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The statue accompanied many other Gilded Age erections of this genre, in which
Puritans or Pilgrims stood for American ideals and reasserted a fantasy of the "moral values, social dominance, and political leadership of the nation's New England, and specifically Anglo Saxon, colonists." Other examples
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addressed the crowd on the occasion. Higginson described the statue as being noteworthy in representing "the common man," and even suggested that it was "the first time...that the every-day
Puritan has appeared in sculpture." He further stated that Bridge "was one of those who kept back the Indian
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The statue has been toppled on a number of occasions. In 1922, the figure was found with a rope around the neck, and newspapers speculated that "college boys or other young men of
Cambridge" had committed the act. In 1935, it was found again toppled, this time with wire around the neck. It took
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also addressed the crowd, and hailed how Bridge's life "foretold the life of the teeming millions who in two centuries were to vivify the wild continent."
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830:. Cambridge: Tribune Publishing Company. 1883. p. 16.
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459:"They that wait upon the Lord shall renew their strength."
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908:"Vandals topple John Bridge statue on Cambridge Common".
709:. Cambridge: Tribune Publishing Company. 1883. p. 6.
692:. Cambridge: Tribune Publishing Company. 1883. p. 3.
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and brought civilization forward." Harvard President
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768:"General Samuel James Bridge".
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508:Thomas Wentworth Higginson
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753:"Death of James Bridge".
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1036:The End of the Red Line
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855:"Memorial Tablet".
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910:Boston Daily Globe
787:. 2 December 1882.
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