square. The fugitives, says a British historian, when they were received into it, lay down on the ground with their tongues hanging out of their mouths like dogs after a chase.

It would appear there was neither skill nor judgment thrown away by the colonists in their use of fire arms. Their just anger in their willing forbearance was long under the curb, but when it burst its fetters asunder, it descended like a mighty torrent upon the guilty heads of their inhuman oppressors. Their aim in the field was a deadly one.

"Liberty, from whose imperial eye,
Unfettered limb, and step of majesty,
Perpetual sunshine brightens all the air,
When undisturbed by man-in wrath is there!
And prostrate armies now, are kneeling round,
They see the rolling clouds! they hear the sound
Of pealing thunders! while her martial form
Lightens tremendous in the gathering storm!
They breathe that buoyant mountain atmosphere,
And kindling in their eyes those lights appear,—
Those quenchless lights!-that despots, tyrants dread,
When man comes forth in might, and lifts his head
Sublime in desperation; when they hear

The song of trumpets bursting on their ear!

The shock of armies! and, afar, behold

Rebellion's crimson standard all unrolled!

When slaves are men-are monarchs-and their tread

Comes like the resurrection of the dead!

Man bursts his fetters! shakes his sheathless sword-
Stands on his grave, and battles with his lord
For sepulture or freedom-eye to eye-
And swears to live his equal, or to die,

In glorious martyrdom-to glorious LIBERTY.
Then let the trumpet of the battle sound!
Then let the shuddering challenge peal around!
'Till all our ruffled eaglets start and wake-

And scream aloud-and whet their beaks-and shake
Their guardian wings, o'er mountain, wood, and lake!
The blast will but disturb the spirit there;

But rouse the she wolf from her bloody lair;

But wake the fiery-harnessed multitudes:
The dark battalions of untrodden woods;
Whose viewless chiefs shall gird their armor on,
And lighten o'er the fields their valor won;
"Twill waken echoes in that solitude,
Less welcome than the panther's cry for food;
Less earthly-than the voices heard, when night
Collects her angels on some stormy height,

And airy trumps are blown! and o'er the heaven

Ten thousand fearful challenges are given!”—John Neal.

These successful movements at once placed both parties in a posture of open war, the bravery of the colonial troops on these occasions gave great promise of efficient usefulness, in the expected future operations of the colonists in the battlefields of their country. The first step of the colonial Congress was to view with a scrutinizing eye, the conduct of the colonial troops in these battles, by an examination of the whole affair. Their conclusions were that the colonists had acted strictly upon the defensive, that intrenching themselves behind their own natural and acquired rights-rights, that no law, upon the principles of justice could in any way interfere with, should be faithfully supported at all hazards. Congress at once gave to these latter movements upon the part of the unorganized provincial troops, the stamp of their most hearty approval, and set itself about to devise means whereby they could back their whole course by bringing the whole strength of the country to a speedy operation in their favor.

The second step of Congress was to raise an army by making a levy for 30,000 men on the colony of New England. A great part of these levies speedily repaired to camp in order to join in besieging Boston. The battles of Lexington and Concord had the effect to arouse the spirit of the people to avenge the death of their un-. offending and slaughtered brethren. Troops in a scattering manner were constantly pouring in from all quarters. Truly, the motto of, dont tread upon me was not urged upon the sons of Liberty in vain. "God and our

country" could be heard uttered with determined pathos by many who possessed undaunted spirits, but heaving bosoms. "Wife, children and friends," and that dear hut our home.

"There blend the ties that strengthen

Our hearts in hours of grief,

The silver links that lengthen

Joy's visits when most brief;
There eyes in all their splendour,
Are vocal to the heart,

And glances, gay or tender,
Fresh eloquence impart.

Then dost thou sigh for pleasures!"
Or fear on battle fields to "roam,"
Go guard thy country's treasures,
Liberty! Friends and Home.
Go, Soldier, and battle nobly
For God, for country and thy home,
Go bless time's latest posterity,

Nor fear, on battle fields to roam.

J. S. Hanna.

The brave Colonel Ethan Allen with a detachment of "Green Mountain boys," was joined by a detachment of Connecticut troops at Castleton. A portion of these troops under Allen immediately marched to invest Fort Ticonderoga. Allen with an unprecedented celerity of action, made himself master of that fortress without firing a gun. When the continental troops advanced to the entrance a sentinel snapped his piece at Allen, who, followed by his brave troops, drove him in from his post, and so quickly did Allen and his men enter the fortress that time was not allowed to the commander of the garrison to get out of his bed. Colonel Allen in a peremptory manner demanded of him a surrender of the fortress. The commander in quailng accents asked Allen by what authority he demanded it? Allen replied, "in the name of the GREAT JEHOVAH and the continental Congress."

The British officer believing that it would be the height of folly and madness to attempt to oppose such a determined and commanding a man as Allen, under existing

circumstances, thought it but an act of great prudence to surrender quietly, and install the inexorable Allen into his new office of commander of the garrison.

As soon as the balance of the detachment arrived which had been unable to join in its capture, for want of a sufficient number of boats to transport them across the lake, Colonel Allen immediately placed it under the command of Colonel Seth Warner, and ordered it on to an attack of Crown Point. This post was captured also without firing a gun. To these successes were added the capture of a sloop of war on Lake Champlain, by Captain Benedict Arnold, in command of a small schooner which he had rigged and fitted out for the purpose.

By these daring descents upon their enemies the continental troops became possessed of upwards of "one hundred pieces of ordnance," and other "munitions of war, these brilliant achievements inspired the colonial troops, the Congress of the colonies and the people with the most profound courage. Yes! truly, did they in their all potent magistracy become the terror of evil doers and the praise of them that did well.

The continentals and royalists had frequent skirmishing engagements, in which the former were generally vic

torious.

Among the most illustrious of that day were those two eminent patriots and able statesmen, John Hancock and Samuel Adams, the proscribed "Sons of Liberty."Governor Gage by proclamation constituted martial law the supreme law of the land, and offered a free pardon to all, except the two gentlemen above named, who would evince their former predilections for and allegiance to the crown of Great Britain.

Whilst New England was made the theatre of monarchical depredations and vengeance, other colonies were not exempt from the destructive strides of despotism.→ The people of the colony of Virginia, upon governor Dunmore's arbitrary enactments and actions, arose in the patriotic strength of their might, and kicked the royal civil government in the colony into the SHADE. Which

government never was again resumed within the limits of her territory.

South Carolina and North Carolina, took the same patriotically noble and successful steps, and produced the same glorious results, by hurling in their majestic omnipotence, the royal authority fom the pedestal of liberty and trampled it under their sovereign feet within their respective provinces. Others of the colonies were fast preparing for the contest-for the issue, they waited for a favorable moment when they could depose a monarch so unprincipled,-so cruel and deaf to the sweet and captivating voice of humanity-to the supreme dictates and mandates loud of sovereign justice; waited in anxious suspense for that auspicious moment, when they could dethrone him forever in America."

Hanna's Glory of Columbia. "Events occuring this year, in the southern colonies, still farther weakened the attachment of the people to Great Britain. In Virginia, Lord Dunmore, the Governer, seized by night some powder belonging to the colony, and conveyed it on board a British ship in James river. Intelligence of this transaction reaching Patrick Henry, he placed himself at the head of the independent companies in his vicinity, and marched towards the seat of government with the avowed purpose of obtaining, by force, restitution of the powder, or its value. He was met by a messenger, who paid him the value of the powder, when he and the miltia returned to their homes.” Hales' United States.

"A fearful crisis was approaching. No! It was already existing; accompanied with all the fearful forebodings of the future darkness, thick darkness brooded over the face of the land. Already, were they a people scattered and peeled and trodden down under the unhallowed feet of tyranny. Thick as was that darkness and unhappy as were the sorrows that it occasioned, still, there was a vista, all hallowed and glorious, as the bright rainbow of promise in this impenetrable cloud of black and bloody hue. A rainbow that illuminated the storm-that light