Evening journal., 1915-07-08

caSiOn like THIS. FOLLOWING this event ,
and connected Herewith, came the /
act of Parliament Of March, 17Ti, ,
closing the port of Boston.
Again Delaware appeared in the
front. on June II. IVA, a card sign
ed "A Freeman was published in
New Castle and freely circulated. II
reclted a letter which had been sent
10 the committee of correspondence
of Virginia. dated at New Castle-on-
Delaware, May 26. IVA, signed by
J George Read, Thomas Mexican and
( John Mckinley. This letter was in
the shape OF a bitter protest against
the closing of the port at Boston, and
( the card Of A Freeman concluded by
making an earnest appeal to the pub
/ lie TO meet together at the court
house in the town of New Castle. on
Wednesday the 29th instant, at 2
O'Clock in the afternoon to consider
3 the most proper mode OF procuring
relief for our dear countrymen and
brethren of Boston. etc. This meet
ing was held at the time and place
mentioned and resolutions suitable to
the occasion we're passed. The i'm
portance and effect of these resolu-
tions throughout the colonies, we're
such as to cause them to be known
and called The New Castle Resolu
tions' A few months passed, and in
the succeeding spring the war opened
al Lexington. The news Of this bat
tie was communicated 10 the people
of the different colonies, by Dlessen-
gers on horseback. The message was
endorsed by its recipient (as evidence
of its delivery, and then carried by
the messenger to some other point.
On April %. 1775, at the noon hour,
a messenger left Philadelphia. rode
through Chester and arrived at New
Castle about 9 o'clock Of the same
night. The message Of the battle OF
Lexington was delivered TO- and en-
dorsed by u. V. Leuvenigh and Ste
phen Spencer. then citizens of New
Castle and The trusted messenger
went on his patriotic way. Another
, interesting event of the times, was
the letter OF Col Haslet, OF the Della
ware Regiment. written from his
headquarters in Wilmington. Della
, ware, in 1776, in which he said In
few days afterwards, the Fourth OF
, July came on, and our regiment
marched to New Castle. We
, took out of the court house all the
insignias of monarchy. all the baubles
of royalty. and made a pile Of them
before the court house, set FIRE tC
them and burnt them to ashes.
4 I'VE returned to Wilmington in the
evening. AS to the precise articles o
which these 'insignias OF monarchy
and 'baubles OF royalty consisted
! the letter does not disclose. But upo1
reliable tradition and the known Gus
, tom of the time / am warranted IL
!, saying that one of them at least. wal
a large statuary bust OF King Georg'
III. The bust of the King was thei
: considered a necessary part Of tn
= furniture of a court room.
History is full of these interest
n ing and prominent events in Della
n ware during the revolutionary period
= And they all seem to cluster sbou
: our ancient town, so rich in the his
-. tory of our country.
4 THE central part of the State, III
A. nucleus, around which its eminer
~, fathers gathered, was this town
- New Castle. II was the capital
80 the province The general assembl
al met in the noble old building befol
~ our eyes. Ii was the State Hous
"A wherein the laws we're enacted al
Il, government administered and IL r
In mained so. until after the State Col
e stitution of 1892 was adopted, and Il
! icapital removed to Dover. Here, mar
,s of the old Dutch and English COVE
Le nors resided and the town of Ne
Castle was as we'll and prominent
,,o known in England, as any other TOW
as in the colonies.
in MY friends, when we reflect up'
~ these things, and when we further +
,ir call the fact that George Read al
- Thomas Mexican (the co-signers
the Declaration with Rodney, we
-, not only residents Of our town. b
- were both among the original truste
~ of the very ground upon which =
,s now stand Can we not most fittin
ne ly celebrate the day, in New Cast
at and at this historical spot, up
which they have so often trodden. a
49,, may we not with peculiar appropria
;da mess. declare, in the words Of
80 great Webster. pronounced upon
Iho occasion similar 10 this?:
- 1--WE come not to applaud our o.
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