An Account of the Interment of the Remains of 11,500 American Seamen, Soldiers and Citizens; Who Fell Victims to the Cruelties of the British on Boar (Paperback)

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated.1808 Excerpt: ... tude, and of English barbarity. The curious mariner shall point at it in silent admiration as he passes at a distance, and posterity shall call it ' The Tomb F THE PATRIOTS.'" To state the effects which this address had on the audience is almost impossible--suffice it to say, that it produced alternately the tear of refined sensibility, the silence of indescribable and unutterable indignation, and repeated bursts of applause. The orator having concluded, the procession returned in inverse order to die place of rendezvous, formed a circle round the Liberty Pole, near the market, gave three cheers, and retired. The Tomb of the Martyrs being completed, tfe Tammany Society intended that the bones of those patriots who expired in the Prison-ships should be consigned to the sepulchre on Wednesday, the 25th May, 1808; but a heavy storm of rain prevented it. On Thursday, the 26th, the early morn promised a fair day, and the first ray of twilight was announced bj a morning gun from the Park--the Battery--Fort Columbus--the Flotilla--and the Wallabout. The thunder of the cannon re-echoed from shore to shore, and died away in murmurs along the waters of the East river and the Hudson. It was the dawn of a day, glorious to America. The patriot was awake--his bosom felt the solemnity inspired by the echo of cannon; he turned back his mind to the time when similar sounds conveyed terror to the now peaceful city, and were accompanied with death and conflagration. As soon as the morning guns had ceased to fire, the revellie was sounded from all the different. military posts in the city and its neighbourhood. At sunrise, at all the public places in the city--at all military posts--and on all vessels (excepting the British) were displayed the American flag, and the flags of ...