A book of the United States : exhibiting its geography, divisions, constitution and government ..and presenting a view of the republic generally, and of the individual states; together with a condensed history of the land ..The biography ..of the leading men; a description of the principal cities and towns; with statistical tables .. . , ?:- E ? The ch In the . :d during the i . a h . obeli i to 310 BOOK OF THE UNITED STATES. and brother of the Irish orator who suffered during the rebellion. WhenI visited New York again, some months afterwards, one front of it wasembellished w
A book of the United States : exhibiting its geography, divisions, constitution and government ..and presenting a view of the republic generally, and of the individual states; together with a condensed history of the land ..The biography ..of the leading men; a description of the principal cities and towns; with statistical tables .. . , ?:- E ? The ch In the . :d during the i . a h . obeli i to 310 BOOK OF THE UNITED STATES. and brother of the Irish orator who suffered during the rebellion. WhenI visited New York again, some months afterwards, one front of it wasembellished with an emblematical representation of his fortunes. Though. Merchants Exchange. it was in an unfinished state, and the canvass had not been removed frombefore the scaffolding, I could catch a glimpse of the representation of ahand, with a wreath or bracelet of shamrock round the wrist, claspingone with a similar ornament of stars, and the eagle of America shelteringthe unstrung harp of Ireland. Mr. Emmett had emigrated to the states,and settled in New York, where he had acquired considerable reputationmany years previous to his death- There is also another monument nearit, under the portico of the church, to General Montgomery, who fell inthe unsuccessful attack upon Quebec in 1775. This monument waserected previously to the declaration of independence by the congress;and in 1818, when his remains were removed from Quebec to New York,and interred at St. Pauls, another tablet was added, recording the event;though at the time, great doubts were entertained whether they actuallywere the generals remains which were exhumed. The matter was, how-eve
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