. Carpenters' hall. ssible to those who maybe disposed Xo step within its portals, where thenations greatest men have stood, or from a rever-ence for the spot where Henry, Hancock, andAdams inspired the delegates of the Colonies withnerve and sinew for the toils of war, and whence 36 grew all the thunders of the Revolution, wherethe most momentous issues were decided, andhistoric incidents cluster in profusion around itsearly memories. Still, without desiring to shadeone feeling of regard for the venerable Hall ofIndependence, where the indentures which boundthe infant nation to the Mother Cou
. Carpenters' hall. ssible to those who maybe disposed Xo step within its portals, where thenations greatest men have stood, or from a rever-ence for the spot where Henry, Hancock, andAdams inspired the delegates of the Colonies withnerve and sinew for the toils of war, and whence 36 grew all the thunders of the Revolution, wherethe most momentous issues were decided, andhistoric incidents cluster in profusion around itsearly memories. Still, without desiring to shadeone feeling of regard for the venerable Hall ofIndependence, where the indentures which boundthe infant nation to the Mother Country were can-celled, and its bonds burst asunder, and fromwhence it stepped forth free and independentamong the nations of the earth. Yet, in Car-penters Hall was its first breath of existence,its first buddings into life, and the first outstretch-ing of its strengthening arms, and may it standin its simple grandeur, sacred as the Birthplace ofthe Nation, until the name of Liberty shall belost in the chaos of LBRARYOF ^O/^/GREss
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