The Rutland daily globe. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1873-1877, 1875-06-21
BUNKER HILL GRAFTON.
By Gen. Charles Dovens.


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WELCOME.
Welcome to the citizens of every state,
alike from those which represent the thir-
teen colonies, and from the younger states
of the Union. We thank them all, wheth-
er they come from the great middle states
which bind us together, from the West or
from the South, for the pilgrimage they
have made hither in generous appreciation
of the great step that was taken here upon
the jagged and thorny path upon which we
we're compelled to walk in our journey to-
ward independence. Fought although this
battle was by the men of the colonies of
New England, they did not stand for them
selves alone, but that there might be found
ed a structure imperishable as any that
man can rear in free and united govern
ment. The corner stone of the edifice
they laid was for all the colonies that were,
all the states that are, all the states that are
yet to be.
Welcome to the vice president and the
members of the cabinet of the president of
the United States, and the justices of its
supreme court. They represent to us the
government which was the result of the
Revolution. In l775 Massachusetts was
the most populous but one or perhaps two
of the colonies, and by the unity of her
people the most powerful and warlike of
any. She has seen, notwithstanding her
own vast increase in population and wealth,
although great state has since been taken
from what were then her borders her rel
alive position change; but she has seen
with admiration and not with envy, with
pride and satisfaction and not with mean
jealousy, the growth of states broader,
richer and fairer than she can hope to be.
Whatever changes may have come, her
spirit has not changed, her voice has not
altered. Then singled out from the col
onies to be first subdued and punished, as
she lifted her head in stern defense of her
ancient liberty, in proud defiance of those
who would Cypress her demanding her own
right of local self government, she called
upon her sister colonies for Union that
should secure and maintain the rights of
| all; so, to-day, she demands for all others
every right which she asks for herself, and
she calls upon all for that cordial and gen.
erous obedience which she is ready to rem
der to the constitution which has united
them forever.
| THE HARVARD MEN.
AS they formed for their match, Lang
don, the president of Harvard college,
came from his study and implored the
blessing of God upon their then unknown
and dangerous expedition. So always may
the voice of this great institution of learn
| ing which, among their earliest acts, and
in their day of weakness, our fathers ded.
| icated to the cause of sound learning, seem
to be uplifted in solemn invocation above
their sons in every struggle, whether in the
forum or the field, for progress, for liberty
| and for the rights of man. From her halls
then converted into barracks, had come
forth the men, who, within the 35 years
that had preceded, had more largely than
any others controlled and conducted the
great debate between England and her col
onies, which, beginning distinctly in 1894
by the proposed passage of the stamp act,
was now to be settled by the arbtramenl
of arms. In 1740 had graduated Samuel
Adams, and, in his thesis for the masters
degree, had maintained the proposition
which was the foundation of the Revolu
ton. that it was lawful to resist the supreme
magistrate, if the commonwealth could
not otherwise be preserved. He had beer
followed, among others hardly less distin
guished, by James Otis, by Cooper anc
Bowdoin, Hancock aud John Adams, by
Warren and Quincy Differing in occupa
tons, in personal qualities and menta
characteristics, this remarkable group hat
been drawn together by common enthu
siasm. To their work they had brought
every energy OF mind and heart, and they
had so managed their share of the contro
versy, in which all the leading statesmen
of Britain had participated, so to hav'
commanded the respect of their opponents
while they Inspired and convinced thei
own countrymen. Many lived to see thei
hopes fulfilled, yet not all. Already Quincl
the youngest of this ilustrious circle, ha'
passed away, appealing with his dyin!
words to his countrymen "to seal their faitl
and constancy to their liberties with thei
blood" Already the gloomy shadow o
mental darkness had obscured forever tn
splendid powers Of Otis, and the hour
Warren was nearly come.
+ THE SECOND REPULsE-PREscorr.
The time of the repulse was terrific
; "In front of our works." says Prescott
'thc ground was covered with the kille
and wounded, many of them within fe'
yards" while before the rail fence 18Th
: dead" in the homely phrase Of Stark, ''la
q thick as sheep in a fold" Disorder reigne
in the British ranks; to stay the rout W.
] Cor tho unor,auf iunnoa aihIa. aa many of N