The magazine of American history with notes and queries . ed all manner of scathing criticism. The Congressitself was derided as a federal union, assembled without any requisitionon the part of the supreme power. Earl Pitt replied: It is the evilgenius of this country (England) that has riveted among them the Union,now called dangerous and federal. We all know how the question of therepeal of the Stamp Act agitated the kingdom, as it was argued and re-ar-gued by the statesmen of the realm during the winter following, and of thevictory achieved in the end. The news reached New York, May 20, 176
The magazine of American history with notes and queries . ed all manner of scathing criticism. The Congressitself was derided as a federal union, assembled without any requisitionon the part of the supreme power. Earl Pitt replied: It is the evilgenius of this country (England) that has riveted among them the Union,now called dangerous and federal. We all know how the question of therepeal of the Stamp Act agitated the kingdom, as it was argued and re-ar-gued by the statesmen of the realm during the winter following, and of thevictory achieved in the end. The news reached New York, May 20, 1766,and the whole city ran riot with gladness. Such was the gratitude andgood feeling, that in June the city petitioned the Assembly, in the CityHall, to honor with a statue the great champion of the repeal, WilliamPitt. Money was appropriated, the skilled services of Hilton, the celebrat-ed London statuary, secured, and in due course of time a white marblefigure of great beauty was erected in Wall Street, at the intersection of 332 WALL STREET IN HISTORY. William (then called Smith Street). The statue was in the attitude of onedelivering an oration, the right hand holding a scroll partly open, where might be read Articuli Mag-na-Charta Libertatum. Onthe south side of the pedestalthe following inscription wascut in a tablet of white marble : This statue of the RightHonorable William Pitt, Earlof Chatham, was erected as apublick testimony of the grate-ful sense the Colony of NewYork retains of the many em-inent services he rendered toAmerica, particularly in pro-moting the repeal of the StampAct. This statue remainedstanding in its original positionuntil 1789, but having been be-headed and disfigured by thehouse of gen. john lamb, in wall street. British during their occupation of the city, it was finally removed by a city ordinance. It is now pre-served in the refectory of the New York Historical Society. The decade from 1765 to 1775 was one of variable excitements, andWall Stree
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