[Pamphlets. American history]

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I should be happy to meet the Association, as well as to hear the gifted
and accomplished orator who is to deliver the address on that most interesting occasion. I have the honor to remain, sir,
With the greatest respect and esteem,
Your most obedient servant,
WINFIELD SCOTT.
G. WASHINGTON WARREN, Esq., Chairman, &e.
TROY, June 13th, 1850.
Gentlemen,-On the 10th, I had the honor to receive your invitation
in behalf of the city of Charlestown, and the Bunker Hill Monument
Association, to attend, on the 17th instant, the celebration of the seventy-fifth anniversary of the battle of Bunker Hill.
Although my official duties will not permit me to be present on that
interesting occasion, I will be with you in spirit. It would indeed give
me pleasure to mingle with the descendants of those heroes, who, on
that glorious night, not only sealed with their blood the principles of
freedom proclaimed by the Pilgrims on the rock of Plymouth, but gave
the first impetus to the revolution, which resulted so gloriously to the
human race. It closed with presenting to the world the great model of
public liberty, combined with social enjoyment, which now renders
more than twenty millions of people prosperous and happy. To those
patriotic and self-sacrificing heroes, the country, nay, the world, owe a
debt of gratitude which can never be cancelled.
I have the honor to be,
Very respectfully,
Your obedient servant,
JOHN E. WOOL.
To G. WASHINGTON WARREN and WM. W.
WHEILDON, Esqs., Charlestown, Mass.
WASHINGTON, June 11, 1850.
G. WASHINGTON WARREN, Esq., Chairman.
Dear Sir,-I thank you and the Committee for your polite invitation
to be present at the celebration of the seventy-fifth anniversary of the
battle of Bunker Hill, and very much regret that engagements in this
city must deprive me of that pleasure.
It is right that the great events of the Revolution should be duly
commemorated, and no place and no time can be more fitting than
those which you have selected.
In the fathers, wisdom, patriotism and valor achieved our liberties;