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Michigan Macomb County
Among the declaimers he cited Nelson Chamberlain as coming down to the front and reciting, with all the gravity of Webster himself, Webster's speech, commencing with the words, " Venerable men, you have come down to us from a former generation." Then he pictured Green Freeman and his animated rendering of Pitt's reply to Fox in the words, "Sir, the atrocious crime of being a young man, which the honorable gentleman has charged upon me, I shall neither attempt to palliate or deny."
And then he brought Harvey Fuller to the front, the natural born orator, recalling his recital of Absalom, by Willis, commencing thus: " The waters slept; night's silvery vail hung low on Jordan's bosom, and the eddies curled their glassy rings beneath it like the still unbroken beating of the sleeper's pulse." ;
Then came James Beekman and his splendid recitals of the chase and of the encounter of Fitz James and Roderic Dhu. Edward Taylor again
gave the rendering, " The boy stood on the burning deck." James Chamberlain was at " the burial of Sir John Moore."
Early Macomb County
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