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CENTENNIAL CELEBRATION.

Quincy, May 25, 1840. The committee of arrangements, and those gentlemen to whom have been assigned offices for the day, and all who have become subscribers to the dinner and intend to join in the procession, will assemble in the Universalist Church, and all other citizens who intend to join in the procession are requested to assemble at said church, at a quarter before nine o'clock in the morning. A procession will be formed precisely at nine o'clock, by the marshals, and when formed will move through Elm Street, down Hancock Street, into Sea Street, to the house of the Rev. Peter Whitney, where they will receive the orators, chaplains, invited guests, &c. of the day, and from thence proceed through Sea Street to Washington Street, to the church where the exercises will take place. The hour of assembling at the Meeting-house to form in procession will be announced by ringing the bell.

Per order.

IBRAHIM BARTLETT, Chief Marshal.

Order of the first Procession from the Universalist Meeting-house to the Stone Temple.

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of the Towns of Quincy, Braintree, and Randolph.

Marshal. Subscribers to the Dinner.

Marshal.

Citizens who wish to join in the Procession.

Second Procession.

The committee of arrangements, invited guests, and gentlemen who have accepted offices on the occasion, and gentlemen accompanied by ladies, will assemble at the Meeting-house in the body pews, and all others, who are provided with tickets to the dinner, will assemble in the wall pews at the ringing of the bell soon after

the exercises, when a procession will be formed immediately, which will be divided into seven or more divisions, as circumstances may require, each to be headed by a marshal and numbered by lot corresponding to the tables.

The following will be the order of the second procession.

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Chairman of the Committee of Arrangements.

Marshal. Gentlemen accompanied by Ladies. Marshal.

Citizens who have Tickets to the Dinner.

The marshals are all requested to meet at the Hancock House, Saturday evening, May 23d, at half past seven o'clock.

Per order. IBRAHIM BARTLETT, Chief Marshal.

The following gentlemen will be in attendance at the Meetinghouse to conduct ladies to seats, viz., Benjamin Page, William B. Duggan, Abner Willett, Lewis Bass, Francis Williams.

All persons who intend to dine must provide themselves with tickets previously to joining the procession.

Tickets for the Ball in the evening are for sale at Gill's Book

store.

By order of the Committee of Arrangements.
JOHN A. GREEN, Chairman.

JAMES F. BROWN, Secretary.

CENTENNIAL CELEBRATION.

Monday, 25th May, 1840.

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The day dawned clear and beautiful. The weather was unusu ally warm for the season, being at noon about 85° of Fahrenheit's thermometer. A few scudding clouds were observed about six o'clock, A. M., and afterwards in the southwest, which excited some apprehension that the day would turn out to be rainy. But they soon disappeared, and scarcely another cloud was visible in

the broad heavens till the sun went down. The morning was ushered in by the ringing of the bells on the Stone Temple and the Universalist Church, and by the discharge of cannon in front of the gun house on President's Hill. A flag waved its broad folds likewise from the same eminence, and from the pavilion below. The roads were dry and dusty, but not a breath of wind prevailed to make the dust annoying. A more lovely day for the interesting occasion could not have been chosen by man. The smiles of heav

en seemed to favor the hour. Natives and descendants, friends and strangers soon gathered in throngs, to exchange congratulations and to share in the interesting associations and festivities of the day.

At a quarter before nine o'clock the bell of the Universalist Church summoned all together to form the procession. A numerous concourse gathered up. The Quincy Light Infantry, attended by the Boston Brass Band, made a glittering and imposing appearance; and the delightful martial music falling on the ear was not among the least of the pleasant circumstances of the day. As they passed along from their armory to the appointed place of assembling, Mount Wollaston lying off beyond them towards the sea, one might be forcibly impressed by the contrast between these prosperous days and those feeble and trying ones, when Captain Standish came from Plymouth with his small military band, to quell the riotous proceedings of Thomas Morton around his May-pole.

By the promptness and judicious arrangement of the Chief Marshal and his aids, Charles F. Baxter and Thomas Adams, jr., appointed by him, together with the assistant marshals, the procession was soon formed, and moved in the course already described a few minutes after nine. Meanwhile, at nine o'clock, the bell of the Stone Temple had given notice that the doors were opened for the admission of ladies. A little longer time was occupied by the procession in passing through the route prescribed than had been anticipated. The procession reached the church about a quarter past ten. The ladies occupied the galleries and some of the wall pews below. The immense area of the church was filled by the At half past ten all were seated and the services com

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Hail smiling morn that tips the hills with gold,
Whose rosy fingers ope the gates of day,

Who the gay face of nature doth unfold,

At whose bright presence darkness flies away.

2. PRAYER OF INVOCATION. By the REV. W. P. LUNT, of Quincy.

3. ODE- LANDING OF THE PILGRIMS. · Hemans.

[Sung by Mr. JOHN HOLLIS, of Braintree.]

The breaking waves dashed high

On a stern and rock-bound coast,
And the woods against a stormy sky
Their giant branches tost;

And the heavy night hung dark

The hills and waters o'er,

When a band of exiles moored their bark

On the wild New-England shore.

Not as the conqueror comes,

They, the true hearted came,

Not with the roll of the stirring drums,
And the trumpet that sings of fame;

Not as the flying come,

In silence and in fear

They shook the depths of the desert's gloom
With their hymns of lofty cheer.

Amidst the storm they sang,

And the stars heard, and the sea!

And the sounding aisles of the dim woods rang

To the anthem of the free!

The ocean-eagle soared

From his nest by the white wave's foam,
And the rocking pines of the forest roared-
This was their welcome home!

What sought they thus afar?
Bright jewels of the mine?

The wealth of seas, the spoils of war?
They sought a faith's pure shrine!

Ay, call it holy ground,

The soil where first they trod!

They left unstained what there they found

Freedom to worship God!

4. PRAYER. By the REV. PEter Whitney, of Quincy.

5. HYMN By the Rev. Dr. Flint.

In pleasant lands have fallen the lines
That bound our goodly heritage,
And safe beneath our sheltering vines
Our youth is blest, and soothed our age.

What thanks, O God, to thee are due,

That thou didst plant our fathers here;
And watch and guard them as they grew,
A vineyard, to the planter dear.

The toils they bore our ease have wrought;
They sowed in tears
-in joy we reap;

The birthright, they so dearly bought,

We'll guard, till we with them shall sleep.

Thy kindness to our fathers shown,

In weal and wo through all the past,
Their grateful sons, O God, shall own,
While here their name and race shall last.

6. COMMEMORATIVE DISCOURSE.
By the REV. GEORGE WHITNEY, of Roxbury.
7. VOLUNTARY
By the Band.

GLEE- By the Choir.

Land of our fathers, wheresoe'er we roam—
Land of our birth, to us thou still art home;
Peace and prosperity on thy sons attend,
Down to posterity their influence descend.

Though other climes may brighter hopes fulfill,

Land of our birth, we ever love thee still!

Heaven shield our happy home from each hostile band,
Freedom and plenty ever crown our native land.

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