"Lexington": A Pageant Drama of the American Freedom, Founded Upon Great Sayings, to be Acted in Dumb ShowLexington Historical Society, 1925 - 84 pages Compiled and, in part, written by Sidney Howard for the celebration of the one hundred and fiftieth anniversary of the battle of Lexington, April 19th, 1775. |
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ALTON H American Liberty arms army Atlantic Avenue Boston audience battle begins to speak Boston British BROWN Buckman Tavern CHARLES Chorus Chronicler rises comes Concord cone crowd darkness Drummers drums DUDLEY MURPHY Ebenezer EDWARD EDWARD H EIGHT VOICES empire face fire forestage FOUR VOICES Frank Warren FRED FULL CHOIR GIRL Hamilton Hancock-Clark House hath higher note HILLS horse Huzza JOHN BROWN John Brown's body Jonas Parker JONATHAN HARRington kettledrums labor LEXINGTON COMPANY Lexington Historical Society LIEUTENANT lifts light Lincoln looks Lord Marvelous Boy Meeting House Minute move Munroe nation NIGHT In Honor PARSON CLARK Pioneers Pitcairn platoon play Price Railroad ROBERT save the Union scene SECOND SPOKESMAN shout SIDNEY HOWARD sing slaves slope Soldiers song soul SPOKESMAN AND FOUR SPOKESMAN Shapes stage stair star steel STUART SMITH takes throne turns unto VOICES Shapes WALDO F Washington western WILLARD WILLIAM words
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Page 60 - In your hands, my dissatisfied fellow-countrymen, and not in mine, is the momentous issue of civil war. The government will not assail you. You can have no conflict without being yourselves the aggressors. You have no oath registered in heaven to destroy the government, while I shall have the most solemn one to "preserve, protect, and defend it.0
Page 66 - Coffin that passes through lanes and streets, Through day and night with the great cloud darkening the land, With the pomp of the inloop'd flags with the cities draped in black...
Page 68 - Yet each to keep and all, retrievements out of the night, The song, the wondrous chant of the gray-brown bird, And the tallying chant, the echo arous'd in my soul, With the lustrous and drooping star with the countenance full of woe, With the holders holding my hand nearing the call of the bird, Comrades mine and I in the midst, and their memory ever to keep...
Page 67 - Come lovely and soothing death, Undulate round the world, serenely arriving, arriving, In the day, in the night, to all, to each, Sooner or later delicate death.
Page 61 - seem to be pursuing" as you say, I have not meant to leave any one in doubt. I would save the Union. I would save it the shortest way under the Constitution. The sooner the national authority can be restored; the nearer the Union will be "the Union as it was." If there be those who would not save the Union, unless they could at the same time save slavery, I do not agree with them. If there be those who would not save the Union unless they could at the same time destroy slavery, I do not agree with...
Page 75 - To such a task we can dedicate our lives and our fortunes, everything that we are and everything that we have, with the pride of those who know that the day has come when America is privileged to spend her blood and her might for the principles that gave her birth and happiness and the peace which she has treasured. God helping her, she can do no other.
Page 65 - WHEN lilacs last in the dooryard bloom'd, And the great star early droop'd in the western sky in the night, I mourn'd, and yet shall mourn with ever-returning spring.
Page 66 - Amid the grass in the fields each side of the lanes, passing the endless grass, Passing the yellow-spear'd wheat, every grain from its shroud in the dark-brown fields uprisen, Passing the apple-tree blows...
Page 53 - Whatever they may be I fervently beseech the Almighty to avert or mitigate the evils to which they may tend. I shall also carry with me the hope that my Country will never cease to view them with indulgence...
Page 62 - And upon this act, sincerely believed to be an act of justice, warranted by the Constitution upon military necessity, I invoke the considerate judgment of mankind, and the gracious favor of Almighty God.