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Excerpt from The Story of the First Defenders: District of Columbia, Pennsylvania, Massachusetts It is an ´´old, old story,´´ yet like the Story of the Redemption of Man, is ever and fore… More...

Excerpt from The Story of the First Defenders: District of Columbia, Pennsylvania, Massachusetts It is an ´´old, old story,´´ yet like the Story of the Redemption of Man, is ever and forever new. It is the story of a people enlightened by the lessons of history and devoted to the cultivation of science and the peaceful industries which rendered them superior to the conditions of the false nobility of the Old World, the sham chivalry of the New, and the forced servility of any class or race on the earth. Like the story of the minute-men of Concord and Lexington, the ride of Paul Revere, and the uprising of the infant colonies to meet the attacks of the armies of Great Britain, which is rehearsed in prose and verse with grateful interest and renewed zest in these later years, so the wonderful story of the awaking of the giant to the insidious designs of a hateful element of our political society, the bursting of the bands of contentment and ease, the assertion of the right of free manhood and the leap to arms, the direful conflict, the repulse of liberty´s foes, and the conquest of a great, brave people and their restoration to peace, progress, wealth and happiness yet moves the pulse of the patriot with growing intensity, and will fire the free hearts of Americans with zeal for liberty and with love for advancing manhood while the world endures. Pennsylvania and Massachusetts! What pæans of praise have been sung to the gory! How have the historian and the poet immortalized the valor of thy sons and the devoutness of thy daughters! Shall we forget - shall our country ever case to remember, to its latest generation, the heroic service ye rendered her in the hour of trial and danger? Can the men and women, the boys and the girls of this or any succeeding age fail to value truly the blessing of a saved Union, erst in peril from treacherous foes in her own borders, saved to bless the very enemies of her existence, and to travel onward from the glory to glory along the pathway of centuries of increasing Honor? About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works. Excerpt from The Story of the First Defenders: District of Columbia, Pennsylvania, Massachusetts It is an ´´old, old story,´´ yet like the Story of the Redemption of Man, is ever and forever new. It is the story of a people enlightened by the lessons of history and devoted to the cultivation of science and the peaceful industries which rendered them superior to the conditions of the false nobility of the Old World, the sham chivalry of the New, and the forced servility of any class or race on Buch > Geisteswissenschaften, Kunst & Musik > Geschichte > Sonstiges, Forgotten Books<

ISBN: 033240224X

The Story of the First Defenders ab 27.49 € als gebundene Ausgabe: District of Columbia, Pennsylvania, Massachusetts (Classic Reprint). Aus dem Bereich: Bücher, Wissenschaft, Geschichte, … More...

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2017, ISBN: 033240224X

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