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ORATION, DELIVERED /JV BOSTON, MARCH 6, 1775, DR. JOSEPH WARREN, IN
COMMEMORATION OF THE EVENING OF THE FIFTH OF MARCH, 1770; WHEN A
NUMBER OF CITIZENS WERE KILLED BY A PARTY OF BRITISH TROOPS,
QUARTERED AMONG THEM IN A TIME OF PEACE. MY EVER HONORED FELLOW
CITIZENS, It is not without the most humiliating conviction of my
want of ability that I now appear before you; but the sense I have
of the obligation I am under to obey the calls of my country at all
times, together with an animating recollection of your indulgence,
exhibited upon so many occasions, has induced me, once more,
undeserving as I am, to throw myself upon that candor which looks
with kindness on the feeblest efforts of an honest mind. You will
not now expect the elegance, the learning, the fire, the
enrapturing strains of eloquence which charmed you when a Lovell, a
Church, or a Hancock spake; but you will permit me to say, that
with a sincerity, equal to theirs, I mourn over my bleeding
country: with them I weep at her distress, and with them deeply
resent the many injuries she has received from the hands of cruel
and unreasonable men. That personal freedom is the natural right of
every man; and that property, or an exclusive right to dispose of
what he has honestly acquired by his own labor, necessarily arises
therefrom, are truths which common sense has placed beyond the
reach of contradiction. And no man, or body of men can, without
being guilty of flagrant injustice, claim a right to dispose of the
persons or acquisitions of any other man, or body of men, unless it
can be proved that such a right has arisen from some compact
between the parties in which it has been explicitly and freely
granted. If I may be indulged in taking a retrospective view of the
first settleme...
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