The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1874-09-15

NDetner the gentlemen are satisfied and
passed IN the affirmative; the members are
soon seated and the doors are shut. The ST.
lence IS first broken by Mr.. Lynch, of south
Carolina. There is a gentleman present."
he says, "who has presided, with great dig
nifty, over very respectable society. and
greatly 10 the advantage of America and
he moves that the Hon. Peyton Raudolnh
Esquire, one of the delegates from Virginia'
be appointed chairman He doubts not it
VIII be unanimous. IL Is So and wonder
large, well looking man, carefully dressed.
and with well powdered wig, rises and takes
the cnal. Inc commissions of the dele
gates are then produced and read, after
which Mr.. Lynch dominates, as secretary.
Mr.. Charles Thomson, "a gentleman"
he says, 'of family, fortune, and charac-
TER. And thereupon. with that singular
wisuom which our early statesmen showed
III tIieir selection of men for all posts of re-
sponslbility, the Congress calls into his
country service that admirable man, 'the
sam Adams, OF Philadelphia, and the life OF
the cause of liberty" While the E,relinain-
arles are being despatched, let Us take look
az TINS company, for it is the most extrsor-
dlnary assembiage America has ever seen.
There are50 delegates present. the represent
tatlVts or III colonies. Georgia has had no
election, the North Carolinians have not Vet
arrived, and John Dickinson, that shadow.
slender as reed, and pale as ashes" that
pennsylvania farmer who has sown
1hE SEEDS OF EMPIRE,
is not a member yet. Directly in front. in
seat of prominence sits Richard Henry
Lee. his brilliant eye and Roman profile
would make hun a marked man in any
company. One hand has been injured, and
Is wrapped; as you see, in a covering of
Diack SILK, but when he speaks his move
ments are 50 graceful and his voice so sweet
that you forget the defect of gesture, for he
Is an orator-the greatest in America. per-
hans save only eli
the swarthy face and black, unpowdered
hair, is William Livingstone. of New
Jersey; mo public speaker, but sensible and
learned" Beside him, with his slender
form bent forward and his face lit with en-
thusiasm. sits his son-in- law. John Jaw. soon
to be famous He is the Youngest of the
delegates, and yonder sits the Oldest of them
all. His form is bent, his thin locks firing
ing forehead bowed with age and honora-
bile service, and his hands shake trelnulous-
~ as be folds them in his lap. 1t is Stephen
Hopkins, once chiei-iustlce of Rhode Island.
Close by him is his colleague. Samuel Ward
and sherman, of Connecticut, that strong
man, whose name is to be made
honorable by more than one generation.
johnson; OF MARYLAND, is here, 'that clear.
cool head" and Paca, his colleague, "a wise
deliberator." Bland, OF Virginia. is that
learned-iooking, "bookish man." beside
jealous. hot-headeG" Edward Rutledge
The Pennsylvanians are grouped together.
at one side-Morton, Humphreys, MIffiin,
Rhoads, Biddle, Ross, and Galloway, the
speaker of the assembly. Bending for
ward 10 whisper in the latter's ear as Duane
OF New York, that shy-looking man.
little "squint-eyed" iJohn Adams has
already written of HIM, VERY SEN
sible and very srtful." That large-featured
man, with the broad, open countenance. is
William Hooper; that other, with The
Roman nose, is Mexican, of Delaware. Rod
ney, the lattor's colleague. sits beside him.
"the oldest looking man in the world tall
thin, pale, his face no bigger than large
apple, yet beaming with sense and wit and
humor." Yonder Is Christopher Gadsden
who has been preaching independence to
South Carolina these 10 years past. He it is
who, reused by the report that the regulars
have commenced to
Bo9fBARD BOSTON.
proposes 10 march northward and defeat
Gage at once, before his endorsements can
arrive; and when some one timidly says
that in the event of war, the British will de-
stroy the seaport towns, turns on the speak
er, with this grand reply: "Our towns are
built of brick and wood; if they are burnt
down we can rebuild them; but liberty once
lost is gone forever" In all this famous
company, perhaps, the men most noticed
are the Massachusetts members.
That colony has thus far
taken the lead in the struggle with the
mother country. \ British army is en-
eamped upon her soil: the gates of her chief
town are shut; against her people the full
force of the resentment of king and Parlia-
meet is spent. Her sufferings called this
Congress into being, and now lend sad
prominence to her ambassadors. And of
them, surely Samuel Adams is the chief.
What must be his emotion as he sits here,
to-day, he who seats little, drinks
little, sleeps little, and thinks
mucb:" that strong man, whose
undaunted spirit has led his coun-
trymen up to the possibilities Of this day.
1t is his plan of correspondence, adopted
after hard struggle, in November, 1TT2,
that first made feasible union In the COM
mon defence. lie called for union as early
as April, 1878. For that he had labored
without ceasing and without end, now
arousiBg the dropping spirits of lsss san
guine men. now repressing the enthusiasm
of rash hearts. which threatened to bring on
Il crisis before the time was ripe, and all the
while laundering against tyranny
zette As he was ten years ago he
is to-day, the master spirit OF the time; as
cool ss watcbful, as steadfsst, now that the
hour of his triumph is at hand. as when, in
darker days, he took up the burden James
Otis could no longer bear. Beside him sits
his younger kinsman, John Adams, man
after his own heart; bold, fertile, res0lute;
an ELOQUENT speaker and a leader OF men.
But whose is yonder tall and manly form? It
is that of a man of40 years off age, in the prime
of vigorous manhood. He has not spoken, for
he is no orator; but there is look of COM
mand in his broad face and fiTm-set
mouth that marks him among men, and
seems to justify the Difference with which
his colleagues turn to speak with him. He
has taken back seat as becomes one of
his great modesty-for he is great even in
that-bnt he is still the foremost man in all
this company. This is is he who has just
made, in the Virginia convention, that
speech which Lynch, of Carolina, says is the
most eloquent speech that ever was made:
Il will raise thousand men, subsist them
at my own expense, and march with them
at their head for the relief of Boston," Those
were his words-and his name is Washing
ton. Such was the Continental Congress