1800 newspaper GEORGE WASHINGTON DEATH w LongDetailed Report BOSTON in MOURNING

Description: 1800 newspaper GEORGE WASHINGTON DEATH w LongDetailed Report BOSTON in MOURNING 1800 Boston, MA newspaper with the DEATH of GEORGE WASHINGTON - A Long Detailed LOCAL Report of BOSTON in its MOURNING PROCESSION - inv # 9D-436 Please visit our EBAY STORE for THOUSANDS MORE HISTORICAL NEWSPAPERS for SALE or at auction SEE PHOTO(s) - COMPLETE ORIGINAL NEWSPAPER, the J Russell's Gazette Boston (MA) dated Feb 24, 1800. This original newspaper contains a long detailed (2 columns of text) LOCAL account of the procession in Boston, mourning upon the DEATH of GEORGE WASHINGTON.This is the BEST Local newspaper coverage (long and very detailed) I have seen of the ceremonies in Boston, MA for the mourning upon the death of GEORGE WASHINGTON When George Washington died suddenly at the age of 67, the news of his death spread with remarkable speed across a nation of 16 states not yet united by rail or telegraph. The young country had lost its father. Here’s the incredibly moving way Americans mourned their most beloved Founding Father across the nation.The word was carried by Methodist circuit riders and burly wagon masters, stagecoach passengers and post riders, and deckhands on coastal schooners. Everywhere, it had an electrifying impact, binding the republic in shock, grief, and mourning. In Boston, Russell’s Gazette called the news “agonizing.”Washington died at Mount Vernon on Saturday, December 14, 1799, at 10:20 in the evening. According to his secretary’s letter to Congress, written the following day, the former president’s illness was short, and the cause of his death was “an inflammatory sore throat, which proceeded from a cold of which he made but little complaint Friday.” Historians now believe that it was either a raging pneumonia or a strep infection.On January 6, President John Adams issued an official proclamation urging Americans to gather on Washington’s birthday, February 22, “publickly to testify their grief” with “suitable Eulogies, Orations, and Discourses, or by Public Prayers.” During the six-week mourning period, well over 300 eulogies were delivered in nearly 200 hamlets, towns, and cities.Federalist Massachusetts alone held more than 100 memorial services in some 60 places. Speakers from Natchez to New Haven declared Washington “the American Moses” and held his example up proudly against such lesser men as Cromwell, Napoleon, Caesar, and Alexander the Great.Boston's mourning ceremoniesWord of Washington’s death began to spread in Federalist Boston on Christmas Eve, three days after the news hit New York City. Because of their political leanings, Revolutionary heritage, and Washington’s role in driving the British out of the city in 1776, Bostonians felt a special bond with the dead Virginian. Their celebration, perhaps more so than any other, revealed the general’s power — in death as in life — to unify and inspire the public.On January 9, businesses closed throughout the city, ships in the harbor flew flags at half-staff, guns barked, and bells tolled to honor the “memory of the great, the good, and beloved Washington.” The crowd — 6,000 men, women, and children wearing mourning ribbons and bands — gathered at the new State House. Precisely at noon, they became a common unit, marching six abreast. The procession began with schoolboys and their teachers, followed by a multitude of local bodies that ranged from militia companies and Masons to physicians, lawyers, clergy, and mechanics, with “not enumerated” citizens bringing up the rear.With silent dignity, the mourners began to walk through the narrow brick streets, ending at the Old South Meeting House, where all the various elements took designated places and listened to George Richards Minot’s eulogy. A local paper noted, “The assemblage of all ranks in society, from venerable age to lisping infancy, to pay tribute to the virtues and services of Washington, was inexpressibly interesting.”Some speakers could not let pass unnoticed that the news of the national savior’s death had arrived during the Christmas season. By the second week of February, with the tide of hero worship rising all about them, some New Englanders had second thoughts about an unrepublican lurch toward untempered pride and sanctification. Congregationalists from Connecticut to Rhode Island cautioned against transforming even so virtuous a man into a saint!Abigail Adams, with her usual eloquent common sense, brought the whole matter firmly back to earth: “Simple truth is his best, his greatest eulogy. She alone can render his fame immortal.” Very good condition. This listing includes the complete entire original newspaper, NOT just a clipping or a page of it. STEPHEN A. GOLDMAN HISTORICAL NEWSPAPERS stands behind all of the items that we sell with a no questions asked, money back guarantee. Every item we sell is an original newspaper printed on the date indicated at the beginning of its description. 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