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Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events: Documents and Narratives, Volume 1. (ed. Frank Moore), chapter 278 (search)
Doc. 254.-the great conspiracy.
An address delivered at Mount Kisco, West-Chester County, New York, on the 4th of July, 1861, by John Jay.
My fellow-countrymen :--We have assembled to celebrate the eighty-sixth birthday of American independence, and we come together under circumstances that seem to make us contemporaries, and co-actors as it were, with our fathers of the Revolution.
The crisis which they met, and which their heroism decided after a seven years war with Great Britain, again meets us face to face.
The early scenes of their struggle for constitutional liberty have found in our recent experience an historic parallel of even chronological exactness.
The blood of Massachusetts, shed at Lexington on the 19th of April, 1775, was not shed more gloriously than that of the sons of the same old commonwealth, who, marching by our national highway to the defence of our common capital, were slain at Baltimore on the 19th of April, 1861.
The midnight ride of Paul Revere, f