The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1875-04-19

brilliant oaccrs, who despised and ridlculed the
Yankee militia MASSACHUSETTS, had PROVIDED ior q
panies were every where organized, and military
supplies were deposited at convenient towns.
Everybody was on tne alert. Courlers we're held
ready TO alarm tue country ssud the British
mar, D, ana wagons 70 remove the stores. In the
spies, ana TWO OF them came Ia disguise a. lar as
Concord. on the .2d ol MAJ ca the Provincial con
gress met In thls town. ana mad the last alfanst,
ments Tor possible battle, begging toe militia apd
minute men 70 De ready, but 70 act only on tue
defensive.
As tue spring advanced It was plain that some
movement would be made, ana on MONDAY, me
l7th OF April, the Committee Saiety ordeFed
part OF the stores deposited mere 10 be removed
TO SUDBURY and Groton ana the cannon 70 DC SCI
creied. on Tue day. the lSth, Gage, VINO nad oe-
cldea 70 send d lore 10 Concord 10 destroy The
stores. picketed the roads IL m Boston INTO Mo
dlesex TO prevent any report o. tae lnienosa
march ir IN spreading INTO the country. But we
very air was electric. IN toe tension VI popll1I
mind every sound and sight was significant. ~
was part OF Cages plan 70 seize HANCOCK huu
Adams, VINO were AZ Lexington, ana On the ever
ing O! the lbtn the Committee OI safety at tHu-
bridge sent them word 10 beware, III
suspicious Officers were ABROAD. BrllsH
grenader, IN lull uailorm went into snop
IN Boston. He might as wen nave proclaimed
that an expedlt was on loot In the afternoon
one OF the Governors grooms strolled INTO staoe
wnere John Ballard was cleaning horse. Jonn
Ballard was SON OF Liberty. ana "hen , lne
groom idly remarked, ~ nervous Ing nn,
Ihat "there woud he neil To pay tomorrow"
johns heart leaped ana his hand shook, ana ask
ing the groom 10 nnish cleaning the morse ne an
10 a friend VINO carried tne news straight 10 pnul
Revere VINO told MIN ne had already ne2rd 10
from two otner persons
Lieutenant Colonel smith, TOOK boat at the loot OF
the Common and crossed % the Cambridge score.
Gage thought that his secret mad oeen kep@ DIT
Lori Percy, VINO mad heard the people say On the
Common tnat the troops " uid MISS their aim,
undeceIved him. Gage Instantly ordered that no
one should leave tue town. But d.. Warren was
before INN, ana as The troops crossed the river,
Eoenezer Dorr, win a message rom Warren 10
Hancock and Adams, riding over the Neck To
RoxDury, ana Paul Revere was rowing over tue
river further down, to Charlestown, having agreed
from the bellry Of the Old North church
one If by land ara two II py sea-
as a signal Of the march or the British. Already
the moon was rising, and While the troops vera
stealtnlly landing al Lechmore Point their secret
was nasned out into the April nglt, and laul Re-
we're springlng INTO the saddle upon the Char.es-
town shore. spufred away into Mlddlesex.
How lar that little candle throws his beams
The modest splre yet stands reverend relic OF the
olu town oil Bos toD OF those brave men and OF
their deeds. startling the land that ngat with
the warning OF Danger, let u remind the lauu Tor
ever oil the patriotism Wlth Nhlcl That CANCER
was averted ana Tor our children as FOR rhtners
stin stanu secure, tine pharos ol American liberty.
Ii was q brilliant April night. Inc winter nad
been unusually mid and the spring very forward
The nils were ali eady green. Toe early grain
waved in the fields and Tne air was sweet with
poisoning orchards Already he robins wnlsiled
the bueDlrd sang and the oenediclsn OF peace
rested upon the landscape Under Inc cloudless
moon the soldiers silently marched aud Paul
Revere swiftly rode, pahoping through Med
ford ana West Cambridge, rouslng every
house as ne went spurrlng for Lexington
and Hancock and Adams. ana evadlng tn British
latrols VINO mad been sent ont 10 stop the news.
Stop the news! Already toe village churches
were beginning 70 ring the alarm, as tie pulpits
beneath tnem had been ringing Or many year.
In the awakening houses nights flashed from WIN
DOW TO window. Drums beat family lar away and