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Title: Homes of American statesmen:
Year: 1854 (1850s)
Authors: Duke University. Library. Jantz Collection. German Americana
Subjects: Statesmen Historic buildings
Publisher: New York, G. P. Putnam and co. London, S. Low, son and co.
Contributing Library: Duke University Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: Duke University Libraries

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e, the city orator for that day, alludedto it in this extempore burst : But, alas ! the immortalAmes, who, like Ithuriel, was commissioned to discover the in-sidious foe, has, like Ithuriel, accomplished his embassy, andon this morning of our independence has ascended to Heaven.Spirit of Demosthenes, couldst thou have been a silent andinvisible auditor, how wouldst thou have been delighted tohear from his hps, those strains of eloquence which once fromthine, enchanted the assemblies of Greece ! Ames friendsin Boston requested his body for the celebration of funeralrites. It was attended by a large procession from the houseof Christopher Gore to Kings Chapel, where an oration waspronounced by Samuel Dexter. It was afterwards depositedin the family tomb at Dedham, whence it was removed a fewyears since, and buried by the side of his wife and children.A plain white monument marks the spot, in the old Dedhamgrave-yard, behind the Episcopal church, with the simple in-scription Fisher Ames.
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