The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1914-06-17
HILL DAY RECALLS
 WEBSTER'S GREAT SPEECHES.

THIS IS BUNKER HILL DAY, when the cit
 1 izens of the United States in general and of Boston in particular recall the valorous deeds of those rebels against British authority who at Breeds Hill in Charlestown, laid the foundation for new nation. In the early days of the. republic Bunker Hill Day was celebrated with much preRd-eagle oratory and twisting of the lions tail, but with the growth of kindlier feeling toward the mother country it was re- membered that the gallant defenders of the hill might have been cut down to a man except for the mercy of the British commanders, Lord Howe. Although outnumbered two to one, the Americans repulsed the English attack until their powder was exhausted Howe's troops were armed with bayonets, while the defenders had to depend on clubbed muskets and stones. With the Americans at his mercy. Howe stop ped the slaughter, and the Yankees were per mitted to get safely away. The British com mander was bitterly criticised for his compas- sion, but he replied that his orders were to take the hill, and added, 1T took it.
 The anniversary of the famous battle of 1775 recalls two famous celebrations of the day, the first on the semi-eentenary, in 1895, when the cornerstone of the Bunker Hill monument was laid, and the second in 1843, when the me- morial was dedicated. Lafayette was the guest of honor at the 1895 celebration, and President Tyler was present at the ceremonies in 1843, and on both occasions Daniel Webster was the principal orator. WebSter's addresses on these occasions were among the greatest of his ora torical flights In 1925 many veterans of the revolution were present. and to these ssvener- able men ; come down to us from a former generation Webster addressed his speech.
 You are now where you stood fifty yeare ago. this very hour said the orator with your brothers and your neighbors, shoulder to shouI- HdeT, in the strife of your country. Behold, how altered! The same heavens are indeed over your heads; the same ocean rolls at your feet but all else, how changedi You hear now no roar of hostile cannon you see no mixed vol umes of smoke rising from burning Charles town. The ground strewn with the dead and dying; the impetuoIs charge; the steady and successful repulse; the loud call to repeated as- sauIt; the su1nmoning of all that is manly to repeated resistance; thousand bosoms freely and fearlessly bared in instant to whatever of terror there may be in war and death-an these you have witnessed but you witness them no more
 Tn Misrepresentation of his address at the ded- ication of the monument Webster said
 Let us remember the trust, the sacred trust, attaching to the rich inheritance which we have received from our fathers. Let us feel our personal responsibility, to the full extent of our power and influence, for the preservation of the principles of civil and religious liberty. And when both we and our children shall have been consigned to the house appoint ed for all living, may love of country-and pride of country-glow with equal fervor among those to whom names and our blood shall have descended. And then, when honor ed and decrepit age shall lean against the base of this monument, and troops of ingenious youth shall be gathered round it, and when the one. shall speak to- the other of its objects the purposes of it's construction, and the great and glorious events with which it is connected there shall rise from every youthful breast, the ejaculation, Thank God, I-I .also-am an American.
 WORKING. IN THE GARDEN. THEN ANn NOxU