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Wendell Phillips, Theodore C. Pease, Speeches, Lectures and Letters of Wendell Phillips: Volume 2, Crispus Attucks (1858 ). (search)
Crispus Attucks (1858).
Speech delivered at the Festival commemorative of the Boston Massacre, in Faneuil Hall, March 5, 1858.
Ladies and gentlemen: I am very glad to stand here in an hour when we come together to do honor to one of the first martyrs in our Revolution.
I think we sometimes tell the story of what he did with too little appreciation of how much it takes to make the first move in the cold streets of a revolutionary epoch.
It is a very easy thing to sit down and read the history; it is a very easy thing to imagine what we would have done,--it is a very different thing to strike the first blow.
It is a very hard thing to spring out of the ranks of common, every-day life — submission to law, recognition of established government--.and lift the first musket.
The man or the dozen men who do it, deserve great, pre-eminent, indisputable places in the history of the Revolution.
It is an easy thing to fight when the blood is hot; but this man whose memory we commemo
Lucius R. Paige, History of Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1630-1877, with a genealogical register, Chapter 16 : ecclesiastical History. (search)