The Battle of Bunker Hill: Or The Temple of Liberty; an Historic Poem in Four CantosSackett & Sargent, printers, 1839 - 144 Seiten |
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America anguish appear'd arms art thou assailants ball bayonet Behold bend beneath BENJAMIN FRAnklin blaze blood blow bosom Boston breast breath Britain British Britons brow BUNKER HILL CANTO cause charger Charlestown cheek Clinton colonies Congress CONTINENTAL CONGRESS dare dastard death deed despair earth Edwin enemy explode falchion fall fear feel fell fire fix'd flag flame Freedom's Gage Gardner gaze glorious gore Gridley hail hand heard heart heaven height Hence honor imbrue indignation inhabitants inspiration Ireland JOSEPH WARREN labor land Lexington liberty Liberty or Death light live McClary ministry myrmidons numbers o'er passions patriots pause peal Pigot Pitcarn plain Pomeroy pour'd Prescott press'd Putnam rage rear rebel reel round ruin scarce scene seem'd seize shore show'd soon soul spirit stamp'd stand steel steep stood stream sword tear thee thou thought thunders tocsin toil town Trevett troops Twill tyrants voice Warren Willard wing
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Seite 143 - After the most valuable Right of Legislation was infringed; when the Powers assumed by your Parliament, in which we are not represented, and from our local and other Circumstances cannot properly be represented, rendered our Property precarious; after being denied that mode of Trial, to which we have long been indebted for the safety of our Persons, and the preservation of our Liberties; after being in many instances divested of those Laws, which were transmitted to us by our common Ancestors, and...
Seite 140 - ... to dutiful subjects, and when the insidious stratagems and manoeuvres of peace become more terrible than the sanguinary operations of war, it is high time for them to assert those rights, and, with honest indignation, oppose the torrent of oppression rushing in upon them.
Seite 131 - Your parliament had done us no wrong. You had ever been friendly to the rights of mankind ; and we acknowledge with pleasure and gratitude that your nation has produced patriots who have nobly distinguished themselves in the cause of humanity and America.
Seite 144 - ... could be added to this black catalogue of unprovoked injuries : but we have unhappily been deceived, and the late measures of the British ministry fully convince us that their object is the reduction of these colonies to slavery and ruin.
Seite 135 - We know that you are not without your grievances. — We sympathize with you in your distress, and are pleased to find that the design of subjugating us, has persuaded administration to dispense to Ireland, some vagrant rays of ministerial sunshine. — Even the tender mercies of government have long been cruel towards you. — In the rich pastures of Ireland, many hungry parricides have fed, and grown strong to labor in its destruction. We hope the patient abiding of the meek may not always be forgotten...
Seite 130 - British counsels, and left that nation a prey to a race of ministers, with whom ancient English honesty and benevolence disdained to dwell. From that period, jealousy, discontent, oppression, and discord, have raged among all his majesty's subjects, and filled every part of his dominions with distress and complaint. Not content with our purchasing of Britain, at her own price, clothing and a thousand other articles used by near three millions of people on this vast continent; not satisfied with the...
Seite 132 - During this period that devoted town suffered unspeakably. Its inhabitants were insulted and their property violated. Still relying on the clemency and justice of his majesty and the nation, they permitted a few regiments to take possession of their town, to surround it with fortifications, and to cut off all intercourse between them and their friends in the country. With anxious expectation did all America wait the event of their petition.
Seite 134 - Compelled therefore to behold thousands of our countrymen imprisoned, and men, women, and children involved in promiscuous and unmerited misery — When we find all faith at an end, and sacred treaties turned into tricks of state ; when we perceive our friends and kinsmen massacred, our habitations plundered, our houses in flames...
Seite 132 - Britain would be fruitless, and were therefore compelled to adopt a measure, to which nothing but absolute necessity would have reconciled us. It gave us, however, some consolation to reflect, that should it occasion much distress, the fertile regions of America would afford you a safe asylum from poverty, and in time from oppression also; an asylum in which many thousands of your countrymen have found hospitality, peace, and affluence, and become united to us by all the ties of consanguinity, mutual...
Seite 136 - But we shu'.Jd be wanting to ourselves ; we should be perfidious to posterity ; we should be unworthy that ancestry from which we derive our descent, should we submit with folded arms to military butchery and depredation, to gratify the lordly ambition, or sate the avarice of a British ministry.