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Wendell Phillips, Theodore C. Pease, Speeches, Lectures and Letters of Wendell Phillips: Volume 2 1 1 Browse Search
Lucius R. Paige, History of Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1630-1877, with a genealogical register 1 1 Browse Search
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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)
S. Hoyt, Y. C. 1851, D. D. Olivet College, 1876, commenced his pastorate Sept. 3, 1876, and was installed on the 15th day of the same month. Deacons. Elected. Held office until Age. William FiskJan. 3, 1833DiedApril 18, 186480 Samuel BarrettJan. 3, 1833ResignedOct. 2, 1846. William AdamsJuly 3, 1846ResignedMay 5, 1853 Thaddeus B. BigelowFeb. 28, 1851ResignedDec. 19, 1856 William DavisSept. 29, 1854Removed to N. H. Caleb H. WarnerSept. 29, 1854ResignedSept. 29, 1872 Sumner AlbeeMarch 5, 1858 Lucas B. GroverApril 24, 1868 Henry N. TiltonApril 24, 1868 second Evangelical Congregational.—The Second Evangelical Church was organized March 30, 1842, and erected a commodious meeting-house on the easterly corner of Austin and Temple streets, which was dedicated Jan. 3, 1844. Meetings had previously been held in a chapel, erected on the same lot, and dedicated May 3, 1842. Generally speaking, the members of this church were zealous advocates of the immediate abolition of slav