there see the beginning of that sentiment which insured the
co-operation of the colonies throughout the desperate struggle of the
Revolution, and which, if the present generation be true to the
compact of their sires, to the memory and to the principles of the
noble men from whom they descended, will perpetuate for them that
spirit of fraternity in which the Union began. [Applause.]

But it is not here alone, nor in reminiscences connected with the
objects which present themselves within this hall, that the people of
Boston have much to excite their patriotism and carry them back to the
great principles of the revolutionary struggle. Where in this vicinity
will you go and not meet some monument to inspire such sentiments? On
one side are Lexington and Concord, where sixty brave countrymen came
with their fowling pieces to oppose six hundred veterans,--where
peaceful citizens animated by the love of independence and covered by
the triple shield of a righteous cause, finally forced those veterans
back, and pursued them on the road, fighting from every barn and bush,
and stock, and stone, till they drove them to the shelters from which
they had gone forth! [Applause.] And there on another side of your
city stand those monuments of your early patriotism, Breed's and
Bunker's Hill whose soil drank the sacred blood of men who lived for
their country and died for mankind! Can it be that any of you tread
that soil and forget the great purposes for which those men bravely
fought, or nobly died?" [Applause.] While in yet another direction
rise the Heights of Dorchester, once the encampment of the great
Virginian, the man who came here in the cause of American
independence, who did not ask "Is this a town of Virginia?" but, "Is
this a town of my brethren?" who pitched his camp and commenced his
operations with the steady courage and cautious wisdom characteristic
of Washington, hopefully, resolutely waiting and watching for the day