Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-02-27
PAUL.
REVERE

against Revere II took him three years
TO get an acquittal. and then II was not
given heartily. Outside Of Gen Lowell.
few men came out of the Penobscot cam
palgn with credit
With the close OF the revolutionary war
revere resumed business with ali his
Wonted energy. lie was a goldsmith and
hardware dealer. a dentist and an on
tIclan But that did not suffice He had
a desire for a government billet There
were a lot more with the same inclina-
tiof- Revere applied for place I'm the
mint Failing to get that lie sought a
place in the excise When he did not set
IL he was just as clipper as ever There
was money in copper. he believed so he
established a foundry for making church.
bells, spikes, bolts. nuts, etc Incident
ally he made a seal for the provincial
government. and did fair amount of en-
CRAVING work for the public.
He was stanch federalist and when
the federal Constitution was submitted
10 the Massachusetts assembly lie was
one OF Its most ardent advocates IL NAV
seem strange at this time but Massa-
chuSetts in the early days of the Union
was intense in its contention for state
fishtS- Had IL not been for Samuel
AdamS, Massachusetts probably would
have refused to ratify the Constitution
Adams held back. That he finally was
SWayed by the action of Revere and the
mechanics of Boston there is no doubt
Revere and his associates held a big
meeting in the famous Green Dragon.
Boston. and declared for the federal
Constitution When the resolutions
adopted at that meeting were handed to
ADAMS by Revere this is the report OF
their conversation.
How many mechanics asked Adams.
We're at the Green Dragon?"
More, sir. than the Green Dragon could
hold. Revere replied.
And where were the rest, Mr. Re
yere?.
In the streets. sir
And how many were in the Streets"
More, sir, than there are stars in the
sky
\ bit extravagant but forcefuI.
The Constitution was adopted. ISL to
16s. Adams and his friends voted for it.
Without their aid it would have been re-
jected.
The foundry Revere established thrived
amazingly. He was the first man in
America to refine copper He did q LOT
OF work for the government. All the
bolts. spikes, pumps. etc. that went into
the most famous OF American vessels the
frleate Constitution, "Old Ironsides
were made by him. The copper that
lned her bottom was of Revere's make
lie proudly declared that ''coppersmiths
believed no one in America could make
copper so malleable as to hammer il ho,
1T was secret that lay I'm very few
breasts in England / determined ii pos
sfble to find the secret. After a great
many trials and considerable expense /
gained it,
Revere was the copper king of Amer
1ca-the first of the line. His business
grew SO fast that he bought the powder
mill at Canton, the one in which he
made powder for the revolutionary army,
enlarged it and prepared TO f1ll all the
orders that came TO him. In 1905 the
federal government owed $1,000 to him.
and he had orders that would bring the
amount up 10 nearly $4,000. In one Of
his letters to the Secretary of the Navy
he suggests that government vessels in
the Mediterranean lie ordered to stop at
smyrna and bring copper home I'm bal
last He suggests this as an encourage
lnent to all infant industry. Our works
have cost us q great deal of money! he
says. We believe We are the first and
only one III America. and our copper is
pronounced by the best judges equal TO
the English We will thank the admin
istrators OF our government If they will
give Us the encouragement we merit
fhere being no copper mines that are
worked to advantage in the United
States, would il not be best that all the
copper which comes from government
vessels be reserved to manufacture over
again."