EXCURSION 
 
 OF THE 
 
 PUTNAM PHALANX 
 
 T O 
 
 BOSTON, CHARLESTOWN AND PROVIDENCE, 
 
 OCTOBER 4, 5, 6rn AND yra, . 
 IN THE YEAR OF OUR LORD 1859. 
 
 HARTFORD, CONN: 
 
 PUBLISHED BY THE PHALANX. 
 1859.
 
 PRINTED AT HARTFORD, CONN., 
 
 BY C4SE, LOCKWQQD & CO.
 
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 PREFATORY. 
 
 JHE Putnam Phalanx, defirous of putting in permanent 
 form a Complete Record of their recent Excurfion to 
 Bofton, Charleftown and Providence, confided the taflc 
 of its preparation for publication to one who is not a 
 member of their Organization. With him the labor has been one 
 of careful collation and of furnifhing fuch thread of narrative as 
 was neceflary to conned the various Addrefles and more important 
 Incidents of the Excurfion, which were extenfively reported in the 
 Journals of the day. In a publication emanating from the Phalanx, 
 it has feemed proper to avoid particular comment upon the perform- 
 ances of individuals, and generally to omit the enthufiaftic encomi- 
 ums of the prefs which were lavifhed upon the prominent mem- 
 bers of the Organization. It is but fimply juft that the entire credit 
 of thefe journeyings, and of the brilliant feries of receptions, mould 
 be attributed to the Battalion as a body not forgetting thofe cour- 
 teous and hofpitable friends in the Cities vifited, whofe unwearied 
 efforts and attentions contributed fo largely to the fuccefs, as well as 
 pleafure of the Excurfion. 
 
 Care has been taken to obtain revifed copies of the Addrefles from 
 the various Speakers. The thanks of the Putnam Phalanx are refpeft- 
 fully and cordially tendered to Mrs. L. H. Sigourney, for the beauti- 
 ful poem on General Putnam, and to George H. Clark, Efq., for the 
 exquifite lines upon the affeding incident at Moofup both of which 
 were kindly furnimed expreffly for this publication. 
 
 Hartford, November, 1859.
 
 GENERAL PUTNAM. 
 
 REAT Soul, and brave, 'tis good to think of thee, 
 ) And with a filial reverence raife the veil 
 
 From patriot valor, that ne'er fought of Fame 
 Her clarion-payment. 
 
 See we not again, 
 
 The unfinished furrow, the forfaken home, 
 The flying fteed, urg'd by thy fleeplefs heart 
 That throbb'd indignant o'er a fmother'J found, 
 The cry of Lexington? 
 
 That echoed cry 
 
 Rous'd a young nation from its lingering deep 
 To rum againft the force of tyrant power, 
 Time-confecrated, and with fling and ftone 
 Defy the giant. 
 
 Bunker Hill records 
 
 Thy ftern o'ermaftery of the battle-llorm, 
 The deep memorial of thy dauntlefs deeds 
 That bore the fpirit of a trampled land, 
 Through this red preface of her liberty. 
 
 Hark! from the heaving of yon burial fods 
 Where fleep our Country's champions, comes a voice 
 Demanding for thy name its juft reward 
 Too long withheld. Of Hiftory it demands 
 That lingering truth mould light her lettered fcroll, 
 And fummons tardy man to fet thy fame 
 In fculptured marble, that recording ftars 
 May read it clearly from their filver thrones, 
 And lifping children from its tablet learn 
 What patriot virtue means. 
 
 L. H. S.
 
 EXCURSION. 
 
 T a Special Meeting of the Putnam Pha- 
 lanx, held at their Armory on the evening 
 of September i8th, it was unanimoufly 
 refolved that the Phalanx as a body fliould 
 make a Pilgrimage to Bunker Hill, and a brief vifit to 
 Boiton, Charleltown and Providence. Quarter-Master 
 Strong proceeded to thofe places to make the neceflary 
 arrangements, and at a fubfequent meeting, the 4th, th, 
 6th and yth days of Odober were {elected as the time 
 for the propofed Excurfion. After due confederation, 
 the Phalanx decided to invite but two perfons to accom- 
 pany them as Guetts of the Battalion, viz: his Excel- 
 lency Governor Buckingham, and ex-Governor Seymour, 
 of Connecticut. To the great regret of the Organization, 
 the Secretary received the following letters, refpectfully 
 declining the invitation: 
 
 FROM GOVERNOR BUCKINGHAM. 
 
 STATE OF CONNECTICUT, ^ 
 Executive Department. ) 
 
 Norwich, September ^oth, 1859. 
 J. M. SEXTON, F^SQ., 
 
 Sec. Putnam Phalanx, 
 
 Dear Sir: I have the plcafure of acknowledging your favor of 
 the 28th inft., conveying the invitation of the Putnam Phalanx to he 
 their gucft during an Excurfion to Bofton and Providence, and beg 
 you to aflure that diftinguifhed body that it would give me great
 
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 pleafure to be with them a portion of the time; but an engagement 
 in Philadelphia on the 4th, 5th and 6th of Oft. muft deprive me of 
 fuch high gratification. You will alfo aflure them that I highly appre- 
 ciate the honor of fuch an invitation and that their fentiments of 
 regard as exprefled by you are cordially reciprocated. 
 
 I am with great refpect your obedient fervant, 
 
 WM. A. BUCKINGHAM. 
 
 FROM EX-Gov. SEYMOUR. 
 
 Hartford, Oct. ^d, 1859. 
 
 Dear Sir: I am in the receipt of your efteemed favor of the 28th 
 ult., inviting me, in behalf of the Putnam Phalanx, to become their 
 gueft on their contemplated Excurfion to Bunker Hill. In reply, I 
 regret to ftate that circumftances will prevent me from having that 
 honor. Several engagements of an unavoidable kind requiring my 
 prefence in Hartford, or New York, during the time the Phalanx 
 will neceflarily occupy on their way to and from Bofton, Bunker Hill, 
 and the other places they will vifit, forbid the pleafure of accepting 
 their friendly invitation. 
 
 The unanimous vote of the Phalanx making me their gueft for the 
 coming Excurfion, adds another to the deep obligations I am under to 
 your Honorable Aflbciation, and calls for a renewal of my grateful 
 acknowledgments, which, I beg you will have the goodnefs of pre- 
 fenting to the Battalion, in my behalf. 
 
 Hoping the moft favorable circumftances will attend your footfteps 
 to the Holy places, and bring you all fafely back to us, where a hearty 
 welcome will await you, I have the honor to be your faithful fellow- 
 citizen and very obedient fervant, 
 
 THO. H. SEYMOUR. 
 HORACE GOODWIN, ESQ., 
 
 Major Com't Putnam Phalanx.
 
 THE DEPARTURE. 
 
 On the morning of Tuefday, October 4th, the Pha- 
 lanx affembled in full force and uniform at their Armory, 
 and fhortly after eleven o'clock, marched to the Station, 
 under command of Major Cot/ft Goodwin, and accom- 
 panied by their Drum Band. The following is the 
 Mufter-Roll of the Battalion: 
 
 OFFICERS OF THE PUTNAM PHALANX. 
 
 HORACE GOODWIN, Major Commandant. 
 
 Gen. Lloyd E. Baldwin ading Adjutant for the Excurfion, by 
 appointment of the Major Commandant. 
 
 STAFF OFFICERS. 
 
 Jofeph D. Williams, Adjutant; Eugene B. Strong, Quarter-Mas- 
 ter; James B. Crofby, Pay-Master; Benning Mann, Commiflar\ ; 
 Henry C. Deming, As/ijtant CommiJJary ; I. W. Stuart, Judge 
 Advocate; Afher Moore, Chaplain; Thomas Miner, Surgeon; D. 
 P. Francis, AJfijtant Surgeon; William Imam, Sergeant-Major; 
 Charles T. Martin, Quarter-Master Sergeant; Julius M. Sexton, 
 Secretary. 
 
 OFFICERS OF FIRST COMPANY. 
 
 Allyn S. Stillman, Captain; James B. Shultas, \st Lieut.; T. M. 
 Allyn, zd Lieut.; Allyn Goodwin, Rn/fgn ; Geo. W. Hayden, \st 
 Serg't; C. C. Burt, zd Serg't; S. E. Marfli, $d St-rg't; Samuel 
 Alexander, \tk Serg't; H. S. Larkum, ist Corp'l; Edmund Hurl- 
 burt, zd Corp'l; H. L. Brown, yl Corp'l; L. M. Bacon, ^th Corp'l. 
 
 OFFICERS OK SECOND COMPANY. 
 
 Alexander M. Gordon, Captain; O. D. Seymour, ist Lient. ; }. 
 H. Ammead, -id Lieut.; Wm. J. Denflow, En//gn ; Edward Nor- 
 ton, \st Serg't; J. L. Wilder, zd Serg't; ]. M. Greenleaf, yi Serg't; 
 N. G. Hinckley, +th Serg't; J. H. Williams, \st Corp'l; T. C. 
 Allyn, zd Corp'l; F. A. Cary, T,d Corp'l; John T. Fenn, ^f/i Corp'l.
 
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 OTIS SMITH, Standard Bearer. 
 
 COLOR GUARD. A. W. Birge, Hez. Huntington, H. L. Miller, 
 Chas. B. Smith, Col. Sam'l Colt, E. D. Tiffany, C. C. Stetfon. 
 
 PRIVATES. 
 
 N. R. Alford, J. H. Aullin, Geo. Burnham, Albert Barrows, Wm. 
 H. Bradley, H. B. Beach, Henry Bolles, Horace Billings, J. C. Bart- 
 lett, A. W. Birge, Hiram Biffell, John H. Brainard, Leverett Brain- 
 ard, Lloyd E. Baldwin, E. J. Baffett, Wm. N. Bowers, L. M. Beau- 
 mont, C. M. Bidwell, W. F. J. Boardman, S. S. Bolles, A. L. Cooley, 
 A. E. Clapp, E. W. Clark, D. C. Cornifh, Sam'l Colt, A. Chichefter, 
 Julius Catlin, Caleb Clapp, W. P. Chamberlin, W. R. Chapman, 
 Mofes Cook, John L. Cook, A. L. Cady, S. D. Crane, H. W. Conk- 
 lin, Wm. M. Charter, Jos. Davis, Wm. H. Dobie, H. D. Downing, 
 O. M. Drake, Gaylord Dowd, Wm. J. Denflow, Jr., A. D. Eufon, 
 Oliver Ellfworth, Frederick Ellfworth, Irad Edwards, J. M. Farnham, 
 Wm. Frazier, John I. Farwell, Walter Fox, Amos Fowler, E. G. 
 Francis, J. B. Green, J. T. Gorton, John M. Grofs, Edward Good- 
 man, C. H. Goodman, F. L. Gleafon, A. C. Grifwold, Francis 
 Gowdey, W. R. Hopkins, W. C. Higley, W. H. Henderfon, Sam'l 
 Hubbard, D. L. Hayden, M. O. Hills, Chefter Hebard, Hezekiah 
 Huntington, John S. Hufley, H. D. Haftings, E. P. Harrington, H. 
 P. Hubbard, H. Sidney Hayden, Thos. R. Hafkell, A. P. Jordan, 
 Pliny Jewell, Jr., E. N. Kellogg, Hawley Kellogg, Henry Kennedy, 
 S. B. Kendall, F. T. Lucas, W. B. Leonard, Jas. Loomis, ad., Mari- 
 nus Lord, James Lockwood, Geo. Marfh, J. H. Moft, Rob't Mc- 
 Criftie, H. L. Miller, D. A. Mills, Jas. T. Pratt, Dan'l B. Phelps, 
 Chas. Parfons, Guy R. Phelps, R. R. Phelps, L. F. Parifh, Jos. Pratt, 
 Oliver Parifh, A. P. Pitkin, L. K. Parfons, Dan'l Potter, R. P. Pratt, 
 Daniel Phillips, Rawfon Read, Horatio Root, E. M. Roberts, Wm. 
 S. Ramfey, H. B. Rhodes, J. M. Riggs, J. T. Roberts, W. K. 
 Ranney, Gurdon Robbins, Jr., John G. Root, Timothy Sheldon, C. 
 C. Stetfon, J. H. Sharp, Otis Smith, Francis Swan, Mafon Smith, 
 Chas. B. Smith, Geo. G. Sill, Milo Shepardfon, Elifha Smith, Wm. 
 H. Seymour, Stiles D. Sperry, James Spencer, J. K. Southmayd, 
 Alvin Squires, William Tuller, E. B. Thomas, E. D. Tiffany, S. S. 
 Thompfon, Geo. C. Wafhburn, Geo. L. Way, J. W. Weeks, R. R. 
 White, V. W. Whiting, Horace Waters, Everett Wilcox, W. F.
 
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 Whittlefey, H. W. Wright, J. K. Wheeler, Wm. J. Whipple, S. A. 
 White, Wm. Wright, C. C. Waite, H. L. Whiting. 
 
 HONORARY MEMBERS. 
 
 A. E. Burr, Thos. Belknap, F. A. Brown, J. Watfon Beach, Geo. 
 Brinley, Putnam Brinley, E. H. Brinley, Newton Carter, Geo. H. 
 Clark, Ezra Clark, Jr., H. K. Carter, J. W. Danforth, Lorenzo Dan- 
 iels, S. A. Enfign, Wm. P. Fay, Horace Freeman, Jas. M. Goodwin, 
 E. T. Goodrich, Wm. Jas. Hamerfley, Chas. I. Hills, W. M. B. 
 Hartley, Henry Keeney, W. H. Kelfey, E. T. Lobdell, Geo. S. Lin- 
 coln, Charles Lincoln, Uriah Litchfield, J. M. B. McNary, Geo. W. 
 Moore, C. H. Northam, Solomon Porter, Timothy Porter, L. F. 
 Robinfon, L. Rowell, Benj. D. Rockwell, D. A. Rood, Burrall Sage, 
 Wm. B. Smith, Sam'l G. Savage, Thos. H. Seymour, Sam'l L. Tal- 
 cott, E. B. Watkinfon, Sam'l Woodruff, A. A. Williams, E. W. 
 Williams, Henry Williams, Wm. L. Wood. 
 
 VOLUNTEERS FOR THE EXCURSION. 
 
 W. S. Roberts, ex-Capt. Hartford Light Guard; Geo. S. Burn- 
 ham, Col. \Jl Reg. Conn. Militia; ex-Major A. E. Birge; Geo. A. 
 Burnham, ex-Capt. Seymour Light Artillery ; Julius L. Rathbun; H. 
 D. Tarbell; G. Stillman; A. H. Benjamin; H. Enfworth, Adjutant 
 \jt Reg. Conn. Militia; F. P. Lepard. 
 
 DRUM BAND. 
 
 H. T. Chapin, Nathan L. Robinfon, J. M. Perry, Almon H. 
 Bruce, S. G. Wilcox, D. H. Wilcox, L. C. Miner, Rob't Mofeley, 
 Thos. M. Perkins, James Stone. 
 
 CAMP ATTENDANTS. 
 Henry Hedor, J. F. Rodney, J. L. Cambridge. 
 
 The Phalanx never appeared in better drill and diici- 
 pline, nor attracted more attention at any of their previ- 
 ous parades than on their march to the Station. At this 
 point, a large Crowd was affembled to witneis their de- 
 parture. Three of the paflenger and two of the bag- 
 gage cars of the long train were (pecially appropriated
 
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 to the Battalion and were completely filled. The train 
 ftarted at the regular hour, and as the cars left the Sta- 
 tion, cheer after cheer rofe from the Crowd of friends 
 whole warmeft willies for the complete fuccefs of the 
 Excurfion and fafe return of the Battalion accompanied 
 them. At Windior Locks, a gun faluted the paffing 
 train; at Springfield, the Depot was thronged with peo- 
 ple anxious to fee the Phalanx; at Worcefter, and all 
 along the route at every Station, the Phalanx was greet- 
 ed with throngs of appreciative fpectators happy 
 auguries of the Reception that awaited them at Bofton. 
 
 THE ARRIVAL AT BOSTON. 
 
 The train by which the Phalanx was to arrive was 
 due at the Worcester Depot at half patt four o'clock, 
 and at that hour the ftation and adjoining itreets were 
 thronged with people. The train, however, was fo 
 heavily loaded that it did not arrive till twelve minutes 
 paft five. The rear cars which contained the Battalion 
 were immediately furrounded by an enthufiaitic crowd, 
 anxious to catch the firil fight of the Corps which came 
 out from the Depot on Kneeland ftreet, amid the boom- 
 ing of cannon fired by the Light Artillery Company, 
 Capt. O. F. Nims, and marched from there in fingle file 
 to Lincoln ftreet, on the iouth fide of Kneeland, where 
 they formed as a Battalion, and marched to Beach itreet, 
 in front of the United States Hotel, where they were 
 greeted with continuous cheers, and where the Mayor 
 and numerous Municipal officers and citizens were in 
 waiting to tender a formal Reception and Welcome. 
 Much credit is due to the admirable and efficient 
 arrangements of the Bofton Police, by means of which
 
 the fpace in front of the Hotel was kept open for the 
 evolutions of the Phalanx. When the Battalion was 
 drawn up in line, Mayor Lincoln, accompanied by the 
 City Officers and others, appeared upon the iteps of the 
 Hotel and was introduced to the Corps by Oliver Elli- 
 worth, Efq., formerly of Hartford and now a refident 
 of Bofton a member of the Phalanx. The Mayor 
 was received with a ialute by the Drum Band the 
 Battalion prefenting arms; after which his Honor wel- 
 comed the Putnam Phalanx to Boiton in the following 
 addrefs: 
 
 MAYOR LINCOLN'S WELCOME. 
 
 Mr. Commander: It affords me great fatisfaction to welcome 
 you and the Battalion under your command to the City of Bofton. 
 Our citizens are often gratified with the vifits of military friends from 
 other Cities or States of the Union, but it is many years fince we 
 were honored by the prefence of a Corps from the good State ot 
 Connecticut or the City of Hartford. I welcome you in my official 
 capacity as Mayor of the City, and on one account I wifh we were 
 aflembled at our City Hall, for I could point you to a fpot which has 
 aflbciations as dear to you, Natives of Connecticut, as it is to us, Sons 
 of Maflachufetts. From the windows of our City Hall we look into 
 the moft ancient of our burial places; within its facred enclofure is a 
 tomb where reft the remains of a Father and Son. The Father was 
 the firft Governor of Maflachufetts Bay, the fon held a fimilar pbfi- 
 tion in your own infant Colony. While we boart with pride of the 
 virtues and fervices of the elder Winthrop, you render a fimilar 
 tribute to the younger. Together their afhes are mingled in the com- 
 mon duft. 
 
 The union and community of intereft, thus fymbolized in our 
 early Chief Magiftrates, has always exifted between the people of our 
 refpective Commonwealths. Together they ftood, moulder to fhoul- 
 der, when we were feeble Colonies, in the ftruggles with the Indian 
 Tribes in the Old French War, and in the glorious Revolutionary 
 conteft, which achieved the Independence of the Nation. 
 
 You appear to us to-day, not only as Sons of Connecticut, but in
 
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 the military coftume of the Revolutionary era. In your drefs and 
 martial bearing, you would remind us of the peerlefs Wafhington and 
 the Fathers of the Republic. You recall to our memories the Patri- 
 ots who defended their country in the time of peril, and left us the 
 pricelefs inheritance which we now enjoy. 
 
 To deilgnate your Corps, you have taken the name and infcribed 
 on your banner that noble Revolutionary Hero, who, like the Roman 
 Cincinnatus, left his plow in the field to haften to the relief of his 
 ftruggling Countrymen. With the brave, he was the braveft, for it 
 was faid of Putnam that "he dared to lead where any dared to 
 follow." 
 
 Reprefenting as you do, gentlemen, by your peculiar Organization, 
 the Revolutionary period, we bid you welcome to the fcenes of its 
 earlieft conflicts. The part the old Town of Bofton took in that 
 Conteft makes one of the moft important pages in its Hiftory. You 
 come as Pilgrims to its Holy Shrines; may you find that the Defcend- 
 ants are worthy of their Sires, and that the Principles of Liberty here 
 promulgated by the Fathers, are ftill held dear by their Sons. 
 
 Your Charter Oak has fallen to the ground. A fimilar fate may 
 await our Faneuil Hall, and it may crumble to the earth; but the 
 principles which gave them their glory {hall never die, but mail con- 
 tinue unimpaired through the march of Ages and the progrefs of 
 Time. 
 
 Again I unite with the Citizens of Bofton here aflembled, and give 
 you a moft cordial greeting and welcome. 
 
 Major Goodwin then introduced Judge Advocate Stu- 
 art, who responded to the Mayor's welcome in the fol- 
 lowing words: 
 
 RESPONSE OF JUDGE ADVOCATE STUART. 
 
 Your Honor Mayor Lincoln: For the prefent manifeftation of 
 your courtefy, for the kind and eloquent words of welcome with 
 which you, Sir, have greeted the Putnam Phalanx, they return you 
 their heartfelt thanks. We come hither, organized, as your Honor 
 perceives, as a peculiar Corps, to feek in your City, and in its pre- 
 cincts, peculiar enjoyment. We come as a Battalion organized, not 
 only for the purpofe of commemorating that early Paft to which you
 
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 have fo eloquently referred, but alfo, and more efpecially, to aid in 
 invigorating the glorious memories of that Revolution in which Bofton 
 played so confpicuous and leading a part to which not only your 
 City, but Maflachufetts all, Connecticut, New England all, more than 
 any other portion of our common Country, devoted, without ftint, 
 their blood and their treafure and which, through each one of its 
 magnificent refults, comes knocking daily for gratitude at the heart of 
 every inhabitant of this Union. 
 
 We feek, Sir, the fhrines of an Otis, a Thacher, a Hancock, a 
 Quincy, an Adams, a Warren, a Prefcott, of all thofe noble Patri- 
 ots and gallant men who here led the van of oppofition to Great 
 Britain, when that mighty Monarchy commenced her career of 
 aggreffion upon her American Colonies, and began to launch againft 
 them the thunderbolts of war. 
 
 Not, Sir, that we forget that mighty Paft which preceded the 
 American Revolution, to which you have fo impreflively referred. 
 We do not. We honor and revere the upright and accomplifhed 
 Governor John Winthrop, the Father of the Maflachufetts Colony, 
 as he is juftly termed, and we lay fpecial claim to the renown of John 
 Winthrop, his fon, and of John Fitz Winthrop, his grandfon, Gov- 
 ernors both of them, as they were, of old Connecticut. 
 
 But the Revolutionary Paft of Bofton that is what now more 
 immediately concerns our Phalanx. The City over which you pre- 
 fide, Sir we know it it is familiar truth, the world knows it by 
 heart was emphatically the cradle of American Liberty. Here, 
 we are aware, glowed the firft watchfires, and blazed from your hills 
 the firft beacon lights that fummoned America to arms. Here, in 
 venerable Faneuil Hall and in your old State Houfe were poured 
 forth the firft indignant ftrains of eloquence and fiery refolves, which, 
 after the Peace of Paris, greeted with grave fcorn and ftern menaces 
 of refiftance the opening tyranny of our Motherland. And here, 
 too, within hail of your memorable City at Lexington, at Concord, 
 at Bunker Hill was fhed the earlieft blood of the Revolution 
 feed-blood, as it proved to be, of the moft gigantic, perilous, and tri- 
 umphant ftruggle for Liberty that the World has ever feen. 
 
 We of this Phalanx, Sir, therefore feel under the view I now 
 fuggeft that we ftand in this City upon confecrated ground ground 
 confecrated by the love and labors not only of thofe noble Patriots to 
 whom I have already referred, but alfo of many more, who here led
 
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 that Revolution which it is our fpecial object to commemorate. We 
 would look, therefore, upon the localities diftinguifhed by their zeal 
 and fervices. We would gaze upon the fpot where ftood that memo- 
 rable tree whole Genius, though invifible, is faid to have always found 
 pens, and ink, and paper, and a hoft of witnefles, for every patriotic 
 compact of your Bofton Sons of Liberty. 
 
 We would look, yet once again, upon your world-renowned Cradle 
 of Liberty old Faneuil Hall. We would gaze upon the fpot where 
 the daring Patriots of Bofton gave ocean-burial to the peftilential teas. 
 And, efpecially, we would make our pilgrimage to Bunker Hill 
 from that hallowed fpot to catch frefh infpiration for our Patriotifm, 
 and there to renew vows of devotion to our beloved Country. 
 
 Thefe, Sir, are the main purpofes of our vifit to Bofton thefe, 
 and the interchange of pleafant converfation and courtefies with any 
 who may defire to hold communion with us. 
 
 To the thoufand ftirring memories which meet and greet us here 
 in this City, we of this Phalanx with becoming modefty I fay it 
 can add a rich Revolutionary ftore of our own; for we bring with us 
 from old Connecticut the memories of a Trumbull that immortal 
 "Rebel" Governor of his day, and of a Sherman, an Ellfworth, a 
 Williams, a Dyer of that gallant Putnam, to whom your Honor 
 has fo eloquently referred of a Hale, a Knowlton, a Spencer, a 
 Douglafs, and of thirty-one thoufand nine hundred and thirty-one of 
 her Sons, whom, in the times that tried men's fouls, Connecticut 
 devoted to the battle-fields of their Country. 
 
 That we may pleafantly mingle thefe our Revolutionary aflbciations 
 with thofe of hiftoric Bofton, and of the old Bay State, is, Sir, the 
 hearty hope of the Putnam Phalanx. 
 
 Mr. Stuart's fpeech was frequently interrupted with 
 hearty outburfts of applaufe, and at the clofe the Speaker 
 and the Phalanx were loudly cheered. 
 
 The line was then re-formed, and the Battalion 
 marched to the Armory of the Second Battalion of 
 Infantry, in Boyltton Hall, where they depofited their 
 guns and partook of the well known hofpitality of the 
 Infantry. Major C. O. Rogers briefly welcomed the 
 Phalanx to the City.
 
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 The Second Battalion had ornamented the front of 
 their Armory with fome fplendid decorations. In front 
 was an illuminated portrait of Washington, over which 
 was the infcription "1776 Union 1859." Below 
 was the name "Walhington," between two ftars. Sev- 
 eral lines were ftretched acrofs Wafhington ftreet, on 
 which were fufpended flags, and ftreamers, and from a 
 point near the building two lines depended, with Chi- 
 nefe lanterns attached. (Thefe formed a fplendid illu- 
 mination in the evening.) After fome time fpent in 
 pleafant intercourfe and mutual introductions, the Pha- 
 lanx returned to their Quarters at the United States 
 
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 Hotel, partook of fupper and devoted the evening to 
 receiving their friends and entertaining new acquaint- 
 ances. A portion of the Phalanx, by invitation of 
 Commander Rogers, vifited the Armory of the Second 
 Battalion of Infantry again in the evening. On their 
 arrival the Drill-Matter of the Battalion being prefent, 
 the Infantry Officers propofed to gratify their Gueits by 
 an exhibition of the Zouave drill. In ten minutes time, 
 about thirty Infantrymen were prefent in uniform and 
 went through with the drill with admirable precifion 
 and rapidity of movement. Not fatiffied with this cour- 
 tefy, the Officers infilled upon a vifit to the "Captain's 
 Office " adjoining the Armory. Here there was a renewal 
 of the hofpitalities for which the Infantry are fb famous. 
 Major Rogers again exprefled his gratification at the 
 vifit of the Phalanx. Capt. Gordon announced that the 
 command of the members of the Second Company 
 devolved pro tempore upon Second Lieutenant Aflimead, 
 who accordingly refponded briefly. He thanked the 
 Officers of the Second Infantry for this unexpected and
 
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 additional pleafure of the evening. The members of 
 the Phalanx prefent, he remarked, were delighted with 
 the beautiful drill they had jutt witnefled and warmly 
 appreciated the courtefies of their Holts, who had been 
 unremitting in their attentions to the Phalanx during 
 their vifit. After an hour or more of focial intercourfe 
 and an examination of the pidures and relics in this 
 beautiful Armory, the vifitors returned to their Head- 
 Ouarters for the night. 
 
 THE VISIT TO CHARLESTOWN AND 
 BUNKER HILL. 
 
 Shortly after nine o'clock on Wednefday morning, 
 the Charleltown City Guards, numbering 54 guns, ac- 
 companied by the Brigade Band, left their Armory and 
 marched to the Tremont ftreet Mall of the Common, 
 where a halt was made. A committee was then fent to 
 the Armory of the Second Battalion, where the Phalanx 
 were under arms, and efcoited them to the Common, 
 where they were received by the Guards with the cuf- 
 tomary military falutes. Immediately after, the line of 
 march was taken up, and the Guards with their guefts 
 proceeded through Tremont, Court, Green and Caufe- 
 way ftreets to Charlertown. An open carriage drawn by 
 a beautiful fpan of grey horfes contained the Commiffa- 
 ry, Ajjiflant Commiffary and Judge Advocate, and after 
 the battalion had proceeded fome diftance the Major 
 Commandant alfo took a feat in it, but refumed his 
 command at Charlertown. The entire line of march 
 from Bofton to the Monument grounds was thronged on 
 both fides with fpectators, every window feemed filled 
 with fmiling faces of fair ones who waved their wel- 
 comes, and as the Phalanx marched along, throughout
 
 the entire line there was moll vociferous applaufe. The 
 enthufiafm along the route of march was politively un- 
 bounded, and teftified not only to the popular approba- 
 tion of the military bearing of the Corps, but alfo to the 
 Patriotic fympathies and affociations which its tout enfcm- 
 hle infpired. The Phalanx reached the Monument 
 grounds at eleven o'clock. For an hour or more before 
 their arrival the grounds were thronged with a large 
 concourfe of Citizens from Charleftown and Bofton, a 
 goodly portion being ladies. Among the diftinguifhed 
 gentlemen prefent were Commodore Armftrong, Capt. 
 Hudfon (Commander of the Navy Yard,) Hon. Rich- 
 ard Frothingham, Jr., Hon. George Wafhington War- 
 ren, Adjt. Gen. Stone, and feveral members of the City 
 Government of Charleftown. 
 
 After marching around the Monument the Companies 
 halted on the north-eaft fide of the fhaft, where a fquare 
 was formed. 
 
 Captain Boyd, of the City Guard, then introduced 
 His Honor Mayor Dana of Charleftown, who proceeded 
 to fpeak as follows: 
 
 [In accordance with a vote of the Phalanx, the Sec- 
 retary wrote to Mayor Dana for a revifed copy of his 
 fpeech of welcome, which he fent accompanied by a 
 note in which he fays: "The occafion was one of much 
 intereft to our Citizens and will mark an era in our Hii- 
 tory. I affure you that we appreciate the honor you 
 have paid to our City, in your patriotic pilgrimage to 
 the (lirine of Bunker Hill. The opportunity of mak- 
 ing ib many pleafant acquaintances, we regard as among 
 the moil happy features of the day. We fhall watch 
 the hiilory of your Affociation with much intereft; and 
 fhall not doubt that it will accomplifh the objects and
 
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 purpofes fo happily alluded to by one of your diitin- 
 guithed aflbciates."] 
 
 MAYOR DANA'S WELCOME. 
 
 Mr. Commander, Officers and Members of the Putnam Phalanx: 
 In behalf of the Municipal Authorities and of our Citizens, it gives me 
 great pleafure to welcome you to this Monumental City, and this hal- 
 lowed fpot the foil of Bunker Hill. 
 
 We are proud to welcome to our City a noble body of men fo 
 largely reprefenting the intelligence, the moral worth, the profeffional, 
 commercial, mercantile, manufacturing, mechanical, and induftrial 
 interefts of our fifter State the good old State of Connecticut the 
 land of a People proud in the purfuit and fruits of honeft induftry, 
 and more proud of the Great Deeds of their Sires in thofe Colonial 
 ftruggles which tried their fouls almoft as much as that great and final 
 Struggle which fecured to you and to us the uncounted Political bleflings 
 we enjoy. We refpect the pride which you feel as fons of a State which 
 nearly one hundred years before the war of our Revolution, taking a bold 
 and noble ftand above her Sifter Colonies, fcorned and defied the edicts 
 of an unprincipled, cruel and tyrannical ruler, and by the hands of 
 the intrepid Wadfworth refcued from the minions of the King her 
 ancient Charter, and fecured it in that noble Oak, whofe fame will live 
 while a defcendant of Wyllys remains to mark the Spot where it flood. 
 Sir, you do not come up to this confecrated Pile as ftrangers. Your 
 Fathers came up here on the ijth of June, 1775, and fide by fide with 
 our Fathers, fought that great Battle, the direct refult of which was 
 the Independence of the Colonies and the Liberty of the Nation. As 
 our Fathers on that great Day welcomed your Fathers, fo do we, the 
 fons of Maflachufetts, on this aufpicious Day, now welcome you, the 
 fons of Connecticut, to this facred Spot. Here, Handing at the bafe 
 of that noble Shaft, which commemorates the valor and the deeds of 
 your Anceftry and of ours, let us vow, as our Fathers did, to ftand by 
 and protect each other, againft foreign foes, or traitors at home, and 
 let us rejoice that we have that great inftrument, our Conftitution, our 
 common Shield, which it is our privilege to fupport and maintain. 
 You come to us, fir, under a name ever hallowed, ever venerated. 
 If New Hampfhire fent her Stark, and Maflachufetts her WARREN and 
 her PRESCOTT, Connecticut fent her great Captain, whofe name you
 
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 bear, PUTNAM, the Hero of two wars the man who feared God and 
 loved his country. Where, if not on this Hill, fhall the memory of 
 Putnam be held in reverence? Who more than he fhared the gen- 
 erous confidence of Wafhington who, more than He, infpired and 
 encouraged the hearts of the Army? Who, more than he and let 
 me fay it with all refpedl to the memory of all the noble Heroes of 
 that great day contributed to the fuccefsful refult of the Battle of 
 Bunker Hill? While Maflachufetts claims the honor of his birth- 
 place, his name and reputation are fafe in the keeping of his adopted 
 State. Look around you, Sir, and behold yonder hills where flood 
 the Redoubt which quite encircled our fifter City. Much of this was 
 built under the direction of your great Captain, who commanded the 
 centre divifion of the Army, which was ftationed near Wafhington's 
 headquarters. Look upon the Barrell Farm, where ftands Cobble 
 Hill, upon which was the fortification built by Gen. Putnam. Look 
 here upon this Hill, the fcene of his labors through the eventful Night 
 of the i6th of June. Here ftands a part of the Fortification which he 
 with his own hands affifted in conftructing on that fame night. On 
 that corner of this Square he uttered thofe memorable words, "Wait 
 till you fee the whites of their eyes. Take aim at their waiftbands!" 
 In your ranks, we are told, runs the blood of Putnam and thole other 
 Heroes who ferved under or with him. Their memories are a rich 
 Legacy to be poflefled by you. 
 
 The Major Commandant introduced Ajjijlant Com- 
 /iiljjary Deming, who refponded to the Mayor's welcome, 
 as follows: 
 
 ASSISTANT COMMISSARY DEMING'S SPEECH AT BUNKER HILL. 
 Mr. Mayor, Officers of the. City Government and Citizens oj 
 Ckarlfjlown: The Battalion which has intruded upon your hofpi- 
 tality this morning is compofed, as your Honor has intimated, of per- 
 lons in every walk of life. Though efTentially Military, and conform- 
 ing to the rules which generally govern a Military Corps, and ready on 
 any emergency to arm for the common defenfe and general welfare, it 
 has other aims, not incompatible, I think, with its martial character. 
 We aim to perpetuate by fuch fignificant memorials as its Drefs, its 
 Name, its Mufic, and its Drill, an important part of the Hiftoric ante-
 
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 cedents of old Connecticut. For a name, we go back to that Warrior- 
 born, who, for fo long a period, infpired and marfhaled the warlike 
 energies of the State. Our Drefs we have ventured to pattern exaclly 
 after that coftume (Hill preferved in the Patent Office at Wafhing- 
 ton,) which was worn by the Father of his Country; we march only 
 to Revolutionary mufic; and our drill is, effentially, the fame which 
 the Baron Steuben taught the Connecticut levies in the Camps of the 
 Revolution the fame, too, I believe, which was difplayed when Bur- 
 goyne furrendered his haughty fword the fame, I know, under 
 which our diftrefled Platoons tracked with their bloody feet the fnows 
 of Valley Forge the fame which carried the formidable battlements 
 of Stoney Point, and which was fatal to Cornwallis and his myrmi- 
 dons at Yorktown's clofing fight. Before our Organization was com- 
 plete, before, certainly, we could boaft of any perfection in our drill, 
 we refolved on a Pilgrimage of Patriotifm to this Holy Mount which 
 witneffed the magnificent opening of the Revolutionary drama. As 
 on the memorable ijth of June our Fathers and yours flood here, 
 moulder to moulder, intenfely fraternized by a common peril, it is 
 fitting and proper, as you have intimated, Mr. Mayor, that upon the 
 fame Spot their Sons mould fraternize in common joy, at a common 
 deliverance and a joint inheritance redeemed. You have been pleafed, 
 Sir, to call our attention to the fortified eminences which encircle this 
 fpot, to Ploughed Hill, Winter Hill, and Profpeft Hill where the 
 morning after the engagement Col. DANIEL PUTNAM found his father 
 engaged in throwing up another Redoubt and Breaftwork in the path- 
 way of the difpirited foe. But we wifh, Mr. Mayor, to be made 
 more familiar with the field upon which we ftand. The topography 
 of this fpot has been fo changed by the march of improvement, that 
 we who have ftudied it from books alone, find difficulty in difcovering 
 the precife points of this large expanfe confecrated by the courage and 
 the blood of the Connefticut Detachments. Here, if I am correctly 
 informed, on the flte of this towering Obelifk was the Redoubt which 
 firfl partitioned off this hallowed Spot from common earth and gave it 
 to Hiftory, and there, parallel with its eaftern face, ftretched off a 
 hundred yards towards the north the famous Breaftwork. But our 
 Connecticut eyes, Mr. Mayor, fearch with more eagernefs for the 
 Fences fluffed with hay that covered the large area, between the ter- 
 mination of the Breaftwork and the banks of the Myftic, where 
 KNOWLTON and CLARK and KEYS and CLEVELAND and our brave Three
 
 Hundred flood, and GROSVENOR was wounded, and whofe flout refift- 
 ance faved the party in the Redoubt from inftantaneous extermination 
 and covered its retreat when the powder here was exhaufted. We 
 feek that Golgotha, on the fummit of Bunker Hill over which Capt, 
 CHESTER advanced, with his Company, towards the clofe of the engage- 
 ment; we feek for the Valley of the Shadow of Death into which 
 Lieut. WEBB defcended, "and had no more thought of ever rifing 
 the hill again, than of afcending to heaven as Elijah did, foul and 
 body together." We feek the terrible Neck enfiladed by the enemy's 
 frigates, where pafled backward and forward our heroic Leader bearing 
 the trembling Reinforcements over it on the wings of his ever refplen- 
 dent courage. It is to thefe points, Mr. Mayor, accepting thofe kind 
 proffers of information which you have tendered, that our attention 
 would be turned, that we may tread filently, flowly, and reverently 
 there as among the Graves of our Houfehold. 
 
 We are happy to be met, Mr. Mayor, by the Chief Executive of 
 the City that guards the Shrine of our pilgrimage, with fuch cordial 
 words of welcome and profufe proffers of hofpitality; for both, I am 
 directed by our Major Commandant, to offer our moft grateful ac- 
 knowledgments, and in return, to tender to the city of Charleftown 
 our beft wifhes for its continued profperity, and, that the foot of a 
 foreign invader may never again defecrate its foil, and laft but not 
 leaft, to wifh for yourfelf perfonally, Sir, both in your public walks 
 and private relations, as Magiftrate and Man, every felicity. 
 
 I was introduced to you, Sir, as the Commiflary of the Phalanx, 
 and the duty of Commiflary, according to Steuben tactics, is to fur- 
 nifh fupplies to the body: the Judge Advocate is Commiflary to the 
 Soul; and I fliould hardly have ventured to ftep out of my depart- 
 ment into his, were it not to relieve him, temporarily, of the onerous 
 duties in his peculiar line ftill impending over him to-day. We have 
 alfo immediate ufe for his eloquent tongue. Before we left Hartford 
 it was expefted that he would improve the occafion while we flood 
 on this fuggeftive Earth, to refrefhen our Patriotifm by fome of thofe 
 words of his, "that bear the fpirit of great deeds winged to the 
 Future." You will, therefore, pardon me, Mr. Mayor, if I anticipate 
 any farther ceremonies which may await us here, by now introducing 
 to you and the audience Judge Advocate Stuart, who will addrefs his 
 Companions in arms.
 
 JUDGE ADVOCATE STUART'S ADDRESS AT BUNKER HILL. 
 
 Major-Commandant, and Officers and Soldiers of the Putnam 
 Phalanx: We Hand upon that ever-memorable Spot, where, at the 
 outbreak of the American Revolution, in the firft battle-twilight of a 
 new ftar dawning upon American hopes, fifteen hundred of the raw 
 Yeomanry of our land, with a coolnefs and precifion of aim that are 
 almoft unexampled, twice, with their deadly fire of fmall arms, pre- 
 cipitated a veteran Britifh force of twice their number, in diforder 
 and affright, with more than One Thoufand of their dead and wounded 
 left upon the Field of Strife, back to their landing-place upon More- 
 ton's Point! We ftand upon the very ground which thefe gallant 
 Yeomen left their hold upon only when their failing ammunition com- 
 pelled the ftep, and when their Redoubt was half-filled with the troops 
 of the foe troops whom, even though environed by them, they 
 clubbed with their mufkets, as ftill undifmayed unconquered, though 
 retiring and agonized only by the thought of their want of powder 
 to continue the ftrife, they moved fternly away. 
 
 How Harding, Gentlemen, muft have been the Scene as we can- 
 not but recall it here aye, majeftic and tremendous, with its blaze 
 of more than five hundred buildings in Charleftown, the tall fteeple 
 of the Meeting-Houfe in their midft itfelf forming a lofty Pyramid of 
 flame with all this added to the continual blaze and roar of Artillery ! 
 Scene too painfully touching from the attendant lofs of the pure, the 
 brave, the accomplifhed, the high-fouled WARREN! Scene, however, 
 to us of this Phalanx, fource alfo of pride; for here confpicuous in 
 every part of the Engagement, pervading and goading every part of it 
 with his own ever-daring fpirit was the Hero whofe name we bear, 
 the exhauftlefs, indomitable PUTNAM! And with him, from the 
 State from which we come, were Captain KNOWLTON and Major DUR- 
 KEE. With him were Captain CHESTER, and Captain CLARK, and 
 Captain COIT. With him were Lieutenants DANA, GROSVENOR, and 
 WEBB. With him was Enfign, afterwards General HENRY CHAMPION, 
 the nobly patriotic Grandfather of our own equally patriotic Afliftant 
 Commiflary DEMING. With him were SMITH and LOVEJOY, the two 
 Grandfathers, on the paternal and maternal fide, of him the ftalwart 
 and patriotic Standard-Bearer of this our battalion; and BILLINGS and 
 HIBBARD, the two paternal and maternal Grandparents, alfo, of our 
 Sergeant BILLINGS; and HIDE, the brave anceftor of our Private,
 
 SHARP; and KEYES, and CLEVELAND, and KEMP, and BASSETT, and 
 BINGHAM, and other gallant fpirits, many in number, from old Con- 
 nedlicut: here they were, fide by fide and fhoulder to moulder, with 
 intrepid Soldiery from Maflachufetts and intrepid Soldiery from New- 
 Hampfhire, devoting themfelves, one and all, with patriotic fury to 
 the bloody ftrife. 
 
 Unfortunate though the refult of this Battle, under one afpeft 
 that of the enforced retreat yet under another and loftier view, the 
 Refult was moft propitious. For for the firft time it taught Amer- 
 ica her ftrength when oppofed in arms to the mighty Monarchy of 
 England. It inoculated and fired her Spirit with confidence. It 
 lured to the future Fight. It wiped off forever that reproach of timid- 
 ity which had been flung upon her Troops. It taught Britifh foldiers 
 to refpect, aye and to dread her martial Ability at leaft behind en- 
 trenchments; and it taught Britifh Commanders-in-chief, and the 
 haughty Cabinet of England, that military conflagrations would not 
 anfwer in the New World. 
 
 The battle of Quebec one far lefs deftructive of human life than 
 that of Bunker Hill gave to Great Britain the whole region of the 
 St. Lawrence. That upon this fpot loft to Great Britain a Territory 
 worth a dozen Canadas loft to her Thirteen Colonies of propor- 
 tions that were coloflal, and of capacities that have proved magnifi- 
 cent. For the Conteft waged upon the little arena here, developed a 
 fpirit of Patriotifm fo pure fo ardent fo fearlefs fo inflexible 
 fo energetic fo irrepreflible that it was fure to burn on by force of 
 its own quenchlefs elemental Fire, until it had burned all tyranny off 
 from the field of ftruggling America until its own ethereal Light had 
 chafed from our new trans-Atlantic expanfe every fhadow even of 
 vaflalage to any potentate on Earth and left it bathed in the full 
 effulgence of Life, Liberty, and Independence. 
 
 In that Effulgence we this day ftand and upon the very Altar 
 where the Light which formed it was firft kindled. Juft mark it, then, 
 for an inftant, Soldiers and you, if you pleafe, the Spectators of this 
 fcene, whofe attentive intereft is moft grateful to our Corps mark 
 that Effulgence of which I fpcak, from this Standpoint as it appears 
 in the profperity of our country fince the time when the blood of the 
 earlieft Martyrs to the Revolution was here fhed. 
 
 Behold our Population rifen from three to near thirty millions 
 our Towns and Cities, from comparatively a few, to thofe which are 
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 numberlefs ! Witnefs the magic converfion of the Ohio and Miflburi 
 iblitudes to civilized Homes while far beyond threading the thou- 
 fand devious arms of the Miffiflippi afcending the broad declivities 
 of the Rocky Mountains climbing tortuous crags winding through 
 treacherous canons and ploughing terrific fnows fearlefs Emigrants 
 have pufhed on to Men to the favage whoop on the banks of the 
 Columbia, and the Sacramento, and to found and rear Inftitutions and 
 Temples, to Liberty and to God, within found of the breaking billow 
 on the very more of the Pacific ! Everywhere almoft over our land, 
 liften to the elaftic fteam hear the tramp of the Iron Horfe! Be- 
 hold upon almoft all our waters the white fail ! Mark Science and Art 
 
 Invention and Induftry Knowledge and Education everywhere 
 almoft diffufed ! Mark, in fhort, a National Happinefs, which, under 
 all its afpects, is more profound than that of any other People on the 
 face of the Earth and which fpreads, over and around us from fea 
 to fea a fun-illumined atmofphere, in which we all may chant the 
 undying Songs and Alleluias of the Free ! 
 
 To fuch a height of greatnefs has the Spirit of Patriotifm which 
 difplayed itfelf upon this Spot in June, 1775 exalted our country. 
 A Spirit, therefore, it was, it is obvious, of no common mould no 
 mere, naked, uninformed natural impulfe but it was an impulfe fea- 
 foned by Knowledge it was enlightened by Forefight. It compre- 
 hended a rich and vaft throng of aflbciations derived from a long ex- 
 perience of Civilization. It underftood clearly the danger to all the 
 civil, focial, and domeftic relations of the Colonies involved in the 
 tyrannous claims of England. It knew well the inexhauftible refour- 
 ces of the New World and forefaw its rifing greatnefs in the fun- 
 mine of Peace. And it therefore toiled at the battle of Bunker Hill 
 
 not alone for the America of the Revolution but for the America 
 of all time. It fought that fight in order that the People whom it 
 infpired might not only glorioufly vindicate their own fundamental 
 Rights, but plant for Pofterity, as well as for themfelves fet beyond 
 even the tornado's power that Tree of Liberty whofe is the golden 
 fruitage of a National Civilization, Happinefs, and Glory, which, it was 
 hoped, would endure Forever. 
 
 To a fpirit of Patriotifm thus pure thus heroic thus enlight- 
 ened here upon this Spot, its early home its blood-ftained Altar, 
 but not, thank God, its Grave here then let us all bend in reverence, 
 as to the Mecca of our Civil Faith our Tutelary Shrine the tryft-
 
 ing-place of our Republican love here let us bend, and from its 
 infpiration drink deep draughts ! 
 
 Calling to us from the bones of thofe Patriots who here immolated 
 their lives pointing to us with a finger blazing as of fapphire from 
 their Tombs this Spirit bids us love the Land that gave us birth. 
 The Laws that protect you, it fays the Inftitutions which form you 
 
 the Cuftoms you obey the Habits in which you take comfort 
 the Home Hiftories, and dear Traditions, and Legends, in which you 
 rejoice these are your Country. 
 
 The Skies you fee above you that Earth you gaze upon beneath 
 
 thofe fweet fpots upon its furface, efpecially, where you drew the 
 firft lufcious breath of life, and were hufhed by the foft-flowing lulla- 
 bies of Home the Waters that cover that natal Earth the living 
 things that dwell upon it the fuftenance it yields the fruits with 
 which it abounds the Songs with which it is vocal these are your 
 Country. 
 
 The Villages, the Towns, the Cities you inhabit the family loves 
 you cherifh the pious devotions to which you cling the focial ties 
 you bind the anxieties you indulge the forrows you feel the 
 hopes you warm into life the Good Deeds you perform, and thofe 
 accomplifhed by your fellows the Good Names you eftablifh, and 
 thofe eftablifhed around you these are your Country. 
 
 Your Country it is that wrapped its folds around you when firft you 
 faw the light. With its loving folds it has encircled you ever fince 
 and it will enfhroud you gently with them when you die. 
 
 Make your Country, then, the idol of your heart, Cherifh it in 
 your heart of hearts. Should it acquire new honors, glory in them. 
 Should it receive wounds which Heaven forefend approach them 
 as you would the wounds of a Parent " with pious awe, and trem- 
 bling folicitude," and tendered miniftration. Die for your Country, 
 fhould peril ever require the facrifice! 
 
 Thus, Soldiers of the Phalanx thus does the Spirit of Patriotiim 
 appeal to us from this hallowed Spot. Pray God, we may all refpond 
 to the appeal ! Pray God, the fhadows of the Patriots who here 
 offered up their lives may float ever through our Houfeholds ! Ally- 
 ing ourfelves ever clofely to them "the boldeft and moft noble Men 
 of Progrefs that the World has ever feen" may we ally them, 
 through us, to Generations yet to come ourfelves, in the fublime 
 language of that immortal Man who here inaugurated the rudimental
 
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 Corner-Stone of this proud Monument, "being but links in that great 
 chain of being which beginning with the origin of our Race, runs 
 onward through its fucceflive Generations, binding together the Paft, 
 the Prefent, and the Future, and terminating at laft, with the con- 
 fummation of all things Earthly, at the Throne of God ! " 
 
 The Chaplain of the Battalion, Rev. Aftier Moore, 
 then offered the following folemn and impreflive 
 
 PRAYER. 
 
 God of our Fathers ! Ruler among the Nations ! And Judge of 
 all the Earth ! We reverently bow before Thee at this facred Shrine 
 of our Country's Liberty, devoutly thanking Thee for the ineftimable 
 bleffings that have come to us through the toils and treafures and 
 blood of the incorruptible Patriots who fecured to us the pricelefs 
 gift of National Independence ! 
 
 Here, Almighty God, may we gratefully call to our remembrance 
 the valorous Deeds of our revered Fathers, who refolutely confronted 
 the foes of Liberty in the day of trial, and nobly "jeoparded their 
 lives unto the Death in the high places of the Field ! " Here may our 
 Patriotifm receive frefh Infpiration ! Here may unborn Generations 
 come in Pilgrim troops to offer a Nation's gratitude to the Giver of 
 all bleflings! And here may the hearts of our Children be cemented 
 in that Union which made our Fathers ftrong in the day of dreadful 
 deeds! 
 
 Lord, blefs our common Country ! Preferve us from divifions and 
 ftrife. Let Peace reft upon our Land, and Profperity abound through- 
 out all our borders. Forgive us our fins. And with us blefs all the 
 Nations of the Earth, through Jefus Chrift, our Lord ! Amen. 
 
 Mayor Dana then introduced the Hon. George Wafti- 
 ington Warren, who, as Prefident of the Monument 
 Affociation, welcomed the Phalanx to Bunker Hill. 
 
 Hon. Richard Frothingham, Jr., ex-Mayor of Charles- 
 town, introduced by Mayor Dana, commenced by re- 
 marking on the furpaffing interelt of the fcene, and its 
 fuggeftive character fuggeitive of the time when Con-
 
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 nedicut and Maffachufetts flood together. To fhow the 
 fpirit of Connecticut then, an incident was related of the 
 times of the Port Bill, when Bofton and Charleftown 
 felt heavy the hand of power. No Colony was more 
 prompt to fend material aid, and accompany it with fol- 
 emn pledges, than Connecticut; and one cafe was 
 inftanced where Putnam brought on a drove of fheep, 
 and with them a letter addreffed to Botton, having his 
 Signature. It reads that the men of Connecticut meant 
 firft to attempt to appeafe the fire of a vindictive Minif- 
 try by the blood of rams and of lambs, and if this did 
 not anfwer, they were ready to march in the Van and 
 fprinkle American altars with their hearts' blood, if it 
 were neceffary. That was the fpirit of the brave old 
 Hero who figned this letter, and the fpirit of Knowlton, 
 and Chefter, and Webb, and Durkee, and all the gallant 
 Men who here made good the pledge. 
 
 The fpecial duty affigned the Connecticut Forces in 
 the Bunker Hill action was then particularly defcribed, 
 and having delineated the main Pofitions at about two 
 o'clock in the afternoon, and the work then going on, 
 the reafon was ftated why the Connecticut Forces were 
 ordered out from the Redoubt to prevent this pofition 
 being furrounded; the location of the Rail Fence which 
 they commenced and Starks men completed, and the 
 gallant and vital Service rendered here, were dwelt upon; 
 and then the fpot, Bunker Hill, was pointed to where, 
 on the retreat, Putnam ib heroically tried to rally the 
 men anew. In concluding, the fentiment was expreffed 
 that filter States of k> glorious a renown as Connecticut 
 and Maflachufetts could have no other rivalry than rival- 
 ry in the Works of Progrefs that adorn Society, in Edu-
 
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 cation, Commerce, Induftry in the determination to 
 proteft and defend the pricelefs Inheritance of Liberty 
 won by the ftruggles and blood of fuch Anceftry as fought 
 at Bunker Hill. This Addrefs was warmly applauded 
 throughout. 
 
 The exercifes at the Monument occupied about two 
 hours. 
 
 Immediately after Mr. Frothingham's remarks the 
 City Guard efcorted the Phalanx to the Guard's Armory, 
 where a bountiful Collation was ferved, to which ample 
 juftice was done while Mayor Dana alfo entertained 
 the Battalion and a large number of invited guefts, in a 
 fumptuous manner, at his refidence, in Monument fquare, 
 and Mr. Frothingham received at his refidence the Offi- 
 cers and Staff At thefe places brief Speeches were 
 made by Mayor Dana, ex-Mayor Frothingham, Commiffary 
 Deming, Paji Commander Pierce of the Charleftown City 
 Guard, and others. At half-pad one o'clock the line 
 was re-formed on Winthrop ftreet, and marched to the 
 Charleftown Navy Yard. 
 
 VISIT TO THE NAVY YARD. 
 
 On their arrival at the Charleftown Navy Yard, the 
 Phalanx were received, on entering the gates, by a 
 Detachment of fixty Marines under the command of 
 Lieutenant Reynolds, who were drawn up in open order 
 and prefented arms as the Battalion paffed through. 
 The Battalion was alfo honored with a National Salute 
 of thirty-one guns. Thefe matters are note-worthy, 
 fince the Phalanx is the firft Military Organization 
 which was ever received at the Navy Yard with fimilar 
 honors indeed, the firft that was ever permitted to
 
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 march in bearing arms. Faffing the Marines, the Pha- 
 lanx was drawn up before Head-Quarters where they 
 were received by Capt. Hudfon, Commandant of the 
 ftation, and other Naval Officers. Capt. Hudfon wel- 
 comed the Phalanx briefly as follows: 
 
 Major Commandant and Members of the Putnam Phalanx: I 
 welcome you to the Navy Yard, and fhould be moft happy to fhow 
 you whatever of intereft may be upon the premifes. I am no fpeech- 
 maker only a plain Sailor; but when I fee a body of Soldiers 
 drefled in the uniform of the venerated Wafhington, it touches me 
 with an emotion that it is difficult adequately to exprefs. The pres- 
 ent generation can fcarcely imagine the fufferings of their Fathers in 
 that Revolutionary ftruggle; they battled as it were with the halter 
 around their necks; they fuffered, and we now enjoy the Fruits of 
 their Labors. But it is not my intention to make a fpeech; I will 
 only repeat to you, Major Commandant and Soldiers, my cordial 
 welcome to the Charleftown Navy Yard. 
 
 'Judge Advocate Stuart, on being introduced by the 
 Major Commandant of the Phalanx, refponded as follows: 
 
 Commodore Hudson: For the cordial manner in which you wel- 
 come the Putnam Phalanx to this Navy Yard, I return you, in behalf 
 of its Members, their heartfelt thanks. You very modeftly announce 
 yourfelf as no Speech-maker as only "a plain Sailor" unhabituated 
 to the fluent language of formal oratory. Sir, in my judgment, you 
 have juft now made one of the happieft of all Speeches, for you have 
 uttered to us, who, moftly, are itrangers to thefe premifes, fweet Words 
 of Welcome, that are warm from a Sailor's generous heart a heart, 
 proverbially, open as the broad expanfe of Sea. 
 
 And, Sir, we of this Phalanx, mail take great pleafure in accepting 
 your kind invitation to view the Spot which you fo ably fuperintend, 
 and which, as we glance over it from our Stand-point here, bears un- 
 equivocal marks of intelligent Care, and contains ftriking and grateful 
 evidences of the Strength and Greatnefs of our Country's Naval Power. 
 
 We from Connecticut take cfpecial pride in this Naval Power, and 
 in the fpectacle of it here. For, Commodore, within the waters of
 
 our State in the capacious and beautiful harbor of our own City of New 
 London was fitted out the very firft Naval Squadron of the United 
 States that ever failed under the flag of our Common Country. That 
 little Squadron confided of the Alfred, the Columbus, the Andrea 
 Doria, and the Cabot, varying in armament from fourteen to fixteen 
 guns. Governor Trumbull, Senior that "rebel" Governor of our 
 State, of world-wide fame was the zealous and effective Patriot who, 
 chiefly, aided to fit it out and when made ready, it failed, in 1776, 
 from the waters of New London harbor upon the firft Naval Expedi- 
 tion ever made under the authority of Congrefs. 
 
 Yes, worthy Commodore and into the waters of this harbor 
 again, it brought back the Firft-fruits of our firft Revolutionary ftrug- 
 gle upon the Great Deep and thefe Fruits, thank Heaven, triumph- 
 ant ones ! For Admiral Efek Hopkins, its Commander-in-chief, failed 
 with his new and infant Squadron to the Ifland of Abacco, lying near 
 New Providence, in the Weft India feas. And there he captured the 
 Governor of this Ifland, and its Deputy Governor, and one of its 
 Councillors, and feventy other Britifh fubjects together with forty 
 cannon, and fifteen brafs mortars, and a Britifh fchooner, and a Ber- 
 mudian floop and to thefe Prizes adding, on his paflage home, a 
 Britifh bomb brig laden with arms, which he took near the end of 
 Long Ifland, he failed triumphantly back, as I have juft fuggefted, into 
 that harbor of Connecticut from which he ftarted. And thofe can- 
 non to which I refer, and that captured floop, were at once, with the 
 confent and approbation of Congrefs, applied by our ceafeleflly enter- 
 prifing Governor to the Naval Service fpecially of Connecticut, and 
 generally of our whole Country. 
 
 Deep indeed then, and grateful, is the intereft which this Phalanx 
 feels in the prefent flourifhing condition of this extenflve National 
 Maritime Depot. It has grown up from a Navy which had its birth, 
 and whofe infancy was nurfed, in our own old Connefticut and 
 whofe manhood in that Second War which fealed the triumphs and 
 the independence of the Firft was adorned by a fon of Connecticut 
 in whom you, Sir, and all of us, take juft pride the Hero of Old 
 Ironjides, Commodore Hull. 
 
 What a contraft does this Yard now prefent to the afpecl which 
 marked it years ago ! When the ftartling Fight took place upon that 
 memorable, overlooking Height which we have juft vifited, it was trod- 
 den by the foot of War, and ftrewn with the carcafes of the flain.
 
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 A rough, wild fpot it was then, bordered with unfightly marfhes, and 
 with not a trace of tillage. Now it is a level, embellifhed, folid area, 
 with every adaptation that (kill can contrive for a magnificent Naval 
 Depot. Its appearance, in every refpect, Commodore, reflects the 
 higheft credit upon your fuperintending care, and affures us all that 
 the glorious Flag which waves above it will never, in hands fuch as 
 your own, receive anything but additional Luftre. 
 
 And now, Sir, thanking you again, heartily, for your kind recep- 
 tion, and for the honors and privileges you accord, our Battalion will 
 march, as you defire, around this Yard, and then take its leave. 
 
 At the conclufion of Judge Advocate Stuart's refponfe 
 to Caff. Hudfon, the Phalanx vifited the various objefts 
 of intereft in the Navy Yard. On leaving, the Phalanx 
 were again faluted by the Marines. On their return to 
 Bofton at 3 o'clock, the Battalion parTed through State 
 ftreet, which was literally crowded with people, and the 
 appearance of the Phalanx was the lignal for loud and 
 long continued applaufe. From State ftreet they pro- 
 ceeded direft to Summer ftreet, to the relidence of Hon. 
 Edward Everett, in front of which they halted, and were 
 drawn up in order. Mr. Everett was received by the 
 Battalion with a military falute, after which Capt. Boyd 
 introduced Mr. Everett to Major Goodwin, and the 
 Commandant introduced Mr. Everett to the Battalion. 
 Mr. Everett then fpoke as follows: 
 
 ADDRESS OF MR. EVERETT. 
 
 Mr. Commander and Gentlemen of the Putnam Phalanx: I beg 
 you to accept my grateful acknowledgments for the honor of this 
 Salute. A compliment of this kind, ufually paid only to thofe in high 
 Office, or marked out as acceptants of the public favor, muft be con- 
 fidered a very diftinguifhed attention, by a perfon like myfelf, wholly 
 withdrawn from Public Life. 
 
 I do not, however, require a perfonal honor of this kind, to lead 
 me to (hare the gratification which your vifit affords to our Commii- 
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 nity. The character of the Company has gone before you. Con- 
 Ipicuous as individuals among the fubftantial Citizens of Hartford, you 
 cannot but command refpeft as Members of this, for many reafons, 
 remarkable Corps. You have already received ample affurance that 
 I do but echo the general fentiment, in bidding you cordially Welcome 
 to Bofton. 
 
 The friends of the Militia fyllem are gratified that it is receiving 
 the countenance, that it is ftrengthened by the participation, of 
 Citizens like thofe who compofe the Putnam Phalanx. That fyftem 
 was long ago pronounced by John Adams one of the four pillars of 
 the profperity of New England. In the opinion of that eminent and 
 fagacious Statefman and Patriot, the Volunteer Militia was entitled to 
 be placed by the fide of the Church, the School-houfe, and the Muni- 
 cipal Organizations of New England, as one of the main elements of 
 the public Welfare and Safety. 
 
 Our fathers relied upon the Militia as a fubftitute for Standing 
 Armies, which they confidered as dangerous to the Liberties of the 
 People. So great was the averlion entertained to a large Handing 
 Military Force in time of Peace, that, in the Federal Convention, it 
 was propofed as an article of the Conftitution that there never mould 
 be a {landing Army of more than five thoufand men. After this pro- 
 pofition had been debated for fome time, General Wamington rofe, 
 and great anxiety was felt to know what view would be taken by him 
 of this propofal to place a Conftitutional limit to the Standing Mili- 
 tary Force of the Country. He (imply moved an amendment to the 
 article, adding the further provifion that no invading Army fhould 
 ever exceed three thoufand. 
 
 Gentlemen, I hope and believe that a long time will elapfe before 
 the foil of the Union will be trod by an invading Army, great or 
 fmall; few things, I think, are lefs likely to happen. Should fuch an 
 event ever take place, I need not fay that the main reliance of the 
 Country for its protection and defence will not be on a {landing Army. 
 To withdraw from Commerce, Agriculture, and Manufactures, a fuffi- 
 cient number of men to ftation at every acceflible point in our vaft 
 Territory a Handing Military Force competent to face the enormous 
 Armies of Europe, is manifeftly impoflible. Our defenfive eftablim- 
 ment on land will, for a long time, as now, confift of a moderate regu- 
 lar Force: a body of well trained Officers, reared at an admirable 
 Military School; an ample fupply of arms placed in the hands of the
 
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 People; fortifications at the vulnerable points, and then this all-per- 
 vading net-work of railroads by which, in twenty-four hours, a hun- 
 dred thoufand of the Citizen Soldiery of the Country can be aflembled 
 at the point of danger. 
 
 Mr. Commander and Gentlemen, I anticipate no fuch Crifis; but 
 if, among the poflibilities of the Future, it fhould arife, the fpirit which 
 animates your Corps, pervading the mafs of our Fellow-citizens, will 
 prove itfelf equal to any emergency. 
 
 You come among us under circumftances which befpeak a hearty 
 Welcome. You have adopted the old Continental Organization. 
 Your uniform is that which Wamington wore; your mufic is the fim- 
 ple drum and fife no other was heard at Lexington, Concord and 
 Bunker Hill. Your name is one which Maflachufetts, to the lateft 
 generation, will delight to honor that of the yeoman Soldier, who 
 never looked back but once after putting his hand to the plow, and 
 that was when he left it in the furrow, at the tidings of Lexington and 
 Concord. You mare, I doubt not, his fpirit, and in the hour of dan- 
 ger would imitate his example. 
 
 But other duties, other calls await you. Again tendering you, Mr. 
 Commander and Gentlemen, my cordial thanks for this diftinguifhed 
 honor, and wifhing you a fafe return to your Homes, I bid you a 
 refpeftful Farewell. 
 
 In reply to Mr. Everett's addrels, which was warmly 
 applauded, 'Judge Advocate Stuart, in behalf of the Pha- 
 lanx, refponded as follows: 
 
 Hon. Mr. Everett: The Battalion now before you, from Hartford, 
 Connecticut, known as the Putnam Phalanx, in teftimony of its 
 refped for you, Sir, as one of the moft diftinguifhed Sons of America, 
 calls to give you greeting and for the cordial manner, and eloquent, 
 inftruttive remarks, with which you have received us, it returns its 
 heartfelt thanks. 
 
 We are organized for the purpose of aiding to revive and ftrength- 
 en thofe glorious Memories of the Revolution to which you, Sir, efpe- 
 cially through your fignal portraiture of the Father of his Country, 
 have confecrated a liberal mare of your time and your genius. By 
 wearing, as we do, the military drefs of the Revolutionary times
 
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 and this Drefs modeled with exactnefs from that of Wafhington him- 
 felf, which is preferred in the Capitol of our country by an adop- 
 tion, in good part, of the tactics which prevailed in Wafhington's 
 Army through the Drum and Fife as the fole inftruments of Mufic 
 and by other conformities to ufages in the Times that tried Men's Souls 
 it is our aim to ftimulate a patriotic refpect for that great Revolu- 
 tion which made us free, and to awaken love and admiration for the 
 Heroes who achieved it. 
 
 At the head of thefe Heroes "Firft in Peace" to ufe phrafes 
 of familiar but ever endeared characterization "Firft in Peace, firft 
 in War, and firft in the hearts of his fellow Countrymen," ftands that 
 immortal Man whofe character and conduct you have yourfelf por- 
 trayed with mafterly difcrimination, with loving tendernefs, and in 
 colors of light. In a fpirit of true Patriotifm, with fagacious forefight, 
 and with lofty zeal, you have magnanimoufly devoted this Delineation 
 to the noble purpofe of preferving entire and inviolate for a Nation's 
 veneration, for all time the Home and the Tomb of Wafhington. 
 For this end your labors have been unwearied. They have extended 
 over a large part of the Union. Crowded audiences have hung upon 
 your lips; their purfe, if not lavifh, has been generous towards your 
 object; you have added many thoufands of dollars to the facred 
 Mount Vernon Fund. 
 
 For this, Sir, you have a Nation's thanks. For this, the Ladies of 
 our Land outpour their gratitude, and Men echo your praife. For 
 this, Pofterity will rife up and call you "Blefled!" And for this, the 
 Putnam Phalanx on this fpecial occafion here at the door of your 
 own dwelling defires to exprefs its grateful acknowledgments. It is 
 our ardent wifh and hope that your future Labors in the fame direction, 
 mould they be continued, may be crowned with eminent Succefs ; that 
 you may long live to behold the Home of the Father of his Country 
 poflefled, adorned, and perpetuated as Public Property, and be grati- 
 fied by the fpectacle of frefh devotion, roufed, the whole country 
 through, to his Memory, and to the Memories of all our Revolution- 
 ary Sires. 
 
 It is our ardent wifh, in your own fublimely expreffive language 
 upon another occafion, that all " the grand Sympathies of Country, and 
 that myftic tnTue of Race, woven far back in the dark chambers of the 
 Paft, which, after the viciflitudes and migrations of Centuries, wraps 
 up Great Nations in its broad mantle, and thofe fignificant expreffions,
 
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 Forefather, Parent, Child, Pofterity, Native Land, which carry vol- 
 umes of meaning in a word" it is our hope that all thefe may teach 
 us and teach our Countrymen everywhere "not blindly to wor- 
 fhip, but duly to honor the Paft; to ftudy the leflbns of Experience; 
 to fcan the high Counfels of man in his great Aflbciations ; in Laws, in 
 Maxims, in Traditions, in thofe great undoubted Principles of Right and 
 Wrong which are fandioned by the general confent of Mankind; thus 
 tracing in human Inftitutions fome faint reflection of that Divine Wif- 
 dom, which fafhioned the Leaf that unfolded itfelf but a few weeks 
 ago in the Foreft, after the pattern of the Leaf that was bathed in the 
 dews of Paradife on the morning of the Creation." 
 
 With this expreflion of our fentiments, and renewedly thanking you 
 for the courteous reception you have given us, this Phalanx now bids 
 you a cordial and refpectful Adieu. 
 
 At the conclufion of this refponfe, feveral of the 
 members of the Phalanx were introduced to Mr. Ever- 
 ett, after which the Companies proceeded to the parade 
 ground of the Common. The attendance on the Com- 
 mon was immenfe. Every available fpot outride the 
 lines was occupied by the eager Crowd, and a large 
 number of Ladies and Gentlemen were admitted by 
 ticket within the lines. 
 
 At half-pail four o'clock, the Second Battalion of 
 Infantry, numbering 86 guns, under command of Major 
 Charles O. Rogers, accompanied by Gilmore's full Band 
 and Drum Corps, left their Armory, and proceeded to the 
 City Hall, where they received Mayors Lincoln of Bof- 
 ton and Dana of Charleftown, together with members of 
 both branches of the Government of each City, whom 
 they efcorted to the Common. The Charleftown City 
 Guard then took their leave of the Phalanx and marched 
 for home. The line of the Phalanx was formed, and 
 they were reviewed by Mayors Lincoln and Dana, Alder- 
 man Pierce, and J. Putnam Bradlee, Efq., P reft dent of the
 
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 Council, of Botton. While this review was progreffing, 
 the Second Battalion marched to the State Houfe, where 
 they received Adjutant-General Stone, Brigadier-General 
 Bullock and Staff of the Firlt Brigade, Col. Cowdin and 
 Staff of the Second Regiment Infantry, and Major White 
 and Staff of the Firtt Battalion Cavalry, whom they 
 efcorted to the Parade Ground. The above named 
 Officers then reviewed the Phalanx. The Corps then 
 paffed in Review before the Officers, marching to the 
 foul-itirring muiic of their own Drum Band. The 
 marching of the Phalanx was loudly applauded by the 
 affembled multitude. After the Review, the Second 
 Battalion went through a drefs parade in excellent ityle, 
 after which both companies efcorted Gen. Stone and his 
 Officers to the State Houfe. The line of march was 
 then refumed, the Phalanx being eicorted through Bea- 
 con, School, Wafhington, Summer, Chauncy, Harrifbn 
 avenue, and Beach ftreets, to the United States Hotel, 
 where they were difmiffed, the Second Battalion return- 
 ing to their Armory. 
 
 In the evening, a large number of the Phalanx availed 
 themfelves of the courteous invitation of Mr. E. L. Da- 
 venport, manager of the Howard Athenseum, and viiited 
 that eftablifhment. Mayor Lincoln kept open houie 
 during the evening and hofpitably received the Phalanx. 
 Oliver Ellfworth, Efq., a member of the Battalion, fump- 
 tuoufly entertained the entire Corps at his refidence, No. 
 21 Somerfet ftreet. This Re-union was one of the molt 
 delightful and pleafant incidents of the entire Excurfion, 
 and at the refidence of their Brother-member, the Pha- 
 lanx were made to feel at home. During the evening, 
 Geo. H. Clark, Efq., who was one of the guefts of the
 
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 occaiion, added materially to the enjoyments of the Fef- 
 tival by reading the following appropriate Poem: 
 
 It's juft what I expeded and I cannot well complain: 
 Becaufe a fellow did it once you thought he would again : 
 And fo, to meet the Challenger in cafe one mould appear, 
 I brought a loaded gun along you fee I have it here! 
 
 I was bufy with a Cuftomer about a little bill, 
 
 With one eye on his pocket-book and one upon the till; 
 
 The grofs amount was figured up it wafn't very large 
 
 And he had ftirred me with his cry of "charge, Chefter, charge!" 
 
 When fteps me in a portly man who couldn't fee his knee, 
 With a fmile upon his lip, and faid "I want you, Mr. C ." 
 I knew he was no Conftable thofe Caitiffs never fmile 
 And thus with words of blandifhment my ear he did beguile. 
 
 "Our Phalanx, whofe Ambition foars beyond a profy Drill, 
 
 Is going on a Pilgrimage to famous Bunker Hill : 
 
 We mean to ftand, with hat in hand, where glorious Putnam fought, 
 
 And tread the Soil where noble Deeds by him were nobly wrought. 
 
 We go with no inflamed defire, nor any fly intent 
 
 To bring away by force of Arms the Charleftown Monument: 
 
 Although it were an eafy thing to do fo if we chofe, 
 
 As every body who has feen the Putnam Phalanx knows. 
 
 And we want you to come along we '11 have a jovial time 
 And don't forget to bring with you a pleafant bit of Rhyme. 
 The day is fixed for Tuefday next no dodging for the rain 
 And pray be prompt, becaufe, you fee, we're going on a Train !" 
 
 Well, here I am a little man among top-booted fcreamers, 
 Like to a Clipper mid a fleet of huge Great Eaftern Steamers; 
 A fort of rakifh Letter o' marque befide my big Compeers 
 So let my fignals all be marked as meant for private ears. 
 
 I'm told your Mothers know you're out how is it with your Wives? 
 And have the thoughtful Creatures got infurance on your Lives?
 
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 I truft when you are fafely back they'll afk no idle queftions, 
 To anfwer which would interfere with delicate digeftions. 
 
 It has been fometimes aflced of me, in quite a ferious way, 
 If you in cafe of aftual War would mingle in the Fray? 
 I anfwer Yes: and what is more, no Danger would you mun, 
 For it is quite impoflible that fuch Great Men mould run ! 
 
 No be aflured of this one thing, though large the target be, 
 A broadfide might rake down your ranks before a foul would flee: 
 Cocked hats might wilt, and breeches rip, and coats be rent and torn, 
 Yet ftill amid the thickeft Fight your Banner would be borne. 
 
 Look at the Standard Bearer there and doubt it if you can ! 
 And think if thofe odd legs would fave our excellent Squire Mann ! 
 And Deming too the Enemy would make a deadly breach 
 In every thing his broadcloth hid, ere he the rear could reach. 
 
 The mental Courage that dilates each Soldier's flaming eye, 
 Would be excited by the facl that he muft do or die. 
 So all ye bull-necked Britifhers, beware thefe men of might, 
 Who wont furrender, cannot run but Glory! how they'll fight! 
 
 You may talk about Thermopylaes and Marathons of old; 
 
 Of Lodi and of Waterloo, and all their Heroes bold; 
 
 I'll bet a fcore of pumpkin pies, and help the party eat 'em, 
 
 That Major Goodwin and his troop would give 'em odds and beat 'em ! 
 
 You've one might rank, if fo he chofe, with old Demofthenes; 
 And a lineal Son of that old Greek we call Thucydides ; 
 And others who but bide their time to mow their fellow men 
 That they can wield, as Caefar did, the Sword as well as Pen. 
 
 One member may his patients purge, and one may move the plane ; 
 And one may have an oily tongue and wag the fame for gain. 
 You may have Merchants, Prefidents, and men from toil retired, 
 But all with warlike vifions now are moft intenfely fired. 
 
 Your Colt would moot a dozen foes the while the reft were aiming ; 
 And Afhmead's hammer, like old Thor's, the cohorts would be maim- 
 ing:
 
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 And Tiffany, when duty calls, will prove no terrapin, 
 But like a valiant Printer fend a frequent bullet in. 
 
 And where in cafe of a retreat, would neighbor Strong be found ? 
 Dead or like FalftafF feigning death along the bloody ground ! 
 And Sharp, his roadfters four in hand would never drive again, 
 But like a hunted Buffalo loom up among the (lain. 
 
 Well, let us hope there'll be no War : we're quiet loving folk 
 
 And really, after all that's faid, this fighting is no joke. 
 
 I never liked the trade, myfelf, fmce I was quite a lad, 
 
 When Billy Wolcott broke my head, and pummelled me fo bad. 
 
 We've come to vifit Bunker Hill. We've alfo come to dine. 
 We alfo mean to tafte a glafs of Bofton people's wine. 
 I wonder if they would have thrown fuch nedar in the Sea, 
 If George had taxed it as he did that plaguy lot of Tea ! 
 
 What good things they to-day provide let us to-day difcufs 
 For when another morning breaks they'll breakfaft upon us ! 
 To-morrow they will furely have drefled up as " lateft news " 
 A dim of Putnam Phalanx ferved, to flank their prandial ftews. 
 
 Ah blefs thofe Editorial Chaps : it is a way they've got, 
 Of feizing jokes, like buckwheat cakes, while they are piping hot ; 
 And while the Jokers are abed, and dreaming of new feats, 
 Thofe Typos will be " fetting up " and pulling off the meets ! 
 
 May you look back upon this day with Patriotic Pride, 
 And with a keener relifh ftill your ambling Hobby ride ; 
 And may thofe folemn looking hats acquire no rakifh tricks, 
 Nor ever be a lurking place for fad convivial bricks ! 
 
 At nine o'clock on Thurfday morning, the Phalanx 
 were affembled preparatory to their departure for Provi- 
 dence. Notwithstanding the fatigues of the day previ- 
 ous, every man was in readinefs for Duty. The day 
 was cool, with a high wind which rendered marching 
 fomewhat uncomfortable. The Phalanx paraded a 
 Ihort time only on the Common, where it was expefted
 
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 that an Artilt would photograph the Battalion, but the 
 day was unfavorable for the operation. After a brief 
 parade, the Battalion, accompanied by thoufands, 
 marched to the Providence Depot. A large Crowd was 
 aflembled to witnefs their Departure, and as the Train left 
 at eleven a. m., cheer after cheer was raifed for the Put- 
 nam Phalanx, which were returned moft heartily by the 
 Battalion for their Botton friends. 
 
 The members of the Phalanx retain the molt grateful 
 and pleasant recollection of their brief but joyous vifit 
 to Bolton and Charleilown. The Hofpitable Citizens of 
 thofe places feem to have neglected no endeavor to honor 
 the Phalanx with their admiration and attentions. The 
 local Papers fpeak of their vifit as an event of no ordi- 
 nary moment in their Cities' Hiftory. They eitimate 
 the Crowds aflembled to witnefs the Receptions and vari- 
 ous Parades of the Battalion by "tens of thoufands." 
 And it is pleafant to the Phalanx to put on Record per- 
 manently, the following fpontaneous expreffions of opin- 
 ion from fome of the more prominent Daily Journals: 
 
 [From the Bofton Poft.] 
 
 For well, we'll fay forty years we haven't felt fo much like 
 playing truant to tag Soldiers about the ftreets as we did yefterday 
 morning upon feeing the PUTNAM PHALANX paraded in front of the 
 United States Hotel. Happy Hoftelry ! to have breakfafted fuch a 
 Squad every one a folid Citizen with a good ftomach, every one a 
 Gentleman, a Soldier and a Patriot ; for, as a ftranger remarked to us, 
 it ifn't poffible for fuch men to vote the feftional ticket. From the 
 tall, venerable, white-haired and white-whifkered Commander down to 
 the fhorteft Private, every one had the jaunty and genial air of a 
 fmiling Odober morning in New England 
 
 (Hail to the land whereon we tread!) 
 
 but under this peaceful exterior of yellow feathers it required no great 
 imagination to perceive the daring of the Wolf-hunter whofe name
 
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 they bear. We never faw, hereabout, any military thing finer than 
 the eafe and grace of their movements as they formed and marched 
 up Beach ftreet to the tune of " The Girl I left behind Me," played 
 by their old-fafhioned Drum Corps with a mellow nicety that brought 
 the tears into the eyes of a young Lady Handing near us. Like her, 
 forry to be left behind the fhowy Phalanx, we threw our head up and 
 our fomewhat rounded moulders back, and marched down to the fcene 
 of our accuftomed labors with as much of a military port as we could 
 aflume without appearing ridiculous, but feeling all the time that Ath- 
 ens is eclipfed, and the beft of our Battalions muft knock under to 
 that of Hartford. 
 
 [From the Bofton Tranfcript.] 
 
 The Putnam Phalanx is an Organization for Social and Hiftoric as 
 well as Military purpofes. Yet we have heard but one opinion ex- 
 prefled in this City in regard to the Corps. Univerfal commendation 
 of the fine, noble bearing of its Members, and praife of the general 
 difcipline of the Battalion, have afligned to the Phalanx a higher place 
 in the efteem of our Citizens, than that of any military Vifitors for a 
 long feries of Years. Thefe caufes operate, however, in a military 
 direction folely. But there are influences more potent, which have 
 produced their efFecl upon Perfons, whole habits of life and modes of 
 thought do not predifpofe them to a love of martial Parade. Such 
 agencies relate to the willingnefs of the people of Bofton to give intel- 
 lectual and moral Worth its proper Pofition. That the Phalanx takes 
 a front rank in the former regard is proved by the felicitous, and, in 
 parts, eloquent Speeches of Hon. I. W. Stuart and H. C. Deming, 
 Efq., made on Wednefday, on Bunker Hill and in Bofton. We arc 
 alfo afliired that in a moral point of view the Battalion is no lefs enti- 
 tled to refpect. The fame of fome on its Roll, as men of fubftance 
 preceded their arrival here. We hope their vifit to this City was as 
 productive of enjoyment to the entire memberfhip of the " Phalanx " 
 as agreeable to our Community. 
 
 [From the Charleftown (Mafs.) Advocate.] 
 
 The Putnam Phalanx is about the moft fubftantial, and the jollieft 
 looking Company of men that ever got together in this Town before. 
 Hartford muft be a defolate looking place after permitting fuch a Body 
 to quit its limits, to go in fearch of Honors upon foreign Fields be-
 
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 caufe, no Town could by any poffibility, at leaft not in thefe days, fend 
 out a Phalanx like them, and yet have enough left to keep up the dig- 
 nity of the Place. 
 
 What a void their Wives and Children and Fellow-citizens muft 
 experience without their prefence. Some of the fineft fpecimens of 
 phyfical manhood, and noblenefs of carriage and feature, could be 
 fele&ed from among them. A fculptor would -not want for models 
 among fuch a Crowd. He would be puzzled which to choofe. And 
 many of them were men of " moft unbounded ftomach," ftout trench- 
 er men, before whom dyfpepfia, indigeftion, and melancholy would 
 difappear as Shadows that vanifh at the approach of Morning. Look- 
 ing at them, we felt an intenie defire to fling up our beaver, and cry 
 out " Hurrah for Connecticut ! " if fhe manufactures wooden nutmegs, 
 me don't fend abroad wooden men. Hurrah for Connecticut ! 
 
 THE ARRIVAL AT PROVIDENCE. 
 
 At one o'clock p. m., Thurfday, Oct. 6th, a fignal gun 
 from the battery of the Marine Artillery, which was fta- 
 tioned near Canal ftreet, announced the approach of the 
 Train from Bofton with the Putnam Phalanx. The fig- 
 nal gun was followed by a National Salute of thirty-one 
 guns, for which purpofe a detachment of twenty men, 
 under the command of Orderly Sergeant George E. 
 Brown, had been detailed by the afting Commander of 
 the Marine Corps of Artillery, Lieut. Col. C. H. Tomp- 
 kins. Near the Depot and on Exchange place, was a 
 concourfe of thoufands of People who had aflembled to 
 greet the Phalanx and witnefs their Reception by the 
 Firft Light Infantry and the Old Guard. By the beft of 
 arrangements nearly the entire Square was kept open 
 and referved for the Military. The formalities of recep- 
 tion and mutual introductions having taken place, the 
 two Battalions took up the line of march, the Infantry 
 efcorting their Guefts through Exchange, Weftminfter
 
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 and Dorrance ftreets to the Infantry Armory, where an 
 elegant collation was given to the Phalanx by their 
 Hofts. Col. W. W. Brown briefly welcomed the Pha- 
 lanx to the City, and Major Commandant Goodwin re- 
 fponded. After an hour of focial intercourfe, the Bat- 
 talions formed on Dorrance ftreet, in the following 
 order: 
 
 American Brafs Band, J. C. Greene, leader, 20 pieces, 
 in blue uniform. 
 
 Firft Light Infantry, Col. W. W. Brown, Command- 
 ant; Firft Company in fcarlet coats, numbering 83 muf- 
 kets; Second Company in blue fatigue drefs, numbering 
 6l mufkets; Line and Staff Officers numbering 31 ; total, 
 175 men. 
 
 Putnam Phalanx, Major Horace Goodwin, Command- 
 ant; Line and Staff Officers, numbering 36; Standard 
 Bearer and Guard, 8; Privates, Firft Company, number- 
 ing 54 mufkets; Second Company, 53 mufkets; Drum 
 Band, 10 pieces; total, 161 men. 
 
 Detachment of Marine Corps of Artillery, Orderly 
 Sergeant George E. Brown, Commandant, numbering 
 20 men. 
 
 The line marched up Broad ftreet and down Weft- 
 minfter ftreet, through Market Square and up North 
 Main ftreet to the Quarters of the Phalanx, at the Earl 
 Houfe, where the latter were left by the Efcort, which 
 was marched to the Armory and difmiffed. During the 
 entire line of march, the ftreets were thronged with Spec- 
 tators, flags were difplayed from various points, and the 
 enthufiafm was intenfe. A prominent Journal of Provi- 
 dence fays, that "the Reception and Parade formed one 
 of the molt brilliant Pageants ever witnefled in our City." 
 In the afternoon the Phalanx marched to the Armory of 
 the Marine Artillery and depofited their mufkets. The
 
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 time, till evening, was pafled in interchange of courte- 
 fies, many diltinguithed Citizens of Providence calling 
 at the Head-Quarters to pay their refpeds to the Members 
 of the Phalanx. 
 
 THE BANQUET. 
 
 In the evening a complimentary Banquet to the Pha- 
 lanx was given by the Infantry, in Pratt's Hall. The 
 Phalanx was efcorted from their Quarters by the Light 
 Infantry, and entered the Hall at precifely eight o'clock. 
 The invited Guetts had previoufly affembled, and one of 
 the ample galleries was filled with the fairer portion of 
 Creation an unufual compliment, as it is noted in the 
 Journals of the day, that this was the firit time in the 
 Hitlory of feftive Scenes of this fort in Providence, that 
 Ladies by their prefence had graced the Gathering. The 
 Hall was thronged. In addition to the Infantry and 
 their immediate Gueits, the Phalanx, the Old Guard 
 were prefent in full force and uniform, and a large num- 
 ber of diftinguifhed Gentlemen, among whom were His 
 Excellency Gore. Turner, with members of his Staff, 
 (His Honor Mayor Knight was prefent as a member of 
 the Old Guard,) Hon. Albert C. Greene, ex-U. S. Sena- 
 tor, Hon. James F. Simmons, Hon. Thomas Davis, 
 Hon. Walter R. Danforth, Hon. Walter S. Burges, Hon. 
 John R. Bartlett, Secretary of State, Hon. Albert S. Gal- 
 lup, Rev. Dr. Barnas Sears, Preiident of Brown Univer- 
 fity, Rrc. C. H. Fay, Quar. Gen. T. J. Stead, the Offi- 
 cers of the Marine Corps of Artillery, Lf. Col. N. Van 
 Slyck of the Providence Artillery, Col. C. T. Robbins 
 of the National Cadets, Col. H. T. Siflbn of the 
 Mechanic Rifles, and many other Gentlemen of note
 
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 and fundry Members of the Rhode Ifland Bar. No 
 event of fimilar character in Providence has ever 
 called together an aflemblage of more diftinguifhed 
 Individuals. 
 
 The Banquet itfelf was beyond all praife. Six long 
 tables filled the Hall, covers were laid for four hundred 
 and forty Perfons, and every feat was filled. An unufu- 
 ally magnificent difplay of flowers formed an additional 
 attradion. 
 
 Col. W. W. Brown prefided. On his right were 
 feated the Major Commandant and Lieut. Allyn, of the 
 Phalanx; on the left, his Excellency Gov. Turner of 
 Rhode Ifland, and Mayor Knight of Providence. A 
 blefling was pronounced by the Rev. C. H. Fay, and 
 after an hour devoted to the fubtfantials fpread before 
 them, Col. Brown called the audience to order and 
 briefly remarked as follows: 
 
 I am aware my portion is luch that our ftranger Friends moll natu- 
 rally turn their eyes towards me, expecling a fpeech; but my Com- 
 rades and Fellow-citizens do not expeft it. * * My Command, 
 many years ago, very fortunately, pafled a vote empowering me, under 
 all circumftances and on any Occalion, to make a demand upon any 
 Member. I therefore call upon my CommhTary, Rodman. 
 
 Commiffary Rodman refponded to the call of his vete- 
 ran Commander, and. welcomed the Gueits of the Corps 
 in the following eloquent manner: 
 
 THE WELCOME. 
 
 Mr. Commandant, Officers and Privates of the. Putnam Phalanx: 
 The annals of Rhode Ifland commence with the word " What-Cheer," 
 the word of Welcome which fell upon the ear of him who firft planted 
 his foot within her Borders.
 
 It is our Rhode Ifland word of Greeting and our municipal Watch- 
 Word; and I affiire you, Gentlemen, that the air never more joy- 
 oufly vibrated to its utterance than at this moment, while in behalf of 
 our Commandant, and thefe my Brethren of the Firft Light Infantry, 
 I fay to you each and all, " What-Cheer." 
 
 In thus welcoming you, the path opens moft alluringly to indulge 
 the aflbciations which the Occafion fo naturally awakens. Who can 
 look upon your uniform and not feel the Patriotic and the emotional 
 kindling and rifing within his breaft? 
 
 Memories come thronging thick and faft of all the Heroic ftrug- 
 gles of the Revolutionary Conteft and thofe which anteceded it. I 
 now fee in the darknefs of Colonial Night your heroic Putnam 
 chained and helplefs between contending Hofts, the bullets hurtling 
 around him like a leaden ftorm. I fee the flames kindling around him 
 at the flake, and hear the Indian's wild yell of fiendlike revenge. I 
 fee him at Bunker Hill with our own gallant Greene. Ay, Gentle- 
 men, the whole Panorama of Freedom's ftruggle pafles in quick review 
 before me as I look upon your honored coftume. When thefe fcenes 
 are awakened (and they cannot be too often) how deeply mould the 
 Fountains of our Gratitude be ftirred, and how earneftly mould our 
 Patriotifm be anew enkindled. General Putnam was yours Gen- 
 eral Greene was ours, and both were Wafhington's, and Wafhington 
 and all by whom he was furrounded were Freedom's, and all of Free- 
 dom's then, is ours by inheritance now. 
 
 They mingled their powers and fympathies, and in concert reared 
 the Altar of Liberty, and cemented with their valor the arches of its 
 Holy Temple, and ever through its length and breadth fhould roll, 
 full-toned and ftrong, one ceafelefs Anthem of united and grateful 
 Praife. 
 
 But I fee before me the honored Chief Magiftrate of our little 
 State, and I muft not invade his prerogative His honor the Mayor 
 of our city, who will rightly claim the grateful privilege of welcom- 
 ing you in behalf of his Fellow-citizens and it only remains for me 
 in the name of the Firft Light Infantry, to extend to you a Soldier's 
 Welcome Welcome in the name of a Soldier's Brotherhood Wel- 
 come as the Sons of one of the Old Thirteen Welcome in the name 
 of mingled Revolutionary memories Welcome as Reprefentatives of 
 one of the pureft of Commonwealths Welcome in the bonds of 
 loved and cherifhed memories of your beautiful City Welcome as
 
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 Statesmen, Soldiers, Citizens, Men Sons of the Land of Roger 
 Sherman, to the City of Roger Williams. 
 
 We roufe the drum with jocund roll, 
 While foul refponfive beats to foul, 
 And makes thefe walls with echoes ring, 
 As now with heart and voice we fing, 
 What-Cheer. 
 
 Swell the clarion loud and long, 
 Wake the harp to frolic fong, 
 Let the cymbals clashing meet, 
 While as one we now repeat, 
 
 What-Cheer. 
 
 Gem with deathlefs light the hours, 
 Garland them with fadelefs flowers, 
 That in time's far diftant night, 
 They may gleam with holy light, 
 Round the path of each and all 
 Now within this feftive hall. 
 
 Mujtc "HAIL TO THE CHIEF." 
 
 The Major Commandant of the Phalanx called upon 
 Lieut. T. M. Allyn, Mayor of Hartford, to refpond. 
 
 SPEECH OF LIEUT. ALLYN. 
 
 Colonel Commandant, Officers and Soldiers of the First Light In- 
 fantry Company : I was about to fay, that it has feldom fallen to my 
 lot to perform a more pleafing fervice, than has been affigned to me 
 on this Occafion; but after the eloquent introduction to which we 
 have juft liftened, I am almoft induced to indulge a different thought 
 upon that fubject 
 
 As a reprefentative of the City of Hartford and as a member of the 
 Putnam Phalanx, I feize this opportunity to tender to you our heart- 
 felt Acknowledgments, at the kind and warm Reception you have 
 given us to-day. 
 
 The relation between Civil and Military inftitutions has, I think, 
 
 been mifconceived in fome meafure. They are more neceflary to 
 
 each other than has been generally imagined. I am aware, Sir, that 
 
 where the great mafs of a Community afts upon the ftridl principles 
 
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 5 
 
 of Juftice and Equity that great divine principle of "doing unto 
 others as you would they fliould do to you," there is no need, per- 
 haps, of Civil Government, nor of Military Organizations, to aflift and 
 lupport it; but fuch an Organization is not ours, and we live not 
 under fo perfect and harmonious a fyftem of humanity as that. What 
 is Civil Government? What enforces its laws? Is there any Power 
 in the mere enactment of thofe laws? No; we muft look back of 
 that, and there we lee the firft Military Organization of our Country. 
 
 I might go further, and fay that without this Power to render cer- 
 tain and fuitain the execution of laws, Civil Government would be 
 "as founding brafs and a tinkling cymbal" a mere rope of fand to 
 be fwept away in the firft turmoil of riot within our borders, or upon 
 the firft infurreclion or rebellion within our Land. 
 
 To this arm we muft look as the great Support of Civil Govern- 
 ment in fecuring the perpetuity of our beloved and cherifhed Inftitu- 
 tions. 
 
 This Battalion, Sir, which bears the honored name of one of the 
 diltinguifhed Heroes of the Revolution, is now returning from a bat- 
 tlefield of that great ftruggle no lefs diftinguifhed than the heights of 
 Bunker Hill; where the troops of Connecticut, New Hampfhire and 
 Maflachufetts, met moulder to moulder, fought and bled and died 
 too many of them! to emancipate three millions of people from 
 the Colonial defpotifm of the Britifh Empire, and to ufher into exift- 
 ence the Nation which now extends over the vaft plains of Independ- 
 ent America. 
 
 The moft fanguine of thofe Heroes could hardly have anticipated 
 the marvellous progrefs which we knowing then little of manufac- 
 tures and the mechanic arts, with a commerce monopolized by the 
 Mother country have already made, and it needs no prophetic infpi- 
 ration to foretell the fpread of our Inftitutions over the entire Conti- 
 nent of North America. 
 
 As I beheld the Stars and Stripes floating aloft on entering your 
 beautiful City, I felt within my bofom a fpirit of patriotic Pride in 
 reflecting upon the rapid communication which enables us to pafs in a 
 fingle day through feveral of thefe independent Sovereignties, while 
 at the fame time I was a Citizen of the United States and entitled to 
 all the rights and privileges of a Citizen of any State; and I truft no 
 future generation will be allowed to look upon that Flag with a fingle 
 Star or Stripe obliterated.
 
 Our Country of to-day is the Country which the wifdom and fore- 
 fight of our Fathers have made for us. It ftill claims at our hands, 
 and I truft it will always receive, our warmeft Affections and our con- 
 tinued Support. 
 
 Mu/tc NATIONAL AIR. 
 
 Col. Brown arofe and announced that Affiflant Coni- 
 mitf'ary Thomas A. Doyle had been appointed to aft as 
 Toaft Matter of the occafion. In accepting the appoint- 
 ment, Mr. Doyle remarked as follows: 
 
 SPEECH OF ASSISTANT COMMISSARY DOYLE. 
 
 It is with a great deal of pleafure that I find myfelf enabled to 
 render any fervice on an Occafion of this nature, which tends to 
 bring the Citizens of different States into friendly relations with each 
 other, and to rivet the more clofely the bonds of Brotherhood, in our 
 common Country. The frequent interchange of focial courtefies be- 
 tween one State and another, and one fetion and another, will tend 
 to ftrengthen Government and greatly increafe our Love of Country. 
 Were they far more frequent than they now are, there would be 
 fewer demagogues and more Patriots. 
 
 Could you have been with me in the recent vifit to the great City 
 of the Weft, and feen the men gathered from every State and Territory 
 in our Union, from the Atlantic to the Pacific, from the St. Lawrence 
 to the Gulf of Mexico; could you have beheld the meetings, as if 
 from the fame State and almoft from the fame Town, you would never 
 fear that a fingle Star or Stripe would ever be ftricken from our Na- 
 tional Emblem. 
 
 But it is not for me to fpeak on this occafion; I am only to call 
 upon others. Permit me to fay, however, in pafling, that the Infantry 
 Company claims among its members fome of our moft diftinguifhed 
 men. The reprefentative of our City government, his Honor the 
 Mayor, prefent on this occafion, is a member of the Infantry. We 
 alfo claim the Speaker of the Houfe of Reprefentatives, the Secretary 
 of State, and with pride we point to his Excellency, our prefent Gov- 
 ernor. 
 
 I give you, as the firft regular toaft
 
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 The State of Rhode IJland One of the Old Thirteen, who with her veteran 
 fifter, Connecticut, did battle for the Liberty we enjoy. 
 
 M-uJic "OLD BRISTOL." 
 
 His Excellency Gov. Turner, of Rhode Ifland, role 
 and refponded as follows: 
 
 SPEECH OF GOVERNOR TURNER. 
 
 Colonel Commandant: My thanks are due for being permitted to 
 add a word of Welcome on this Occafion, and allow me to fay, at the 
 outfet, that I am proud of being enrolled as a member of the Firft 
 Light Infantry Company. 
 
 By virtue of my office, I am Commander-in-chief of the Militia 
 of this State. It is fitting that I mould participate in a feftive Occa- 
 fion like the prefent, and it gives me great pleafure on this evening to 
 meet and welcome fo many of the diftinguifhed Sons of Connecticut, 
 and that pleafure is greatly increafed from the fact that for the firft 
 time I behold the prefence of Ladies to lend a charm to our feftivities. 
 I could wifh that the capacity of this fpacious Hall were doubled, 
 that room might be made for them at the tables by our fides. 
 
 Gentlemen of the Putnam Phalanx I feel fure that I exprefs the 
 fentiments of all my Conftituents, when I, as their reprefentative and 
 as Commander-in-Chief of the Military of Rhode Ifland, welcome 
 you, as I now do, to our little State. 
 
 It is a fource of great gratification to me, as it is to all Lovers of 
 their Country to witnefs the kindly feelings that exift between the 
 Citizens of the feveral States of this Union. This mutual good feel- 
 ing mould be cherifhed and encouraged by every honeft, laudable 
 means, and I know of no way more effectual than by fuch Gatherings 
 as the prefent. 
 
 In welcoming you to Rhode Ifland I feel that we are honored by 
 fuch a vifit from our friends, the Military of a fifter State, and in wel- 
 coming an Organization like that before me, which fo nobly reprefents 
 the Military of Connecticut. We bid you a hearty Welcome to all 
 that we have that will add to the real enjoyment of your vifit to our 
 City. 
 
 I had an opportunity, Gentlemen, on a recent occafion, in company 
 with the Firft Light Infantry, on their vifit to Connecticut, to witnefs
 
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 and partake of the hofpitalities of His Excellency Governor Bucking- 
 ham, and I am difappointed at not feeing him on this Occafion; his 
 prefence would have added ftill more to the pleafure of our meeting. 
 There is a Gentleman prefent who is too modeft, I underftand, to 
 fpeak in praife of his own State, but would accept the privilege of 
 fpeaking for Rhode Ifland. I will give you as a fentiment, and call 
 upon the Hon. I. W. Stuart, of Hartford, to refpond to that portion 
 of it: 
 
 The Volunteer Militia of ConncEiicut and Rhode Ifland They are not only good 
 Soldiers, but an honor to their native States. 
 
 Hon. I. W. Stuart, Judge Advocate of the Putnam 
 Phalanx, refponded as follows: 
 
 SPEECH OF JUDGE ADVOCATE STUART. 
 
 Colonel Commandant, and Officers and Soldiers of the First Light 
 Infantry Company: Were I to exprefs the predominating fatisfadion 
 in my own mind juft at this moment, I mould fay it lies in the fact 
 that I am here, with the Putnam Phalanx, from old Connecticut, par- 
 ticipating in the good old State of Rhode Ifland, in a Feftivity which 
 fills the body with repaft, the Mind with thoughtfulnefs, and the 
 Hearts of the Putnam Phalanx, I am fure, with thankfulnefs for the 
 courtefy and bounty of the Providence Firft Light Infantry. You 
 have indeed made us at home here, Colonel Brown, and with fuch 
 prodigal and cordial Hofpitality for a ftimulant as this with which our 
 Battalion is now furrounded, I {hall take very great pleafure, I aflure 
 you, in refponding to the toaft to your State. 
 
 Connecticut and Rhode Ifland, Sir, took out their Charters of Gov- 
 ernment thofe fubftantial ones which they received from Charles 
 the Second at very nearly one and the fame time. They enjoyed 
 under them the fame Powers, the fame Privileges, the fame Immuni- 
 ties. They alone, of all the Old Thirteen Colonies, could point to 
 them as to the Parchments of true Freedom; and fpite of the colli- 
 fion occafioned for a while by their claufes relating to territory 
 fpite of the temporary ufurpations of the tyrannizing Sir Edmond 
 Andros and in defiance of all the infidious attacks of enemies to the 
 Colonies, of Britifh Parliaments, and of the Crown, Connecticut 
 and Rhode Ifland, fide by fide, and fhoulder to (houlder we, for 
 One hundred and fifty-fix years, you here, your Excellency, for One
 
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 hundred and feventy-nine, I think, lived, loved, and glorioufly prof- 
 pered under thefe Sovereign Grants; grants which continued to form 
 the Conftitutions of our refpeftive States for a period long fubfequent 
 to the Revolution. 
 
 It is with an efpecial fympathy, therefore, of pleafure and of pride, 
 that the citizens of Connecticut look upon Rhode Ifland, when the 
 curtain is lifted from her Part as, gratefully to myfelf, I am called 
 upon to lift it now, and to reveal fome of the Monuments which, 
 under her old Charter, me has erected to Liberty and to God. 
 
 Far back even in your infancy as a State we behold your Peo- 
 ple, even when they were fighting the wildernefs, a profperous Com- 
 munity. But eighteen years only after your illuftrious Roger Wil- 
 liams, with Harris and Smith, and Verin, and Angell, and Wickes, 
 his five companions, firft in a fingle canoe croffed the Seekonk, to 
 found this your City of Providence, we find your People, as in their 
 own recorded language they fay, drinking "of the cup of as great 
 Liberties" as any that they could hear of "under the whole Heaven"; 
 and fo exempt from the burden of public charges, they add, as even 
 "not to know what an Excife meant," and to have "almoft forgotten 
 what Tithes yea, or Taxes were, either to Church or Common- 
 wealth." To this effect, gentlemen, your own town of Providence 
 officially reports, through Gregory Dexter, its Clerk, in a letter ad- 
 dreffed to Sir Henry Vane, in the gray Year of fixteen hundred and 
 fifty-four ! 
 
 And down from this early period, down upon the ftream of Time 
 as Rhode Ifland moves, we find a praifeworthy progrefs in her Laws, 
 her Inftitutions, her Education, her Induftry, and her Arts. With 
 her power inextricably lodged in the hands of her People with her 
 Spirit, in general, high-toned by Good Morals and Religion with 
 her Labor enterprifing, ambitious, inventive, and accumulative the 
 Anchor for her feal, and Hope for her motto fhe has fteadily ad- 
 vanced in a career of profperity whofe Fruits at the prefent moment 
 whofe coveted fruits of Health, Wealth, and Content are plucked, 
 proportionably to her territorial extent, by as many happy hands as 
 anywhere upon the face of the American Continent are ftretched out 
 for human Bleflings. 
 
 As we come down to the Revolutionary period that with which 
 the Putnam Phalanx is more immediately concerned our intereft in 
 your Hiftory becomes deepened. For here, emphatically, and in
 
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 clofer Union than any other States among the Old Thirteen fave 
 Maflachufetts Rhode Ifland and Connecticut played confpicuous 
 parts, and it is with uncommon fatisfa&ion, therefore, that we o'f this 
 Phalanx recall the manner in which Rhode Ifland performed her 
 Role. 
 
 The fpirited oppofition of your People, ere the Revolution broke 
 out, to the odious Revenue acts of Great Britain your fpecial and 
 frequent Town AiTemblies, particularly here in Providence, in which 
 you boldly denounced thefe adls as encroachments, all of them, on 
 the inconteftible Rights of "his Majefty's liege fubjecls" everywhere; 
 your Refolutions, far back as Auguft, 1765, in which, with a direft- 
 nefs and daring hardly furpafled even by thofe immortal Refolves of 
 Patrick Henry's, on the fame fubjeft, in the land of the Old Domin- 
 ion, you declared againft the public grievances, and pointed to Inde- 
 pendence; the Illuminations, andjeu dejoies, and Toafts, and Speech- 
 es, and other thoufand rejoicings, with which you celebrated the repeal 
 of the hated Stamp Aft, and in 1768, formally dedicated your Tree 
 of Liberty; the Oath your people took beneath that tree, "in the 
 name and behalf," as was their language upon the occafion, "in the 
 name and behalf of all the true Sons of Liberty in America, Great 
 Britain, Ireland, Corfica, or wherefoever they may be difperfed 
 throughout the world," to fupport and maintain the Freedom which 
 "our renowned Forefathers fought out and found under trees, and in 
 the wildernefs" all thefe your Acls and Pledges in behalf of Liberty 
 which preceded the outbreak of the Revolution, this Phalanx dwells 
 upon with heartfelt pride. 
 
 With pride alfo we gaze, through the glais of Hiftory, upon your 
 little Squadron of long boats, eight in number, and crowded with a 
 band of your daring Shipmafters and Merchants, as, in the Spring oi 
 1772, under the command of your intrepid Whipple, they carried 
 that Oath of Rhode Ifland refiftance to which I have referred into 
 ftartling effeft, and burned the offenfive Galpee to the water's edge. 
 There in that exploit down upon Namquit Point we of this Pha- 
 lanx hail t\\zjirjl open and armed oppofition upon the American Con- 
 tinent of the American Colonies, to the King of England's martial 
 power. For there, juft at that moment when Ruddington, the Com- 
 mander of the Gafpee, difcharged at the approaching Party the piftols 
 which he held, and in return was wounded by a mufket ball in the 
 left groin, there was fhed, in faft, the firjl blood of the American
 
 Revolution. A Providence man it was who fired the firft defenfive 
 Gun in this great Conteft, and at a Company of Providence men it 
 was that the firft Britifli ball was difcharged. Men of Rhode Ifland, 
 you wear the Laurel from this fource, to your glory, and forever ! 
 
 Again, gentlemen, we follow you with lively joy, in March, 1775, 
 to the public Market-place in this your City of Providence, and there 
 behold your People kindle a craving fire, and at the time when Tea 
 was made the vehicle of a moft unconftitutional tax, burn up the ob- 
 noxious fhrub the Free-will Offering, moft of it, of your patriotic 
 Ladies; Aye, Ladies, [faid the fpeaker, addreffing the numerous Fair 
 Ones who graced the Gallery of the Hall,] claim the force of this 
 patriotic fact all to yourfelves. And, Gentlemen, we fee your People 
 juft at this moment of the conflagration, add to its fuel the hoftile 
 Speech of the Prime Minifter of England, Lord North's; and the 
 Tory journals of Rivington, and Mills, and Hicks while one of your 
 fpirited Sons of Liberty, lampblack and brufti in hand, perambulated 
 your ftreets, unpainting and obliterating the word Tea from all the 
 mop figns of your Town and not one Soul within your borders was 
 found "poor enough to do reverence" as a mourner at this your 
 funeral of Madame Souchong. 
 
 We gaze, too, with pride upon your full One thoufand men, who 
 roufed by the Lexington Alarm, paraded at once here in your City, 
 for a quick march to the fcene of ftrife while the flaming Beacon 
 from your Eaft Hill, told to Newport, and your whole furrounding 
 country even to Profpecl Hill in Cambridge, and to our own New 
 London and Norwich, and diftant Pomfret, the fierce alarms of War 
 
 "Like an exhaled meteor, 
 Blazing forth the portents of broached mifchief 
 To the times." 
 
 It was the fortune of War, Gentlemen of Rhode Ifland, in that great 
 Struggle which made us free, as is familiar hiftory, that Newport, and 
 the Ifland upon which it refts, for upwards of three years, fliould 
 remain in the pofleflion of the enemy. Now, gentlemen, the Putnam 
 Phalanx recalls with deep intereft the fact, that when in December, 
 1776, that huge Britifh fleet, with four thoufand troops under Sir 
 Henry Clinton^'pufhed up Narraganfett Bay and feized your beautiful 
 Newport, and fearfully menaced the whole adjacent country Con- 
 necticut inftantaneoufly roufed to aclion by her patriotic Governor 
 Trumbull not only fent you her Dyer, and Law, and Wales, and
 
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 Hofmer, here at Providence, in union with Committees from all the 
 New England States, to concert meafures "for mutual and immediate 
 defence and fafety" but fent you alfo Ten hundred and ninety-two 
 of her Soldier-fons, together with a gallant Troop of Light Horfe 
 under her brave Major Ebenezer Backus, and an abundance of mili- 
 tary ftores here in conjunction with your own Troops your "In- 
 dependent Companies" of Providence particularly, and your Artillery, 
 under the ever active Col. Daniel Tillinghaft here gallantly to ftrive 
 againft the appalling Invafion. 
 
 And we recall alfo with intereft the fact, that when in 1778, upon 
 a frefh Enterprife to expel the Enemy from Newport, Sullivan, then 
 in chief command, fent to Connecticut for more Troops, again our 
 Governor in addition to Seven hundred and twenty-eight men from 
 our State already then quartered with you fpeedily fent you on 
 Seven companies more, together with numerous Volunteers, one hun- 
 dred barrels of powder, and other copious ftores once again with 
 the brave Soldiery of Rhode Ifland to co-operate againft the Foe. 
 
 And pleafantly alfo we recall the fact, that in 1779, Connecticut 
 furnimed yet another large Quota of Troops to the Rhode Ifland 
 defence. And what is more and is ftrikingly expreffive of her fym- 
 pathy for your People when the long prefence of the Foe had cut 
 off your Trade here, and your Navigation and Fifhery, and debarred 
 many of your Citizens from cultivating their lands, and a famine, in 
 confequence, ftared them in the face, Connecticut promptly fent you 
 relief in food fent you feven thoufand bufhels of grain fent you 
 money collecting her contributions through a warrant in favor of 
 your Jonathan Otis and Oliver K. Warner of Newport, which, by 
 Governor Trumbull himfelf, was addrefled to every Religious Society 
 in our State, and was met by a hearty and humane refponfe. 
 
 And when, in 1780, another moft formidable Britifh fleet menaced 
 Newport in refponfe to the prefling felicitations of Gen. Heath and 
 your own Governor Greene, Connecticut again quickly fent you aid. 
 She fent you half the men from her four eaftern Brigades her Troop 
 of Veterans from Canterbury under Capt. Timothy Backus, and her 
 Company of Matrofles from Pomfret under Captain Daniel Tyler 
 once more, in warm concert with Rhode Ifland and Continental 
 Troops, to labor for the expulfion of the Foe. 
 
 And when, through the extraordinary and precipitate abandonment 
 by the Foe of Newport, the pall of Britifti power, to the univerfal
 
 Joy, was at laft, Gentlemen, lifted from your beautiful feaboard, no 
 State in the Union, more than Connecticut, let me aflure you, was 
 gladdened by the refult. Long and unflinchingly had you here of 
 Rhode Ifland ftriven to .accomplifli this triumphant refult; and at laft 
 you rejoiced in it. In defiance of dangers which, much of the time, 
 flared you in the face more imminently than they did moft other 
 States, you devoted your blood and your treafure to the Revolution- 
 ary ftruggle day after day and year after year with a Spirit that 
 never quailed, and an Energy that never faltered. This you did, not 
 only upon the land, but alfo upon the ftormy feas upon which your 
 gallant Cruifers, like the Hawk under your immortal SILAS TALBUT, 
 achieved many confpicuous triumphs; and upon which it is your juft 
 boaft, that in Auguft, 1775, through inftruftions from your General 
 Aflembly to your Delegates then in Congrefs, you made the firft move- 
 ment in the American States for the eftablifhment of a Continental 
 Navy, and gave to this Navy, when it was founded, in Commodore 
 EZEK HOPKINS, its firft Commander-in-chief. 
 
 Juftly, then, Sir, does the Battalion which I have the honor now to 
 reprefent, warm with fuch military Memories as thefe to which I 
 allude, and to the Prowefs of Rhode Ifland, render the tribute of its 
 patriotic refpecl. Organized as we are, as I have already fuggefted, 
 for the efpecial purpofe of renewing and ftimulating thofe thought s 
 and aflbciations which clufter around the glorious War for American 
 Independence, our hearts, Gentlemen, let me aflure you, beat high 
 when we find, that to our own Connecticut treafure-houfe of the 
 Revolutionary Paft, we can add a ftore of Memories fo rich and varied, 
 and patriotic, as thofe which fpring up here among the beautiful Ifles 
 and along the hiftoric Headlands of fair Narraganfett Bay. 
 
 Your Governor Greene, the perfonal Friend, and intimate military 
 Coadjutor of our own immortal "Rebel" Governor Trumbull your 
 Brigadier General Greene, next to Wafhington probably the moft 
 accomplifhed Officer in the American fervice of the Revolution your 
 Ezek Hopkins, the firft Commodore, as I have faid, of our Continen- 
 tal Navy, and the viftor at Naflau your heroic Commodore Whip- 
 pie, and Major Talbut, and Colonel Tillinghaft, and Colonel Olney 
 your John Brown, that eminently bold and ceafeleflly enterprifing 
 lover of Liberty, who, chiefly, I believe, contrived the conflagration 
 of the Gafpee your John Updike, David Howell, William Rhodes, 
 Paul Allen, Jonathan Arnold, William Earle, Ambrofe Page, Theo-
 
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 dore Fofter, William Ruflell, Nicholas Cooke, Jofeph Brown, Jabez 
 Bowen, and others your leading Patriots and gallant men all, both 
 on the Land, and on the Sea, whom you gave to the counfels, and 
 with whom you recruited the Battalions of the Continent thefe are 
 all the pride of the Putnam Phalanx, as well as your own the pride 
 alfo of Connecticut the pride, too, of our whole Country. We 
 claim a mare in the renown of them all. Their patriotic Virtues, 
 their diiintereftednefs, their zeal, their fublime endurance, their joys, 
 their forrows, their reverfes, their triumphs we alfo lay title to thefe 
 as part and parcel, interwoven, indiffblubly interwoven with our great 
 National Heritage of Freedom. 
 
 Happy, Gentlemen, the lot of Rhode Ifland to have participated fo 
 reputably as me did in the Revolutionary Struggle ! Happy, particu- 
 larly, the fortune of Providence to have been, as me was, one among 
 the Leaders in our midft one among the foremoft in that great and 
 good Work, which, not only within her own captivating borders, but 
 elfewhere from fea to fea, over a gigantic Continent, has fpread the 
 munificent and imperimable funfhine of Liberty. 
 
 In conclufion, Gentlemen, allow me to propofe a fentiment: 
 
 Rhode Ifland and Conneflicut Conncfiicut and Rhode IJland Twin nurfes, 
 ever vigorous, of Colonial and Revolutionary Freedom. May their patriotic Hif- 
 tory be written forever in the hearts of the American People! 
 
 Second regular toall 
 
 The State of Conncfiicut The Mother of a numerous and diftinguiihed progeny 
 of Heroes. The memory of the nobleft of them all is perpetuated in the Put- 
 nam Phalanx. 
 
 Col. Irifti, of Gov. Buckingham's Staff, was called 
 upon to refpond, which he did by a fummons upon 
 Hon. H. C. Deming, of Hartford, who fpoke as follows: 
 
 SPEECH OF ASSISTANT COMMISSARY DEMING. 
 Colonel Commandant and Gentlemen: I fuppofed that my friend 
 from New London was too much of a Soldier, and alfo too much of 
 an Orator, to call upon a Soldier to play the part of an Orator; more 
 cfpecially, a heavy Infantry Soldier, exhaufted by an arduous Cam- 
 paign.
 
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 There are certain Occupations which, when united in .the fame 
 Individual, are congenial and harmonious, and certain other Occupa- 
 tions, Profeflions and Trades which, when united in the fame Indi- 
 vidual, are uncongenial and inharmonious. The profeffion of Preach- 
 er and Lecturer is of the former clafs, for he can lecture his fermons 
 and preach his lectures; fo of the Banker and Broker, for the Broker 
 can (have notes with the bills which the Banker manufactures by the 
 wholefale; the butcher and boarding-houfe keeper have certain affini- 
 ties, for the boarding-houfe keeper can ufe the unfaleable joints of the 
 butcher. I have heard it intimated too, that the dog-fancier and 
 faufage-maker may be profitably united in the fame individual, and 
 fome malignant cynic has aflerted, (I hope the Surgeons of the differ- 
 ent Battalions will pardon me for repeating the fcandal,) that the 
 Doctor and Undertaker mould always be united. 
 
 The molt uncongenial and inharmonious blending, however, which 
 in my experience I ever difcovered in the fame Individual, is that of 
 Soldier and Orator particularly if you chance to be a Soldier in a 
 heavy Infantry Company. 
 
 The Orator muft think ; but what chance is there of thinking when 
 the fmall modicum of mind with which you are endowed is altogether 
 engrofled in attempting to keep ftep, or in catching it after it is loft 
 a manoeuvre confummately perplexing to me.' The Orator muft have 
 breath, but what breath is left in a heavy Infantry Orator after a five 
 miles march. "Action, action, action," we are told by the chief of 
 Orators, the Orator muft have, but what action is left in a "Ph'lanx" 
 Orator after thefe long marches and countermarches, and the taking of 
 Bofton and Charleftown by ftorm. Were I here as an Orator, I 
 mould attempt (though I prefume unfuccefsfully,) to do my devoir as 
 an Orator; but I am here as a Soldier, and wifh to be judged by you, 
 Mr. Governor, and Colonel Commandant, by the perfection of my 
 equipments and the precifion of my drill. 
 
 For thefe reafons, my friend of Gov. Buckingham's Staff muft not 
 expect to move off his appropriate Duties on to my worn-out martial 
 energies. I fuppofed he was too correct a Soldier to attempt it; it is 
 not according to the Steuben drill, nor has fuch an attempt been made 
 fince the "Ph'lanx" was an Inftitution. 
 
 My friend from New London has alfo called upon the Hon. Henry 
 C. Deming to refpond to this toaft an error into which I hardly 
 expected fo exaft a Tactician would fall. We have no fuch handles
 
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 to our names in the Military. If there is anybody with that rather 
 uncommon prefix, he ought to be at home attending to his bufmefs, 
 and not trooping round the Country in regimentals. It is the Affiftant 
 CommhTary of the Putnam Phalanx that you fee before you Lieut. 
 Henry C. Deming. 
 
 Providence muft either be one of the moft agreeable places in the 
 World, or I chance to light upon it in its happieft moods, and to 
 meet all its pleafanteft People. The afpect of things about the Depot 
 imprefles the ftranger favorably. The Area there is fpacious, and was 
 to-day certainly fufficient airy; the Streets are all wide and well 
 paved, the gutters bridged at the croflwalks with thefe neat and con- 
 venient iron coverings; the Pavements are broad and fmooth, and 
 clean and well curbed; I call upon our Superintendent of Streets to 
 make note of this. The Houfes have a comfortable look, and the 
 whole City the appearance of a permanent dwelling place inftead of 
 a temporary encampment. The Ladies are all handfome, and fend 
 handfome bouquets to eloquent Judge Advocates. The Men are all 
 hofpitable: one hurries you off to his houfe, and before you have 
 fairly picked your teeth another gathers you into his. Your Inftitu- 
 tions of Learning, of Humanity and Philanthropy, your Colleges, your 
 Libraries, your Military Companies, particularly the Firft Light In- 
 fantry Company and your Old Veteran Guard your fleam fire 
 engines, your palaces of induftry, filled to overflowing with life, and 
 dextrous and femi-vitalized machinery; your men too your Browns, 
 Greenes, Anthonys, Waylands, Sears everything I fee around me 
 in this beautiful City is fuch as to fill the meafure of the grandeft 
 municipal Ambition. 
 
 But it is not thefe fuperficial Beauties which turn the thoughtful 
 traveller and the ftudent of human progrefs to Providence. Here was 
 the Birth-place and Cradle of one of the greateft reforms in opinion 
 and practice that ever fhowered benediction on the human race. 
 Why, Sir, this round World of ours was old and hoary and feared 
 with crime, before it was difcovered that Opinion and Confcience 
 mould be free. And where was Toleration firft born and firft prac- 
 ticed? Not in the Mafter States of Antiquity. Not amid the fchools 
 and groves of Athens; witnefs the firft great Mafter of intellectual 
 Freedom taking the poifoned cup from the weeping Jailor! Not in 
 Rome; for the whole Hiftory of ancient and modern Rome is one of 
 Perfecution. Not in France, before or after the Baftile, nor in Eng-
 
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 land before or fmce the Reformation. It was not brought to this new 
 Hemifphere by thofe who perfecuted Quakers and banifhed Baptifts. 
 Here it was born, here in your City of Providence : and here, I pray, 
 it may be forever moft religioufly protected. 
 
 But the fentiment to which Col. Irifh a Soldier off duty, and a 
 light Infantry one alfo mould have refponded, calls me to Connec- 
 ticut. If I could amend the fentiment fo that it mould read "The 
 State of Connecticut The Mother of a numerous and diftinguifhed 
 progeny, fome of the hugejt of whom are to be found in the Putnam 
 Phalanx," I could prove the propofition, demonftratively, upon the 
 fpot. I would make profert of our Standard-bearer, and "reft." 
 But ferioufly, I have nothing new to tell little Rhody, our neareft 
 neighbor, of any of our Heroes, moral or military. Of Putnam, too, 
 the merely feftive nature of this Occafion permits me to fay but a 
 word. 
 
 If Connecticut had forefeen her Future from 1745 to the Revolu- 
 tionary period, and made for herfelf a Hero, me would have forever 
 forfeited her repute for practical common-fenfe, if (he had not made 
 precifely fuch an one as Ifrael Putnam. The ftyle of Hero which 
 thofe Thirty Years demanded, was eflentially military, for Wars and 
 Convulfions decifive of our Deftiny were diftindlly prognofticated, and 
 yet a military Hero that was adapted to our peculiar wants, graded 
 to our fcale, and willing to make himfelf generally ufeful. We were 
 a feeble Folk, far away in the backwoods, juft opening a ftingy foil to 
 tillage, juft beginning to raife Crops enough for Home confumption, 
 with naught but homefpun manufactures, with the meagereft foreign 
 Commerce, in wholefome fear of Indian maflacre for in 1746 the 
 tomahawk and fcalping-knife had been freely ufed within a few hours' 
 march of our Borders environed with French fettlements and pofts, 
 and at times in imminent danger of vaflalage to the houfe of Bourbon, 
 and liable to requifitions from our own Sovereign Liege whenever the 
 Wars of European ambition kindled into flames his American Domin- 
 ions. What this little frugal Colony, with its narrow theatre and 
 diminutive operations, could have done with a Hero of more magnifi- 
 cent and coloflal proportions an Alexander, a Cromwell, a Napo- 
 leon except to offer itfelf up as one meal to his infatiate maw, it is 
 impoffible to conceive. We craved a Hero of dauntlefs pluck, of 
 unwearifome endurance, fhrewd, generous, felf-abnegating, fertile in 
 expedients, with more Genius for foreft Warfare than for pitched Bat-
 
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 ties and complicated Campaigns a Man of mufcle and might and 
 will, capable of intenfe wrath and invincible obftinacy, who could 
 bend or break into military fubordination and truftful felf-fur render, 
 the Connecticut levies, raw, verdant, awkward as Soldiers, but inde- 
 pendent and felf-complacent as Freeholders, while under his ftubborn 
 and imperious rule they were marched to Ticonderoga, or Frontenac, 
 or Havana, or wherever elfe His Majefty chofe to order them; and, 
 after the Campaign was over and the Troops difcharged, could render 
 an exacl: and confcionable account of receipts and dilburfements to 
 the Commiflioners of the Pay Table. We wanted a Hero fhaped 
 more like a Cincinnatus than a Crefar, who in the breathing times of 
 Peace, could join his Fellow-citizens in productive induftry, and fup- 
 port the Gofpel, and fit in the General Aflembly, no ufelefs drone in 
 our hive, no barnacle on our poor treafury a Hero who, in the full- 
 nefs of time, when petitions, prayers and remonftrances had all failed, 
 and our Inborn Rights and Privileges were brought to the arbitrament 
 of the Battle-field, held in himfelf a fufficient volume of /lumbering 
 Courage and martial Enthufiafm to eleftrify our whole People, and 
 dared to lead a fturdy Yeomanry where any dared to follow. The 
 Model Man whom our Era and Environments craved was none of 
 your imperial Spirits who bend all Mankind into homage and contemn 
 the civil power and crofs Rubicons, and convulfe the World, but a 
 Shield and Sword to an infant Commonwealth in a fteady ftruggle 
 with untamed Nature, and with favage and civilized Foes, the Farmer 
 that could fubdue the ftubborneft glebe, the Hunter that could cope 
 with its moft formidable beafts of prey, the Ranger that could banifli 
 the terror of the Indian, and give fecurity to the Traveller in the for- 
 eft, the Laborer in the field, and the Child in the cradle, the advanced 
 Guard on the Canadian war path, behind whom the Women and the 
 Children could fleep fecure, the trufted Leader who could hold our 
 untried Plowmen to a breaftwork of hay through three aflaults from 
 Britifh Grenadiers. 
 
 It has always feemed to me that the ante-Revolutionary fervices of 
 Putnam, in many refpeds moft remarkable, have been dimmed by the 
 more familiar glare of his Revolutionary exploits. The importance 
 of the firft of thefe Wars, in evolving the deftiny of Humanity on 
 this Continent, has alfo been obfcured by the more palpable fignifi- 
 cance of what we call, par excellence, the War of Independence. 
 They were both wars of independence the one of independence
 
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 from the Gallic race and the reactionary influences of cotemporary 
 Gallic civilization; the other, of independence from the fetters which 
 the narrow bigotry of the Englifh Colonial Syftem impofed upon Com- 
 merce, Manufactures and Trade, and alfo, from the Parliamentary 
 ufurpations of our Motherland. In that minute fegment of time that 
 feparates the Peace of '63 from the Battle of Lexington, the whole 
 future of the Weftern Hemifphere lay "like unborn forefts in an acorn 
 cup." In that old War which expelled from this Continent the 
 French, and the feudal barbarities they were planting here, no Regular, 
 not even Wolfe, no Provincial not excepting Washington, played a 
 more confpicuous and impofing part than Ifrael Putnam. Had he 
 lived in the early days of Greece and Rome when human knowledge 
 was tranfmitted by tradition, he would have been regarded, fo Hercu- 
 lean were his warlike labors, as a Myth, a Child rather of Fable than 
 of Hiftory. He plunged with Williams of Williamftown into the 
 bloody defile where that dauntlefs Philanthropift fell; he ftruggled 
 with Lyman for his dearly bought viclory over Diefkau; he received 
 the dying Lord Howe in his arms before the fatal breaft work of Ti- 
 conderoga; he marched with Bradfteet to Prefque Ifle, and when 
 Spain became a party to the ftrife, he ferved under Albermarle in the 
 Weft Indies, and fcratched from the crevices of the rocky foil the 
 earth on which the Siege Artillery was planted that thundered againft 
 Havana. He marched with Amherft to Montreal by the roundabout 
 way of the New York wildernefs, lake Ontario and the river St. Law- 
 rence. What would the Phalanx fay to a march like that! 
 
 The part of this large field, thus haftily fketched in outline, which 
 Putnam moft bountifully filled in with his peculiar and characteristic 
 Audacity, was that region of unfurpafled natural beauty where, on 
 the fide of France, Ticonderoga and Crown Point, and on that of 
 England, Fort William Henry and Edward, ftand as fentinels at the 
 gateway of the Canadas, and Lake George and the head-waters of 
 the Hudfon lie in the embrace of mountains. Take a point at the 
 foot of Lake George, and fweep round it a circle with fome ten or 
 twelve miles radius, and you will fcarcely find a fquare foot of earth 
 that has not been prefled by the foot, nor a reach of water that has 
 not been cut by the oar of old Put. 
 
 Th'efe and his Revolutionary fervices conftitute his claim upon the 
 everlafting Gratitude of that Colony to which he was the military 
 right Arm for more than twenty-five years. And what has our Colo-
 
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 ny done to reward fuch fervices? Built a fmall box of granite 
 over his Remains and covered it with a cheap ftone now broken and 
 defaced. The greateft Pride of my connection with this Putnam 
 Phalanx is not in the Military laurels it has juft won, but in my knowl- 
 edge that the Determination is living and burning in the breaft of 
 many of its Members, to build over thefe Immortal Ames, a Monu- 
 ment, not altogether incommenfurate with our obligations, not alto- 
 gether unworthy his world-wide Fame. 
 
 Third regular toaft 
 
 The Senate of the United States May Dignity and Integrity ever characterize 
 the Councils of this, one of the moft influential Political Bodies in the World. 
 
 Mujic "STAR-SPANGLED BANNER." 
 
 Refponded to by Hon. James F. Simmons, of the Uni- 
 ted States Senate. 
 
 Fourth regular toad 
 
 the City of Providence Her Workshops, her Factories, and her Warchoufes 
 afford the beft Evidence of her Profperity. 
 
 Mujic "TWILIGHT DEWS." 
 
 His Honor Jabez B. Knight, Mayor of Providence, 
 refponded to the above fentiment. 
 
 MAYOR KNIGHT'S ADDRESS. 
 
 Mr. Commander: I am very glad of this opportunity to extend 
 to your Guefts upon this Occafion, the Officers and Members of the 
 Putnam Phalanx, a cordial Welcome to our City, and in behalf of my 
 Fellow-citizens to exprefs the pleafure which their prefence here gives 
 us all. 
 
 Gentlemen, we have often heard of your Aflbciation, and of your 
 efficiency and difcipline as a Military Body, and as the Chief Magis- 
 trate of our City, I offer you fuch Hofpitalitics and Attention as we 
 can bcftow. Our Citizens have looked forward to this Day with 
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 more than ordinary intereft, and I fpeak the general feeling when I 
 tell you they are highly gratified, not only with feeing you here, but 
 pleafed to do all in their power to make your vifit pleafant and agree- 
 able. We are honored by your prefence, Gentlemen, and we wifh 
 you to feel at home among us, and truft you will enjoy your vifit 
 here. We are honored with the prefence of the Chief Magiftrate of 
 your City, His Honor Mayor Allyn; to him I would extend a heart- 
 felt and an earneft Welcome to our City, and I beg leave to aflure him 
 that we are happy to fee him here. We had many reafons for defiring 
 to fee you. You have among you many Gentlemen to whom we are 
 indebted for kindnefles and attentions in times paft. The intercourfe 
 between your City and ours, and between your Citizens and ours, 
 fince the opening of the Railroad, has been intimate and friendly; 
 and I defire to tender to you my congratulations upon the high pofi- 
 tion your City maintains, and for the Profperity and Succefs which 
 have always attended her. Her Inftitutions are among the beft in the 
 Land; the Induftry and Enterprife of her Citizens are not furpafled 
 anywhere. I truft me will continue to extend and increafe in ufeful- 
 nefs, and in all that pertains to her Welfare and to the Happinefs of her 
 People. You have with you, alfo, thofe who have occupied pofitions 
 of honor and truft in Public Affairs; Gentlemen who have made their 
 names honored abroad and at home; whofe fervices have been of 
 great value to their Country and to their Home. To all I bid a cor- 
 dial and heartfelt Welcome. 
 
 In conclufion, permit me to exprefs the hope that the Cities of 
 Hartford and Providence, which are bound together with Bands of 
 Iron, may be ftill more clofely cemented by the Ties of Friendfhip, 
 and enjoy a further and better acquaintance. 
 
 At this point of the proceedings ex-Mayor Rodman 
 rofe and prefented to the Phalanx a fragment of the 
 Roger Williams rock, with the following appropriate 
 remarks: 
 
 While I fat liftening to the eloquent remarks of the Gentleman from 
 Hartford, as he fpoke of the Memories of our Revolutionary Hiftory, 
 the thought prefented itfelf to my mind, that the richeft of all the 
 mental powers, is Memory. How we love to revel in its funfhine,
 
 6 7 
 
 Gentlemen. How we joy to go back to the Hours of Childhood and 
 to live over again its frolic and its fun, and how all along the path- 
 way of Life, this Power cheers and enlivens the Soul. In our hours 
 of defpondency how it awakens reflection, and we walk down through 
 memory's Picture Gallery and by the aid of that ftrange, myfterious 
 power of feparation, we veil the dark and gloomy, and linger long 
 and lovingly before thofe that glow all around with the Spring-like 
 Garlands of Affection and of Hope. Such a Picture is now prefent 
 to my mind ; and my Brothers of the Infantry well know to what I 
 allude. I fpeak of that vifit to Hartford, a few years fince, which 
 can never fade from our Memories fo long as the Revolutionary Memo- 
 ries there awakened by the fame lips which have thrilled you this 
 Evening, are thrilling and echoing through our chambers of delightful 
 recollection. 
 
 You well recollect, Brethren of the Infantry, that on our arrival in 
 Hartford, the honorable Gentleman led us up to one of thofe Old 
 Monuments of the Paft, ever prefent to our Memory by this Gift be- 
 fore you, (a piece of the old Charter Oak in a glafs cafe and fuitably 
 infcribed, and prefented to the Infantry fome years fmce by Mr. Stu- 
 art.) Juft before our arrival there, that old foreft Monarch had fallen 
 to the Earth. 
 
 Our Fathers found it (landing there, and there in obedience to the 
 requeft of the Red Man it was permitted to ftand, for when it put 
 forth its leaves in the Spring-time he knew it was the hour to plant 
 the maize; and thus it ftood fecure from the vandalifm of Civiliza- 
 tion, becaufe the Savage pleaded for it; and for oh how holy a pur- 
 pofe was it preferved. The hand of your own Wadfworth confecra- 
 ted it, when he placed beneath, and within it, that old Charter to 
 which my Brother has fo gracefully alluded in connection with our 
 own. It is proftrate now but it fell like a true Hero. It fuccumbed 
 only to Death. Storms aflailed it the Lightning madly hurtled 
 around it; but it defied their every aiTault and only by the gradual 
 decay of Age, and beneath the corroding touch of Time, did it yield 
 its power, and then fell full of years, clothed with all the memories 
 of our Nation's life. Like Royalty in ruins, that old King lay before 
 us, and to perpetuate the memory of fo illuftrious a Landmark in the 
 pathway of our Liberty and our Progrefs, this fragment of the Charter 
 Oak was prefented to the Firft Light Infantry, by our honored Friend. 
 
 What return can we make to the Putnam Phalanx, my Brethren,
 
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 for fuch a Gift ? What can we prefent as a counterpart to it ? With 
 your pcrmiffion, Mr. Commandant, in the name and in behalf of the 
 Firlt Light Infantry Company, I prefent you with this fragment of 
 " Roger Williams Rock," upon which I have taken the liberty of in- 
 fcribing "THIS FRAGMENT OF ROGER WILLIAMS ROCK is PRESENTED 
 TO THE PUTNAM PHALANX, OF HARTFORD, CONN., BY THE FIRST LIGHT 
 INFANTRY COMPANY OF PROVIDENCE, R. I., OCTOBER 6TH, 1859." 
 
 As that Charter Oak flood upon your foil as a Memorial of our 
 Fathers, fo, Sir, that confecrated old Rock ftill remains on the borders 
 of our State, and that Rock, Sir, felt the firft foot-fall of the white 
 man when he came here preaching that Liberty which not only burlt 
 the {hackles which bind the Body, but which mould fet the Soul of 
 man free to wormip God, here and throughout the World, from that 
 time forth, forever. 
 
 Hallowed as are the memories of your Charter Oak, and hallowed 
 as the aflbciations are of this Pilgrim Rock, and as pleafant as it would 
 be to indulge them now; I am admonifhed by the flying moments 
 that I muft paufe. 
 
 More I need not fay, and Sir, fo long as the memory of that Oak 
 lives, fo long as that Rock exifts upon the bofom of the Earth, and fo 
 long as that fragment defies the corroding touch of Time, fo long 
 may thefe Memories mingle and intermingle, and may they continue 
 thus to ftrengthen the bond of Union that exifts between fellow States, 
 until not the Stars in our Flag, but until yonder Spheres fall from the 
 ftarry Concave, and the Sun goes out in the blacknefs of everlafting 
 Night. 
 
 Mr. Commandant, I had purpofed fpeaking in a more playful ftrain, 
 but the fterner prompting has ruled my utterance, and withholding, 
 that which would make it fully appropriate, I offer you, in clofing, 
 the following fentiment: 
 
 The Name and the Fame of gallant "Old Put." 
 Who never would halt for an "if" or a "but," 
 But all through his Life regarded it crime, 
 When the order was "march," to ever "mark time." 
 
 MR. STUART'S REPLY. 
 
 Worthy Mr. Rodman, faid the Judge Advocate, immediately rifmg 
 No Gift more acceptable could have been prefented to the Putnam 
 Phalanx than that with which you have juft now furprifed and hon-
 
 ored us and in behalf of the Putnam Phalanx I fmcerely thank you 
 for it. It clufters deeply interefting Aflbciations for in the fame 
 year in which your Roger Williams, in a little canoe "every ftroke 
 of whofe paddle removed him farther and farther from every veftige 
 of Civilization" crofled the Seekonk to found your City of Provi- 
 dence, our venerable Hooker and Haynes crofled the great River of 
 Connecticut to found Hartford. Himfelf, and the firft Governor of 
 our State, were warm perfonal Friends. They were allied in tafte 
 were alike benignant were joint lovers of Liberty and, what is 
 efpecially beautiful in the lives of both, were each earneft Advocates 
 of thofe great Principles of religious Toleration which have ever fig- 
 nally diftinguifhed Rhode Ifland. 
 
 The fhadow of that mighty Oak, of which this fragment before me 
 is a memorializing fpecimen, was upon Hooker and Haynes and the 
 Companions of their Emigration, when firft they fet up their Taberna- 
 cle in the then Wildernefs of Hartford. That Rock, of which you 
 have now fo handfomely beftowed upon our Battalion a memorializing 
 piece, received, in the then Wildernefs of Providence,the firft footfall 
 of the Founder of your State. The two Specimens then, under this 
 view, are beautifully and fublimely aflbciated. 
 
 But the Charter Oak, Sir, is particularly memorable under another 
 view. When, far back in the olden time, New England was fuffering 
 from a bitter Oppreflion when here in your State, the ufurper An- 
 dros feized your precious Charter, and broke into fragments your Colo- 
 nial Seal that Monarch Tree from which the fection on your table 
 comes thanks to the heroic Wadfworth faved in our State the fif- 
 ter-Charter to your own. It protected it until the ufurpation was 
 paft and its leaves ruftled with joy, the birds fang amid its foliage, 
 when a virtual Declaration of Independence, at the Patriotic uprifing 
 of the People in Bofton and the adjacent Towns, put an end to the 
 Tyranny of the Day. 
 
 That Declaration, good Sir, was the firft of its kind that ever broke 
 the filence of the New World. It was the noble Precurfor, near two 
 Centuries ago, of another Declaration with which Rhode Ifland is 
 efpecially aflbciated and I know not how, CominiJJary Rodman, I 
 can now better fignify to you, on the part of our Major Commandant 
 and his Battalion, our fenfe of the value of the Gift you have juft 
 beftowed, than by returning to you the triumphant Facl in the Hif- 
 tory of your State, that you here of Rhode Ifland were the firft peo-
 
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 pie upon the American Continent to follow up that remarkable Decla- 
 ration to which I have juft referred. 
 
 Yes, Sir, by an Act of your General Aflembly, in May, 1776, 
 which is prior in date to that of any other of the fame Character that 
 was pafled by any other one of the American Colonies, you here, by 
 repealing a former Ad which fecured the allegiance of Rhode Ifland 
 to the King, virtually declared yourfelves free and independent of 
 Britifh power. You ftruck out the King's name and Authority from 
 all your Civil, Judicial, and Military Procefles and Commiffions, and 
 fubftituting in lieu thereof " the Governor and Company " of fovereign 
 Rhode Ifland, you fuftained this your own Declaration of Independ- 
 ence, and the fubfequent Declaration by the United Colonies with a 
 Courage that was untiring, and a Fidelity that never fwerved. 
 
 We of Connecticut, Sir, had long prided ourjelves on having given 
 to the World the firft virtual Declaration of Independence in our 
 Land, during the Revolutionary era, in the Inftrudions to our Dele- 
 gates in Congrefs which were pafled by our General Aflembly on the 
 fourteenth of June, 1776. That Repealing Aft of yours, however, 
 to which I have referred, pafled your General Aflembly in May of 
 the fame year. It preceded us and Sir, by way of hiftoric return 
 for the valuable gift from your Battalion, the Putnam Phalanx yields 
 from old Connecticut to your State the honor of having been the firft 
 among the Old Thirteen Colonies to declare herfelf free and inde- 
 pendent of royal Sovereignty. We yield the glorious Laurel from 
 this fource, and place it on the. brow of gallant Rhode I/land! 
 
 Fifth regular toaft 
 
 The Old Guard They unite with us in the warmeft manifeftations of Wel- 
 come to that noble body of Citizen Soldiery, the Putnam Phalanx. 
 
 Mu/ic "ROAD TO BOSTON." 
 
 Geo. W. Pettes, Efq., of Boiton, was introduced by 
 the Toaft-Mafter and refponded to the fentiment in the 
 following effufion: 
 
 I am forry that you, Sir, mould open on me fo, 
 For I learned, Years ago, what is ordered muft be fo 
 There are many good Reafons why I fhould reject 
 The condition to {peak, in the way you expect.
 
 " Unaccuftomed in public," &c., &c., 
 
 Of courfe, I intended, uncalled for, to go forth, 
 
 As like all the reft, I came only to hear, 
 
 And promptly decline when required to appear. 
 
 Betides, I've a cold, and can't talk very clearly, 
 
 And I fear the crack Speakers who follow me nearly; 
 
 And I havn't had Time, and in fine, I muft fay, Sir, 
 
 That drinking dry Toaft 's not at all in my way, Sir. 
 
 How much better 'twould be then to call up a rocket, 
 Who has fire in his head, and a match in his pocket; 
 Or to pick out fome Member who knows what he's at, 
 With no cold in his head, and no brick in his hat. 
 Now, though I have laid the fatirical lafh on 
 The mafs of apologies moft in the fafhion, 
 There remains the grand Reafon why I mould be fpared 
 You'll pleafe to obferve, Sir, / came unprepared. 
 
 I believe when he's up, the Apologift talks on 
 With the eafe that a Blondin a folid rope walks on, 
 And this ftyle, as well as the reft, I muft follow, 
 Or you may declare my Pretenfions are hollow. 
 
 I'll tell you two ftories, to Hiftory known 
 With fome trifling addenda, but that is my own. 
 
 The royal Darius, one funminy day, 
 
 Drew up his Battalions in battle array 
 
 And proud of the Sight, told a veteran Greek, 
 
 Charidemus by name, of their merit to fpeak. 
 
 And thefe are the words that the Warrior allayed 
 "This Army fo vaft, fo fuperbly arrayed, 
 May boaft its bright Jewels, may glitter in Gold, 
 That the worth of habiliment cannot be told. 
 But it owns not the Difcipline, Honor, or Worth, 
 Of the fimply equipped, but courageous of Earth. 
 And vain are the gewgaws, and vain is the fliow 
 Of thofe that nor Skill nor Integrity know; 
 And vain to oppofe with effeminate zeal 
 The Phalanx of Macedon, gleaming in fteel." 
 
 At the Court of Darius we cannot appear; 
 Charidemus is duft, and no Perfians are here.
 
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 And the reign of the brave Macedonian is o'er, 
 But the words of the Grecian fhall live evermore. 
 
 When Xerxes advanced to Thermopylae's ftrait, 
 The valiant Three Hundred advifed him to wait; 
 But he cared not to liften to aught that they faid, 
 And let twenty thoufand good Perfians be bled. 
 There fell the Three Hundred, but never to die 
 While the Sea rolls its waves, or the Stars ftud the flcy. 
 
 Oh ! if Colt could have furnifhed Leonidas then 
 With his patent Revolvers, that handful of Men 
 Could have built of the Perfian's long arrows and fpears 
 A bridge, on approved cofmopolitan piers. 
 
 I'll juft venture to fay, in a little afide, 
 A word of fome weight, that will tickle your Pride. 
 We are not informed of the width of the Pafs 
 That Leonidas kept, but however it was, 
 Though you cannot ftand in Leonidas' place, 
 You may happen to be in a fimilar cafe; 
 And in order to fave all the reft from mimap, 
 You might chuck in an Enfign to fill up the gap. 
 
 I would that I had, as your Honor has, fkill 
 I know you 're .Ex-Mayor but we honor you ftill. 
 To prefent in its moft meritorious mood 
 Our truthful regard for the Fair and the Good. 
 
 That Collation, "got up" in fuch exquifite fenfe, 
 
 With no kind of regard to time, trouble, expenfe, 
 
 Was eaten by us, with commendable Grace, 
 
 And the funlight of Pleafure illumined each Face. 
 
 But the countenance mirrors or falfifies part 
 
 Of the genuine impulfe that reigns in the Heart. 
 
 For one thing was wanting. It's hard to remind 
 
 A Committee, moft truly, proverbially, kind, 
 
 That we needed fome objecl, not ready at hand. 
 
 Methinks that I hear them of me, make demand 
 
 Pray, what would you have, Sir, were not the meats good ? 
 
 Ei cetera, et cetera, of queftions a flood
 
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 This folicitude anxious, I hafte to relieve 
 The Garden of Eden was sad without Eve. 
 
 But even as he who receives a rare Prize, 
 Which for Reafons judicious was hid from his eyes, 
 Rejoices the more when permitted to gaze 
 On what had withdrawn its magnificent Blaze, 
 So our Joy is complete in the beautiful light 
 Which the Box of our theatre offers to-night. 
 
 May I fpeak with more precifion 
 
 To thefe Gentlemen in buff; 
 Or is it your Decifion 
 
 That I have faid enough? 
 At my lines that were fatirical 
 
 They fmiled in merry Mood; 
 And fome Stanzas that are lyrical 
 
 May fiiit a foberer mood. 
 
 Honor to them who bravely flood, 
 While yet their Realm was young, 
 
 And drew the keen, defiant Blade, 
 Or fpoke with fearlefs Tongue. 
 
 Proud Hiftory calls her lengthened Roll 
 
 Of Patriots and Peers; 
 And brighter gleams the mining Scroll, 
 
 As fly the added years. 
 
 Rhode Ifland tells with honeft pride 
 
 Of him, her noble Son, 
 Great in the Council, and the Field, 
 
 The friend of Wafhington 
 Connecticut prefents her claim 
 
 To many a facred leaf, 
 And boafts the pure and brilliant Fame 
 
 Of him her Hero-chief. 
 
 A health unto Connecticut 
 The Land that honors toil 
 
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 A welcome to her gallant Sons 
 
 Who tread Rhode Ifland's foil 
 Come Brothers, braid a laurel Wreath 
 
 Here, at our feftive fcene, 
 To circle round the deathlefs Names 
 
 Of Putnam and of Greene. 
 
 The Toait-mafter announced that he had received 
 from Hon. Wm. W. Hoppin, ex-Gov. of Rhode Ifland, 
 Hon. John Pitman, U. S. Diftrift Judge, John Whipple, 
 Efq., one of the oldeft and ableft members of the Rhode 
 Ifland bar, Hon. Wm. R. Staples, ex-Judge of the Su- 
 preme Court, E. N. Hazard, Efq., and many other promi- 
 nent Gentlemen of Providence, reiponfes of regret at 
 their inability to accept the invitation to be prefent and 
 join in the feftivities of the Occafion. A portion of the 
 Letters read are appended : 
 
 FROM Ex-Gov. HOPPIN. 
 
 Providence, OEl. \oth, 1859. 
 
 GENTLEMEN: I returned to the City on Saturday afternoon laft, 
 and this morning find upon my deflc your polite invitation to attend 
 the Levee at Pratt's Hall, given in honor of the Putnam Phalanx. I 
 regret that the non-reception of your note mould have prevented my 
 being prefent at the Banquet, and efpecially fo, as Mr. Stuart and 
 other Gentlemen of the Phalanx are friends of mine, and whom to 
 have met on fo pleafant an Occafion would have been mutually 
 agreeable. 
 
 I congratulate you upon the Succefs of your Entertainment and all 
 the Ceremonies of the Reception, which were alike diftinguifhed by 
 fuperior Tafte and a large hearted Hofpitality. 
 
 Very truly Yours, 
 
 W. W. HOPPIN. 
 To WM. W. BROWN, 
 
 L. C. WARNER, 
 
 E. C. DAVIS, 
 H. STAPLES, 
 
 F. J. SHELDON, 
 
 Committee.
 
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 FROM HON. JOHN PITMAN. 
 
 Providence, Off. 6th, 1859. 
 
 GENTLEMEN: I thank you for your polite invitation to the Levee 
 of the Firft Light Infantry in honor of the Putnam Phalanx, this 
 evening. It would afford me much pleafure to attend on this Occa- 
 fion, but I have found it neceffary for my health for feveral years, to 
 decline all invitations to Evening Parties, and regret therefore, that I 
 muft requeft that you will have me excufed. 
 I am very refpe&fully, 
 
 Your Obedient Servant, 
 
 JOHN PITMAN. 
 To WM. W. BROWN, 
 
 L. C. WARNER, 
 
 E. C. DAVIS, 
 H. STAPLES, 
 
 F. J. SHELDON, 
 
 * Committee. 
 
 FROM JOHN WHIFFLE, ESQ. 
 Committee of the Firft Light Infantry, Providence, R. J. 
 
 GENTLEMEN: I moll truly regret that temporary ill health will 
 prevent my being prefent at the reception of our Military friends from 
 Connecticut. I regret this the more as Connecticut is one of my 
 beau ideal States, and her People generally approaching a little nearer 
 my Standard of a plain but ftrong, intellectual and moral People than 
 any that I find in ancient or modern Hiftory. I mould feel proud in 
 doing honor to any portion of the Reprefentatives of fuch a People, 
 more efpecially to that portion ready at any moment to fall in the 
 front Ranks, and pour out their blood to its laft drop in Defence of 
 New England men, New England law, and New England freedom. 
 I am, Gentlemen, moft refpeclfully Yours, 
 
 JOHN WHIPPLE. 
 
 Providence, ^th October, 1859. 
 
 FROM HON. W. R. STAPLES. 
 
 Providence, Oct. 6th, 1859. 
 
 GENTLEMEN: It would afford me great pleafure to attend the 
 Levee of the Firft Light Infantry this evening, if I were burdened 
 with fewer Years, or bleffed with better Health. As it is, pleafe ex-
 
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 cufe my abfence and accept my beft wifhes that the Infantry may on 
 this and all other Occafions meet with the Succefs they richly merit. 
 With many thanks for your polite invitation, 
 
 I am, Gentlemen, your Corp'l, 
 
 W. R. STAPLES. 
 Col. W. W. BROWN and others, 
 
 Commander F. L. Infantry. 
 
 FROM E. N. HAZARD, ESQ. 
 
 Providence, Od. 6th, 1859. 
 
 GENTLEMEN: Owing to my abfence, your note of 3d did not 
 reach me till this morning. Nothing would have given me greater 
 Pleafure than to have been prefent at your moft patriotic and joyous 
 Feftival. 
 
 From all that I read and hear of the Occaiion, it was well worthy 
 the time-honored and juftly merited Reputation of the Firft Light 
 Infantry. The Corps, in thus adding another bond of ftrength to 
 the faft growing friendfhip between the two beautiful Cities of New 
 England, have gained much high praife. The Corps, in this diftin- 
 guifhed aft of State Courtefy and generous Hofpitality, deferve well, 
 not only of Providence and Rhode Ifland, but of all New England. 
 It has done more to cement the Ties of Brotherhood and good feel- 
 ing between Connecticut and Rhode Ifland than any other one thing 
 in the laft quarter of a Century. This fpirit of cordial, friendly In- 
 tercourfe mould be nurtured and cherifhed. The time may come 
 when it will be needed in aclion as it was in '76. 
 
 Pleafe accept for yourfelf and your aflbciates my moft refpedlful 
 regards. . 
 
 Your Obedient Servant, 
 
 E. N. HAZARD. 
 To Col. WM. W. BROWN, 
 
 and others of the Committee. 
 
 To the fentiment " The Clergy" the Rev. Afher Moore, 
 Chaplain to the Putnam Phalanx, refponded as follows: 
 
 Mr. Commandant: I ftand here in a pofition which properly be- 
 longs to another. The voice of your own Chaplain mould have been 
 heard, in refponfe to the toaft juft given, before the utterance of a 
 word by your prefent Speaker. But I ftill cheerfully obey the call
 
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 that has been made upon me. I fuppoie that the Programme of the 
 Occafion would be deemed incomplete, without the found of the 
 Chaplain's voice, and an exhibition of his venerable perfon. 
 
 You now fee before you the firft Chaplain of the Putnam Phalanx 
 in full coftume, with the exception of his Chapeau. If my Grand- 
 children (and I have one,) cannot look back with pride and trace 
 their Anceftry to the illuftrious Hero whofe name we bear, they can 
 at leaft glory in the fact that their Grandfather was the firft Chaplain 
 of the Putnam Phalanx. 
 
 My venerable perfon is facredly guarded and protecled by the val- 
 iant Man who is always at my left hand, that I mould not be moved. 
 He is not permitted to draw his fword for warlike purpofes except in 
 defence of the Chaplain. And he is therefore quick to perceive the 
 approach of danger in this particular direction. Why, Sir, if any 
 rude Aflailant mould come towards me with threatening Afpect, ex- 
 pofing my venerable perfon to the fmalleft danger, my redoubtable 
 left hand Man would inftantly unfheath his fword, and wield it with 
 tremendous Valor, and fome noije. 
 
 Sir, it was my fortune to be born and reared under the fhadow of 
 Independence Hall. I early caught the Spirit of Freedom and a deep 
 love for my Country. And to this day I have regarded Patriotifm as 
 one of the nobleft virtues of an American Citizen. I do not belong 
 to that clafs of the Clergy who ftand in the High Places of the Church, 
 and "make it their earneft work and daily toil" to abufe our Country, 
 and to revile the Government by which we are all protected in our 
 perfons, in our liberties, and in our purfuits of happinefs ! With fuch 
 "Reformers" I hold no fellowfhip. ' And I am happy whenever a 
 fitting occafion offers to "lift up a Standard againft them," and to re- 
 pudiate their "reforms." 
 
 Let our People, and efpecially our Children and Youth, be taught 
 to appreciate our National bleffings. Let the Pulpit, as in the olden 
 time, be numbered among the fure Defences of our beloved Country. 
 Let Religion and Patriotifm be one and infeparable. Let the feveral 
 members of this great Confederacy ever conftitute The United States 
 of America. And may God, the high and mighty Ruler of Heaven 
 and Earth, ever blefs "this land of the Free and home of the Brave." 
 
 In conclufion he offered the following fentiment: 
 
 The City of Providence Though prefided over by Knight, may it glow even 
 in the light of the noontide Sun of Profpcrity and Peace.
 
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 The Qhaplain having, as will be noted, pointedly 
 alluded to the Surgeon of the Phalanx and his valiant 
 Sword and noify defence of his (the Chaplain's) perfon 
 and the Toatt-mafter, too, having called for fomething on 
 the minor key, Dr. Miner promptly responded: 
 
 "Every word," he commenced by faying, "of this excellent Chap- 
 lain is replete with Eloquence and Erudition. At Bunker Hill his 
 words were as cogent as thofe of Cicero. To-night he has exhibited 
 a little of that keen Satire which Lawyers fometimes ufe, and that can 
 only be difcovered by the twinkle of the left eye all of which was 
 evidently defigned to bring Surgeon Miner to his feet and the Plat- 
 form. All who know me are aware that I am not a Speech-maker. 
 The fphere of my activities has ever been devoted to other and dif- 
 ferent objects. I am the only Member of the Putnam Phalanx who 
 has had the honor of being connected with your Univerfity having 
 been graduated in the Medical Department in 1824. I am quite 
 familiar with your claflic Halls and claffic Hills, and all the beauties 
 of Nature and Art that furround you. With regard to my military 
 Hiftory, I refer you to the Bureau of Penfions, at Wafhington, where 
 you will find my name amongft thofe who have received penfions in 
 Bounty Lands for volunteer fervices to our Country in the War of 
 1812. 
 
 I have had the fpecial charge of the Putnam Phalanx for the paft 
 fix months as the "Medicine-man of the Tribe." In our good old- 
 famioned plain way of living, I have had no difficulty in preferving 
 their Health as you fee; and the Corps have always, to a man, 
 been ready for Duty, until we arrived in Bofton. There, owing to 
 that extravagant and bountiful courfe of living, to which the plain 
 Yeomanry of Connecticut were unaccuftomed, three of our Corps 
 were proftrated. Three times, therefore, was the Surgeon called from 
 his retirement to prefcribe fecundem artem for the fick lift. Believ- 
 ing, as I always have, that the belt Mode for quelling any Insurrection 
 or Invafion, whether by difeafe or otherwife, is, firft to fire Bullets and 
 afterwards Blank-cartridges, I always adopt this courfe; and if I do 
 not diflodge the Enemy on the fecond charge I am no longer the Sur- 
 geon of the Putnam Phalanx, 
 
 We have been told in Bofton, "how fweet it is to die for one's
 
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 Country." In this matter I have had no experience; but I know 
 how glorious it is to live for one's Country, efpecially when we live as 
 we are living now. 
 
 I am happy now to prefent to you every Member of this Organiza- 
 tion in good Health and fit for Duty ready to do Battle at any and 
 all times whenever our Country {hall require our fervices; and I aflure 
 you that at the end of the Battle, every Man of the Phalanx will be 
 found at his Poft, either among the Dead or the Living. 
 
 Dr. McKnight, of Providence, alfo refponded for the 
 Doctors, in the following words: 
 
 REMARKS OF DR. MCKNIGHT. 
 
 Col. Brown, and Gentlemen of the Putnam Phalanx: There will 
 be no doubt in any of your minds, after I have done fpeaking, that I 
 tell you the truth when I fay I am entirely unprepared to make a 
 fpeech on an Occafion like this. The fact is, I feel now as did the 
 Irifhman under fimilar circumftances, and like him, I would be willing 
 to hold anybody's hat who would fpeak for me. Another reafon may 
 be given for a poor Speech at this time of night, and that is, that all 
 the beft Thunder has been ufed up. Why (Colonel, I can juft call the 
 names right out of Gentlemen prefent who faid juft exactly what I 
 might, could or would have faid, had I been fortunate enough to have 
 preceded them. 
 
 And why it is that we poor Doctors are always, on Occafions like 
 this, called upon laft, is more than I can tell. One confolation we 
 have at any rate, that there has been a time in all your lives, when 
 the Doctor was the firft man to be called for, and when, for the time 
 being, he became "Sir Oracle." 
 
 Although the beft Thunder has been effectually ufed up, it is not 
 too late for me to offer in the name of the Firft Light Infantry, the 
 right Hand of Fellowfhip to our Friends from Connecticut, and bid you 
 a Soldier's hearty welcome to our feftive board. 
 
 Our Southern Friends have often fneeringly alluded to yours, as the 
 Nutmeg State; if fo, then all the States fouth of Mafon's and Dix- 
 on's line, combined, would not be cute enough to make a grater. 
 
 This is not the place, nor am I the man, to review her Hiftory; 
 abler hands than mine have given us, in pictures of living light, memo- 
 ries of her Statefmen, Warriors, Orators and Poets, which time will
 
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 only ferve to make brighter; let me, in pafling, fpeak of another clafs 
 whofe memories alfo (hall endure while Time mall be meafured by the 
 Dial-plate and pendulum. I mean her world-renowned Mechanics. 
 
 Among them all, none have a more world-wide fame than a mem- 
 ber of your own Company, and it may not be improper in this place, 
 to name one who has fettled more difputes, in Love and War, by the 
 weight of his arguments, than any other living man ; for who, with a 
 profpedt of a bullet in from Colt, would wait for his kicks, before 
 like Captain Scott's coon, he came down. And if "Brevity is the 
 foul of wit," then too, he is a witty man; for his reports, though 
 fometimes repeated, are never long, and his prefcriptions fimple and 
 efficacious as our friend Surgeon Miner's, only a fmall powder and a 
 little pill, and like the Surgeon's, fure to kill twice out of three times. 
 
 I don't think I ever regretted being born where I was, until our late 
 vifit to Norwich, and then I came to the conclufion that a man might 
 juft as well not have been born at all, as to have been born outfide of 
 Connecticut. And why? In the firft place there was Governor B., 
 (probably a defcendant of the gentleman who was made a head fhorter 
 by Richard 3d,) who was born there, and was very glad of it; then 
 our good Governor Turner, (may his fhadow never be lefs) had an 
 Aunt born there, (the Governor fays to-night twins, and I cheerfully 
 make this correction for the benefit of pofterity, in cafe they mould 
 ever want to r^-Turner,) and he was glad of it; and finally our worthy 
 Mayor went all the way from Rhode Ifland to Connecticut on pur- 
 pofe to be born there, and as that was the firft great thing he had 
 done he was more pleafed than both Governors put together, though 
 I don't fee that it amounted to much, for it was Knight after all, and 
 couldn't have made much difference. So after hearing all thefe things, 
 and feeing how much people made by being born in Connecticut, and 
 how big fome of them grow, (vide the Enfign of the Phalanx,) and 
 how tall fome of them are, (tide the Major of ditto,) and what an 
 everlafting clever fet of Fellows they all are, and how pleafed they 
 all are that they were born in Connecticut, I made up my mind 
 that if I ever was born again, it mould be in Connecticut, and fome- 
 where in the neighborhood of Norwich or Hartford. 
 
 And now, Gentlemen, as there are lots of thunder left to be dif- 
 charged, I beg leave to clofe with the following fentiment: 
 
 Col. Colt The Author of a new and convincing ftyle of Epistol-ary Correfpond- 
 ence.
 
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 Geo. H. Clark, Efq., of Hartford, (who was with the 
 Phalanx at Bofton, but was obliged to return home with- 
 out accompanying them to Providence,) fent the follow- 
 ing poetical Toaft for this Occaiion: 
 
 Fill up to the Name of our own noble Hero 
 
 The man who delighted in Danger to revel; 
 Who hated old Gage as the Romans did Nero, 
 
 And feared neither Tyrant, nor fhe-wolf, nor devil, 
 To Him who leapt chafms that paled old Campaigners; 
 
 Whofe Sword, like the Lightning, flaihed Death and Difmay; 
 Whofe Skill and Example turned holiday Trainers 
 
 To the refolute Soldiers of Bunker Hill's day. 
 Fill, fill to the Name of the Soldier fublime, 
 Whofe Fame only brightens and broadens by Time! 
 
 To the fentiment "T7te Rhode IJland Bar," Benj. F. 
 Thurfbn, Efq., of Providence, made an able refponfe, 
 and clofed with the following toaft: 
 
 The Bonds of the Cities of Providence and Hartford The Principal, the inter- 
 change of kindly courtefies; the principal to be paid only at the expiration of 
 Eternity: the guaranty of that interchange of kindly and generous fentiment, 
 by that beft Guerdon of Good Faith, fair and open rivalry. 
 
 A Gueft offered this fentiment: 
 
 The Senate of the State of Rhode IJland. 
 
 Hon. Samuel Currey, a State Senator of Rhode Ifland, 
 was called upon by the Toatt-mafter, and refponded as 
 follows: 
 
 REMARKS OF HON. SAMUEL CURREY. 
 
 Mr. Col. Commander: I am forry, amidft the general joy of this 
 Occafion, to raife any voice of complaint, but I feel that I muft enter 
 my proteft againft the Conqueft that has been made of me this even- 
 ing. When a few hours fmce, thefe buff-booted Strangers entered 
 here unarmed and took their feats befide us, I could not have imagined 
 I was fo foon to be made their Captive. I had before known fomc- 
 thing of the force of Eloquence, but I had not known what danger 
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 there may be in the voice of a Judge Advocate and an Ajjiftant 
 Commiffary. Truly there muft be fome wizard enchantment thrown 
 over us, fome magic fpell, perhaps, floating in the atmofphere that we 
 breathe in this Hall. I own myfelf quite overcome by the fafcina- 
 tions of the brilliant Oratory, the graceful Compliments to our State 
 and her Inftitutions, and the yet more graceful Sentiments with which 
 we have been entertained by your Guefts. Still, Sir, if I can, for a 
 little time, difpel the charm of thefe magic arts, it will give me the 
 greateft pleafure, both on my own account and in behalf of our State 
 Senate for which I am to fpeak, to unite my voice with the general 
 Welcome which we give to the Putnam Phalanx. We are all pleafed 
 to make their acquaintance in this their martial attire, and to admire 
 in them that Public Spirit and patience of difcipline which have drawn 
 together and formed fo fine a body of Citizen Soldiers. 
 
 I have often, Sir, fince our two Cities of Hartford and Providence 
 have been brought near to each other by the iron horfe, looked for- 
 ward to many reunions of their people, but I had not anticipated the 
 gratification of a vifit from a Military Company embodying fo much 
 of the intelligence, character and focial worth of our neighboring 
 City. I may certainly in all fobriety fay that this Martial Body of 
 men, compofed of the venerable in character and years the Fathers 
 of their City the proper Reprefentatives of all the Arts, Bufmefs 
 and Walks of life is a beautiful object of admiration as well as a 
 moft inftruftive fubjecl of reflection. I am fure that all our People 
 take pleafure in doing honor to fuch Guefts. I am fure that the Chief 
 Magiftrates of our City and State, whom we fee here this evening, 
 truly reprefent the feelings of all the Citizens in the cordial greetings 
 which they have given to our Friends from Hartford; and if our 
 Legiflature had happened to be in feffion here at this time, you would 
 have feen the Reprefentatives of the whole People paying refpedl to 
 that confervative love of Order which has formed, and the Patriotic 
 Spirit which animates the Putnam Phalanx. 
 
 The People of Rhode Ifland and their Government have had ex- 
 perience of the neceflity, at times, of an arm of power to give ftrength 
 to the voice of the Law. I remember going once as a meflenger, in 
 a crifis of our domeftic Hiftory, to our late Governor King, to inform 
 him of an organized refiftance to the Civil Authorities. We had not 
 at that time the admirable organization of Military Companies which 
 is now fo much the object of our juft pride as well as ground of reli-
 
 able fecurity; and I fhall never forget how that man of iron nerve 
 and will, in view of the imminency and magnitude of the danger and 
 the powerleflhefs of the Civil Magiftrate, wrung his hands as he ex- 
 claime^ "I wijli we had a little more force" Now it is for the 
 purpofe of providing for the State againft the time in which her dark 
 hour of danger may come, this "little more force," that thefe thoughtful 
 men of Connecticut have organized themfelves under the Law as Citi- 
 zen Soldiers. Their martial Array and Difcipline are not alone for 
 Summer-day mow and Parade. Thefe pleafmg difplays have a fober 
 meaning and ufeful fignificance. They teach us that when the hour 
 of peril comes thefe men will be prepared to go forth and meet it, 
 whether it be from a Domeftic or Foreign Enemy, and that they will 
 meet the Enemy, not as mercenary Soldiers, but as brave men having 
 an intereft of their own in the conflict. 
 
 But I am admonifhed, Mr. Commander, by this midnight hour not 
 to try your patience with a Speech, and there is the lefs occafion for 
 my doing it after fo many eloquent addrefTes from the gentlemen who 
 have preceded me. I will therefore only further fay that we fhall all 
 long remember this Occafion, and long aflbciate in our minds many 
 pleafmg recollections of an evening with the Putnam Phalanx. 
 
 Let me offer the following fentiment : 
 
 The Putnam Phalanx Old Fogies, rivalling in the precifion and activity of 
 their martial exercifes the elafticity and vigor of Young America. 
 
 The following volunteer fentiment 
 
 Woman The true Infpirer of true Patriotifm 
 
 Was refponded to by H. L. Miller, formerly Major of 
 the ift Company Governor's Foot Guard of Connecticut, 
 as follows: 
 
 REMARKS BY COL. H. L. MILLER. 
 
 Mr. Chairman: Sergeant Sill has been fummoned to refpond 
 to the Toaft juft read. In his abfence my name has been called. 
 It is faid that Sergeant Sill is with the Ladies. Happy man I wifh 
 I was with them myfelf. Or rather, I wifli they were with me. Or, 
 better ftill, I wifh they were with ?/s, here at thefe tables, inftead of 
 being feparated and fhut up in yonder Gallery.
 
 It has truly gladdened our Hearts to enjoy their prefence. We 
 have been charmed with the beautiful fight; but, oh, how delightful, 
 if your arrangements had permitted their mingling with us, at this 
 Feftive Board. 
 
 I cannot attempt a refponfe to the fentiment juft offered, at this 
 late hour. Indeed it is preemption in me, after the foul-ftirring 
 ftrains of Eloquence poured forth in fuch rich profufion here to-night, 
 to even permit the found of my voice to be heard. 
 
 The Putnam Phalanx, it is faid, is a peculiar Organization, and 
 this Excurfion is for peculiar enjoyment. We are organized as a pe- 
 culiar Battalion of Infantry, of Heavy Infantry, if you pleafe fo to 
 defignate us, and I may fay, without vanity, that we bring with us 
 fome heavy Ordnance. This peculiarity I know you will admit. 
 You have heard the roar of our Artillery. You have heard the 
 booming of our big Guns. And now, forfooth, you would hear from 
 the Mufketry. Well, I may fay for myfelf, and for others, that we 
 muft all anfwer to our names when called. We never turn our backs 
 on Friend or Foe. The Auftrian Soldiers, after a recent Battle, when 
 carried to the Hofpitals, were turned upon their faces, to have their 
 wounds drefled. We can take no fuch pofition. We never allow a 
 fire in the rear. Our kind hearted, fympathizing Surgeon, has given 
 timely notice, that he will drefs no fuch inglorious wounds. The 
 "glorious Scar upon the Brow," would be his only Trophy, as well 
 as our own. We cannot run. We muft ftand in our lot. We 
 muft do or die. 
 
 Mr. Chairman, you are overwhelming us with Kindnefs. Your 
 Hofpitality is unbounded. We know this is prompted by your true 
 and friendly impulfes, but perhaps you have had an eye to your own 
 fafety, and that of your City, in this frank and generous Reception. 
 We certainly came here, to renew, and to ftrengthen, and to culti- 
 vate Friendfhips, and to draw clofer the Bond of Brotherhood between 
 our refpeflive Cities. 
 
 But we came here confcious of our ftrength. We can take Cities, 
 fubdue Kingdoms, and perform prodigies of valor generally. It was 
 propofed, while we were on Bunker Hill, that we fhould take back 
 with us to Hartford, every granite Block of which that Monument is 
 compofed, and again eredl; it on Wyllys's Hill, in place of the noble 
 old Charter Oak that has recently pafled away. We could have done 
 it; not a Man of us doubted our ability. You, Sir, and others, who
 
 now fit around thefe Tables, as you look upon the empty difhes, will 
 admit that fince we came into this Hall, we have appropriated to our- 
 felves a Bunker Hill monument of food. You thus have fome evi- 
 dence of our Capacity, but you can hardly imagine what evils might 
 have befallen your beautiful and profperous City, if we had come 
 down upon you in hoftile array. 
 
 You have, however, difarmed us. You have given us a view of 
 your inner Life, and we are enchanted. You have made us your 
 Friends forever. We embrace you as Brethren. We fhall always 
 retain a pleafant Remembrance of your Courtefy and Kindnefs. We 
 mail treafure in our Hearts the recollection of this vifit to Providence, 
 and, on our return Home, fhall wait with impatience for an oppor- 
 tunity to give evidence of our Gratitude, when, as Soldiers, or Citi- 
 zens, you may hereafter vifit our City of Hartford. 
 
 A fentiment complimentary to the Artillery of the 
 Marines and the Marine Artillery, which thundered a 
 welcome to the Putnam Phalanx, called up Lf. Col. 
 Tompkins, who made a brief and moft happy refponfe, 
 concluding with the fentiment 
 
 The True Soldier Like Ifrael Putnam ever ready to do to dare to die. 
 
 The following fentiment, offered by Commijffary Rod- 
 man, was drank in iilence, Handing: 
 
 The Memory of Barber and Childs The Infantry mourns the lofs of thefe 
 moft popular and efficient Members. 
 
 Capt. A. M. Gordon, of the Second Company of the 
 Putnam Phalanx, in alluiion to the uniform of the Firft 
 Light Infantry, offered the following: 
 
 The Firji Light Infantry We know they are Soldiers they ought to be 
 Scholars for they are deeply red and flightly blue. 
 
 Shortly after twelve o'clock, the aflembled Company 
 rofe from the tables, and the Phalanx were efcorted to
 
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 their Quarters at the Earl Houie, by their Holts of the 
 evening. 
 
 The Members of the Phalanx take this opportunity 
 to place on permanent Record their unqualified approba- 
 tion and cordial appreciation of the admirable and 
 effedive manner in which all the arrangements for this 
 feftive Occafion were conceived and carried out. Noth- 
 ing feemed wanting. The Entertainment itfelf was 
 more than elegant. Our Hofts, the Firft Light Infantry, 
 may well claim to be "an Hoft in themfelves." Our 
 warmeft thanks are due to that Galaxy of Ladies who 
 graced the fcene with their fair prefence; to the diftin- 
 guithed Guefts who refponded to the invitation and were 
 prefent to add their words of Welcome and Congratula- 
 tion; to the American Brafs Band, whofe moft excel- 
 lent Mufic added fo much to the enjoyment of the even- 
 ing; and to all, whofe efforts were devoted to rendering 
 this the fineft Feftival of the fort that ever occurred in 
 Providence. The memories of this Evening are among 
 the choiceft connected with the entire Excurfion. 
 
 At half-paft eight o'clock on Friday morning the Pha- 
 lanx, efcorted by the Infantry, left their Quarters and 
 marched to Brown Univerfity, which they had been 
 invited to vifit by the Authorities of that Inftitution. 
 Upon entering Rhode Ifland Hall, they were received 
 by the Prefident and Faculty of the Univerfity. Prefi- 
 dent Sears, in a moft felicitous manner, gave them a 
 cordial Welcome to the Academic Halls. He affured 
 them that they were not Grangers here. "Many of your 
 number," faid he, "are known to us as public Men, who 
 have been juftly honored by being called to important 
 official ftations in your own city and State. And we, as
 
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 a Literary Inftitution, have not been flow to obferve that 
 you have eloquent Orators and elegant Scholars among 
 the Officers and Members of your Company, exemplify- 
 ing moll: appropriately and beautifully the value of that 
 Culture which we aim to reach in our humble labors 
 here. We welcome you as the friends of Learning and 
 the ornaments of Society, who have contributed much 
 to the high reputation of your honored City." Judging 
 from the uniform which the Phalanx fo gracefully wore, 
 he thought it would not be unpleafant to them to learn 
 that the Soldiers of the Revolution ufed their oldeft Col- 
 lege Edifice for a barrack and hofpital. In the name of 
 the Old College, therefore, he would greet them as 
 Brethren of the Revolution of '76. 
 
 To this cordial Welcome of Preudent Sears, Judge 
 Advocate Stuart refponded as follows: 
 
 Prefedent Sears: For the truly cordial and complimentary re- 
 marks with which you welcome the Putnam Phalanx to thefe Academic 
 Shades and to this beautiful and fuggeftive Hall, its Members defire, 
 through me, to return you their warmeft thanks. 
 
 It is true, Sir, as you remark, that we come here clad in the pano- 
 ply of the Revolutionary Days. Our Battalion has been formed from 
 the ftirring incentive of thofe Days, and for a high and patriotic End. 
 We defire through our peculiar Drefs, and Difcipline, and Mufical 
 Corps, to revive and ftrengthen thofe thoughts and aflbciations which 
 clufter around the great Paft of our Liberty. We would fain ftimu- 
 late the Love of Country. By a contemplation of the toil, and treas- 
 ure, and blood, which founded our maflive Republican Inftitutions, 
 we would aid in endearing them to the Affection and Reverence of all, 
 and in awakening in all the ambition to emulate the noble Virtues of 
 thofe venerable Patriots, thofe great and good Men, whofe Souls con- 
 ceived, and whofe ftalwart hands worked out the giant problem of 
 American Independence. 
 
 For the purpofe of kindling anew in our own bofoms the fires of 
 Patriotifm, we have ourfelves juft been on a pilgrimage to Bofton and
 
 Bunker Hill to the Shrines of thofe illuftrious Men, and gallant 
 Soldiers, who there led the van of the American Revolution. And 
 worthy Prefident, a military Battalion though we are, there is nothing 
 incongruous in our Handing here in thefe Halls of Literature and Sci- 
 ence. For, in a Republic like our own, founded on intelligence, the 
 connection between the profeffion of Arms and Knowledge is, or 
 always ought to be, intimate and profound. It was an educated Sol- 
 diery, Sir, that fought and won our great battles for Independence. 
 The Men who achieved our Victories upon thefe fields were men who 
 knew, knew thoroughly their Rights, and who knowing, dared main- 
 tain them. They had enjoyed a long experience of Civilization. 
 They underftood its bleffings and in the light of the liberty for 
 which they contended, and which their Valor won, determined to lay 
 broader and deeper than ever before in Inftitutions efpecially of 
 Education in Literature, in Science, in Art, in Good Morals and 
 Religion the true foundation-ftones of American Profperity and 
 Glory. 
 
 And among our American Inftitutions of learning, Mr. Prefident, 
 this venerable one over which you fo ably prefide, has long, our Pha- 
 lanx is happy to remark, held a confpicuous place and, Sir, as re- 
 gards education generally, the State of Rhode Ifland ftands defervedly 
 high. From the epoch of your firft Schoolmafter here in Providence 
 
 the venerable John Turpin down to the days of your munificent 
 educational Benefactors, the Almys and the Browns, and the eftab- 
 lifhment of this your Univerfity, and of your admirable fyftem of 
 Public Schools on, down to the prefent moment Education has 
 been with you a pride and a fuccefs. 
 
 Your People were among the very earlieft in the Country to ereft, 
 at your Olneyville, a large and complete Paper-mill. Far back as 
 1762, you eftablimed one of the very firft Newfpapers in the Country 
 
 The Providence Gazette that ftout organ of Whig principles, and 
 patriotic refolves, during the ever-memorable era of the Stamp Aft, 
 and the ftill more memorable era of the American Revolution. Your 
 Newspapers and Periodicals, many in number, and many of high 
 merit and grave works in moral and political Science, like thofe of 
 your profound and venerated Wayland, and in Hiftory, like that admira 
 ble one of your State by Arnold have marked the intellectual appe- 
 tite of your People ever fince. All America has ftudied the Weather, 
 and learned Meteorology, from the earlieft among its Almanac-makers,
 
 your own venerable Ifaac BickerftafT. All America, yes, and Europe too, 
 pays homage to the illuftrious Painter of Wafhington, your renowned 
 Gilbert Stuart fitting compeer that he was, in his beautiful art, for 
 our own immortal Painter of Connecticut Colonel John Trumbull. 
 And the World will ever know by heart, among the loftieft Heroes of 
 American Hiftory, that Officer of the Revolution from your State, ac- 
 complifhed in mind as well as in arms -who wielded the Pen almoft 
 as fkillfully as he did the Sword Brigadier General Greene. 
 
 Sir, your Univerfity has lent forth numberlefs Sons, who, both at 
 home and abroad, in various portions of our common Country, adorn- 
 ing their educational birth, have rendered confpicuous fervices in the 
 defence of their Country, and in the cultivation of Literature and 
 Science, and Art. The Putnam Phalanx, let me affure you, rejoices 
 in this fadl and trufts that thefe Claffic Halls will ever continue to 
 furnifh, for the pride of your own immediate Community, and for the 
 juft boaft of your State, thoufands more of educated Sons, ready and 
 anxious to do _you honor, and to bear away from among the many 
 noble teachings of their Alma Mater, as the Infpiration through life 
 of their Patriotifm, the proud, undying precept of the old Roman 
 " Dnlce et decorum eft pro Patria mon!" 
 
 In reply, Dr. Sears faid that the College could offer 
 but little for their entertainment. Her chief ornament 
 the many Sons who had gone out from her walls and 
 done her credit in the World ilie could not now ex- 
 hibit. He therefore begged the Commandant to accept 
 a triennial Catalogue and a brief Hiltory of the College, 
 and invited the Phalanx to vilit the Library and the 
 Grounds. 
 
 The Battalion then repaired to the Library where they 
 were courteoufly received by Reuben A. Guild, the ac- 
 complifhed Librarian of the Inttitution. A brief period 
 paffed here, when the reveille announced the departure 
 of the Corps to the fine lawn eaft of the College, where 
 a promenade and interchange of courtefies enfued. The 
 College Grounds were crowded with Spectators, and the 
 
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 90 
 
 Blinds meanwhile furniihed molt excellent mufic. The 
 Day itfelf was molt delightful, delicioufly cool, and 
 bright under the Oftober fun. 
 
 The line was formed at half paft ten o'clock, and pro- 
 ceeded to the refidence of Mayor Knight, on High 
 Itreet. The Manfion was thronged with vifitors, among 
 whom were many members of the City Council and 
 of the State Government, the Hon. James F. Simmons, 
 Hon. C. C. Van Zandt, Captain J. J. Comstock, many of 
 the general Officers of the Militia of the State, the Offi- 
 cers of the Staff of the Marine Artillery, the Officers of 
 the Staff of the Mechanic Rifles, and the Officers of the 
 Staff of the Pawtucket Light Guard, and many other 
 Gentlemen of Military and Civic diftinction. A boun- 
 teous and elegant collation was fpread in the rear of the 
 Mayor's houfe, and as foon as the invited Guefts had 
 found ftanding room, his Honor addreffed Major Good- 
 win of the Phalanx in a welcome fpeech, affuring him 
 and his Command of the pleasure and gratification 
 which their vifit to Providence had afforded its Citizens, 
 and closing by tendering to the Phalanx the hospitalities 
 due to the occafion and its affociations. 
 
 At the requeft of the Major Commandant, AJJijlant 
 Commiffary Deming refponded to this brief Welcome : 
 
 Mr. Mayor and Gentlemen: We are met at every ftep, in this 
 good City of Providence, with fuch profufe manifeftations of good 
 will and Hofpitality, that words are hourly growing more and more 
 impotent, to exprefs the fentiments of Gratitude and Obligation with 
 which we are overwhelmed. From the moment of our Arrival, to 
 this, the hour of our Departure, it has been a continuous Ovation, and 
 the increafing fchedule of our debtors is becoming burdenfome, not 
 only to our fenfibilities grateful and refponfive, but even to the 
 memory. And I have been inftrufted by our Major Commandant,
 
 9 1 
 
 to improve this opportunity, while the pleafing Spell is frefh upon us, 
 to offer up the largeft Thank-offering of the Putnam Phalanx to the 
 military Companies, public Bodies and Individuals who have partici- 
 pated in this Reception ; to the Marine Artillery for the falvo which 
 firft welcomed us to your borders; to our efpecial Hofts the Light In- 
 fantry and Old Guard for their unremitting contribution to our honor 
 and enjoyment, and, particularly, for the magnificent Banquet which 
 fittingly crowned the elegant courtefies of yefterday; to your diftin- 
 guifhed Men and daily Journals for their ample commendation of 
 our Corps, our City, and our Commonwealth; to Prefident Sears for 
 his invitation to your ancient Seat of Learning, and for the appropri- 
 ate and cordial Speech which relieved, at once, the diffidence of Sol- 
 diers in that chofen Abode of Scholars; to your Citizens generally 
 for their unftinted approbation of our Organization, evinced in private 
 als and expreflions of kindnefs, as well as in the loud and continuous 
 plaudits, which have attended our March; to yourfelf, Mr. Mayor, 
 for adding to the eclat of the Excurfion by your own appearance, as 
 Soldier, in the ranks of our noble Efcort, and for throwing open your 
 doors for our entertainment as Chief Executive of this beautiful City. 
 Moreover, as true and faithful Knights, we vow admiration and loyalty 
 to the charming Ladies of Providence who have loaded us with gar- 
 lands and bewitched us with their graceful and enthufiaftic Welcome. 
 We long to evince our thankfulnefs by fomething more fignificant 
 than words; we covet the Opportunity of reciprocating thefe lavifli 
 Civilities, and if thofe to whom we are indebted (hall ever vifit Hart- 
 ford, we will grant them the freedom of our Homes and Hearts and 
 decorate them with every infignia of honor in the power of this Bat 
 talion to confer. 
 
 Various fentiments and brief fpeeches followed, and 
 an hour or more was paffed moft agreeably at the tables. 
 The adjoining reiidence of Affijlant Co/n/mtfary Davis 
 was also open, and the Gueits of the Mayor availed 
 themselves of this opportunity to pay their reipects 
 to Mr. Davis, and were received with elegant Hofpi- 
 tality. 
 
 It was expected that the Phalanx would leave Provi-
 
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 dence at half-paft two o'clock, but intelligence having 
 been received of the intended public Reception of the 
 Battalion on their arrival Home, it was arranged that a 
 fpecial Train Ihould leave Providence at one o'clock in 
 order to arrive before dark at Hartford. This fact hav- 
 ing been announced, the vifit to Mayor Knight was 
 neceflarily fhortened, and at a little paft twelve, both 
 Companies formed in front of his refidence and the line 
 of march was taken up for the Depot, his Honor being 
 saluted as the fignal of departure with fix hearty cheers 
 from the Phalanx. 
 
 At the Depot an immenfe number of People had 
 affembled, and while waiting a short time for the Train, 
 a profufion of fplendid boquets was fairly ftiowered 
 upon the Battalion. They were the gift of Ladies who 
 came in perfon, with ex-Mayor Rodman and many 
 friends, to prefent them to the Phalanx. The Train 
 moved on amid loud huzzas, and the Corps left the 
 City fully impreffed with the now familiar fact, that 
 Providence is one of the molt hofpitable Cities in New 
 England. 
 
 The following are {elected from the many flattering 
 notices which were publifhed, during the brief vifit of 
 the Phalanx at Providence: 
 
 [From the Providence Journal.] 
 
 THE PUTNAM PHALANX have made the moft favorable impreffion 
 upon our People. Their peculiar Uniform, carrying us back to the 
 days of the Revolution and aflbciating them with the moft patriotic 
 Era of our Hiftory, their ftirring Mufic of drums and fifes, their ftal- 
 wart forms and manly bearing, the venerable locks of their Command- 
 er, the portly figure of their Standard bearer, all called forth continual 
 admiration as they marched through the ftreets lined with Spectators. 
 We do not remember any Military Difplay that has given more fatif- 
 aclion in our City.
 
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 [From the Prov. Cor. of the Bofton Journal.] 
 
 No body of Military ever received at the hands of the Militia of 
 Rhode Ifland fuch fumptuous entertainment, and fuch profufe outpour- 
 ing of Welcome, as has been accorded to the Putnam Phalanx of 
 Hartford during the fhort vifit of the Corps to this City. Everything 
 that a liberal hand could adminifter has been beftowed upon the gal- 
 lant Company with the characleriftic generofity of Rhode Ifland Sol- 
 diers. The bounteous Hofpitality of Bofton has been repeated here, 
 and every feature of the Occafion has been carried forward with emi- 
 nent Succefs. 
 
 On arriving at the Moofup Station, an incident 
 occurred which in its touching fimplicity was the moft 
 affefting of all that happened during the entire Excur- 
 fion. Mary Putnam Holbrook, daughter of J. Hoi- 
 brook, Efq., of Brooklyn, and great-great-grand-daughter 
 of Gen. Ifrael Putnam an exceedingly pretty and inter- 
 efting child of fourteen years, was in waiting with a 
 beautiful Wreath with which the defired to crown the 
 Commander of the Phalanx bearing the name of her 
 honored Anceftor. Upon learning the circumitance, the 
 Major Commandant with his Staff and many of the 
 Rank and File affembled upon the platform of the 
 Depot, when the young Lady placed the Wreath upon 
 the neck of the Major Commandant and faluted him 
 with a cordial ki{s. The accompanying Note, at the 
 requett of the Major Commandant was read by 'Judge 
 Advocate Stuart to the Phalanx: 
 
 " Pleafe accept this wreath from a Descendant of Gen. PUTNAM. Some of the 
 flowers are frefh from his grave in Brooklyn, eight miles dirtant. 
 
 "MARY PUTNAM HOLBROOK, of Brooklyn, Ct." 
 
 Mr. STUART then faid: I am commiffioned by the Major Com 
 mandant of the Putnam Phalanx to return you, my dear Child, his 
 heart-felt Thanks for this manifcftation of your intcrcft in the Battal-
 
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 ion which he commands. Some of your Flowers, fays the note, "are 
 frefti from the Grave" of Gen. Putnam. Thought touching indeed 
 to the Hearts of us all ! This Phalanx has been, Mary, upon a long 
 and delightful Excuriion. It has received many and bountiful ex- 
 preflions of the public Regard. Wreaths after Wreaths have been 
 fhowered upon the brows of its Officers and Soldiers; but no one of 
 them, let me aflure you, has been received with emotions fo deep as 
 this one with which you have now crowned our veteran Commander. 
 
 It comes with peculiar propriety from you, Child for in your 
 veins flows the blood of that Hero whofe great name this Phalanx 
 bears, and whofe memory, as one of the moft patriotic and gallant 
 Leaders of the American Revolution, it is our purpofe to ftrengthen 
 and perpetuate. He was a Man who ventured everything for his 
 Country. He gave to it, without ftint, his blood and his treafure, 
 and we defire that all mould love and honor your illuftrious Anceftor, 
 fweet Child, as you do. 
 
 Again, for our Major Commandant, and for all the Officers and 
 Soldiers of his command, I thank you for this warm-hearted Teftimo- 
 nial of your regard for our happinefs and fuccefs in the efforts we 
 make to ftimulate the noble Love of Country, and to awaken admira- 
 tion for the heroic Men who achieved that Revolution which made 
 our Land, in the grandeft fenfe of the familiar, but ever endeared and 
 endearing words, emphatically " the Land of the Free and the Home 
 of the Brave." You certainly mow that you feel the force of thofe 
 fublime Strains which conftitute the Infpiration of the impofing Bat- 
 talion now before you : 
 
 "Our native Country, thee 
 Land of the noble Free 
 
 Thy Name we love. 
 We love thy rocks and rills, 
 Thy woods and templed hills; 
 Land where our Fathers died 
 Land of the Pilgrim's pride 
 From every mountain fide 
 
 Let Freedom ring!" 
 
 And now, in the name and behalf of the Putnam Phalanx, fweet 
 Benefadtrefs, for the falutation which you fo handfomely beftowed on 
 our veteran Commander, I return you a parting, cordial kifs. Good 
 bye God blefs you!
 
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 In refponfe to this eloquent Addrefs, Mr. Holbrook, 
 father of Mifs Mary, faid: 
 
 It is hardly neceflary, Major Goodwin, for me, the Father oFthis 
 little Girl, to apologize for her inability to refpond in an appropriate 
 Manner to the feeling and truly beautiful remarks of the Hon. Judge 
 Advocate in behalf of the Battalion. The detention of the Train 
 and the alighting of the Phalanx has taken us entirely by furprife, and 
 we all feel highly honored. As the Train is already "behind time," 
 I will only fay that I deeply regret that the Phalanx has no "Daugh- 
 ter of the Regiment " that I might reciprocate the hearty kifs bellowed 
 by your noble and eloquent Judge Advocate. It is hardly poffible, 
 however, Sir, knowing what I do of the refined taftes of the individ- 
 ual Members of the Phalanx, to induce me to believe that under any 
 ordinary circumftances, they would be fatisfied with this novel procefs 
 of kifling by proxy. I thank you for your kind Acceptance of my 
 daughter's Tribute to your Battalion, and in her behalf, my own, and 
 of many prefent, exprefs the warmeft wifhes for the Succefs and Prof- 
 perity of the Putnam Phalanx. 
 
 The whole affair was fo unexpected, and yet, of fuch 
 a moving, tender character, that the feelings of the 
 entire Phalanx and affembled Throng were touched, and 
 the Train moved on midil mingled cheers and tears. 
 The following touching Lines upon the Event are from 
 the pen of George H. Clark, Efq.: 
 
 Flowers from his Grave and by his Grandchild brought! 
 
 What Emblems more could fanctify the Scene? 
 Then was each Soul with tender Memories fraught, 
 
 Evoked by Her who bore that Garland green ; 
 Strong men forgot their boafted Manhood then, 
 
 And Eyes that feldom wept, with Tears were dim, 
 In War's grim guifc her Grandfire conquered men, 
 
 She, with thefe frail Memorials of Him. 
 
 Was not his lhadowy Prcfence near her there, 
 
 The while flic plucked thole Leaves and Bloflbms wild?
 
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 And did not Seraphs, hovering in the air, 
 
 Pronounce a Benediction on the Child ? 
 They furely did for, ftill unfeen but feeing, 
 
 The air is rife with their fuftaining Power, 
 And, all intenfified, her fentient Being 
 
 Communed with His in that mod Holy Hour. 
 
 FROM GRAVE TO GAY. 
 
 The Providence Journal, in commenting upon this 
 Incident remarks, in a quiet way, as thus: 
 
 "In one marked inftance, however, Mr. Stuart in fpeaking for 
 Major Goodwin, went quite beyond the line of delegated Duty, and 
 fet up for himfelf, in a manner which, if the Major is the Difciplina- 
 rian we take him for, will bring the offender to a Court-martial. It 
 was well enough when Mifs Holbrook placed a Wreath on the Com- 
 mander's head, and a kifs on his lips, that Mr. Stuart mould reply 
 "on behalf of Major Goodwin;" it was well enough when, "on 
 behalf of Major Goodwin," he thanked the Grand-daughter of Gen- 
 eral Putnam for her floral Gift; it was well enough when, "on behalf 
 of Major Goodwin," he told her what a Good Time they had had 
 in Bofton and Providence; but when, ftill further, "on behalf of 
 Major Goodwin," he returned the Kifs on the Lady's own lips, it 
 feems to us that the indignant Major might well have exclaimed, that 
 however his Judge Advocate might excel him in making Speeches, 
 there were fome little things appertaining to his Command that he 
 could attend to himfelf. We expect to fee in the Hartford papers an 
 order for a Court-martial; and although a great deal is doubtlefs to be 
 faid in the way of extenuation, the offence is one that no Commander 
 who has a proper idea of his Duties and his Rights can be expected to 
 overlook." 
 
 At various points on the route homewards the Pha- 
 lanx was faluted. At Baltic, the Operatives in the 
 immenfe Mill waved their welcomes from every window, 
 and the arrival of the Train at each Station was the 
 ngnal for a gathering, and everywhere the Corps was 
 greeted with enthunafm.
 
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 Between Andover and Bolton the Engine gave out 
 and the Train was delayed three hours or more the 
 only annoying circumftance of the entire Excurlion. The 
 regular evening Train from Providence came along and 
 brought the Phalanx to Hartford. 
 
 THE RECEPTION AT HOME. 
 
 The Citizens of Hartford, not unmindful of the 
 Honor conferred upon the City by the diftinguifhed 
 regard with which their "Representative Men" had been 
 received at Bofton, Charleftown and Providence, refolved 
 to publicly receive the Phalanx home again in an appro- 
 priate and becoming manner. The Affair was almoft 
 impromptu. Yet, at the time of the expected arrival, at 
 5.20 p. m., on Friday, Oct. yth, the Light Guard, under 
 the command of Capt. Levi Woodhoufe, the Seymour 
 Light Artillery, Capt. Horace Ensworth, Commandant, 
 with the Hartford Cornet Band, the Members of the 
 Common Council, and an immenfe concourfe of Citi- 
 zens were in waiting at the Station to welcome home 
 once more the Phalanx. The prolonged and unac- 
 countable delay of the Train produced much anxiety 
 left fome accident of {erious character might have hap- 
 pened, but at laft, at eight o'clock, a gun from the Park 
 announced the arrival. The Battalion was received by 
 their Military Efcort and marched up Afylum through 
 Trumbull, Church and Main itreets to the State Houfe^ 
 where a hollow fquare was formed the Phalanx in the 
 centre. 
 
 It was eminently fitting that our diftinguiOied Fellow- 
 citizen, Lv-GV/i-. Thos. H. Seymour, who but a few weeks 
 before had himfelf received a Public Reception, after 
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 fix years of abfence, from his Fellow Citizens in which 
 Ovation the Phalanx took a prominent part fhould 
 now in turn be called upon to welcome home the Pha- 
 lanx. He was accordingly introduced to the Battalion 
 by Caff. Enfworth, and in behalf of the Efcort and his 
 Fellow-citizens addrefled them. 
 
 Gov. SEYMOUR'S WELCOME. 
 
 Major Goodwin, and Members of the Putnam Phalanx: A few 
 weeks fince, on my return to this City, I received a moft friendly 
 Welcome from a Member of your Corps, in language fo eloquent that 
 it forbade a fuitable reply on my part. 
 
 To-night the circumftances are changed. It is you who have come 
 to us for I am again one of the number of your Fellow-citizens 
 and upon me has fallen the diftinguifhed Honor of receiving you in 
 the heart of our honored City. I welcome you Home in the name 
 and in behalf of the fine Military Efcort which has come with you to 
 the place where you now ftand; in behalf of the crowd of Citizens 
 you fee gathered around you on every fide; in the name of hofts of 
 Neighbors and Friends, and of your Fellow-citizens generally in the 
 name and behalf of all thefe, I heartily welcome the Phalanx back to 
 Hartford. 
 
 We meafure Time, it is faid, by Events, rather than by Hours and 
 Days. Tried by this ftandard, your vifit to Bunker Hill has a deep 
 fignificance. It is an Event. It has come to be hiftoric; fomething 
 worthy of all remembrance. You have been there, not as individu- 
 als merely, but as a Corps; you wore the Coftume of '76; you bore 
 the honored name of PUTNAM on your Banner; you carried in your 
 bofoms the glorious Memories of the Times in which he lived, and 
 the Scenes in which he was engaged. You were not the mere Spec- 
 tators of outward and vifible things, but you held Communion with 
 the unforgotten Dead. Your vifit to the memorable Heights of 
 Charleftown had its fulleft effect on you as a Corps. You have been 
 where your Forefathers thrice repulfed the Troops of King George; 
 when glancing your eyes down the flope of that Hill, you felt as they 
 felt, when driving back the Train-bands of the King. You have 
 feen, in fpirit, the heroic Fight ; you have heard the voice of the Cap- 
 tains, and the fhouting. Your feet have prefled the Ground where
 
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 Warren fell; where, from the fibrous mould, came up the words of 
 the expiring Martyr: "It is fweet and pleafant to die for one's 
 Country." 
 
 Circumftances like thefe give to your vifit to Bunker Hill the char- 
 after of an Event, rather than the journey of a Day. We are glad to 
 fee you back again. Your Fellow-citizens rejoice to greet the Phalanx 
 on this occafion of their return to the City. They are delighted 
 with the accounts they have received of the never-to-be forgotten 
 vifit of the Aflbciation to the Shrine of our Country's Independence. 
 
 It has pleafed your Fellow-citizens to hear of the attentions the 
 Aflbciation has everywhere received on their way to and from Bofton 
 of the Welcome extended to the Phalanx by their Honors the 
 Mayors of Bofton, and Charleftown, and Providence; of their meet- 
 ing with Mr. Everett; of the entertainment given them at Bofton by 
 one of their valued Members; of their Excurfion to Providence, 
 and the very cordial Reception they were honored with at that City. 
 
 [Gov. S. reiterated the pleafure it gave their Fellow-citizens to fee 
 the Corps fafely back again. Anxiety had been felt at the failure of 
 the cars to arrive at the hour the Phalanx were expected an anxiety 
 happily removed at laft.] 
 
 Major Goodwin, your Fellow-citizens have taken the deepeft inter- 
 eft in the journey of your Corps. They have followed your courfe, 
 and rejoiced at the attentions paid you. I once more welcome you 
 and the Members of the Phalanx to Hartford, a City which is proud 
 of the Corps. Welcome to the fcene of your labors and of your 
 triumphs. Long may the Phalanx maintain its prefent Strength and 
 Organization, honored from year to year with renewed tokens of the 
 Refpeft and Confidence of their Fellow-citizens. 
 
 Major Goodwin called upon Acting Sergeant Sill to 
 reipond to this Welcome: 
 
 SERGEANT SILL'S REPLY. 
 
 Sir: Permit me to tender you the thanks of the Putnam Phalanx 
 for this Welcome home. We return, not with the trophies of War, 
 like the ancient Armies who came home from Conqucfts with ele- 
 phants in their train bearing the fpoils of conquered Territory and 
 pillaged Cities, but with grateful Hearts and the Victory of Peace. 
 It is faid that the Grecians were ten years conquering Troy; but we
 
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 have conquered three Cities in lefs than four days ! We have entered 
 their walls, we have fat down and eaten, we have lain down and flept 
 within their Palaces. And we fay it with pride, though not boafting- 
 ly, that three Cities have laid down their arms before the victorious 
 Phalanx, and the Charleftown Navy Yard opened wide its gates, 
 though never before invaded by a Military Company. 
 
 Yet we return with a fenfe of pleafure at arriving Home, which our 
 victories elfewhere have not excited, and with a feeling that there is 
 indeed no fweeter place on earth than Home ! Therefore it is, that 
 we mould be pardoned if we are more grateful for this cordial Greet- 
 ing by our Friends, than for the attentions paid us elfewhere, and 
 above all we are thankful for this fine Efcort, fo finely and kindly ten- 
 dered, and your determination to await our arrival through long and 
 anxious hours, commends your Goodnefs ftill more to our Gratitude. 
 We feel grateful that we have, as Reprefentatives of the Citizens of 
 Hartford, achieved a greater Victory by our peaceful Triumphs, than 
 he that goeth forth to Battle. I believe I confine myfelf to the fads, 
 when I fay that we have done more than any other agency, to com- 
 mand Refpeft for our City from the places we have vifited, and to 
 cement the Bonds of Friendship exifting between them, making them 
 feel that ours were common wants, common interefts and common 
 feelings. We thank you again for your Efcort on this occafion, and 
 as we have enjoyed ourfelves fo well this time, and as it is natural for 
 us to endeavor to enjoy ourfelves as much as poffible, during the brief 
 fpace allotted us while here, it is not impoflible we may go again to 
 Bunker Hill. 
 
 Major Commandant Goodwin advanced with the 
 Wreath of Flowers received at Moofup Station and faid : 
 
 Fellow-citizens : A young Lady placed thefe flowers around my 
 neck fome of them were plucked to-day, from the Grave of General 
 Putnam ! 
 
 Loud cheers were given for Gov. Seymour, the Efcort 
 and the Battalion. In refponfe to an enthufiaftic call, 
 Judge Advocate Stuart came forward and faid that he 
 had almoft exhaufted his voice in refponding to the
 
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 Welcomes the Battalion had received from the people 
 of Bofton, Charleftown and Providence, and in endeav- 
 oring to do juftice to the local and national fubjects 
 which, at Bunker Hill and at Providence, had forced 
 themfelves upon the notice of the Battalion. He was 
 happy, however, to refpond to the call from his Fellow- 
 citizens and to thank them for this endorfement of their 
 Vint, thereby endoriing the Principles that lie at the 
 Bans of all our Institutions and infure our Profperity. 
 After the handfome refponfe of Sergeant Sill, it was unne- 
 ceflTary for him, rue faid, to add anything to exprefs the 
 warm appreciation of the Battalion for this fpontaneous 
 Welcome of their Fellow-citizens. He trusted that 
 the Phalanx in their Journeyings had been properly 
 reprefentative of the City and had reflected Honor upon 
 the Old Charter Oak State. 
 
 In refponfe to a call, AJJlftant Commiffary Deming faid 
 that it would afford him great pleafure under more favor- 
 able circumftances, to give his Fellow-citizens an 
 account of the Reception the Battalion had met with in 
 the Metropolis of New England, and in the hofpitable 
 City of Providence. But, although fuch a narrative 
 might be gratifying to thofe who had ftaid at home, it 
 would be wearifome to the Battalion. The Phalanx 
 have already informally refolved to put upon record, in 
 fbme permanent fhape, an Account of their memorable 
 Expedition, and the curioiity of thofe who wiili to hear 
 of it will be probably gratified. 
 
 Major Goodwin here called on the Battalion for three 
 cheers for the Citizens of Hartford, which were given 
 with a will ; then, efcorted by the two Companies, the 
 Phalanx marched to the City Hall, where, after a few
 
 102 
 
 words of commendation and congratulation, the Chap- 
 lain, Rei\ Afher Moore, offered a Prayer of Thankfgiv- 
 ing and the Phalanx was difmiffed. 
 
 [From the Hartford Daily Times.] 
 
 RETURN OF THE PUTNAM PHALANX 
 
 FROM THEIR EXCURSION TO BOSTON AND PROVIDENCE. 
 
 Come back, come back to us, 
 
 Nor longer feek to roam ; 
 We've heard your Welcome from afar, 
 
 And give the Welcome home ! 
 We watch'd you as you went 
 
 With martial ftep and eye, 
 Your gorgeous Banner floating out 
 
 Upon the autumnal Sky. 
 
 Your Leader at your head, 
 
 Alert, eredl and bold, 
 As tho' his threefcore years and ten 
 
 Had fcarcely half been told : 
 Your ancient Plumes we mark'd, 
 
 And glittering in the Sun, 
 The Coftume of our bleffed Sires 
 
 Who flood with Wafhington. 
 
 You've been at Bunker Hill, 
 
 But not the foe to meet, 
 And win that blood-bought victory, 
 
 The Britons call'd defeat. 
 Saw ye that Hero's form 
 
 In glorious vifion there, 
 Whofe Name is graven on your fhield? 
 
 Whofe Banner-ftaff ye bear? 
 
 And heard ye not his Voice 
 
 That ruled the battle dread, 
 Still echoing from that lofty Shrine, 
 
 Where deep the patriot Dead? 
 Charging your Phalanx fair 
 
 In every change to be
 
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 The Bulwark of its Native Land, 
 For Law and Liberty? 
 
 You've fought his claflic dome, 
 
 Whofe eloquence fublime 
 Doth make Mount Vernon and its lord 
 
 A theme throughout our Clime. 
 Your Demofthenean power 
 
 Made his high fpirit leap, 
 Whofe jewel'd Memory link'd with theirs, 
 
 Unfwerving Fame mall keep. 
 
 Thanks, Athens! for the cheer 
 
 You on our Braves beftow'd, 
 Thanks, fitter Rhoda ! for the fmile 
 
 That o'er your features glow'd. 
 A Mother for her fons 
 
 Treafuring all Honor mown, 
 Connecticut with added Pride, 
 
 Thus welcomes back her own. 
 
 L. H. S. 
 Friday Evening, 8 o'clock, Oct. 7, 1859. 
 
 [From the Hartford Daily Times.] 
 
 THE RETURN. 
 
 lo TRIUMPHE! The Phalanx forever! 
 
 Unfurl your proud Flag to its own native breezes; 
 Let the Cynic who fneered at your early endeavor, 
 
 In this Hour of Fruition ftill fneer if he pleafes; 
 And let the dull Fogies and mortified Croakers 
 
 Perfift in their futile attempts to be witty 
 They 're fubjects themfelves for more jubilant jokers 
 
 Who mow the unfortunate Victims no pity. 
 
 lo Triumphe! The Phalanx, victorious, 
 Returns from its foray in foreign Plantations, 
 
 And meets with fuch Greeting and Welcome, uproarious, 
 As thrills ev'ry Soul with delicious fenfations.
 
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 'T is hard to tell which of the two is the proudeft, 
 The Soldierly Troop or the Concourfe iurrounding; 
 
 While excited Outfiders are Ihouting their loudeft, 
 
 Your own heaving breafts betray Hearts that are bounding. 
 
 lo Triumphe ! This, this is the hour 
 
 When finewy Strength and tall Intellects mingle j 
 When the thews and the wits, with a multiplied power, 
 
 Caufe nerves of admiring Beholders to tingle. 
 It is Carnival time: and a rich Gratulation 
 
 Is rained on the heads of the Soldiers, returning, 
 All wreathed with the bays of a triple Ovation 
 
 Fit tribute to Genius, Worth, Manhood, and Learning. 
 
 lo Triumphe ! Bewildered with Bleflings ! 
 
 And yet all your honors fo gallantly wearing! 
 Linked with Man's homage and Woman's careffings, 
 
 O who would not wifh in your Paft to be fharing. 
 You 've a grand Piclure -gallery for future enjoyment, 
 
 Where Memory gilds ev'ry fcene as Elyfian, 
 And furnimes Dreamers with fweeteft employment, 
 
 As Time only ftrengthens the mental eye's vifion. 
 
 lo Triumphe ! All fcathlefs and hearty 
 
 You come, overfhadowed with Laurels and Rofes: 
 Your Gonfalon, under the fmiles of ASTARTE, 
 
 Like Fame's adumbration, in Brightnefs repofes. 
 Welcome, then, Soldiers, once more to home duties ; 
 
 Welcome, thrice welcome, Battalion all glorious ! 
 Refplendent with Garlands from large-hearted Beauties, 
 
 Your manifold Trophies proclaim you victorious ! 
 
 At a regularly called Meeting of the Putnam Phalanx, 
 held at their Armory on the evening of Oct. nth, the 
 following Refolutions were unanimouily adopted, and, 
 by order, were publiflied in the City Papers the next 
 day, and alfo in Bofton and Providence Papers:
 
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 RESOLUTIONS. 
 
 WHEREAS, the Putnam Phalanx, upon its recent Excurfion abroad, 
 
 has been received with hearty Welcome and unbounded Hofpitali- 
 
 ties ; therefore 
 
 Refolved, That to the Mayors of the cities of Bofton, Charleftown 
 and Providence, for their eloquent fpeeches of Welcome to the Pha- 
 lanx, and for the cheering Hofpitalities of their homes and to thofe 
 of the Municipal Authorities of thefe refpeclive Cities who participa 
 ted in our Reception and the noble Policemen of thefe Cities, who 
 fo effectually guarded our March through their ftreets this Phalanx 
 tenders its heartieft Thanks. 
 
 Refolved, That to the gallant Charleftown City Guard, Capt. 
 Boyd, Commander, for its beautiful Efcort, long and heartily continued, 
 and for its bountiful Collation at its Armory, this Phalanx feels under 
 the deepeft obligations as it alfo does to the fplendid Second Battal- 
 ion of Bofton, Major Rogers, Commander, for its attentive Efcort, and 
 for the free ufe of its Armory. The martial port and bearing of 
 thefe confpicuous Companies, and the attentions fo handfomely be- 
 llowed by their Officers, demand, and they receive at our hands our 
 particular Thanks. 
 
 Refolved, That we tender our particular Thanks to Commodore 
 Hudfon, Commandant of the Navy Yard at Charleftown, for the ex- 
 ceedingly courteous manner in which he received the Phalanx, and 
 for his happy remarks upon the Occafion. 
 
 Refolved, That for the courteous and graceful Review upon the 
 Bofton Common, beftowed by the Mayor of Bofton and his aflbciate 
 authorities, and by the Mayor of Charleftown, and by Adjutant Gen- 
 eral Stone and his noble Staff, our Phalanx feels under grateful obli- 
 gation. 
 
 Refolved, That to the impofing Battalion of Providence Light In- 
 fantry, for their Efcort and for the truly magnificent Banquet which 
 they gave to the Phalanx and for their prefcntation of a fragment 
 of the Roger Williams Rock, and for the many kind and eloquent 
 Words of Greeting which they extended, both in public and in pri- 
 vate, to our Phalanx, we tender our heartfelt Thanks. They have 
 laid us under a deep and lafting debt of Gratitude, which we fliall be 
 ever willing, but know not how to repay. 
 
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 Rffolved, That we tender our cordial thanks to the Hon. EDWARD 
 EVERETT, to Hon. RICHARD FROTHINGHAM, Jr., to the Hon. GEORGE 
 WASHINGTON WARREN, the Prefident of the Bunker Hill Monument 
 Aflbciation, and to Dr. SEARS, the Prefident of Brown Univerfity, for 
 the highly eloquent and inftruclive remarks with which they greeted 
 our Battalion. 
 
 Rtjblvcd, That to thofe Ladies of Providence who fhowered upon 
 our Battalion the perfumed hofpitality of beautiful bouquets and to 
 Mifs Mary Putnam Holbrook, of Brooklyn, Conn., who at Moofup 
 Station fo gracefully beftowed upon our Commander a fplendid 
 Wreath our efpecial thanks are due. Their Prefents were received 
 with lively fatisfaftion, and we wifh to the fair Donors, in return, 
 every happinefs. 
 
 Rejblved, That to E. L. Davenport, Efq., of Bofton, for his polite 
 invitation to the Howard Athenxum--to the Mafons of the fame 
 city for their proffer of civilities to many members of our Corps 
 to Private Ellfvvorth, of the fame city and alfo of our Battalion, the 
 hofpitality of whofe dwelling was fumptuous and prodigal to the 
 Commandant of the Providence Light Infantry, Col. Brown, and 
 Commijjary Davis, for the abounding hofpitality of their manfions 
 and to all who in any way aided, in any of the Cities we have vifited, 
 to make our flay agreeable we tender the aflurance of our lively 
 Gratitude. 
 
 Rejblved, That we thank the Artillery Corps of Bofton and of 
 Pawtucket, and thofe of Warehoufe Point, who honored us with Sa- 
 lutes as we do alfo the Willimantic Band for its mufic at the 
 Station in their village, which the hafte of the Railroad engineer com- 
 pelled us, unwillingly, to pafs without a ftop. 
 
 Rejblved, That our efficient Hofts of the United States Hotel in 
 Bofton, and of the Earl Houfe in Providence, deferve and receive 
 our Thanks for their timely attention to all our wants as do alfo the 
 Officers and Managers of the Railroads over which we have pafled 
 and Citizens, generally, wherever they have miniftered to our com- 
 fort and pleafure. 
 
 Refolved, That to the Hartford Light Guard, Capt. Woodhoufe, 
 and the Seymour Light Artillery, Capt. Enfworth, of our city, for 
 their cheering efcort upon our arrival home to our diftinguifhed 
 Fellow-citizen Gov. Seymour, for the eloquent words with which he 
 welcomed us and to our Fellow-citizens generally, who aflembled
 
 to greet our coming we tender our heartfelt Acknowledgments. It 
 is indeed a grateful reflection to us all, that the Abfence of the Pha- 
 lanx was watched with pleafant folicitude, and its Return hailed with 
 proud Satisfaction. 
 
 HORACE GOODWIN, Major Commandant. 
 J. M. SEXTON, Secretary.
 
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