Homes of American statesmen: . e, the city orator for that day, alludedto it in this extempore burst : But, alas ! the immortalAmes, who, like Ithuriel, was commissioned to discover the in-sidious foe, has, like Ithuriel, accomplished his embassy, andon this morning of our independence has ascended to of Demosthenes, couldst thou have been a silent andinvisible auditor, how wouldst thou have been delighted tohear from his hps, those strains of eloquence which once fromthine, enchanted the assemblies of Greece ! Ames friendsin Boston requested his body for the celebration of funer
Homes of American statesmen: . e, the city orator for that day, alludedto it in this extempore burst : But, alas ! the immortalAmes, who, like Ithuriel, was commissioned to discover the in-sidious foe, has, like Ithuriel, accomplished his embassy, andon this morning of our independence has ascended to of Demosthenes, couldst thou have been a silent andinvisible auditor, how wouldst thou have been delighted tohear from his hps, those strains of eloquence which once fromthine, enchanted the assemblies of Greece ! Ames friendsin Boston requested his body for the celebration of funeralrites. It was attended by a large procession from the houseof Christopher Gore to Kings Chapel, where an oration waspronounced by Samuel Dexter. It was afterwards depositedin the family tomb at Dedham, whence it was removed a fewyears since, and buried by the side of his wife and plain white monument marks the spot, in the old Dedhamgrave-yard, behind the Episcopal church, with the simple in-scription Fisher
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