Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from An Address Delivered on the Commemoration at Fryeburg, May 19, 1825
A'il the historical period, which we have visitedthis peaceful spot to celebrate, it was a scene of desperate and mortal strife. Its solitude was pierced by one of the most intrepid spirits, that had been trained, by the severe necessity of the times, to encounter the sons of the forest. This wild region was then awakened by the war-whoop. The green earth Sprung up alive with a dark and furious ambush and the glen was manned at once by its native garrison. The climate cast its vernal canopy over the serene expanse whose bosom was crimsoned with blood: and a fierce, reiterated firing reverberated, to the shutting down of the day, through this Spacious and beautiful amphitheatre.
Since that period one hundred years have passed. Those sounds have long since ceased. Their echoes have died away among those distant mountains. The keen suffering and intense solicitude of that season have subsided. The constancy of that resolute band of martyrs, the brave heart of its expiring leader, the stern agony of defence, the gathering gloom of de feat, and the exhausted gratitude of deliverance, all these have sunk alike with the tumultuous voices, and mingled with the agitating vicissitudes, of that con vulsive con?ict, beneath the silent mould.
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