Centennial Anniversary of American Independence: Celebration at Grand Rapids, Mich., July 4, 1876 |
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... standing in the center with the Constitution held firmly in his right hand , and a liberty cap on a staff protruding from one of his pockets . Beyond him could be seen the dome of the national capitol , above which , in the clouds ...
... standing in the center with the Constitution held firmly in his right hand , and a liberty cap on a staff protruding from one of his pockets . Beyond him could be seen the dome of the national capitol , above which , in the clouds ...
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... stand . Music was furnished by the brass bands , and a glee club con- sisting of the following named gentlemen and ladies : Edmund Bement , D. R. Utley , H. G. Holt , Francis O'Brien , Mrs. Verdier , Miss Dunn , Miss D'Ooge and Miss ...
... stand . Music was furnished by the brass bands , and a glee club con- sisting of the following named gentlemen and ladies : Edmund Bement , D. R. Utley , H. G. Holt , Francis O'Brien , Mrs. Verdier , Miss Dunn , Miss D'Ooge and Miss ...
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... Standing almost in the " visible presence " of those statesmen and warriors of the ancient Republic and before " That awful memory Which Washington hath left , A light for after times , " we may realize the perils of the past , the ...
... Standing almost in the " visible presence " of those statesmen and warriors of the ancient Republic and before " That awful memory Which Washington hath left , A light for after times , " we may realize the perils of the past , the ...
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... stand- ing as they did by a Rubicon , whose passage involved such vast issues , there was much hesitation , and plausible pleas were made for conciliation , compromise and maintenance of the ancient and honorable connection with the ...
... stand- ing as they did by a Rubicon , whose passage involved such vast issues , there was much hesitation , and plausible pleas were made for conciliation , compromise and maintenance of the ancient and honorable connection with the ...
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... stand with it , or fall with it . Send it to the public halls ; proclaim it there ; let them hear it , who heard the first roar of the enemy's cannon ; let them see it , who saw their brothers and their sons fall on the field of Bunker ...
... stand with it , or fall with it . Send it to the public halls ; proclaim it there ; let them hear it , who heard the first roar of the enemy's cannon ; let them see it , who saw their brothers and their sons fall on the field of Bunker ...
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12 feet 23 Monroe St act of Parliament Agent and Warden America American Independence anniversary banners bearing beautiful block British building Campau Place celebration Centennial Chaplain Searls Church citizens city of Grand Colonies Colonists commercial regulation committee Congress Constitution Continental Congress Council Declaration decorated desire First Class display duties Eben Smith England errors evergreens fire front give and grant Governor Seymour grand arch Grand Rapids Grand Rapids Township hearts honor Houseman hundred James Otis John Adams Joseph Penney Julius Houseman July Kent county large flags legislation liberty LOOMIS & DILLENBACK Louis Campau Mason Reynolds Mayor ment MICHIGAN mottoes National navigation acts occasion officers orchestra P. V. Fox painting Parlia Parliamentary supremacy patriotic Pierce preamble present prisoners prolonged applause regret revenue sank deep side staff taxation tion township troops truth Uncle Uncle Sam virtue wagons ward Warden Moses white and blue wisdom
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Page 9 - But whatever may be our fate, be assured, be assured, that this declaration will stand. It may cost treasure, and it may cost blood ; but it will stand, and it will richly compensate for both. Through the thick gloom of the present, I see the brightness of the future, as the sun in heaven.
Page 14 - OUR fathers' God! from out whose hand The centuries fall like grains of sand, We meet to-day, united, free, And loyal to our land and Thee, To thank Thee for the era done, And trust Thee for the opening one.
Page 5 - By such management, by the irresistible operation of feeble councils, so paltry a sum as three-pence in the eyes of a financier, so insignificant an article as tea in the eyes of a philosopher, have shaken the pillars of a commercial empire that circled the whole globe.
Page 8 - The injustice of England has driven us to arms ; and, blinded to her own interest for our good, she has obstinately persisted, till independence is now within our grasp.
Page 9 - Instead of a long and bloody war for restoration of privileges, for redress of grievances, for chartered immunities, held under a British king, set before them the glorious object of entire independence, and it will breathe into them anew the breath of life.
Page 10 - On this question of principle, while actual suffering was yet afar off, they raised their flag against a power, to which, for purposes of foreign conquest and subjugation, Rome, in the height of her glory, is not to be compared ; a power which has dotted over the surface of the whole globe with her possessions and military posts, whose morning drum-beat, following the sun, and keeping company with the hours, circles the earth with one continuous and unbroken strain of the martial airs of England.
Page 8 - Do we mean to submit, and consent that we ourselves shall be ground to powder, and our country and its rights trodden down in the dust ? I know we do not mean to submit.
Page 11 - But all who read, and most do read, endeavor to obtain some smattering in that science. I have been told by an eminent bookseller, that in no branch of his business, after tracts of popular devotion, were so many books as those on the law exported to the Plantations. The colonists have now fallen into the way of printing them for their own use. I hear that they have- sold nearly as many of Blackstone's Commentaries in America as in England.
Page 11 - In no country perhaps in the world is the law so general a study. The profession itself is numerous and powerful ; and in most provinces it takes the lead. The greater number of the deputies sent to the Congress were lawyers. But all who read (and most do read), endeavor to obtain some smattering in that science.
Page 5 - Parliament assembled, have therefore resolved to give and grant unto your majesty the several rights and duties hereinafter mentioned ; and do most humbly beseech your majesty that it may be enacted, And be it enacted by the king's most excellent majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the lords spiritual and temporal, and commons, in this present Parliament assembled, and by the authority of the same, That from and after...