The relics of General Joseph Warren : a paper read before the New England Historical and Genealogical Society, Wednesday, November 4, 1857 / by James S. Loring.
- James Spear Loring
- Date:
- [1857]
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![not in faltering accents, call upon his fellow sol- diers to forget bis death, and to revenge his country's wrongs alone ? Ah ! he breathes his last! Crowd not too closely on his shade, ye holy ministers of Heaven. Make room for yonder spirit ! It is the illustrious Hampden who flies to embrace him, and pointing to the wound that deprived him of life in a conflict with arbitrary power, above an hundred years ago, he claims the honor of con- ducting him to the regions of perfect liberty and happiness. * * * * Come hither, ye American fathers and mothers, and behold the sad earnests of arbitrary power ! Behold your friend, your fellow-citizen, one of the guardians of your coun- try, the pillar of your hopes; behold this illus- trious hero covered with blood and wounds ! But pause not too long in bedewing his body with your tears. Fly to your houses, and tell your children the particulars of the melancholy sight. Chill their young blood with histories of the cruel- ty of tyrants, and make their hair to stand on end with descriptions of the horrors of slavery ! Equip them immediately for the field. Shew them the ancient charter of their privileges. Point to the roofs under which they drew their first breath, and shew them the first cradles in which they were rocked. Call upon Heaven to prosper their arms, and charge them with your last adieu, to conquer, or, like Warren, to die in the arms of libertv and glory. A thousand benedictions on the appeal of the blood-stained pavements of the Boston Massacre, and the conflicts of the Battles of Lexington and Bunker Hill, which forever crushed the power of Britannia over Columbia! We may very prop- erly adapt to Warren the sentiment of our patri- otic Robert Treat Paine in reference to Washing- ton, that the temple of freedom can never be de- molished ; for '• His sword from the sleep Of its scabbard would leap. And conduct with its point, Every flash to the deep. ktittw atfo tto JJrotecimujs. MASSACHUSETTS. American Antiquarian Society (Officers No. 1, p. 18). — The annual meeting was held at Worcester, on Wednesday, October 21st, it being the anniversary of the discovery of America by Columbus. Hon. Stephen Salisbury presided. The report of the Council, prepared by Judge Barton, and flu; reports of the Librarian and Pub- lishing Committee, were read, accepted, and re- ferred for publication. The officers of the past year were unanimously reelected. [Sec a li-^i of these officers in the January number of the II. M.] Rev. Chandler Robbins of Boston, Dr. Geo. Chandler of Worcester, and Mr. R. Inipey Murch- ison, President of the Geological Society of Great Britain, were chosen members. The vari- ous reports of the Society represent it to be in a flourishing condition as to funds, accessions to the library, and literary productions of its members. —Boston Courier. New England Historical and Genealog- ical Society (Officers No. 2, p. 46).— A meet- ing was held at Boston, on Wednesday Nov. 4, Hon. Timothy Farrar, Vice President, in the chair. Mr. Trask, chairman of the Library Committee, reported a number of donations. Mr. Drake, Corresponding Secretary, read letters of accept- ance from Daniel Henshaw, William Emerson Baker, and Daniel Bates Curtis, all of Boston, who had been previously elected resident members of the Society ; also a letter from J. Y. Akerman, Esq., of London, Secretary of the Society of An- tiquaries, announcing that certain publications of that Society had been forwarded through the Smithsonian Institution, to this Society. Five res- ident and three corresponding members were, on nomination of the Directors, elected. Hon. Timothy Farrar, who has been chosen a Vice President of the Society, for five years, stated that having lately received a note from the nomi- nating Committee informing him that they had selected him as a candidate for reelection, he would improve the present occasion to announce — what he had before determined to do—his inabil- ity to serve longer in that office. He returned thanks to the Society for the repeated testimonials of their approval of his services. Rev. Joseph Richardson, of Ilingham, then read a paper on the influence of hereditary laws upon the formation of character, which he illus- trated by examples drawn from ancient and mod- ern history. The main argument of the paper was directed against the assumption that talent or greatness is principally attributable to hereditary descent. Frederic Kidder, Esq., exhibited a cannon ball found on the battle-field of Bladensburg, which he presented for preservation in the cabinet of the Society. James Spear Loring, Esq., next read a paper on the relics of Gen. Joseph Warren, the revolu- tionary martyr. He exhibited the swords and other relics of Gen. Warren and his friend Gen. William Heath, who was with him at the battle of Lexington. The relics of Gen. Heath belong to the Society; those of Gen. Warren (except the ball taken from his corpse at Bunker Hill) had been loaned for the occasion by Dr. J. M. War- ren, a grand nephew of the General. The paper](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b21137717_0007.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
