The Functions of a City An Oration Before the City Authorities of Boston On T
The Functions of a City An Oration Before the City Authorities of Boston On T
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Her Town House, — let us be thankful that its shell, if nothing more, is spared, — was " the first scene, " as John Adams declared, " of the first act of opposition to the arbitrary claims of Great Britain, " when James Otis, " a flame of fire, " blazed out in burn- ing argument against Writs of Assistance, and " breathed into the nation the breath of life. " " Then and there, " exclaimed Adams, " the child Independence was born. " It was to Boston that British troops were first despatched, a c...entury ago this very year, to crush the in- fant Liberty. It was here, below the same building in which the birth occurred, that the first baptismal blood was shed in the massacre of March. It was here, in the waters of the Bay, that the tea which symbolized par- liamentary taxation was poured out on a December night in one deep di-aught for freedom. It was here that the Port Bill, following Xerxes' example, would have scourged the very waves for sharing in the rebellion of the people. And here, at the breaking of the day, the morning stars of Lexington and, nearer yet, of Bunker Hill, shone in the horizon, until the sunrise fell on Dor ORATION.
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