must not interfere will
our firesides and our hearthstenes. W.
thayela right to our provincial Legislatures
| 10 make our own laws, establish our OWL