. The Spirit of '76 : devoted to the principles, incidents, and men of '76 and colonial times. ■luarli-r mI th Coijnt ry \\i,th enthnsia^an. \\h>-n jiidlanl Id.^ vieli>ri>ks rre-,v ri-turiidto Jiuston a grtat dlniur was given l tlieni by the ; Adams presichd; Congress \ a nu-|nl to lluliahvl .<),- 000 to be among the ollieers ami ermv ;the v, h an try These words, writ-ten by a young pliy-siciau of in18xlS, whrii it V aspr furthernse, are very ajipro-priatc at this linu—the hour of her tri-niupli—when sla; leftthe Port i^nio u t hNavy
. The Spirit of '76 : devoted to the principles, incidents, and men of '76 and colonial times. ■luarli-r mI th Coijnt ry \\i,th enthnsia^an. \\h>-n jiidlanl Id.^ vieli>ri>ks rre-,v ri-turiidto Jiuston a grtat dlniur was given l tlieni by the ; Adams presichd; Congress \ a nu-|nl to lluliahvl .<),- 000 to be among the ollieers ami ermv ;the v, h an try These words, writ-ten by a young pliy-siciau of in18xlS, whrii it V aspr furthernse, are very ajipro-priatc at this linu—the hour of her tri-niupli—when sla; leftthe Port i^nio u t hNavy Yard amiil thetiiotiuii of ^vlli^tlcsaud cheers ami ra-lutes to find a homeill Boston No shipwas ever so dear totlie American was cue hundredyears old on Septem-ber 20, that being thedate for her launcli-iiig from the Charles-town, ]Mass., yard,though she did notgot free from thestocks till Uet. was one of thefirst trio of s h ip sbuilt by the t;(Neni-ment, six ha\-iii:r Iiimuthree comt>letcd. She. SHIP AI , ^. If. sit to .singing i)raises of tlie Yankee tars. Ju is;ii; the old -^hip—old even then was thoroughly and rebuilt atCharlestown, and ligured in an iueidmt that aroused feeling at the- ti~n\e, though it has since- bi-en for-gotten, (ieii. AadreN^ Jackson, was then at the heiglit of hisIKjpularity, and Capt. Jllint, who had of th- remodelingof the .shii), thonuii to do honor to the by having anew tigure-iu ad eonstrucifal, reiirosciiting Jaek-on in the Ii( r-niitage scene, hlacc, ajid afterit was miumted on ships jirow a sentr\ was detailed to watchit, and every night a was liung where its liLht wouldshine on the ligare. One dark night,
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