The Hudson, from the wilderness to the sea (1866) (14596467949)

Identifier: hudsonfromwilder00loss2 (find matches)
Title: The Hudson, from the wilderness to the sea
Year: 1866 (1860s)
Authors: Lossing, Benson John, 1813-1891
Subjects: Hudson River (N.Y. and N.J.) -- Description and travel Hudson River Valley (N.Y. and N.J.) -- History
Publisher: New York : Virtue & Yorston
Contributing Library: New York Public Library
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN



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FRANKLIN SQUARE. English throne and AYilliam of Orange ascended it, was hanged, havingbeen convicted on the false accusation of being a disloyal usurper. He wasthe victim of a jealous and corrupt aristocracy, and was the first and lastman ever put to death for treason alone within the domain of the UnitedStates down to the close of the Civil War in 1865. 424 THE HUDSON. When the war for independence was kindling, the Field became thetheatre of many stirring scenes. There the inhabitants assembled to hearthe harangues of political leaders and pass resolves: there liberty poleswere erected and prostrated; and there soldiers and people had collisions.There obnoxious men were hung in effigy; and there at six oclock in the
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heoadwav at st. tails. evening of a sultry day in July, 1776, the Declaration of Independencewas read to one of the brigades of the Continental Army, then in the cityunder the command of Washington. The vicinity of the lower or southern end of the park has ever been a THE HUDSON. 425 point of much interest. On the site of Barnums Museum,*^ the Sons ofLiberty in New York—the ultra-republicans before the revolution—hada meeting-place, called Hampden Hall. Opposite was St. PaulsChurch, a chapel of Trinity Church; where, in after years, when theobjects for which the Sons of Liberty had been organised wereaccomplished, namely, the independence of the colonies, the Te BcumLaudamits was sung by a vast multitude, on the occasion of the inaugura-tion of Washington (who was present), as the first chief magistrate of theUnited States. There it yet stands, on the most crowded portion ofBroadway (where various omnibus lines meet), a venerable relic of thepast, clustered with important and inte