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AMESBURY, MASS, FRIDAY, JULY 6, 1888.

 

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ONE OF THE SIGNERS.

 

By John G. “'hittier.

 

[Read at the Unveiling of the statue of Hon.
Josiah Bartlett, July 4, 1888.]
O storied vale of Merrimac!
Rejoice through all thy shade and shine,
And, from his century’s sleep, call back
A brave and honored son of thine!

Unveil his effigy between

The living ‘afid the dead today?
The fathers of the Old Thirteen

Shall witness bear as spirits may :—

Unseen, unheard, his grey compeers,
The shades of Lee and Jefferson,
Wise Franklin reverend with his years

And Carroll lord of Carrolton!

Be thine henceforth a pride of place
Beyond thy namesake’s over sea,

Where scarce a stone is left to trace
The Holy House of Amesbury.

A proudcr memory lingers round
The birth-place of thy true man here
Than that which haunts the refuge found
By Arthur’s mythic Guinevere.

The plain, deal table, where he sat
And signed a nation’s title-deed,
Is dearer now to fame than that
Which bore the scroll of Runnymede.

Long as, on Freedom’s natal morn,
Shall ring the Independence bells,

Thy children’s children yet unborn
Shall hear the tale his image tells.

In that great hour of destiny

Which tried the souls of sturdiest stock,
Who knew the end alone must be

A free land or a traitor’s block,

Amidst those picked and chosen men,
Than his, who here first drew his breath,
No firmer fingers held the pen
That wrote for liberty or death.

Not for their hearths and homes alone,
But for the world, the deed was done;
On all the winds their thought has flown

Through all the circuit of the sun..

' _ We trace itgflight by brdken pchains,

‘- By songs of grateful Labor still: '
To-day, in all her holy fanes
It rings the bells of freed Brazil!

0 hills that watched his boyhood’s home,
0 earth and air that nursed him, give,
In this memorial semblance, room
To him who shall its bronze outlive !

And thou, 0 Land he loved, rejoice
That, in the countless years to come.
Whenever Freedom needs a voice
These sculptured lips shall not be dumb !

 

GRATIUN 0F HUN. BUB’T T. DAVIS

Delivered at tile Unveiling of the
Statue of Hon. Josiah Bartlett.
July 4th, 1888.

 

 

FELLOW-CITIZEst—In the pres-
ence of the Governor and Executive
Council of the Commonwealth, of the
Governor and other public officers
of New Hampshire, and other States,
who are here to add dignity and hon-
or to this occasion, we meet on this
day so full of inspiration to American
patriotism, and so dear to every
American heart, to perform an appro-
priate and grateful task.

On the anniversary of that day,
when small in population, feeble in
resources, and strong only in the
justice of their cause, the courage of
their convictions, and the indomitable
force of their resolution, the founders
of this magnificent Republic took
their stand among the nations of the
earth, we unveil the statue of an il-
lustrious citizen, who first raised his
voice as the representative of his
adopted State, in favor of the im-

o l' aratibn of Independence,
and who, following the President of
the Congress, first affixed his signa-
ture to that great charter of our lib-
erties.

Josiah Bartlett was born in this
town on November 21, 1729. He
was of English descent, and his fam-
ily dates back for many generations,

— during which the name of Bartlett

has been honored and influential in
the counties of VViltshire and Sussex.
His ancestors emigrated to this
country in 1634 and settled in the
town of Newbury. Some years prior
to the birth of Josiah Bartlett his fath-
er removed to Amesbury. Through its
whole history in the colony, for more
than a hundred years, the Bartlett
family were distinguished for the
possession in an unusual degree of
these traits of character for which
the early colonists were famous, and
which enabled them to lay deeply
and securely the foundations of this
noble Commonwealth, and to build
upon it a superstructure which has
already sheltered many generations,
and We trust will continue to protect
us so long as we shall love and
cherish the institutions which the

Puritans planted. Samuel Bartlett
was the only soldier who traveled by

night from Newbury to Boston to

take part in the overthrow of the ty-
rant Andros, and the protection of
the charter of the colony.

Bailey Bartlett, the great-grand-
son of Samuel, accompanied Samuel
and John Adams to Philadelphia
when the Declaration was pro-
claimed, and he was the grandfather
of that intrepid soldier and true pa-
triot. Gwal William F. Bartlett,
who, w ion a student at Harvard,
volunteered in defence of the Union
at the outbreak of the Civil war,
and whose gallantry secured him pro-
motion to the rank of general at the
early age of 22 years. . The late
Ezra Bartlett, a great-grandson of
Josiah, was an officer on the Kear-
sarge when she fought and sunk the
Alabama, and received promotion
and the thanks of the Secretary of
the Navy for exhibiting in that
memorable action the traditional
courage of his family.

It has been ascertained by an ex—
amination of the pension records
that the names of over 70 Bartletts
who served in the War of the Rev-
olution, in the War of 1812 and ’15,
and in the Mexican War are on the
pension-rolls of 'the United States.
Doubtless an examination of the pen-
sion records will show a very large
number of names of the same family
who served in the War of the Rebel-
lion.

In proof of the intelligence and
position of this family in England,
the catalogues of Oxford and Cam-
bridge show the names of 33 Bart-
letts who graduated at those univer-
sities; and more than 100 Bartletts
have graduated from the colleges of
our own country, and seven of that
name have been judges in the courts
of New Hampshire.

Sprung from. such a family, Josiah
Bartlett soon proved himself worthy
of his lineage. He was a studious
and intellectual boy, and early ac-
quired a knowledge of the rudiments
of the Greek and Latin tongues. At
the age of 16 he began the study of
medicine with his relative, Dr. Ord-

. way7 an emineat'physipian, where he '

soon exhausted the information sup-
plied by the doctor’s library, and
was given access to those of other
gentlemen, among whom was the
Rev. Dr. Webster, of Salisbury, who
was a distant relative. This gentle-
man possessed a valuable library for
those days, which he generously
loaned him, and they formed a last-
ing and unbroken friendship. It is
probable that the influence of this
excellent and learned gentleman had
much to do with forming the char-
acter of young Bartlett, and rousing
in his youthful mind a love of learn-
ing and a thirst for honorable dis-
tinction.

At the early age of 21 he removed
to Kingston and engaged in the prac-
tice of medicine. From this time the
personal biography of Josiah Bart-
lett becomes a part of the history of
his adopted State. In a few years,
and. while still a very young man, he
became eminently successful in the
practice of his chosen profession. In
the treatment of febrile diseases and
malignant forms of throat diseases
then and now the scourge of child-
hood, he proved the originality of his
genius by adopting more than a cen-
tury ago methods of treatment which
are approved by the medical profes-
sion of our own time.

Before he had arrived at the age
of 30 years he became one of the
most distinguished and successful
physicians of the time. Indeed, if he
had been cut off at that early period
of life, his name would have lived in
tradition and in the records of the
healing art as one of the great names
which a noble and humane profession
delights to preserve and honor.

In proof of his courageous advance
beyond the ideas of his time is the
fact that he was suspended from
membership in the New England
Medical Society for adopting new
methods in practice, and was within
a year afterwards elected its Presi-
dent. He was also the first Presi-
dent of the New Hampshire Medical
Society. But he was reserved for
higher honors, and an intimate con-
nection with the public history of his
State and the country which ended
only with his voluntary retirement
from the highest office in the gift of
the people of New Hampshire, a
short time prior to his death. After
having filled various local offices he
was elected in 17 65 a representative
form the town of Kingston to the leg-
islature of the province. He took
his seat at a most critical period in
the affairs of that province and her
sister colonies. The spirit of dis-
content at the encroachments of the
mother country upon the privileges
and rights of the colonists was every-
where manifest, and was _stirring the
hearts of the people from New Hamp-
shire to Georgia, Everywhere the

 

descendants of ancestors who had

 

attested on many a bloody field their
attachment to liberty and hatred of
oppression were alike moved by the
spirit of resistance to the tyran-
nical acts of the crown, and the
wave of popular feeling was already
rising, whose mighty surge was soon
to sweep away every vistage of Brit-
ish ascendancy. It was under these
circumstances that Josiah Bartlett as-
sumed his seat, Gov. \Ventworth
had recognized his influence, and had

hoped to secure his supportgbycong - p ..
’he was actively engag.

ferring upon him a judicial office:
and appointing him to the command
of a regiment of militia; but he had
utterly mistaken the temper and
qualities of this eminent man. He
at once espoused the popular cause,
and he was afterwards dismissed from
his judicial and military offices by
order of the Governor. Local abuses
practiced by the authorities of New
Hampshire had produced discontent,
and Col. Bartlett fully shared in this
feeling.

But these grievances, peculiar to
that province, were soon merged in
common sentiment of indignation at
the general policy of the crown to-
ward the colonies, and the general
determination to resist it at all haz.
ards. This spirit had become so
menacing that it compelled the home
government to repeal the stamp act
which it had passed in 1760. The
necessities of the British government
resulting from numerous and expen-
sive wars led her again to the fatal
expedient of laying taxes upon her
American colonies. In 1772 duties
were imposed upon tea, and the
smouldering embers of colonial dis-
content burst into a devouring flame,

New Hampshire sympathized with
Massachusetts in her resistance to its
imposition, and a parallel incident to
that of the Boston tea party occurred
in the town of Kingston, the resi-
dence of Josiah Bartlett. A peddler,
supposed to be a Englishman, sold
and gave away small parcels of tea to
the women privately, and when their
husbands discovered the fact they
surrounded the tavern where the ped-
cller lodged, who, to avoid their fury,
leaped from a window and ran half a

~ ih'ile iiiit'dia‘ anon swampf‘an his tea ‘

was secured, and, together with that
he had sold or given away, was
burned in his presence under an elm
near the tavern, the crowd shouting,
Liberty and no taxes. The tree was
ever afterward called “liberty tree.”

During the progress of these events
Col. Bartlett and others often met in
private consultation, and when the
Assembly met in 17 74 it appointed a
committee of correspondence to con-
fer with the other colonial assemblies.
The Governor immediately dismissed
the assembly, which at once recom-
mended a convention to be held at
Exeter for the purpose of choosing
delegates to a general Congress to be
held at Philadelphia in September,
17 74. The Governor recognized the
Assembly, but repeatedly prorogued
it, and was in constant opposition to
it. In 1775 he called a new assem-
bly, which was soon adjourned till
the 12th of June.

Meantime American blood had
been shed at Lexington, and the As-
sembly represented the increasing
spirit of independence by promptly
expelling three members whom the
Government, through the exercise of
the royal prerogative, had added for
the purpose of securing a majority.

Gov. Wentworth soon afterward
adjourned the Assembly to the 28th
of September, and then to the next
April.

This was the last act of a British
governor and terminated the author—
ity of the crown in New Hampshire.
and all the relations of that province
with Great Britain which had existed
since 1680. During all these stirring
events the subject of this address was

. incessantly active, and most «inflaeaw.

tial in maintaining the spirit of the
people, in promoting measures for
their defence, and in pressing onward
the cause of independence. He was
appointed to an important military
command by the first Provincial Con-
gress. He was chosen a delegate to
the Continental Congress in August,
17 75, and was again chosen in J an-
uary, 1776. To this Congress be-
longs the immortal honor of issuing
the Declaration 0 Independence, and
the name of Josiah Bartlett will al-
ways be inseparably and gloriously
associated with that event as the first
signer, after the presiding officer,
of that great charter of American
and human liberty, and the first del-
egate who voted for its adoption.
Among the many glorious incidents
which comprise the history of Massa-
chusetts is the supreme fact that two
of her sons were the first signers of
the great declaration. At this im-
portant period of his life the health
of Dr. Bartlett had become much im-
paired by constant devotion to pub-
lic duty for many years and the va-
rious and arduous responsibilities he
had sustained. He had suffered an
almost irreparable loss by fire ; he was

were far distant. 3

pression of spirits, bu
moment led him to fal

  
  
  
  

year he returned horn-.2 .
count of feeble health
his duties until his re-el - ion in 1778.

During his absence 2 on); 7
of the Committee. of S fety in pro-
curing troops and suppries for Gen-
eral Stark, with whom The was pres-
ent at the battle of Bennington, and
his patriotic spirit could brook nd de-
lay, as is shown from >the following
extract from a letter written by him
at this time : ,

“STATE on NEW HAMPSHIRE, May 3, 1777.

“Sir : By repeated~ expresses we are
assured our enemies are moving on
all quarters, and unless sudden rein-
forcements are throtvninto Ticonde-
roga that important post will be lost,
and all your part of the country laid
open to the merciless rage of our
vindictive enemies. '

“The supineness and careless
temper that has but too much ap-
peared thro’ the country of late will
be our ruin, unless immediate exer4
tions be made to save our country.

“The Massachusetts have ordered
one-half the militia in the county of
Berkshire to March to Albany, and
1,500 of Hampshire to Ticonderoga.
I entreat you by all that’s sacred to
raise as many of your militia as pos-
sible, and march them to Ticonder-
oga. Reflect a moment on such a
scene as this : Suppose hour house
in flames; your wife, your daughters
ravished; your sons, your neighbors
weltering in their blood, and the ap-
pearance of a few moments bringing
you to the same fate. Consider these

itia, and surely yougmay tell them
with the greatest probability, unless
they, together with the country in
general, awake from the sleep they
are now in. -Yetif‘ the country will
now exert themselves like men of

that God, who has 2 hitherto saved
the Americans, will now assist their
endeavors, and a few struggles more
fix their liberties on a solid basis.”

The Congress of l 7 7 8 was the lastin
which he participated.

I will quote an extract from a let-
ter to John Langdon on October 27,
1778, which illustrates the clearness
of his views and the fervor of his
patriotism at that critical period:

“DEAR SIR: By the several letters
which have been sent to Congress by
the British Commissioners they seem
to be possessed of an idea that Con-
gress had exceeded their powers in
forming an alliance with France, and
in rejecting the Commissioners’ offers
of reconciliation, and that in both
those instances we had acted con-
trary to the sense of our constituents.
Whether they are really deceived by
the Tory accounts that they receive
from the several States, or whether
they mean to deceive others by pub—
lishing such falsehoods, I am uncer-
tain.

But this I am certain of, that so
long as Britain has the smallest hope
remaining of our submitting to her
domination .again, she will never
recognize our independence,
consequently, the war must continue.

“It is therefore our interest to con-
vince Britain, and everybody else,
that the French alliance and the re-
jection of the offers of the Commis-
sioners are approved of universally
by these States, and that the power
of making peace and war and con-
tracting alliances is vested solely in
the Congress. For this purpose I
should think it would .be proper for

resolves signifying their approbation
of the above measures, and that the
Congress are vested with full power
for making peace with Britain (on
the principles of our absolute inde-
pendence and not otherwise), for
contracting foreign alliances and
making and conducting war,&c., and
that the States repose entire confi-
dence in them for those purposes.
If the several States in this Union
would carefully draw up and unani-
mously pass such resolves, publish
them in the newspapers, and send
attested copies to their delegates in
Congress, to be made use of as occa-
sion may require, I think it would
effectually cut off all the hopes our

able to divide and flatter us into sub-
mission; and as they now are con-
vinced that they are not able to con-

such resolves would greatly facilitate
their acknowledging our independ-
ence and making peace with us.”

the character of the man, and exhibits
his unwavering adherence to the

 

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impoverished, and his family, for
whom he felt the warmest affection,

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These misfortunes pi'oduced a de-

never for a
er in the cause
to which he had devot 1 his life. In
December of 1776 he was again ap-
pointed a delegate, b it within the
and on acr-
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things, I say; tell them to your mils

spi sit. and resale tien’M ' "h-miy believe“

and, -

.the legislatures of the {serve-rat _Sta‘tfipf
(as of their ‘own ' motidn Without the
advice of Congress) to pass proper»

enemies may still have of their being

quor us by force, I make no doubt

This letter unconsciously reveals

 

 

cause of his country and his intelli-
gent comprehension of the measures
necessary to secure its success. In
1779 he entered in upon his remark-
able judicial career. In that year he
was appointed Chief Justice of the
Court of Common Pleas of his adopt-
ed Statc, and in 1782 he was ap-
pointed Associate Justice of the Sn-
preme Court, and in 1788 he was
appointed Chief-Justice of that court.
During the eleven years that he oc-
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tion, and interpreted the law‘ in oc—
cupied with the standards of justice
and equity which had always guided
his public and private conduct. In
those early days laws had not accum-
ulated and law books were few, and
it was possible for a man not bred
to the law to conduct trials and in-
telligently apply simple legal maxims
to the issues presented for decision.
In the life of the elder Plumer it is
said of him that “when the law was
with the plaintiff and equity seemed
to him to be on the other side, he
was sure to pronounce in the favor
of the latter.”

The object of the law being in all
cases to do justice as between the
parties, that must, he said, be law

' which in any given case conduced to

this end. It was at any rate better
to be governed by a right principle
than by a wrong decision. Guided
by the light of this principle, which
illuminates jurisprudence as it does
every department of human duty and
effort, the high intelligence, absolute
probity, and large experience of af-
fairs which distinguished Josiah
Bartlett could not fail to enable him
to administer justice without fear and
without reproach. Let me add the
remark of Arthur Livermore, an em-
inent lawyer, that “justice was never
better administered in New Hamp-
shire than when the judges knew very
little of what we lawyers call law.”
Of one of this class of judges not bred
to the law, Theophilus Parsons, who
practiced many years in New Hamp-
shire, says: “You may laugh at his
law and ridicule his language, but
Dudley is after all the best judge I
'ever‘lmew in Nev: Ha
may be of interest to state that the
first lawyer who ever sat on the bench
in Massachusetts was appointed in
1718—eighty-eight years after the
first settlement of Boston.

Josiah Bartlett was a member of
the convention called to ratify the
Constitution of the United States,
and was a strenuous advocate of its
adoption.

\Vhen that instrument took effect
and the old confederation passed
away he was chosen Senator from the
new Government, but the infirmities
of age compelled him to decline the
office. In 1790 he was chosen Pres-
ident of New Hampshire and held
that office until he was chosen in
June, 1793, Governor of the State.

He discharged the duties of this
exalted station, as he had previously
discharged all other public duties,
with fidelity, ability, and unswerving
devotion to the public interests. “He
was a ruler in whom the wise placed
confidence and of whom even the
captions could find nothing to com-
plain.” Admonished by his advanc-

..ed age and increasing infirmities that

the time for repose had come, he ad-
dressed, on the 29th of January,
1794, a letter to the legislature re-
signing his high office.

The repose which he had coveted
was of short duration in this life. He
died on the 19th of May, 1795, in the
sixty-sixth year of his age. His ex-
cellent wife had died six years pre-
viously. He left nine children, and
his descendants are to-day very num-
erous, and many of them distin-
guished, especially in the profession
which he had chosen. No other fam-
i~iy~1u N'é. PI’I.....1,D.. .i e"‘i!‘fis "f‘fieaislre :1
so many eminent names to the med-
ical profession as that of Josiah Bart-
lett.

I have thus given a brief sketch of the
life of this illustrious man,whose name
and memory will always be cherished
by the citizens of Amesbury, and
whose character and public career
will add dignity to your local history,
and will forever adorn the annals of
his State and country. The basis
of the character of this great man
was absolute integrity. In his long
and varied career not a whisper was
ever heard to sully his blameless
reputation, not a word was ever writ-
ten to mar a record without spot or
blemish. Then he had that calm and
lofty courage which vaunteth not it-
self, but which never failed when
confronted with danger or difficulty.

Added to these high traits were
prudence, judgment, great clearness
of intellect, knowledge of men and
affairs, and that high capacity which,
in the administration of great affairs
in the most troubled times, enabled
him to do his full share in rescuing
his country from colonial subjection,
and placing her among the nations
of the earth. He excelled in those

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personal traits which endear men to
each other, and which history does
not disdain to depict. He was cheer-
ful in temperament, benevolent and
humane. A loving husband and
father, solicitous for the health and
welfare of his family when far away
in the performance of public duty.
He was an affectionate friend, a kind
neighbor, beloved by all “and loving
all, and without a personal enemy.
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patriotism, that almost divine amor
putrid: which caused him to 'forego
all thought of personal interest, and
give himself unreservedly to the
cause of his country. This all men
knew, and as he mounted step by
step the heights of public confidence
and public trust, he commanded from
first to last the unabated, unfaltering,
and boundless confidence of the peo-
ple of New Hampshire and the nation.
This is a totally inadequate portrai-
ture of a man possessed of more
than antique virtue, and worthy in
that “age of men” to stand by the
side of the great names which history
has consecrated, and which will live
so long as the love of freedom en-
dures among men. This day reminds
us that the crowning glory of Gov.
Bartlett’s life was his active support
of the measures which inaugurated
and sustained the Revolution, and
his vote for and signature to the
Declaration of Independence.

In this great historic act of patri-
otism he was associated with men
whose memories will be honored and
revered by every generation of their
countrymen and by lovers of free-
dom in all lands and all times.

Their genius and virtues have been
the admiration of each succeeding
generation, and are preserved in the
brightest pages of history for the
instruction and example of the re-
motest posterity. Each one of this
unequalled band maintained through
life an absolutely spotless reputa-
tion; not one failed or faltered in
the prosecution of the great and dan-
gerous task to which he had devoted
his l'ife,""'his fortune, and his sacred-
honor. Ah, those were not unmean-
ing words to the signers of that im-
mortal instrument. Inspired by the
grandeur of a great idea, they rose
to the supreme height of that em-
ergency, and were purified and ex-
alted by its influence. Selected by
their fellow-men ata most critical
and dangerous period, because they
knew them to possess in full meas-
ures those qualities of wisdom, cour-
age, and patriotism which fitted them
to lead in the doubtful contest upon
which they had entered, they amply
justified that choice. History will
search in vain to find a parallel to
the purity of character, singleness
of heart and purpose, patriotic dc-
votion to duty, unblcnching courage
and unwavering faith which distino
guished them. The great cause in
which they were engaged, and the
mighty issues which had summoned
them, filled their souls with a divine
ardor.

They knew that they were the‘ap-
pointed instruments for the accom-
plishment of a work such as the
world had not seen. The very spirit
of the Revolution entered and trans-
figured them. Thenceforth mean
and selfish thoughts or purposes
could not dwell in the souls of such
men.

Their lives and characters con-
formed to the great part they had
played in human affairs, and have
won for them the highest place in
history.

Massachusetts furnished more than

her proportiOn. of this illustrious
body. Nine of the signers were born
upon her soil. _They were, Jo-

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ams, Benjamin Franklin, John Han-
cock, Robert Treat Paine, Elbridge
Gerry, Roger Sherman, and William
Hooper. These were among the few,
the immortal, names that are not
born to die, Some of these men
were possessed of such transcendent

ability, and their influence upon
the events of the revolutionary

period was so marked and decisive
that their names have become
household words, and spring to mem-
ory with every allusion to that he-
roic epoch. Samuel Adams was the
thunderbolt of the Revolution. He
had been for years previous to that
event the eloquent and determined
advocate of the rights of the people
against the encroachments of the
crown. Perhaps no man had done
as much to excite the spirit of re-
sistance in Massachusetts, and to
prepare her people for the coming
struggle. In every important popu-
lar movement, in every collision of
the people with the representatives
of royal authority, he bore a promi-
nent part. He could neither be
frightened, wheedled, or bought,
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disposition of the man that he could
never be conciliatecl by any office or
gift whatever.” He divides with
Richard Henry Lee the honor of
first suggesting committees of cor-
respondence between the several
colonies. He was the embodiment
of the courage and convictions of
Massachusetts, and of the uncon-
querable spirit of the Revolution,
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Adams whose descendants have in
each generation graced our
State and national history and won
merited distinction for themselves
and the great name they bear. A
learned and profound lawyer, a great
debater, orator and statesman of the
first rank—his gifts and faculties
were wholly devoted to the revolu-
tionarycausc. He was one of the
committee who were selected to draft
the declaration. He first proposed
the name of W'ashington as the lead-
er of our armies. From first to last
he was a tower of strength to the
cause ot‘independencc, and in after
times, as the successor of Washing-
ton, he safely guided the destinies of
the infant Republic. Another illus-
trious son of Massachusetts was the
President of the Congress, and the
first signer of the Declaration.

These, and Robert Treat Paine and
Elbridge Gerry, were the delegates of
Massachusetts and signers in her be-
half of the Declaration. But our
Stat-3 Gave to Pennsylvania perhaps
the most extraordinary man of his
time. Born poor and obscure and
without adventitious aids of any de-
scription, Benjamin Franklin rose to
world-wide eminence; eminence as a
politcal and social economist, scien-
tist and philosopher. Despising bril-
liancy and caring only for solid and
useful accomplishments, he by the
sheer force of intellect held captive
the wittiest and most polished society
in Europe, and secured its sympathy
and support for his own distant and
struggling country.

”Every childrknows. thatthis-greatf-~-~—~ ~

American first subdued the lightning
of heaven, and pointed the way to
those marvellous discoveries which in
their turn reveal the infinite possibili.
ties of this subtle, mysterious and al-
most miraculous force. That fluid
which passed along the string of his
kite a century ago now conveys in-
telligence instantaneously from city
to city and from continent to conti-
nent; it converts the darkness of
night into the splendor of uoonday,
and by its hundred uses and the rev-
elation of its yet unascertained pow-
ers will prove itself the mightiest
force that science has ever conquered.

Forever honored be the printer
boy of Boston, the patriot and States-
man of the Revolution, the master of
science and philosophy which Ameri-
ca has given to mankind—the illustri-
ous Franklin.

Roger Sherman, another native of
Massachusetts, who was the most
distinguished delegate from Connec-
ticut, where most of his life had been
spent, was, in the language of John
Adams, “one of the soundest and
strongest pillars of the Revolution.”
The celebrated Fisher Ames said of
him that “he always felt safe in vot-
ing as Mr. Sherman did, for he always
voted right.” Mr. Jefferson, in point-
ing him out to Dr. Spring, of New-
buryport, whom he accompanied to
the hall of Congress, then in session
at Philadelphia, said: “That is Mr.
Sherman, of Connecticut; a man
who never said a foolish thing in his
life.” Mr. Macon remarked of him
that Mr. Sherman had more common
sense than any man he ever knew.
These tributes render superfluous any
wmvle of praise _of the ‘

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illustrious man of Massachusetts birth
and ancestry, and whose descendants
have served and honored our Com-
monwealth and other States in the
highest public positions. Roger
Sherman, Benjamin Franklin, and
John Adams were members of the
Committee to prepare the Declaration
of Independence. This tribute to
the sons of Massachusetts is not
meant to be invidious or detract from
the just fame of the great men born
in other States or in foreign lands
who were members of that great
assemblage.

The Mother of States and States-
men gave to the Revolutionary strug-
gle the author of the Declaration,
and in Richard Henry Lee one of the
ablest and most distinguished mem-
bers of the Congress, and perhaps
its finest orator. To her we owe Pats
rick Henry, the matchless orator.
and Washington, the greatest of
Americans, until another name hal-
lowed by time and exalted by mar-
tyrdom shall stand by his side—the
one the founder, the other the
preserver of his country.

Every State sent its ablcst and

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best representatives. New Hamp-
shire associated with Josiah Bartlett,
Matthew Thornton, and \Villiam
Whipple. Among her four dele-
gates, New York sent LiVingston;
New Jersey, Stockton and Hopkin-
son ; Pennsylvania, Morris, Rush and
Franklin ; Delaware, todncy ; Mary-
land, Carroll of Carrollton ; Virginia,
Jefferson, VVythe, and the two Lees;
North Carolina, Hooper; South Car-
olina, Rutledge; Georgia, Hall and
IValton; Rhode Island, Ellery and
the aged and infirm but undaunted
Hopkins, and their colleagues were
worthy to be associated with those
illustrious men in the great task of
founding a nation.

After the lapse of more than a
hundred years we are in a position to
determine the character and import-
ance of that event. The impartial
verdict of history undoubtedly will
be that, whether view in relation to
the magnitude of its results, its per-
manent and increasing influence on
the history of other nations, or the

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ment the men who laid the founda-
tion of the State and nation. In
their annual and special meetings the
inhabitants of towns decided ques-
tions which concerned them most
closely and vitally. They determined
the amount and rate of taxation, the
government and support of their
schools,the laying out and building of
roads and bridges ; they elected their
representatives to the general court.
Indeed they learned here the art of
self-government and that true conser-
vatism which springs from the per-
formance of public duty and a due
senseof the responsibility which at-
taches to it. Having been accus-
tomed to exercise these rights, they
were not prepared to abandon them,
or any portion of them, upon the de-
mand of an authority which was es-
sentially foreign, and to escape from
which they had long before exiled
themselves. If I were asked what
led the colonists of Massachusetts to
cherish such an ardent and inextin-
guishable love of liberty, and to re-

cach . of them originally formed an
independent nation.”

IVhat I have said of. the municipal
idea in government applies to New
England generally, although Massa-
chusetts was its earliest and most
conspicuous example, as she was also
the theatre upon which the earliest
scenes of the bloody but sublime
drama of the Revolution were enact-
ed, and in which the early training
of her people in the rights and duties
of self—government eminently fitted
them to participate. She was sus-
tained by all her sister colonies who
were animated by a common spirit,
purpose and faith through all that
seven years’ strife. From the north-
ern frontier of New Hampshire to
the southern boundary of Georgia,
the thirteen colonies stood as one man
from the beginning to the end of the
Revolution; Massachusetts, Rhode
Island and Connecticut inheriting the
blood and courage of their hardy an-
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as the greatest contrib’utiOn which
time and progress have made in the
march of" civilization. Of the an-
cient civilizations not a trace remains
except their history and literature.
The works of their poets and philos-
Ophers are still read by the scholar
with delight, and the conquering
march of the armies of Greece and
Rome and the exploits of their heroes
resound through the corridors of his-
tOry and charm the listening ears of
youth.

But the curse of Paganism blight-
ed their civilization; the element of
selfishness and cruelty pervaded their
polity; they never recognized the
rights of human nature, and their
systems fell to rise no more. That
Divine Light which for 19 centuries
has illumined the world with ever in-
creasing brightness and has made
plain the path of duty to man and na-
tions alike they knew not, and all
their genus, learning, and aptitude
for affairs availed them nothing ; they
were blind guides groping in the. dark
and tortuous paths of error, and flu-
ally stumbling, falling, and lying
where they fell—a warning to every
people that they must not forget the
great Disposer of events who controls
through His laws the destiny of His
children.
the doctrine of the equality of man
and the great right of self-govern-
ment has made but little progress in
the Old World. There had been
many struggles with the various forms
of tyranny, and this had notably
been the case in the mother country,
but the idea of human rights was af-
ter all but dimly discerned. That was
to spring full armed from the brain of
the Revolution. It was reserved for
the inspired pen of Jefferson to de-
clare the sublime doctrine that all
men are created equal ; that they are
endowed by their Creator with cer-
tain inalienable rights; that among
these rights are life, liberty, and the
pursuit of happiness; that to pre-

serve these rights governments are,

instituted among men which derive
their just powers from the consent of
the governed. And, standing upon
this ground so lofty and impregnable,
the signers of the Declaration flung
their defiance to GreatBritain and an-
nounced their independence. The
colonists of Massachusetts were
sprung from ancestors who had

' proved their devotion to civil and re-
ligious liberty during the great con-
flicts between the crown and the peo-
ple, between prerogative and popular
rights, which, commencing with the
Stuarts, continued through the Eu-
glish Commonwealth, and ended with
the establishment upon a firm and
immutable foundation of the consti-
tutional rights of the English people.
They were themselves a part of that
great movement, and left their native
country when it had suffered a disas-
trous eclipse in order to enjoy in a
foreign country that liberty of con-
science which was denied them in the
land of their fathers. And they fi-
nally determined, in order to found a
colony or commonwealth where they
and their children could enjoy the
freedom and practice the virtues they
loved, to cross the broad ocean to an
unknown shore. Here they lived a
century and a half prior to the
Revolution. 4 Here they“ had eon;

‘ quered the savage and tEE'wilderness
and established institutions of learn-
ing,of rel‘ig.ion,and a civil polity which
has been the admiration and example
of the statesmen and historians of all
succeeding time. The common school
systemof the colony, established in
the infancy of the settlement and

growing with its growth, has become

not only the pride of our people and

the foundation of our security and

progress, but it has been long adopt-

ed by other States, and is to-day one

of the chief elements of our national

strength and glory.

May the time come when its influ-
ence shall extend to every quarter of
the Republic, and every citizen, de-
spite his condition and antecedents,
shall receive the precious and inesti-
mable gift of knowledge, that twin
brother of freedom, which will fit him
at once to enjoy and maintain that
body of rights and privileges which
are the unequalled heritage of every
American. Then the town system of

government, which was coeval with
the very origin of the colony, and ex-

    

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stirred the spirit of revolt and red-
dened with patriot and British blood
the plain of Lexington and the slopes
of Bunker Hill and made the Rev-
olution inevitable, I should say
the system of town government
which, through all the history
of Massachusetts, whether as
colony or Commonwealth, has been
an essential feature of her polity.
Every town has its own history, its
local traditions, its own peculiar inci-
dents, political, social and personal,
which appeal to the pride and patri-
otism of its people. Then there are
its associations with great public
events which have risen like monu-
ments above the level plain of our
history so high that their summits are
gilded alike by the departing radi-
ance of the past and the coming
glory of the future.

One of these memorable incidents
you commemorate to-day, and that
statue, so long as it stands, will tell
how well a son of Amesbury kept
the faith in the brave days of old.
Every citizen of your town is proud;
of her history, of her early settlement,
of the industry, frugality, courage,
and fortitude of her founders, of her
growth and of the many interesting
incidents which crowd the path of
her progress. You know the honor-
able part she bore in supporting the
cause of the Revolution by sending
her sons again and again to the camp
and battle-field in that trial hour.
You know the equally patriotic efforts
of your town in the War of the Re—'
bellion, and you are proud of her
present prosperity, and her impor-
tant position among her sister towns.
You are justly proud of your great
and beloved citizen, whose genius
has added an enduring charm to the
literature of our age, and whose muse,
inspired by the spirit of Divine love
and justice, and wholly devoted to
the service of his fellow-man, has
won for him the grateful blessings of
enfranchised millions. And this love
of his town has been shared by every
citizen of Massachusetts in all her
history.

The historian of our country says
that a number of towns, which he
designates, met in the cradle of lib-
erty in the town of Boston, where
for ten years the freemen of the town
had debated the great questiOn of
justifiable resistance.

“The lowly men who now met
there were most of them accustomed
to feed their own eattte, to fold their
Own sheep, to guide their own
plough; all trained to public life in
the little democracies of their town.”
“They grew in greatness as their
sphere enlarged. Their virtues burst
the confines of village life. They
felt themselves to be citizens, not of
little municipalities, but of the whole
world of mankind. In their dark
hour, light broke—upon them from
their own truth and courage.”

This is a just and eloquent recog-
nition of the important part played
by the towns of Massachusett in the
opening scenes of the Revolution,and
the events which prepared the peo-
ple for that great struggle. Let me
quote from the most famous and
philosophic of European authors who
have written upon our history and
Government, and whose predictions
have had in many instances the force
ofpwphe‘sy’. ‘ ""“WTWWTT ”m”
He states that in “America, on the
other hand, it may be said that
the township was organized before
the country, the county before the
State, the State before the Union.”

“In New England, townships
were completely and definitely con-
stituted as early as 1650. The in-
dependence of the township was the
nucleus round which the local inter-
ests, passions, rights, and duties
collected and clung. It gave scope to
the activity of a real political life most
thoroughly democratic and republi-
can. The colonies still recognized
the supremacy of the mother coun-
try; monarchy was still the law of
the State; but the republic was al-
ready established in every township.”
He takes Massachusetts as his
example of town government and
declares that in that State “the main-
spring of public administration lies
in the township. It forms the com—
mon centre of the interests and*
affections of the citizen.”

And again: “In this part of the

  

 

 

ists today in undiminished vigor, was
of vital importance in educating to a
full comprehension of self-govern-

Union the impulsion of political
activity was given in the township;

dikes of Holland, pike to pike and
face to face with the trained sOldiers
of Spain under the bloody Alva,
proved themselves worthy of the
founders of the‘ Dutch Republic;
Pennsylvania, where the followers
and children of a peaceful sect, slow
to act, not prone to civil disturbance,
but who, when they have once moved
forward, have never turned back in
any crises of our history ; New Hamp-
shire, the adOpted State of him
whose memory we have met to honor,
first settled by that sturdy race which
has given to English literature and
statesmanship the unrivalled name of
Burke, and to her armies the con-
queror of Napoleon and the greatest
soldier in all her annals—a race
which has furnished to America three
signers of the Declaration of Inde-
pendence, and to New Hampshire
one who stands side by side on the
page of that immortal instrument in
the records of her history and the
hearts of her people with Josiah
Bartlett. The southern colonies,
whose first settlers, like the Puritans
of New England, sought a home in
the New World to enjoy that civil
and religious freedom denied them in
their native land; Virginia, who,
through her Washington, led the
armies, and by her Jefferson uttered
the voice of the Revolution—a voice
which will resound in all, lands and
generations so long as the pulses of
the human heart throb for liberty or
the fire of genius penetrates the soul
of man. ’

All these colonies were a unit in
the great cause. Although the bur-
dens a‘nd sufferings of the war were
unequally borne, and there may have
been some natural jealousy and im-
patience, yet the spirit of patriot-
ism surmounted and stifled every
meaner emotion, and produced sub-
stantial harmony in their councils,
courage and endurance in their
armies, and the final triumph of
their cause. These men did more
than simply secure their indepen-
dence from foreign control. They
successfully solved the problem of
uniting into a homogeneous whole 13
distinct States, with independent,
varying, and conflicting interests to
harmonize, which required the ut-
most forbearance and wisdom. It
was, indeed, a more difficult task
than they had previously accom-
plished. During the Revolution the
necessity for united effort prevented
serious discord. A common danger,
a common exigency, and one pur-
pose bound them together, till the
supreme object had been accom-
plished. Then came the grander
task of laying the foundations of a
State whose institutions should jus-
tify the sacrifices they had made and
illustrate the ideas which they had
proclaimed in the immortal Declara-
tion. How ‘ well they performed
this task the history of the past cen-
tury affirms.

They at first endeavored to pre-
serve the autonomy of the several
States by adopting a confederated
form of government; but the experi-
ence of a few years demonstrated the
weakness and instability of this
scheme. The necessity for a closer
union became apparent; and after
full deliberation, during which the
~Clinchsalons.A.£.l.is1.ilayr,ai_E. degreemf.
political sagacity, learning and wis-
dom that has earned for these emi-
nent statesmen the admiration of all
scholars of political science, the
Constitution under which we live was
adopted and ratified by all the States.
Under this organic law the Republic
has lived for100 years. It has been
subjected to the severest tests which
can be applied to the safety and
integrity of a nation,and has met them,
not only successfully, but trium-
phantly. It has been visited by for-
eign war, and it has sustained the
most dreadful calamity and the great-
est danger to which a people can be
subjected—a civil war of unexam-
pled magnitude ; and it has emerged
from that struggle with a race eman-
cipated, with the principles of the
Declaration vindicated, and with the
nation freer, stronger, more endur-
ing, more deeply imbedded in the
hearts of the American people than
ever before. Certainly the fathers
have bequeathed to us a glorious and
matchless heritage. The tree which
they planted has become overshadow-
ing and mighty. Like the Scandi-
navian Igdrasil, it is indeed the tree

glish liberty; ,New York, ere the'i
”aeseenaanrs-eoF-«fie-mn‘i INT-had]
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by thirteen colonies scattered along
the Atlantic coast, and having a pop-
ulation of 3,000,000 of people. Less
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away, and our population has in-
creased more than twenty-fold, and
has spread from ocean to ocean, and
from the great lakes and mighty river
of the North, to the wide-reaching
waters of the Mexican gulf.

Within these almost limitless

boundaries are found the elements of
national strerllgth and development
to an extent previously unknown in ’
human historyL Our population ex-
ceeds that of any European nation .
save one. Or internal commerce,
manufactures, agricultural products,
and aggregate wealth vastly exceed
those of any her country, and each
decennial een s reveals our marvel-
ous incease i ' all these elements of
national grea ess.
I, and each succeeding
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‘ ~‘Let us cultivate the
virtues and aintain the principles
of the fathers; There alone are na-
tional safety and honor. Upon their
preservation depends the progress
of that civilization which we repre—
sent and the development of those
ideas and forces upon which our des-
tiny rests. So long as the American
people value the precious inheritance
they possess, they will hold in grate-
‘ful remembrance the founders of the
Republic. It is for you, citizens of
Amesbury, to cherish with especial
reverence the memory of your great
townsman. By the generous patriot-
ism of a citizen of Amesbury, who
bears the name and inherits the blood
of the early settlers of your town,
and whose energy and enterprise
have done much to promote ~ your
prosperity, you have been presented
with the statue which we to-day un-
veil. This statue, which is a triumph
of the artist’s genius, will always
remind you of the most heroic period
of our history.

Its just proportion, its features of
dignity and strength, fitly, represent
the character of its illustrious origi-
nal. Long may it stand, looking
toward the ever uplifting, ever ex-
panding horizon, typical of our coun-
try’s future. Long may the children
of this old town, as generation after
generation they gathe arround its base
and gaze upon its features, be taught
the lesson of virtue and patriotism
wbich its mute presence so eloquently
teaches. Long may the men of
Amesbury gather strength and cour—
age for the discharge of every public
and private dut from the same in-
spiring iinflue'n C. "And my {old
Amesbury—a n'ame dear to me as
the home of my childhood, and the
scene of many tender and loving
memories—in the days of her advanc-
ing growth and prosperity, prove
herself, worthy of her early history
and the memory of her most illustrious
son. And may our Commonwealth,
her sister States represented here.
and our beloved country, never for-
get the sublime hour of our national
birth, or the ideas of the Declaration,
or the services, sacrifices, and vir-
tues of the founders of the Republic.

  
 
 
  
 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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J. N. LANE,
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ALL STYLES OF CARRIAGES.
ELM STREET, AMESBURY.

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Manufacturers of all kinds of

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MANUFACTURERS OF ALL STYLES OF
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Also,
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Water Street, Amesbury.
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RESIDENCE, ........ FERRY STREET, AMESBURY.
Office Hours—7 to 9 A. M., 12 to 2 P. M.

C. S. STANLEY, M. D.,

HOMEOPATHIST AND SURGEON.
OFFICE AND RESIDENCE:

48 Market Street, .............. Amesbury, Mass.
Office Hours—7 to 9 A. m., 12 to 2 and 7 to 9 P. M.

B. H. YOUNG, M. D.,
PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON.

Office Hours—3 to 5 and 7 to 9 P. M.
Residence—Corner of Albion and Cushing. sts.

CHARLES F. JOHNSON, M. D.,

PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON.

No. 7 BARTLETT & BAGLEY’S BLOCK, MAIN ST.

Office Hours, 8 to 9 a. m., 2 to 4 and 7 to 9 p. m.
H! 9‘ 54.....- " }o' WETRANI)‘, MO"D09 ‘ -

PH YSICIAN AND SURGEON.

OFFICE AND RESIDENCE ...... 42 MAIN STREET.
Office Hours, 7 to 9 A.M.; 1 to 3 and 6 to 8 RM.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

JOHN A. DOUGLASS, M. D.,

PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON.
RESIDENCE, ............... NO. 96 MAIN STREET.

Office Hours—7 to 8 A. M., 1 to 2 and 7 to 8 P. M

 

 

Dentists.

 

 

E. C. GILMAN,

DENTIST,

Successor to PERKINS AND NEWIIALL, No. 3
Market Street, Amesbury.

OFFICE HOURS, 8 A. M. to 5 P. M.

 

Miscellaneous.

Dr. CHAs. T. OLNET:

PRACTICAL AND CONSULTING

Veterinary Surgeon,

AMERICAN HOUSE,

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AMESBURY, MASS.
Oflice Hours—8 to 9 a.m.; 12 to 2 and 6 to 8 pm.
wTelephone connection. JeI5

G. DENNIS SMITH,
CARPENTER AND BUILDER.
SHOP, REAR OF POND ST., NEAR S. ROWELL’S

 

GEORGE E. BATCHELDER,

Attorney and

Counsellor at Law.
UNION BLOCK,

AMESBURY, MASS.

 

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ELI-331615.159

n. BAILEY Ct COO,
Manufacturers 0

ELM STREET.

 

Amesbury and Boston Express!

w. G. WAITE, r
C. F. HATCH, s

Boston Offices—33 Court Sq.; 77 Kingston St.;
Faneuil Hall General Express Oillce. Amesbury
Office—3 Merchants’ Row. Four trips daily—two
by express, two by fast freight.

PREVAUX’S

.................... Proprietors

mil-1y

 

BATC

Fashionable Milliners!

55 MARKET STllEET,

HELDER & THRESHER,

 

ap201y AMESBURY.
J. w..COLL,ms,
MASON.

10 ‘Vashington Street, - - Anesbury.

wEstimatcs furnished for Wells, Cistcrns, Cel
lars, Foundations. &c.

 

Lesson

In28

Mrs.ANNIE B. MASON,

TERMS—$8.00 for term of 24 Lessons.
1’. 0. Address. Box 290,Aniesbury

MUSIC TEACHER.

Given on Organs or Piano.

 

mytitf

GEO.

Has removed his business from
FRIEND STREET to ELM STREET
In OSGOOD’S SHOP, where he is prepared

Carriage Work, Horse Shoeing' and

W. GROWTH ER

to do all kinds of

Jobbing.

 

GED. D. LANE & CO.,

Funeral and Furnishing Undertakers.

49 Main Street ................ Amesbury
Residence at Ferry.

SALESROOM :

jelSJy

 

ALL KINDS OF JDB TEAMING.

PRICES BIEASONABLE.

.l. FAICHNEY,

Merchmzts’ 130w.

 

Mammoth Billiard Hall,

OVER POST-OFFICE, AMESBURY.

S. A. FELCH, - -

FOUR TABLES.
PROPRIETOR

 

febll

COUNSELLOR AT LA‘V,
POST OFFICE BLOCK, AMESBURY.

ATTORNEY 59° COUNSELLOA’.

Evening Office, 3 Market street,

GEORGE W. GATE,

._1.

I. T. CHOATE,

AMESBURY.

 

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B. C.

MECIIANICS’ ROW .............. AMESBURY.

Castings of all kinds made to order.

Cast Iron Forges.

deROCHEMONT,
Iron Founder,

 

 

MARKET

and Dyed.
Cut.

MATTHEW TAYLOR,

Gents’ Clothing Cut, Made, Repaired, Cleansed

SQUARE , .............. AME SBURY .

Kid Gloves Clean sed. Shirt Patterns

 

BEEF,

E. BROWN, - - MARKET SQ.,

W OPEN EVERY EVENING.

Dealer in every variety of
PORK AND ALL KINDS
OF PROVISIONS.

 

 

l CARRIAGE SHOP. Residence, Maple St.

 

 

 

and it may almost be said that

of life, of whose delicious and nour- L

 

ESTIMATES FURNISHED. d‘2‘21Y

J. EDGAR BLAKE, D. D. 5.,

MAIN STREET, ....................... AMESBURY.
Ether. Nitrous Oxide Gas, Mayo’s Vapor and
local Anaesthetics used. aug2

ID ENTAL OFFICE'

TURNER’S BLOCK,

Carriages,

D. S. KIMBALL,

Harnesses,

Whips and Robes.

KINGSTON, n. N.
MISS M. r. JAQUES,

A Graduate of the Massachusetts Normal Art
School, will receive pupils for
instructions in

Oil Painting, Water Colors, Drawing,
LE__'I_1C- _ ' "

Classes taken in neighboring towns if desired.
Samples of work can be shown.

 

WCall or address at

No. 9 Purchase Street, Newburyport.
je3tf

-—-IS READY TO DO—

Paper Hanging

--AND-—

 

Whitewashing.
FIRST CLASS WORK GUARANTEED

wOrder slate at B. L. FIFIELD’S STORE.

 

 

House, No. 4Whitrehall Street.
SALISBURY AND AMESBURY
MUTUAL

FIRE INSURANCE CD.

This Company continues to insure against loss
or damage by fire on Dwelling Houses, Stores,
Furniture, and other property, real or personal
not exceeding $3000 on any one risk on the mu-
tual principle for the term of seven years.

 

 

Application for insurance may be made to D.
L. D. Balch, Amesbury Ferry ; J. M. Eaton, Salis-
bury; G. F. Bagley, Amesbury, or to the Sec-
retary, Charles L. Allen. ian16

GILES D. JDIIIQDN, Manager.

Shirts, Collars and Cuffs re-
laundered in 3. Superior
Manner at the

NEWBURYPDRT STEAM LAUNDRY

36 Inn Street, Newburyport.

 

 

Our work is first-class and satisfaction is guar.
antced. Agents for Amesbury and Salisbury,

A. J. RACKLEY, HENRY STERN, E. L
WOHLGEMUTH.

Packages sent every morning.
T l N

C VALRENSHES

“THE STANDARD FOR Q UALITY.”

Valentine 8:. Company

MANUFACTURERS OF FINE

COACH AND CAR
BOSTON,

No. 153 Milk Street.

N. B.

 

NEVV-YORK,
245 BROADWAY.

CHICAGO,

68 LAKE STREET.

PARIS, FRANCE,

21 RUE DE LAPPE.
jly251y

 

C. H. PRAY

Calls the attention of the citizens of this vicinity
to the fact that he keeps constantly on hand

Meets and Provisions,

ging'sting of: Reef, Pork. Lamb, Mutton . _-
Sausages,Poul‘try, rip‘e. ‘ Wine M ' n, - ,
Rutter, Cheese, Lam] and Cannon]

Goods.
VEGETABLES of every kind.

lIoneyaauinces,and a variety ofother goods

0. H. PRAY,

9 Market Street ...... Amesbury, Mass.
Amesbury, Mass., Oct. 1881. if

 

IF YOU ‘VISII

TD BEHDLD THE BEAUTIFUL!

VISIT THE GREENIIOUSES OF

FRED. HIBBS, JR.

 

He has a splendid lot or

I l
Plants for W Inter Flowermg
Consisting of GERANIUMS, of new variety,
PRIMSOSES, CARNATIONS, etc.
1323? Bouquets, IVreatlis, Pillows, 6&3:
And ,‘othcr designs furnished to order.

 

GREENHOUSES. 166 FERRY ST.

 

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