The Nevada Democrat., 1861-04-25
Starr Kings Lecture on Lexington.


On Friday evening last, Rev. t. S. King
delivered an address commemorative Of
the S7th anniversary of the battle Of Lex
ingtou. We give some extracts from the
Bulletins synopsis of the lecture:
Mr.. King opened with the "incidents of
travel'' of the beams Of the morning, gleam-
ing first on the mountains Of New England.
then making the Hudson a thread of gold,
then flooding the praries with ligat, then
whisking the shadows to the westward Of
the Rocky Mountains, then tipping the sill.
yer spires of the Serras, then turning to
liquid amber the streams that roll down the
Pacific slope and empty into the Great
South Sea, four hours aud a half after their
first slant rays touched the mountains of
Maine. So the light that was kinded Mt
Lexington eighty-six years before had sped
across the continent, furnishing all its
prominences aud filling all its valleys.
The first clear idea of a separation Of the
colonies from the mother country-of a
national independence was born of old Sam.
Adams, who had the eyes of Argus and as
many arms as Briarens, and in each hand
pen: the man who ate little, drinked little
slept little, and thought much-to whom
tax of S3,O00,000 or of three pence we're
the same. alike and equally not to be paid
If paying 1t infringed upon a principle; who
was as flexible as water, but as tough as
live oak. No worthy biography of this
wonderful man had yet been written. He
was happy to connect this subject with San
Francisco and to show TO the world that
hitheT the cause Of patriotism had been
transported and would yet do honor to the
original source. A great.grandson of Sam
uel Adams, one of our citizens, bad in bis
possession many of the papers of his ances.
tor, and a collection of family traditions
and historical papers, throwing ample liqN
upon the subject-a collection rivalled in
richness only by that Of Bancroft. He was
engaged in writing the long-neglected bog
raphy OF The great patriot; may success at
tend him. During the applause that fol-
lowed. the knowing ones whispered il about
that the great.grandson alluded to was VIII
liam v. WelIsl
Mr.. King quoted from the report of JON
athan Carver, who went exploring along
the Great Lakes, and indicated where the
best road was to the Paci6c-Jonathan Car.
yer, the prophetic Yankee forerunner of
Col. Fremont-tbe herald, in 1865, of the
Pacific Railroad, and the precursor of him.
who, by inventing the hydraulic process of
mining, set the very foothills in motion to-
ward tae sea.
If the Union is to break and the common
property is to be divided, who will take the
revolutionary tradtions-a garment with
out seam? They had all heard of the con-
spiracy to encourage secession, and then to
reform Confederacy of all the States ex.
cept New England. She was not unused to
being left out 10 the cold. She was born
there. She drove good business in ice.
She could stand il If the rest could afford TO
let her go. But II she is TO be shut outfit
she is 10 go, let her recall her blood and
spirit, and zee what is marsballed to follow
her? A pretty spectacle il would present
dozen States TO turn their old mother out
of doOrsl If New England is to take ber
history with her, see how you will like the
bargain you must make;-Plymouth rock
for the keys of Florida; Lexington for the
forts where the stars have been hauled
down by traitors; the ghost of Sam Adams
for the. body of Yancey; the memory of
Washington for the reality Of Twiggsl