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the first blood of the Revolution was spilt, two months earlier than the "Boston Massacre," and more than five years before the Lexington affair. I have no controversy with our sister cities who have thus acted wiser than we, and am not jealous of their fame ; on the contrary, I commend them for example of life and instruction of manners.

Not to be jealous of the historic property of neighbor cities is no exalted virtue in a New-Yorker, since the romantic and glorious history of his own town should suffice him. Twice has it been in Dutch occupancy; twice, or even thrice, under the British (if we count their return after the brief possession by the revolted Colonies) ; it was the scene, a hundred and sixty years since, of the first victorious fight for liberty of the press ; the birthplace of the " Sons of Liberty," organized ten years before the Revolution to resist the Stamp Act ; and in the same year the meeting-place of the American Congress (of nine Colonies), with its Bill of Rights, asserting the sole power of the Colonies to tax themselves. And then, the more than seven years' famine and blight, the wreck under occupation by the enemy during almost the whole Revolutionary period, the city's commerce gone, population decreased more than one-half, one-quarter of the houses burned, and many of the remainder-seized for barracks, hospitals, and prisons

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