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The hundred Boston orators appointed by the municipal authorities and other public bodies, from 1770 to 1852; comprising historical gleanings illustrating the principles and progress of our republican institutions

Loring, James Spear, 1799-1884, 1852. A public-domain text about Boston, accessioned whole so the archive can quote it.

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Loring, James Spear, 1799-1884

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Boston, J. P. Jewett and company; Cleveland

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1852

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Class .^6 ^mm^'-jL^^ COPYRIGHT DEPOStr. THH HUNDRED BOSTON ORATORS APPOINTED BY THE MUNICIPAL AUTHORITIES AND OTHER PUBLIC BODIES, FROM 1770 TO 1852; COMPKISING HISTORICAL GLEANINGS, ILLUSTRATING THE PRINCIPLES AND PROGRESS OF OUR REPUBLICAN INSTITUTIONS. BY JAMES SPEAR LORING. " I would have these orationa collected and printed in yolumes, and then write the history of the Ust forty-five years in commentaries upon them." Johk Adams, in 1816. " The precious spark of lil>erty had been kind?ed and was preserved by the Puritans alone ; * * « and it was to this sect that the English owe the whole freedom of their constitution." David Hume. BOSTON: JOHN P. JEWETT AND COMPANY. CLEVELAND, OHIO: JEWETT, PROCTOR & WORTIUNGTON. 185 2. Entered iic-cordiug to Act of Congress, in the year 1852, By JAMES SPEAR LORING, In the (,'Ierk's Office of the District Court of the District of Massachusetts. s r )^ E O I V r K I) n T HOBART k ROBBINS, NEW KNiil.AND TYFE AND STEBBOTTPK FOUSDEBV, BOSTON. A WORD TO THE READER. The editor, after a careful research, pursued with an intense devotion during a period of nearly four years, pre- sents tliis volume to the public, and here takes occasion to dedicate its pages to the glorious memory of Samuel Adams, John Hancock and Thomas Gushing, a noble trium- virate, and among the foremost of the great promoters of the American Revolution. Aspiring to no higher claim than that of editor, he remarks, in addition to what has been stated at the close of the introduction on the Boston Mas- sacre,— of which event Daniel Webster emphasizes, " from that moment we may date the severance of the British empire," — that he has embodied a great mass of materials in relation to our own political and national history, after poring over valuable manuscripts, newspapers printed for more than a hundred years past, every variety of periodicals, pamphlets, and a multitude of other authorities essential to the completion of his design. The editor has generally been careful to cite authorities ; but sometimes through inadvert- ence, sometimes for the reason that writers have adopted the language and statements of others as original, he has not IV A WORD TO THE READER. designated authorities. A great disparity in the sketches of the orators will be observed. In the gathering of materials, the editor has mostly been thrown on his own resources. "While, by interviews with parties interested, a great body of original matter has been obtained in relation to a large number of the orators, very meagre materials only, like a monumental inscription, could be gathered in regard to others ; and this is an apology for what may, at the first blush, appear an act of injustice to some of the most worthy politicians in the catalogue ; —but there mns through the volume such frequent allusions to the same person, that they partially atone for the scanty materials of a separate article. Notwithstanding the vigilance of the editor, many errors appear in the work ; but, to adopt the language of Cotton Mather, "it seems the hands of Briareus and the eyes of Argus will not prevent them." •Boston, March 5, 1852, CONTENTS. PAGH TflK Massacre of Maecu 5, 1770 1 1771. March 5. Thomas Young. Boston Massacre 24 1771. April 2. James LovELt. Do 29 1772. March 5. Joseph Warren. Do 45 1

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