Oration Delivered Before the City Council And Citizens of Boston On the One Hu
Oration Delivered Before the City Council And Citizens of Boston On the One Hu
Robert Charles Winthrop
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The dearest friends, the tenderest relatives, are never more over- flowing and outpouring, nor ever more sincere, in feelings and expressions of devotion and love, than when called to contemplate some terrible impending necessity of final separation and divorce. The ties between us and Old England could not be sundered without sadness, and sadness on both sides of the ocean. Franklin, albeit his eyes were w unused to the melting mood, " is recorded to have wept as he left England, in view of th...e inevitable result of which he was coming home to be a witness and an instrument; and I have heard from the poet Rogers's own lips, what many of you may have read in his Table-Talk, how deeply he was impressed, as a boy, by his father's putting on a mourning suit, when he heard of the first shedding of American blood. JS"or could it, in the nature of things, have been only their warm and undoubted attachment to Eng- land, which made so many of the men of 1776 reluctant to the last to cross the Rubicon.
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