AUTHOR OF "THE CAMP-FIRES OF THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION, "
"THE OLD BELL OF INDEPENDENCE," ETC. ETC.
With Illustrations.
PHILADELPHIA:
LINDSAY AND BLAKISTON.
1851
PREFACE.
In explanation of the plan of this work, it may be stated, that such an occasion as that upon which the outline events happened seemed to us most proper for the object in view. A Fourth of July festival in the old rendezvous of the Boston Tea-party is surely well calculated to excite patriotic feeling; and when to those who participated in the festival are added a number of the veterans of the War of Independence, filled with glorious recollections, the effect is to turn the mind to the admiration and veneration of the men and deeds of the "trying time."