Old Landmarks and Historic Personages of Boston by Samuel Adams Drake

Author:Samuel Adams Drake
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781462912490
Publisher: Tuttle Publishing

Washington Street, Day after the Great Fire: Guarding the Ruins.

Josiah Quincy, Jr., died at the early age of thirty-one, while returning from a voyage to England, undertaken partly for the benefit of his health. He was constitutionally delicate, and his mental strength far exceeded his physical. He was chosen, with John Adams, by Captain Preston, to defend him on his trial for the Massacre in King Street, and did defend him with all his ability, notwithstanding his own father warmly opposed his undertaking it. Mr. Quincy was possessed of high oratorical powers. The phlegmatic John Adams named him the Boston Cicero; his political writings, begun in the Boston Gazette of October, 1767, are full of fire and patriotic fervor. "When in England he was, with Franklin, singled out for a brutal allusion by Lord Hillsborough, who declared they "ought to be in Newgate or at Tyburn." His strength proved unequal to the voyage, and he breathed his last within sight of his native land only a few days after the battle of Lexington.

"Ask ye what thoughts

Convulsed his soul, when his dear native shores,

Thronged with the imagery of lost delight,

Gleamed on his darkening eye, while the hoarse wave

Uttered his death dirge, and no hand of love

Might yield its tender trembling ministry?"

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