The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1875-04-20
VOICES FROM THE GRAVE.

From the New YORK Evening Mail. April 1911
With every disposition to recognize ana applaud
every effort or patriotic enterprise in the press az
this Centennial season, we must nevertheless &C.
cord highest credit TO neignoors or the HERALD
for that timely sense OF the fitness Of things which
crops out everywhere In that paper THIS morning.
Three pages or the supplemental sheet OF this
issue or the HERALD are occupied with reproduce
lions In approximate fac-simile or certain
hundred.year.olo newspapers, frelghted with
matter then exctingly fresh, and now his
torical, connected with the times that tried
men's souls. RiUtngton's Nelo York Gazetteer, or
May 25 1875, gives Us again, after the lapse or
century, the affidavlts and dispositions OF partci-
pants and eye-wltnesses relative TO s'the CON-
mencement OF the late hostties IN the prov
ince OF Massachusetts Bay.n the same being ap-
parently o serial or timely interest and CON
tinued from our last" The same paper also has
the speech OF Governor Franklin, or New Jersey,
TO the General Assembly OF that provlnce-a de-
live ance redolens OF heightened ana digni-
FED loyalty 10 us Gracious Majesty, but
somewhat discounted, we should suppose, in
its effect BIZ the afidavlrs referred TO,
which appear alongside or the doughiace docu-
ment. Then the HERALD gives US a broad
side "extran Salem Gazette, with forty co1nns for
It's startling head, each inscribed with the OF
a Lcxngton-Concord martyr TO liberty anc con-
tanning particulars OF the tnen recent battles and
. funeral elegy Increment
TIE Massachusetts, SpV or American oracle or
LIBERTY dated MAY 3, 1875 IS also reproduced in
part, with It's quaint looking head and It's account
OF the battle or Lexington. Fhe editorial nitro
ducing the account begins with tnis exhortstion
now so uly oocyed ana TO be obeyed throughout
the country
A MERlCANs forever bear in mind the BATTLE
N u LEAINGTONi-wHere BRITISH Troops IN
moested aud unprovoKed, waDtOHly, ana N a
most innuman manner Ereu upon and killed a
NUMBER III our cOunttymen. tnen IOobeu them OF
tneir provisions, ransacked, plundered and burnt
their houses nor could tue tears OF deienceless
women, some OF whom were In the pains o. chud-
birth the cries 81 helpless babes, nor the PRAYERS
OF old age, combined 10 beds u SICKNESS appeasc
their tnIrst Tor blood -or DIVER: them their
DESIGN " MURDER ana ROBBERY
As an item OF current news the spy gives the
following;-
Last Thursday morning the Hon. John Hancock.
Esq; Mr.. samuel Adams, anu Robert Treat
Pane Esq., escorted oy number OF gentlemen
oil this town. sat out Tor Philadelphia to meet the
Grand American Congress, OF when t1ey are
members. Aud on tue afternoon " tue same day
Jonn Adams Esq., another member OF the Grand
Congress passed through tins town, also on mis-
wSy To Philadelphia. lne Hon. Thomas Cushing,
Esq, we hear Is gone oy the way II Newport.
AND nnllly, or TINS same page the HERALD 70
prints part OF the EsSez Gazette for the week end
ing April Is I775 in winch occurs It's report nom
the recent scenes or excitement and carnage.
As one looKs upon these resurrected newspa-
pers OF q century ago, it can be but 10 revive
with intenser feeling the memory or our early
martyrs and 10 enhance the patriotic feryor
wncrewith inc nation Of to-day enters upon its
solemn memorial service. Nor can we avoid
the conviction that in no more effective man
ner could leading journal OF the present time
have contributed to enthuse $50 far as that were
neededl the latent patriotism OF our people
than bJ the reproduction OF these ancient
annals. Written and published as they were.
contemporaneously Win the events the country is
now concentrating with every sort OF cell
ebratlon, these old papers now come
forth from their century or burial
30 teach Us anew the lessons OF pat
rlotism, and 70 lncito the generation now enjoying
the inheritance, thus won oy suffering and blood.
10 a nobler lie and higher love Of country. No
speech or poetry or parade at Concord or Lexing-
ton to-day can at all compare, IL seems 70 rs With
the effectiveness for good Of the matter which the
HEEALp's enterprise has set before the country in
so striking q form.