[Pamphlets. American history]

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the principle of repulsion to a foreign nationality. I
know not that history affords a more memorable lesson
than is contained in the fact, that when England conquered the French colonies in America, she did but exchange them for her own. This result, foretold by
Montcalm himself, received its memorable confirmation
on the summit of Bunker Hill, when Putnam, and Prescott, and Pomroy, and Gridley, and Stark, veterans of
the seven years' war, showed themselves apt pupils of
the great school of Anglo-Saxon courage and discipline.
The men who, led by a spirit of loyalty alone, had followed the British banner to Martinico and Cuba, to
Louisburg and Quebec, whose blood had stirred at the
blast of the British trumpet, by the lonely waters of Ontario and the silent banks of the St Lawrence, were not
likely to quail, when they struck for the liberties of their
country, in the bosom of home; at this grand altar,
which rose up in the very heart of New England; in
the presence of the anxious thousands of kindred spectators, who looked on from every eminence in the neighborhood. The battery on Copp's Hill did not terrify
them; it was planted over the graves of four generations
of an indomitable and patriotic ancestry. As General
Gage stood upon the summit of that hill on the morning
of the 17th, surveying the redoubt through his glass, he
pointed to Prescott, who, to encourage his men, was
moving about on the top of the glacis, under the fire of
the ships of war and the batteries, and he inquired of
Col. Willard, one of his council, who stood near him,
who it was. Willard replied that it was his brother-in