Tucker, commodore, interesting particulars of
him
413
215 Tudor, William, his oration at Boston, 1779
471 Tusten, Dr a sketch of

Wayne, gen. his orders previous to the attack on
Stoney Point
275
Weight of several great men in the revolution 376
Welsh, Thomas, his oration at Boston, 1783
470 Woman, sentiments of an American, 1780 389
Wraxall's memoirs, an extract from respecting
the surrender of Cornwallis
277

Y.
Yankee doodle-the occasion on which the air
$93
was first played in the United States 372
417 Yorktown, interesting particulars of affairs at
345, 362; additional 371; extracts from a
journal kept at the siege of
465

PRINCIPLES AND ACTS

OF THE

REVOLUTION, &c.

Boston Orations.

ORATIONS DELIVERED AT THE REQUEST OF THE IN-
HABITANTS OF THE TOWN OF BOSTON, TO COMMEM
ORATE THE EVENING OF THE 5TH OF MARCH 1770;
WERE KILLED BY
A PARTY OF BRITISH TROOPS, QUARTERED AMONG
THEM, IN TIME OF PEACE.

WHEN A NUMBER OF CITIZENS

[These orations were first collected and published in a volume, by Mr. Peter Edes of Boston, printer,

son of the MR. EDES of that town whose press was so notorious for its fearless devotion to the liberties of America; both before the revolution commenced and during the time of its continuance.]

TO THE INHABITANTS OF THE TOWN OF BOSTON.

-Nunc ea petit, quæ dare nullo modo possumus, nisi prius volumus nos bello victos confiteri. Cic.

Your design in the appointment of this ceremony, my friends and fellow-townsmen, cannot fail to be examined in quite different lights at this season of political dissension. From the principles I profess, and in the exercise of my common right to judge with others, I conclude it was decent, wise, and honorable.

The certainty of being favored with your kindest partiality and candor, in a poor attempt to execute

I hope my collecting, in one volume, the follow-the part to which you have invited me, has overing orations, which were first severally printed at come the objection of my inability to perform it your request, but many of which have been long in a proper manner; and I now beg the favor of since not to be purchased, will be considered in your animating countenance.

the mild light of an attempt to please the public.

Americans have been reprehended for not pre-whatever were the causes which concurred to bring The horrid bloody scene we here commemorate, serving, with sufficient care, the various pamphlets it on that dreadful night, must lead the pious and and political tracts which this country has afforded during the late war.

humane, of every order, to some suitable reflections. The pious will adore the conduct of that BEING who is unsearchable in all his ways, and with out whose knowledge not a single sparrow falls, in permitting an immortal soul to be hurried by the flying ball, the messenger of death, in the twinkling of an eye, to meet the awful Judge of all its

Many of those productions which appear trite to us, who live on the spot where they grew, may, however, be considered as sources of curiosity to strangers. Many of these orations have been considered as the sentiments of this metropolis, from time to time, touching the revolution; and as our secret actions. The humane, from having often earliest public invectives against oppression.

thought, with pleasing rapture, on the endearing

As the institution of an oration upon the fifth scenes of social life, in all its amiable relations, of March is now superseded by the celebration of will lament, with heart felt pangs, their sudden the anniversary of independence, upon the fourth dissolution, by indiscretion, rage and vengeance. of July, I have given to this volume a general title, But let us leave that shocking close of one which will apply to both institutions: so that if continued course of rancor and dispute, from the hereafter there shall be a like volume, containing first moment that the troops arrived in town: that the orations of that anniversary, this may be con. course will now be represented by your own residered the first and that the second volume of Alections to a much more solid, useful purpose, than Boston orations.

by any artful language. I hope, however, that

I am, with the greatest respect, your obedient heaven has yet in store such happiness for this PETER EDES.

humble servant,

Boston, January, 1785.

afflicted town and province, as will in time wear [out the memory of all your former troubles,

OF THE

REVOLUTION IN AMERICA:

OR, AN ATTEMPT

TO COLLECT AND PRESERVE SOME OF THE

SPEECHES, ORATIONS, & PROCEEDINGS

WITH SKETCHES AND REMARKS

ON

MEN AND THINGS,

AND OTHER FUGITIVE OR NEGLECTED PIECES,

BELONGING TO THE

REVOLUTIONARY PERIOD IN THE UNITED STATES;

WHICH, HAPPILY, TERMINATED IN THE

ESTABLISHMENT OF THEIR LIBERTIES:

WITH A VIEW

TO REPRESENT THE FEELINGS THAT PREVAILED IN THE "TIMES THAT TRIED MEN'S SOULS," TO EXCITE A LOVE OF FREEDOM, and lead the people TO VIGILANCE, AS THE CONDITION ON WHICH IT is granted.

DEDICATED TO THE

YOUNG MEN OF THE UNITED STATES.

BY H. NILES.

“Collecta revirescunt.”

BALTIMORE:

PRINTED AND PUBLISHED for the EDITOR, BY WILLIAM OGDEN NILES.

(PRICE THREE DOLLARS, IN SHEETS.)

то

THE YOUNG MEN

OF THE

UNITED STATES,

THIS VOLUME OF

REVOLUTIONARY PAPERS, SPEECHES, &c.

IS, RESPECTFULLY, DEDICATED;

IN THE HOPE,

That they may be encouraged to adhere to the simplicity of Truth,

AS SET FORTH BY THE

PRINCIPLES AND ACTS OF THEIR FATHERS,

AND EMULATE THE NOBLEST DEEDS WHEN THE

LIBERTIES OF THEIR COUNTRY ARE ENDANGERED,

BY FOREIGN ENEMIES OR DOMESTIC ENCROACHMENTS;

SO THAT

THE BLESSINGS WHICH THESE PATRIOTS WON

MAY DESCEND TO POSTERITY,

And our Republic forever continue to be the Pride of Humanity, and an Asylum for the

OPPRESSED OF ALL NATIONS:

BY THEIR SINCERE FRIEND,

Baltimore, April, 1822.

H. NILES.