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George Bancroft, History of the United States from the Discovery of the American Continent, Vol. 7, 4th edition., Chapter 31: (search)
tions and cold in action; nor have it said of Philadelphia that she passed noble resolutions and neglected them, were the words of Mifflin, youngest of the orators who on the twenty- Chap. XXXI.} 1775. May. fifth of April, addressed the town-meeting called in Philadelphia on receiving the news from Lexington. Thousands of the inhabitants of the city were present, and agreed to associate for the purpose of defending with arms, their lives, their property, and liberty. Each township in Berks county, resolved to raise and discipline its company. Reading formed a company of its old men also, who wore crape in lieu of a cockade, in token of sorrow for the slaughter of their brethren. In Philadelphia thirty companies, with fifty to one hundred in each, daily practised the manual exercise of the musket. The Pennsylvania assembly which met on the first day of May, would not listen to the ministerial terms. We can form, say they, no prospect of any lasting advantages for Pennsylvania