. Providence : the sovthern gateway of New England, provd of its honorable history, happy in its present prosperity, confident of its fvtvre. s in Virginia in 1 769,declaring that in them alone was vested the right of taxation. Rhode Islandhad explicitly declared the same thing four years earlier. The People of Providence in Town Meeting Assembled, was the firstauthorized body to recommend the permanent establishment of a ContinentalCongress, May 1 7, 1 774, and the General Assembly of Rhode Island onJune 15, 1774, appointed Samuel Ward and Esek Hopkins as the firstdelegates thereto. Near the
. Providence : the sovthern gateway of New England, provd of its honorable history, happy in its present prosperity, confident of its fvtvre. s in Virginia in 1 769,declaring that in them alone was vested the right of taxation. Rhode Islandhad explicitly declared the same thing four years earlier. The People of Providence in Town Meeting Assembled, was the firstauthorized body to recommend the permanent establishment of a ContinentalCongress, May 1 7, 1 774, and the General Assembly of Rhode Island onJune 15, 1774, appointed Samuel Ward and Esek Hopkins as the firstdelegates thereto. Near the top of that East Side hill is old University Hall, where oncewere quartered the French allies of the struggling Republic, and half waydown the hillside we can see the hotel where Washington and Jefferson andMadison were entertained, and where Lafayette was once more receivedwhen he revisited these shores after half a century had passed. Not far away, a tablet marks the house of Governor Stephen Hopkins,—a bright star in the brilliant galaxy of his time, who as an early constitutionframer, has well been classed with Benjamin HOMESTEAD OF KSKK HOPKINS, IKOVll)l,.\< KTHE FIRST ADMIRAL OF THE AMERICAN NAVY 25 Scarcely beyond our vision, in the old colonial city down the bay, dwelttwo other men whose names will always live in the annals of our Navy,and one of them is no less honored in Japan, which he opened to moderncivilization. There is another who should be honored, lest it be said that States areungrateful. The nation has not been forgetful of him, for there is a fineequestrian statue in Washington, and the memorial at Savannah bearstestimony to the admiration of Georgia for our great General,;NathanielGreen. He who was called the Saviour of the South,—who, in commandof the Continental army was next to Washington, and whose military geniushas had few equals since time began,—has never yet been honored by hisown State. His splendid career should furnish inspi
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