Torrey Monument revisited - Mount Auburn - updated 1/7/2016

Two views of Edward Torrey's subtle yet powerful monument in Mount Auburn Cemetery. The first is a 1853 daguerreotype by Southworth & Hawes and the second is my photo from 2010.

Epitaphs:

Ch's. T. Torrey.

Born at Scituate Nov. 21 1813,

Graduated at Yale College Aug. 1833.

Ordained at Providence March 1837

Arrested at Baltimore June 24, 1844.

Died in the Penitentiary of that city May 9, 1846.

The friends of the

American Slave

erect this stone

in his memory,

a martyr for Liberty

"Where NOW beneath

his burthen

The toiling slave

is driven.

Where now a tyrant's

mockery

is offered up

to heaven.

THERE shall his praise

be spoken,

redeemed from

falsehood's ban.

When the fetters shall

be broken,

And the slave shall

be a MAN."

According to mountauburn dot org Torrey is buried directly below the monument.