UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA AT LOS ANGELES THE CONTRIBUTION OF BOSTON TO AMERICAN INDEPENDENCE. ORATION DELIVERED BEFORE THE MAYOR AND CITIZENS OF BOSTON AT THE ONE HUNDRED AND TWENTY-FIRST CELEBRATION OF THE DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE MONDAY, JULY $, 1897 BY EDWARD EVERETT HALE BOSTON PRINTED BY ORDER OF THE CITY COUNCIL 1897 PRESS OF MUNICIPAL PRINTING OFFICE BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS 0f IN BOARD OF ALDERMEN, Sept. 2, 1897. Resolved, That the thanks of the City Council be, and are hereby tendered to the Rev. EDWARD EVERETT HALE, D.D., for the very appropriate, interesting and eloquent oration delivered by him on the Fourth of July, in commemoration of the One Hundred and Twenty-first Anniversary of the Declaration of American Independence, and that he be requested to furnish a copy of the said address and his portrait, for publication. SjV Adopted unanimously by a rising vote. Sent down for " The True Grandeur of Nations." 1846. WEBSTER, FLETCHER. 1847. GARY, THOMAS GREAVES. 1848. GILES, JOEL. " Practical Liberty." 1849. GREENOUGH, WILLIAM WHITWELL. "The Con- quering Republic." 1850. WHIPPLE, EDWIN PERCY." "Washington and the Principles of the Revolution." 1851. RUSSELL, CHARLES THEODORE. 1852. KING, THOMAS STARR." " The Organization of Liberty on the Western Continent." 12 1853. BIGELOW, TIMOTHY. u 1854. STONE, ANDREW LEETE. S 1855. MINER, ALONZO AMES. 1856. PARKER, EDWARD GRIFFIN. "The Lesson of '76 to the Men of '56." 1857. ALGER, WILLIAM ROUNSEVILLE." "The Genius and Posture of America." 1858. HOLMES, JOHN SOMERS. S 1859. SUMNER, GEORGE. 16 1860. EVERETT, EDWARD. 1861. PARSONS, THEOPHILUS. 1862. CURTIS, GEORGE TICKNOR. S 1863. HOLMES, OLIVER WENDELL." 1864. RUSSELL, THOMAS. 8 Delivered another oration In 1862. There are five editions; only one by the City. 10 Passed through three editions in Boston and one in London, and was answered in a pamphlet, Remarks upon an Oration delivered by Charles Sumner . . . .July 4th, 1845. By a Citizen of Boston. See Memoir and Letters of Charles Sumner, by Edward L. Pierce, vol. ii. 337-384. There is a second edition. (Boston: Ticknor, Reed & Fields. 1850. 49 pp. 12.) u First published by the City in 1892. 18 This and a number of the succeeding orations, up to 1861, contain the speeches, toasts, etc., of the City dinner usually given in Faneuil Hall on the Fourth of July. APPENDIX. 39 1865. MANNING, JACOB MERRILL. "Peace under Liberty." 1866. LOTHROP, SAMUEL KIRKLAND. 1867. HEPWORTH, GEORGE HUGHES. 1868. ELIOT, SAMUEL. "The Functions of a City." 1869. MORTON, ELLIS WESLEY. 1870. EVERETT, WILLIAM. 1871. SARGENT, HORACE BINNET. 1872. ADAMS, CHARLES FRANCIS, JUN. 1873. WARE, JOHN FOTHERGILL WATERHOUSE. 1874. FROTHINGHAM, RICHARD. 1875. CLARKE, JAMES FREEMAN. 1876. WINTHROP, ROBERT CHARLES." 1877. WARREN, WILLIAM WIRT. 1878. HEALY, JOSEPH. 1879. LODGE, HENRY CABOT. 1880. SMITH, ROBERT DiCKSON. 18 1881. WARREN, GEORGE WASHINGTON. " Our Repub- lic Liberty and equality Founded on Law." 1882. LONG, JOHN DAVIS. 1883. CARPENTER, HENRY BERNARD. "American Character and Influence." 1884. SHEPARD, HARVEY NEWTON. 1885. GARGAN, THOMAS JOHN. 14 Probably four editions were printed in 1857. (Boston: Ollice Boston Daily Bee. 60 pp.) Not until November 22, 1864, was Mr. Alger asked by the City to furnish a copy for publication. He granted the request, and the first official edition (J. E. Far- well & Co., 1864, 53 pp.) was then issued. It lacks the interesting preface and appendix of the early editions. There is another edition. (Boston : Ticknor & Fields, 1859. 69 pp.) A third (Boston: Rockwell & Churchill, 1882. 46 pp.) omits the dinner at Faneuil Hall, the correspondence and events of the celebration. There is a preliminary edition of twelve copies. (J. E. Farwell & Co., 1863. (7), 71 pp.) It is " the first draft of the author's address, turned into larger, legible type, for the sole purpose of rendering easier its public delivery." It was done by " the liberality of the City Authorities," and is, typographically, the handsomest of these orations. This resulted in the large-paper 75-page edition, printed from the same type as the 71-page edition, but modified by the author. It is printed " by order of the Common Council." The regular edition is in CO pp., octavo size. 40 APPENDIX. 1886. WILLIAMS, GEORGE FREDERICK. 1887. FITZGERALD, JOHN EDWARD. 1888. DILLAWAT, WILLIAM EDWARD LOVELL. 1889. SWIFT, JOHN LINDSAY." "The American Citi- zen." 1890. PILLSBURY, ALBERT ENOCH. "Public Spirit." 1891. QUINCY, JosiAH. 20 "The Coming Peace." 1892. MURPHY, JOHN ROBERT. 1893. PUTNAM, HENRY WARE. "The Mission of Our People." 1894. O'NEIL, JOSEPH HENRY. 1895. BERLE, ADOLPH AUGUSTUS. "The Constitution and the Citizen." 1896. FITZGERALD, JOHN FRANCIS. 1897. HALE, EDWARD EVERETT. "The Contribution of Boston to American Independence." There is a large paper edition of fifty copies printed from this type, and also an edition from the press of John Wilson & Son, 1876. 65 pp. 8. " On Samuel Adams, a statue of whom, by Miss Anne Whitney, had just been completed for the City. A photograph of the statue is added. 19 Contains a bibliography of Boston Fourth of July orations, from 1783 to 1889, Inclusive, compiled by Lindsay Swift, of the Boston Public Library. * Reprinted by the American Peace Society. University of California SOUTHERN REGIONAL LIBRARY FACILITY 405 Hilgard Avenue, Los Angeles, CA 90024-1388 Return this material to the library from which it was borrowed. FOU NOD Form L-9-15m-3.'34 UC SOUTHERN REGIONAL LIBRARY FACILITY A 001337963 1 Universit Southe Libra]