[Pamphlets. American history]

CAMBRIDGE REVOLUTIONARY MEMORIAL. 13
the suggestions of our friend, - we are no longer to
rest under the stigma of having forgotten the services
of the men who perished in that earliest contest, or
on neglecting to mark the spot where their mortal
remains were deposited. Early in the month of September last, Alderman Parker, of the First Ward,
offered an order, in the branch of which he is a member, instructing the Committee on the Soldiers' Monument to procure and set up in this burial-ground a
memorial stone to commemorate the deeds and the
names of the Cambridge citizens who fell on the 19th
of April, 1775. The order was unanimously adopted
in both branches of the Government, and the Committee proceeded to attend to the duty which had
been imposed upon them. They selected a plain and
simple shaft of Scotch granite, and caused a suitable
inscription to be cut upon its face. They have placed
it on the spot where the patriots were buried, and
which, by a happy chance, is in full view from that
whereon is erected the structure which commemorates
the deeds and names of the Cambridge men who fell
in the war of the Rebellion.
We are assembled here this afternoon to dedicate
this Memorial Stone. As we read the inscription that
is borne upon it, we are carried back in imagination
to the days when our Republic was but a bright and
beautiful vision of the future, and not an accomplished
fact; when our country had no national existence,
but was still a dependency of the British Crown;
when no flag, brilliant with stars and beaming with
stripes, floated on the breeze to stir the hearts of men