Excerpt from The Atlantic Monthly, Vol. 4: A Magazine of Literature, Art, and Politics; July, 1859 The day was ushered in by the ringing of the bells, and a salute of fif teen discharges from a field-piece. The American flag waved in the wind, and the flag of France over the British in inverted order. At noon a large num ber of respectable citizens assembled at Citizen Raynor's, and partook of an ele gant entertainment. After dinner, Cap tain Emerson's military company in uni form assembled and escorted the citizens to the meetingzhouse, where an address pertinent to the occasion was delivered by the Rev. Citizen Prentiss, and united prayers and praises were offered to God, and several hymns and anthems were well sung; after which they returned in pro cession to Citizen Raynor's, where three farmers, with their frocks and utensils, and with a tree on their shoulders, were escorted by the military company formed in a hollow square to the Common, where the tree was planted in form, as an em blem of freedom, and the Marseillaise Hymn was sung by a choir within a cir cle round the' tree. Major Boardman, by request, superintended the business of the day, and directed the manoeu vres. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.