Re-dedication of the Old State House, Boston: July 11th, 1882order of the City Council, 1882 - 77 strani |
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୧୧ affairs Alderman assembled balcony Capt Castle centre City Council City Government Colonel Dalrymple colonies colonists committee Council Chamber councillors County of Suffolk Court House deputies Dock Square east end election England Faneuil Hall fire forever Gentlemen Governor and Council Harrison Gray Otis held House in Boston House of Representatives hundred Independence inhabitants Isaiah Rogers James Bowdoin James Otis John Adams John Hancock Joseph Dudley Keayne land leaders Legislature liberty Lieutenant-Governor Hutchinson lobby lower Floor March ment Merchants occupied old meeting-house Old South Church Old State House one-half opposite Otis patriotic popular present province Quincy Re-dedication regiment removal Repre restoration royal Samuel Adams Selectmen session Sewall records side soldiers spot stood Thomas thousand tion to-day Town House town meeting town of Boston troops upper Story voted walls Washington street William William Kidd Winthrop Woolley writs of assistance
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Stran 43 - Otis was a flame of fire ; with a promptitude of classical allusions, a depth of research, a rapid summary of historical events and dates, a profusion of legal authorities, a prophetic glance of his eyes into futurity, and a rapid torrent of impetuous eloquence, he hurried away all before him. American Independence was then and there born.
Stran 42 - That council chamber was as respectable an apartment as. the House of Commons or the House of Lords in Great Britain, in proportion, or that in the State House in Philadelphia, in which the declaration of independence was signed, in 1776.
Stran 43 - Then and there was the first scene of the first act of opposition to the arbitrary claims of Great Britain. Then and there the child Independence was born.
Stran 42 - Hutchinson at their head, as Chief Justice, all arrayed in their new, fresh, rich robes of scarlet English \ broadcloth; in their large cambric bands, and immense judicial wigs.
Stran 46 - That all Acts made, by any Power whatever, other than the General Assembly of this Province, imposing Taxes on the Inhabitants, are Infringements of our inherent and unalienable Rights as Men and British subjects: and render void the most valuable Declarations of our Charter.
Stran 20 - Sir William arrives in the Nonsuch Frigat : Candles are lighted before he gets into Town-house. Eight Companies wait on Him to his house, and then on Mr. Mather to his. Made no volleys because 'twas Satterday night.
Stran 42 - ... were the most glowing, the figures the most noble and graceful, the features the most distinct and characteristic, far superior to those of the King and Queen of France in the Senate chamber of Congress — these were worthy of the pencils of Rubens and Vandyke.
Stran 49 - As Hutchinson says (Hist., iii., 205), "It must be allowed by all, that the proceedings of this meeting had a greater tendency towards a revolution in government than any preceding measures in any of the colonies. The inhabitants of one town alone took upon them to convene an assembly from all the towns, that, in everything but in name, would be a House of Representatives.
Stran 45 - They plundered the cellars of the comptroller of customs, and then marched to the house of Thomas Hutchinson, in Garden court, near Fleet street, where, all night long, undisturbed by the frightened neighborhood, the work of destruction went on. These inexcusable outrages were promptly disavowed in...
Stran 55 - Now for the picture. The theatre and the scenery are the same with those at the discussion of writs of assistance. The same glorious portraits of King Charles II. and King James II., to which might be added, and should be added, little miserable likenesses of Governor Winthrop, Governor Bradstreet, Governor Endicott, and Governor Belcher, hung up in obscure corners of the room.