Book/Printed Material An anniversary discourse, delivered before the New-York Historical Society, Thursday, Dec. 13, 1827
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Image 1 of An anniversary discourse, delivered before the New-York Historical Society, Thursday, Dec. 13, 1827- Contributor: Blunt, Joseph - Miscellaneous Pamphlet Collection (Library of Congress) - Joseph Meredith Toner Collection (Library of Congress)
- Date: 1828
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Image 2 of An anniversary discourse, delivered before the New-York Historical Society, Thursday, Dec. 13, 1827- Contributor: Blunt, Joseph - Miscellaneous Pamphlet Collection (Library of Congress) - Joseph Meredith Toner Collection (Library of Congress)
- Date: 1828
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Image 3 of An anniversary discourse, delivered before the New-York Historical Society, Thursday, Dec. 13, 1827- Contributor: Blunt, Joseph - Miscellaneous Pamphlet Collection (Library of Congress) - Joseph Meredith Toner Collection (Library of Congress)
- Date: 1828
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Image 4 of An anniversary discourse, delivered before the New-York Historical Society, Thursday, Dec. 13, 1827- Contributor: Blunt, Joseph - Miscellaneous Pamphlet Collection (Library of Congress) - Joseph Meredith Toner Collection (Library of Congress)
- Date: 1828
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Image 5 of An anniversary discourse, delivered before the New-York Historical Society, Thursday, Dec. 13, 1827- Contributor: Blunt, Joseph - Miscellaneous Pamphlet Collection (Library of Congress) - Joseph Meredith Toner Collection (Library of Congress)
- Date: 1828
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Image 6 of An anniversary discourse, delivered before the New-York Historical Society, Thursday, Dec. 13, 1827- Contributor: Blunt, Joseph - Miscellaneous Pamphlet Collection (Library of Congress) - Joseph Meredith Toner Collection (Library of Congress)
- Date: 1828
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Image 7 of An anniversary discourse, delivered before the New-York Historical Society, Thursday, Dec. 13, 1827 AN ANNIVERSARY DISCOURSE, DELIVERED BEFORE THE XTEW-VORK HISTORXCil.Ii SOCIXSTV, THURSDAY, DEC. 13, 1827. BY JOSEPH BLUNT. L NEW-YORK PUBLISHED BY G. AND C CARVILL. EI.UOTT AND PALMER, PRINTERS. 1828.- Contributor: Blunt, Joseph - Miscellaneous Pamphlet Collection (Library of Congress) - Joseph Meredith Toner Collection (Library of Congress)
- Date: 1828
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Image 8 of An anniversary discourse, delivered before the New-York Historical Society, Thursday, Dec. 13, 1827- Contributor: Blunt, Joseph - Miscellaneous Pamphlet Collection (Library of Congress) - Joseph Meredith Toner Collection (Library of Congress)
- Date: 1828
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Image 9 of An anniversary discourse, delivered before the New-York Historical Society, Thursday, Dec. 13, 1827 AN ANNIVERSARY DISCOURSE, DELIVERED BEFORE THE XTEW-VORX HISTORICAZ. SOCIETV, THURSDAY, DEC. 13, 1827. BY JOSEPH BLUNT. NEW-YORK FUBLISHES BY G. AND C. CARVILL. ELLIOTT AND PALMER, PRINTERS. 1828^ 6^/- Contributor: Blunt, Joseph - Miscellaneous Pamphlet Collection (Library of Congress) - Joseph Meredith Toner Collection (Library of Congress)
- Date: 1828
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Image 10 of An anniversary discourse, delivered before the New-York Historical Society, Thursday, Dec. 13, 1827 fllG- Contributor: Blunt, Joseph - Miscellaneous Pamphlet Collection (Library of Congress) - Joseph Meredith Toner Collection (Library of Congress)
- Date: 1828
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Image 11 of An anniversary discourse, delivered before the New-York Historical Society, Thursday, Dec. 13, 1827 New- York Historical Society, Jan. 15, 1828. Resolved unanimously, That the thanks of this Society be pr^esented to Joseph Blunt, Esq. for the Discourse lately delivered by him before the Society that...- Contributor: Blunt, Joseph - Miscellaneous Pamphlet Collection (Library of Congress) - Joseph Meredith Toner Collection (Library of Congress)
- Date: 1828
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Image 12 of An anniversary discourse, delivered before the New-York Historical Society, Thursday, Dec. 13, 1827- Contributor: Blunt, Joseph - Miscellaneous Pamphlet Collection (Library of Congress) - Joseph Meredith Toner Collection (Library of Congress)
- Date: 1828
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Image 13 of An anniversary discourse, delivered before the New-York Historical Society, Thursday, Dec. 13, 1827 ANNXVERSARY DISCOURSE. Mr. President, and Gentlemen of the Historical Society, We live in an extraordinary age. It may em- phatically be denominated an age of improvement. Mechanical inventions, scientific discoveries and advances...- Contributor: Blunt, Joseph - Miscellaneous Pamphlet Collection (Library of Congress) - Joseph Meredith Toner Collection (Library of Congress)
- Date: 1828
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Image 14 of An anniversary discourse, delivered before the New-York Historical Society, Thursday, Dec. 13, 1827 person familiar with American History and yield- ing to their influence, I propose, in discharge of the duty assigned to me by the Historical Society, to review the history of the European...- Contributor: Blunt, Joseph - Miscellaneous Pamphlet Collection (Library of Congress) - Joseph Meredith Toner Collection (Library of Congress)
- Date: 1828
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Image 15 of An anniversary discourse, delivered before the New-York Historical Society, Thursday, Dec. 13, 1827 manner in which they have been built up and by recurringto their foundations we add new strength to the principles by which they are sustained. We are animated to fresh exertion in...- Contributor: Blunt, Joseph - Miscellaneous Pamphlet Collection (Library of Congress) - Joseph Meredith Toner Collection (Library of Congress)
- Date: 1828
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Image 16 of An anniversary discourse, delivered before the New-York Historical Society, Thursday, Dec. 13, 1827 8 light upon tlie communities, from which they mi- grated. Their motives and actions were exposed to the spirit of inquiry which distinguished the age. The peculiar characteristics of the early colonists...- Contributor: Blunt, Joseph - Miscellaneous Pamphlet Collection (Library of Congress) - Joseph Meredith Toner Collection (Library of Congress)
- Date: 1828
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Image 17 of An anniversary discourse, delivered before the New-York Historical Society, Thursday, Dec. 13, 1827 need not mourn They are debased by no alloy. They are achieved at a comparative small expense of blood and treasure but they are more valuable to mankind, and more momentous in...- Contributor: Blunt, Joseph - Miscellaneous Pamphlet Collection (Library of Congress) - Joseph Meredith Toner Collection (Library of Congress)
- Date: 1828
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Image 18 of An anniversary discourse, delivered before the New-York Historical Society, Thursday, Dec. 13, 1827 10 had been preserved from the grasp of civil and reli- gious tyranny. The feudal system had received a fatal blow, but its relics incumbered the face of so- ciety and presented...- Contributor: Blunt, Joseph - Miscellaneous Pamphlet Collection (Library of Congress) - Joseph Meredith Toner Collection (Library of Congress)
- Date: 1828
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Image 19 of An anniversary discourse, delivered before the New-York Historical Society, Thursday, Dec. 13, 1827 11 Christendom the religious feeling was intolerant, the political system despotic, and the commercial policy narrow and monopolizing. The first tendency of this state of things was to reduce the newly discovered...- Contributor: Blunt, Joseph - Miscellaneous Pamphlet Collection (Library of Congress) - Joseph Meredith Toner Collection (Library of Congress)
- Date: 1828
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Image 20 of An anniversary discourse, delivered before the New-York Historical Society, Thursday, Dec. 13, 1827 12 discriminate plunder and massacre of a race, whose peaceful and inoffensive habits offered the ;most powerful plea in their behalf, and whose undeserved fate has excited almost a general regret, that...- Contributor: Blunt, Joseph - Miscellaneous Pamphlet Collection (Library of Congress) - Joseph Meredith Toner Collection (Library of Congress)
- Date: 1828
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Image 21 of An anniversary discourse, delivered before the New-York Historical Society, Thursday, Dec. 13, 1827 13 and natural rights. Religious intolerance erected itself Into an infallible tribunal, and adjudged their claims to life, liberty and the pursuit of happi- ness, to be unsupported by gospel or reason....- Contributor: Blunt, Joseph - Miscellaneous Pamphlet Collection (Library of Congress) - Joseph Meredith Toner Collection (Library of Congress)
- Date: 1828
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Image 22 of An anniversary discourse, delivered before the New-York Historical Society, Thursday, Dec. 13, 1827 14 tion at this time would probably have resembled that, from which her colonies have so recently eman- cipated themselves. It is impossible to estimate with accuracy the effect, which the establishment...- Contributor: Blunt, Joseph - Miscellaneous Pamphlet Collection (Library of Congress) - Joseph Meredith Toner Collection (Library of Congress)
- Date: 1828
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Image 23 of An anniversary discourse, delivered before the New-York Historical Society, Thursday, Dec. 13, 1827 15 They were seeking here a permanent country, and to build up institutions for themselves and their children. It is still more fortunate, that whilst these causes preserved the Northern continent from...- Contributor: Blunt, Joseph - Miscellaneous Pamphlet Collection (Library of Congress) - Joseph Meredith Toner Collection (Library of Congress)
- Date: 1828
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Image 24 of An anniversary discourse, delivered before the New-York Historical Society, Thursday, Dec. 13, 1827 IG and deriving no authority from them, added no weight to the side they adopted, except the moral power of their disinterested testimony. They brought no armies, no overflowing coffers, no bands...- Contributor: Blunt, Joseph - Miscellaneous Pamphlet Collection (Library of Congress) - Joseph Meredith Toner Collection (Library of Congress)
- Date: 1828
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Image 25 of An anniversary discourse, delivered before the New-York Historical Society, Thursday, Dec. 13, 1827 11 the reformation in 1520, until the settlement of Ply- mouth just a century afterwards by a few English non-conformists, the European governments mani- fested the most intolerant and persecuting spirit to-...- Contributor: Blunt, Joseph - Miscellaneous Pamphlet Collection (Library of Congress) - Joseph Meredith Toner Collection (Library of Congress)
- Date: 1828
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Image 26 of An anniversary discourse, delivered before the New-York Historical Society, Thursday, Dec. 13, 1827 18 which from the length of the contest degenerated into mercenary bands ready to enlist under the most celebrated leader seeking wars as their proper employment and plunder for their reward that...- Contributor: Blunt, Joseph - Miscellaneous Pamphlet Collection (Library of Congress) - Joseph Meredith Toner Collection (Library of Congress)
- Date: 1828
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Image 27 of An anniversary discourse, delivered before the New-York Historical Society, Thursday, Dec. 13, 1827 19 stroyed by the contending sects and the distrust constantly evinced whenever the leaders met in times of hollow truce, all manifest the wide extent of the religious feud and the deeply-rooted...- Contributor: Blunt, Joseph - Miscellaneous Pamphlet Collection (Library of Congress) - Joseph Meredith Toner Collection (Library of Congress)
- Date: 1828
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Image 28 of An anniversary discourse, delivered before the New-York Historical Society, Thursday, Dec. 13, 1827 20 It was from this class this disseuiifKi perse- cuted minority, that the ancestors of the American people were drawn and it was owing to the univer- sality of this feeling among...- Contributor: Blunt, Joseph - Miscellaneous Pamphlet Collection (Library of Congress) - Joseph Meredith Toner Collection (Library of Congress)
- Date: 1828
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Image 29 of An anniversary discourse, delivered before the New-York Historical Society, Thursday, Dec. 13, 1827 21 prevalent. They were not born under a written constitution nor had they grown up under a free and well-balanced government but the} had been taught the value of freedom in the...- Contributor: Blunt, Joseph - Miscellaneous Pamphlet Collection (Library of Congress) - Joseph Meredith Toner Collection (Library of Congress)
- Date: 1828
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Image 30 of An anniversary discourse, delivered before the New-York Historical Society, Thursday, Dec. 13, 1827 22 several parts of the Union, joined with the Puritans ofNew England in opposing the usurpations of Great Britain. They all felt that unless their resistance was successful, both civil and religious...- Contributor: Blunt, Joseph - Miscellaneous Pamphlet Collection (Library of Congress) - Joseph Meredith Toner Collection (Library of Congress)
- Date: 1828
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Image 31 of An anniversary discourse, delivered before the New-York Historical Society, Thursday, Dec. 13, 1827 23 The qualities and principles which distinguished this extraordinary sect, are well worthy of a chief place among the circumstances, which formed the character and controlled the destiny of the Ameri- can...- Contributor: Blunt, Joseph - Miscellaneous Pamphlet Collection (Library of Congress) - Joseph Meredith Toner Collection (Library of Congress)
- Date: 1828
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Image 32 of An anniversary discourse, delivered before the New-York Historical Society, Thursday, Dec. 13, 1827 24 Dangers could not deter such men for death they welcomed as a translation to the realms pf bliss. Titles and honours could not seduce; for their imaginations were beyond the reach...- Contributor: Blunt, Joseph - Miscellaneous Pamphlet Collection (Library of Congress) - Joseph Meredith Toner Collection (Library of Congress)
- Date: 1828
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Image 33 of An anniversary discourse, delivered before the New-York Historical Society, Thursday, Dec. 13, 1827 tion and the pleasant places of their childhood but religious duty forbade them to submit to the com- mands of an arbitrary government, and they turned their backs upon their native country,...- Contributor: Blunt, Joseph - Miscellaneous Pamphlet Collection (Library of Congress) - Joseph Meredith Toner Collection (Library of Congress)
- Date: 1828
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Image 34 of An anniversary discourse, delivered before the New-York Historical Society, Thursday, Dec. 13, 1827 26 chose a governor from among themselves, and es- tablished their republican government far from the debasing influence of Europe, without the sanction of a charter or grant under any royal seal,...- Contributor: Blunt, Joseph - Miscellaneous Pamphlet Collection (Library of Congress) - Joseph Meredith Toner Collection (Library of Congress)
- Date: 1828
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Image 35 of An anniversary discourse, delivered before the New-York Historical Society, Thursday, Dec. 13, 1827 27 who left the comforts to which they had been accus- tomed for the sake of their persecuted friends, and to sustain and cheer them amid their dangers and privations. It was...- Contributor: Blunt, Joseph - Miscellaneous Pamphlet Collection (Library of Congress) - Joseph Meredith Toner Collection (Library of Congress)
- Date: 1828
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Image 36 of An anniversary discourse, delivered before the New-York Historical Society, Thursday, Dec. 13, 1827 28 true, that in some of the provinces, they were indu- ced by different motives to migrate to this continent but they all considered these wilds as their perma- nent homes. The...- Contributor: Blunt, Joseph - Miscellaneous Pamphlet Collection (Library of Congress) - Joseph Meredith Toner Collection (Library of Congress)
- Date: 1828
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Image 37 of An anniversary discourse, delivered before the New-York Historical Society, Thursday, Dec. 13, 1827 29 to make personal sacrifices, in order to vindicate its political rights. Not so with the settlers of the North American colonies. They had turned their backs upon Eu- rope for ever,...- Contributor: Blunt, Joseph - Miscellaneous Pamphlet Collection (Library of Congress) - Joseph Meredith Toner Collection (Library of Congress)
- Date: 1828
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Image 38 of An anniversary discourse, delivered before the New-York Historical Society, Thursday, Dec. 13, 1827 30 iliem possessing all the experience, which the failures in government for four thousand years could teach, and free from the motives and interests, that have planted the principle of corruption and...- Contributor: Blunt, Joseph - Miscellaneous Pamphlet Collection (Library of Congress) - Joseph Meredith Toner Collection (Library of Congress)
- Date: 1828
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Image 39 of An anniversary discourse, delivered before the New-York Historical Society, Thursday, Dec. 13, 1827 31 on the eastern shores of North America. The co- lonies now began to attract the particular attention of the motlier country, and its parental care was displayed in projecting measures to...- Contributor: Blunt, Joseph - Miscellaneous Pamphlet Collection (Library of Congress) - Joseph Meredith Toner Collection (Library of Congress)
- Date: 1828
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Image 40 of An anniversary discourse, delivered before the New-York Historical Society, Thursday, Dec. 13, 1827 32 glance, and this principle was made the corner- stone of the colonial system. In establishing this system the European governments had in view a two-fold object. The first was national and...- Contributor: Blunt, Joseph - Miscellaneous Pamphlet Collection (Library of Congress) - Joseph Meredith Toner Collection (Library of Congress)
- Date: 1828