ened locks, bent shoulders, on the verge of ninety, with a voice, however, still firm, and with opinions very decisive, and conversation terse, and you can see all of the outward man, which was left of one of the most daring of the chieftains of this day. The heart and soul rather than the stature constitute the essence of such men. A controversy was then going on as to who was the leader or commander in the battle here. His memory was considered by his family as not perfect, especially about recent events, but he replied without hesitation, when asked, that there was no commander of all the American troops on this hard-fought day, and that most of the officers who conducted men there, all being moved by one common impulse, and to one common end, fought the common enemy much as they deemed best, each acting pretty much on his own hook. The ashes of the noble veteran now sleep under a column of granite, erected by filial gratitude on his farm, on the banks of the Merrimack, in sight of the Falls of Amoskeag, where he speared salmon in his youth, and near the beautiful Massabeseck lake or pond where he trapped beaver in maturer life. To show the rapid changes in improvement under the free institutions he helped to establish, he rests now almost within hearing of the busy hum of the thousands of spindles in the flourishing city of Manchester, which late, even at the time of his death, consisted chiefly of a forest and arid fields.

Many other brave spirits from my native state, on the occasion now commemorated, fleshed their maiden swords on the summit of yon hill, in competition with similar troops from this and other states. How often, in youth, have I devoured up their discourse on the daring of Putnam, the cool intrepidity of Prescott, the martyr firmness of Warren, the hair-breadth escapes of the bold militia, rank and file, and seen them show with the crutch that supported their decrepid frames, "how fields were won," by aid of New Hampshire, not only at Bunker Hill but Saratoga and Bennington. Though of the true Puritan stock, they knew that justice must sometimes use the sword as well as the scales, and they never halted at war in defence of all those sacred rights which alone give value, security, and honor to life. It would prove tedious to add more on this occasion, than to say, there, on those glorious heights, the blood they shed has helped to raise the richest fruits, and, it is hoped, will continue to do it forever. Among them are well secured liberty, popular rights, freedom of conscience, self-government, and a Union as valuable as it ought to be indissoluble.

He subsequently gave an anecdote of Gen. Stark and a sentiment:

In celebrating the heroes of that day may we remember to teach our children, and children's children, to emulate their virtues.

The President then stated that they were highly honored by the presence of the Justices of the Supreme Judicial Court,-a coördinate branch of the government of the Commonwealth; he would, therefore, propose as the

4th Regular. The Supreme Judicial Court of the Commonwealth-Wisely established by the people upon a liberal and independent footing, to the end that they might have a govern ment of laws and not of men.

Hon. LEMUEL SHAW, Chief Justice, rose, and was received with continued cheering, and addressed the company as follows:

Mr. President,-I rise with great pleasure to express, in behalf of myself and those members of the judiciary with whom I have the honor to be associated, our sincere thanks for the kind sentiments of respect with which they have been noticed on this interesting occasion, and the cordial manner with which it has been responded to.

I suppose, sir, that I ought to be profoundly surprised, in finding the judiciary, that peaceful and quiet department of the government, called out by a special token of respect, on an occasion designed to commemorate one of the great battles of the revolution. I am not aware that the occasion we are called to honor was much connected with jurisprudence; I have never heard that any courts were in session hereabouts on that day, or that it was illustrated by any extraordinary triumphs of forensic eloquence, or by any displays of profound judicial wisdom. I have, indeed, heard that some actions were tried here about that time, or rather that trials were commenced, which, though not followed by an immediate verdict, led, in the issue, to a favorable judgment, founded, as we hope, on principles of liberty and justice, and ending in peace and security to our rights.

But, sir, (perhaps a little too much of this,) we shall have profited little by the lessons of wisdom and patriotism, which have this day fallen from the lips of the eloquent gentleman near you, who has this day addressed us, were we to take this narrow and confined view of the glorious occasion which, after three quarters of a century, we are now called to commemorate. It was, indeed, under all the circumstances, not unworthy of regard as a display of courage, firmness and perseverance, where a body of farmers, and other citizens, hastily summoned from their peaceful pursuits, scantily armed, poorly trained, and scarcely formed under a military organization, were found able, for hours, to resist the disciplined forces of Great Britain.

But it is not as a mere military occasion that we commemorate the battle of Bunker Hill. Other fields have been fought where vastly greater numbers have been engaged, many more lives have been lost,

and a great amount of territory lost and won, where the highest military skill and science have been exhibited, the recollection of which lives only in history. But it was the cause, it was the great purpose of heart and soul, which animated our fathers to deeds of noble daring, which has consecrated this day and the occasion, which has kept it fresh in the memory, and will forever make it dear to the hearts of every patriotic American. It was a noble determination to establish for themselves and their posterity, a higher and purer state of civil liberty and social order, and to resist all unjust encroachments on their rights, which steeled their wills and nerved their arms to the deeds which we commemorate.

Taking this view, the true and just view, of the occasion of the battle of Bunker Hill, of the great men engaged in it, and the spirit by which they were actuated, as well as the great results which followed it, who is there who may not fitly celebrate it, as one of the days forever united to the establishment of civil liberty, of social order, to the maintenance of right, justice and peace? Is it not a day in which every man, woman and child, who finds security under the broad standard of American liberty, should rejoice and be glad?

Let it not then be said that this is an occasion in which the judiciary of the country cannot fully participate. Our ancestors had formed to themselves an ideal of civil liberty far different from the unbridled licentiousness which had too often taken its name and usurped its honors; of a liberty pure and chaste, founded on the strictest principles of justice, of personal and social right, and guarded by the invincible power of law. This they sought to obtain by the establishment of an upright, impartial and powerful government, founded on the will, supported by the judgment, and sustained by the power of the whole people. To this purpose a wise, pure, and impartial administration of justice and execution of the laws was of vital importance. We may therefore justly say, and we say it with grateful hearts, that the establishment of an independent American judiciary, was among the great objects which our wise and intelligent ancestors had in view, in the great struggle for freedom, of which the great event, which we this day celebrate, was amongst the wisest and most illustrious. Let us mark our deep sense of gratitude, to our ancestors, by endeavoring, each in his own humble measure, to realize the great idea which they had formed of a pure and impartial administration of justice. Let us pay due honor to the names of those illustrious men, who, by their wisdom and intelligence, have illumined the walks of jurisprudence, both under our national and state institutions.

Permit me, then, to propose the following sentiment :

Chief Justice Marshall-One of the illustrious founders of our American judiciary; may it prove a pillar of strength in support of the noble fabric of civil liberty contemplated by our ancestors-liberty regulated and secured by law.

Before announcing the next sentiment, the President remarked, that, although there were many distinguished gentlemen present, who, he hoped, would be able to address the company, yet it was ever a duty to remember "absent friends;" that he had the honor of giving, in person, the special invitation extended, by the board of directors of the Bunker Hill Monument Association and by the city council of Charlestown, to a highly distinguished personage, who was every where esteemed and beloved, to honor this occasion with his company. That gentleman expressed his grateful acknowledgments for the invitation, but regretted that official duties would prevent his acceptance; at the same time he expressed the hope that he would be able to visit Bunker Hill and the monument during the ensuing autumn. In the meanwhile the company would remember him as ever faithful at his post.

5th Regular. ZACHARY TAYLOR, the President of the United States-As he once very respectfully declined the proposition for a SURRENDER, he will treat in the same manner every proposition for a SECESSION. [Great applause.]

Gen. DEVENS, United States Marshal for this district, spoke as follows:

While I acknowledge, sir, the honor you have done me, as an officer of the federal government in Massachusetts, in calling upon me to respond to a sentiment in remembrance of the president of the United States, I feel that I should not be justified in detaining you long by remarks of mine from listening to those whom I see on every side, whose powers are so much better calculated to adorn and illustrate an occasion like the present. It is not for me to eulogize the illustrious individual, who has just been mentioned. The country which hon ors, and which is honored by him, knows him too well for any word which I could utter to add aught to a reputation nobly earned and worthily worn. His eulogium is best found in the cordial and hearty respect with which, on this occasion, all, whether united with or separated from him in a mere party and political view, coincide in honoring him not only as the representative of a nation, but also, I would fain hope, as a man.

This, sir, is most especially a day when the president of the United States, as representing the national government, should be remembered, for the 17th of June demonstrated what had been but foreshad.

owed on the day of Lexington and Concord, that the war, waged between the colonies and mother country, had ceased to be a contest about obnoxious laws, about oppressions whether great or petty; that the day of redress was past, and that, in fine, the conflict was a war for independence or it was nothing; a day whose dangers and whose toils fell mainly upon the men of New England, but whose glory is her free gift to the common stock of a national renown. The fruits of that day, not reached, indeed, but through long and painful strug. gles, were first, independence; afterwards it is combined, independent government, which we denominate the Union. Language more worthy of its theme than mine has to-day adverted to the almost gigantic strides with which we have advanced on the way of prosperity under its benign and genial influence; and though clouds may momentarily dim the pathway of the future, I cannot but believe that the sun is still shining behind them in full meridian splendor.

I beg leave, sir, to offer as a sentiment:

The Union-May its sacred trusts be transmitted, unimpaired, to our posterity.

The next sentiment was announced, after an allusion to the early settlement of Boston from the elder settlement of Charlestown.

6th Regular, The City of Boston-The daughter of Charlestown. She always feels just as proud of her mother's Bunker Hill as she is of her own Faneuil Hall.

His Honor Mayor BIGELOW replied in a few happy remarks, reciprocating the sentiment. He based a short argument upon it, in relation to the mutual good feeling existing between the two cities, as manifested by the very dinner to-day, and concluded by beautifully alluding to the orator of the day, and giving a sentiment as follows:

The Monument on Bunker Hill-The great observatory of freedom. Whatever other changes may take place in the political firmament of the world, may that never witness the obscuration or the fall of a single star of the American constellation.

The President, after thanking, on behalf of the company present, the orator, gave the

7th Regular. The Orator of the Day-His words have thrilled the public mind from Concord, from Lexington, and to-day from Bunker Hill. Bravery had rendered those places ever memorable; eloquence has made them CLASSIC.

Hon. Mr. EVERETT made his acknowledgments to the presiding officer and the Mayor of Boston for their complimentary notice, and he excused himself in a humorous strain, on the ground of his hoarseness, for not making an extended speech. He briefly alluded to the character and services of the army and navy, during the revolutionary war, and contended that they were yet not fully appreciated by us.