A Discourse Concerning Theodore Parker
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Excerpt from A Discourse Concerning Theodore Parker: Delivered in the Indiana-Place Chapel, June 3, 1860 No man more than he, since Benjamin Franklin, has shown those traits of common sense, joined with abstract speculation; sensibility of conscience, poised with calm judgment; the fanatic´s devotion to ideas, with the calculating prudence of a man of the world; which make the basis of New-Eng-land character and its essential strength. When, on the 19th of April, 1775, the British troops marched to Lexington and Concord, they found at Lexington the militia company of that town - eighty strong - drawn up on the green, in front of the Meeting-house, to receive them. The captain of the company waited till the British troops - eight hundred in all - had reached the green and deployed into line opposite, and till their commander had ordered the Americans to disperse. Then he, too, gave the same order to his men; not wishing to sacrifice life in a useless resistance to overwhelming numbers, but letting the British soldiers, for the first time, look in the face of the American militia. But, while they were dispersing, the British fired; and that greensward, on the April morning, was stained with the first American blood which fell in the great struggle. Out in Kentucky, the hunters heard it, and baptized their newly planted town by the name of Lexington. In Europe, the nations heard it, and dated from that hour the beginning of a new era for the destinies of man. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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