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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. Ladieere killed on that eventful night of the 5th of March, of whom Crispus Attucks was the leader,--they never have had their fair share of fame. been simply a discussion of rights. I place, therefore, this Crispus Attucks in the foremost rank of the men that dared. When we talk of c] I think it is right that we should come here and remember Crispus Attucks. It is right, because every colored man has but one thing to tts Legislature at our heels, and they shall pay for a monument to Attucks. [Loud cheers, and cries of Good. ] It will be but the magnanimout stop to argue. You must convince us by a life. We want another Attucks; and I will conclude by showing you that you have another Attucks.Attucks. An allusion to the fact stated in Mr. Higginson's letter, that the very first man to enter the court-house door, in the attempt to rescue
Wendell Phillips, Theodore C. Pease, Speeches, Lectures and Letters of Wendell Phillips: Volume 2, The old South meeting House (1876). (search)
acredness of man which the State borrowed so directly from the Christian Church. The towers of the North Church rallied the farmers to the Lexington and Concord fights; and these old walls echoed the people's shout, when Adams brought them word that Governor Hutchinson surrendered and withdrew the red-coats. Lingering here still are the echoes of those clashing sabres and jingling spurs that dreamed Warren could be awed to silence. Otis's blood immortalizes State Street, just below where Attucks fell (our first martyr), and just above where zealous patriots made a teapot of the harbor. It was a petty town, of some twenty thousand inhabitants; but the rays of royal indignation collected upon it served only to illuminate, and could not consume. Almost every one of its houses had a legend. Every public building hid what was treasonable debate, or bore bullet-marks or bloodshed,--evidence of royal displeasure. It takes a stout heart to step out of a crowd and risk the chances of