The daily morning journal and courier., 1895-07-06

was flying, both being the gift of Cap
 tain James M. Townsend. On the side
 of the large granite boulder on which
 the tablet had been placed, stage had
 been erected for the speakers and ofll-
 cers of the day, and chairs had been
 provided on the ground round about it
 for the guests,
 Those who occupied seats on the stage
 were:
 Gen. E. s. Greeley, chairman and vice
 president of the Connecticut Society of
 the Sons of the American Revolutions;
 Franklin H. Hart, vice president of the
 General David Humphreys society; Jon
 athan Trumbull, president of the Con-
 necticut Society of the Sons of the
 American Revolution; John c. Hollis
 ter, treasurer of the same society; Rev.
 Edwin $. Lines, chaplain of the society;
 Charles P. Cooley, secretary; and Sem
 ators Orville H. Platt and Jonathan F.
 Morris of the board of managers of the
 Connecticut society; Judge Simeon E.
 Baldwin, president Of the New Haven
 Colony Historical society; Miss Mary
 P Talcott, registrar of the Society of
 Colonial Danes; F. G. Gay, registrar
 of the Society of Colonial Wars and
 Sons of the American Revolution; w.
 W. Farnam, Henry r. English and
 General E. E. Bradley. Park commis-
 sioners, Major Benjamin E. Brown, A.
 w. Phelps. son of q soldier of the rev.
 olutionary war; Percy A. Whitmore
 prize essayist, Everett E. Lord, Nathan
 Easterbrook, William E. Chandler and
 General George H. Ford, members of
 the tablet committee.
 The invited guests and members of
 the committees wore handsome
 badges consisting of an Ivory type por-
 trait of General David Humphreys, sur
 rounded by the seal of the society. They
 were considered very neat and tasty
 Copies of very artistic souvenir pro-
 gram, containing the order of exercises
 and the essay written by Percy A.
 Whitmore on the Invasion of New Ha-
 ven" were distributed to the guests on
 the way out of the park. A handsome
 reproduction of "The Black Jack Jug"
 used in King Charles time was sta-
 tioned on the desk on the stage, and contained the iced water with which the speakers refreshed themselves.
 After the guests had been seated on the stage Franklin H. Hart, vice presi-
 dent of the General David Humphreys branch of the Sons of the American Revolution, called the assembly to order and introduced General E. S. Greeley, chairman of the day, with few brief
 but appropriate remarks. General Gree ley, vice president of the Connecticut society of the Sons of the American
 Revolution, responded briefly with an interesting address. Rev. Edwin s. Lines, chaplain of the Connecticut so- ciety of the American Revolution then
 pronounced the invocation. After mu- sic by the Governors Foot Guard band President Jonathan Trumbull of the Connecticut Sons of the American Rev olution then made the opening address, in which he formally presented the tab let to the General David Humphreys so- ciety.
 ADDRESS OF JONATHAN TRUM- BULL.
 It is particularly appropriate that we should resume to-day the celebration of the anniversary of our national inde- pendence which was so rudely inter- rupted by tory and British invaders precisely 116 years ago: and that, up- on this soil, hallowed by the blood Of patriots, we should, at this late day, erect landmark commemorating an event still too little knoown to history, and still utterly unappreciated in it's moral effect in the American Revolu- ton.
 The skirmish of Lexington and Con- cord has long been, as well 1t may be, the theme Of the historian, the orator and the poet. It marked the first arm ed resistance to British oppression, the first outspoken expression of the de- termined, indomitable spirit of the fa- thers of the revolution. The defense of New Haven, differing but little in the number of patriots who laid down their lives for the country, and lack ing only the same dramatic position In history, showed to the British that the spirit of Concord and Lexington was as strong in Connecticut after four years of the stern realities of war as 1t was in Massachusetts in the flush of valiant resistance to the op- pressor.
 If any motive other than f1endish tory spite can be found for the barbarous raid on New Haven, that motive could only be to break the patriotic spirit of 1 the men of Connecticut by wanton at- | tack on their homes, their families and all that men hold dear. If the object of the tory Tryon and his murderous crew had been to gain a strategic mili- ! tary position, or to overcome an armed force whose defeat was of the slightest military importance, we might look up on the result as a. defeat to our arms. But, viewed as it is only fair to view it. weighed by its results in It's failure to accomplish its purpose of intimidation | 1t should stand in history as a, victory as glorious as that of Lexington and Concord. Yes, it was twice a victory | for not only did the stupidity conceived and brutality executed plan fail of it's purpose, but 1t gave new life and vigor to the very spirit 1t aimed to quench. | For. we well know that for every brave patriot who fell at New Haven, a score l nay, hundred men sprang to arms
 In this land already stripped of the flow- CT of her brave defenders who were fac ing the enemy in legitimate warfare at l the seat of war itself. And when this marauding fleet, fleeing from the ven- | geance this barbarous raid had arous- | ed, skulked from our shores to join the British forces. the perpetrators of the