. The story of American heroism; thrilling narratives of personal adventures during the great Civil war, as told by the medal winners and roll of honor men . heexpression, Brag is a good dog, but Hold-fast is a better. Cobden lived at Hazelmere in an old-fashioned but elegant country house,in which he was born, on a farm, one of the largest in Sussex, the gift of hisEnglish constituents in token of their admiration for the great commonerswork in the Anti-corn Law agitation. The gift of the people amounted to $300,000, and it is rarely Iememberednow, since thirty years have passed, that Richard
. The story of American heroism; thrilling narratives of personal adventures during the great Civil war, as told by the medal winners and roll of honor men . heexpression, Brag is a good dog, but Hold-fast is a better. Cobden lived at Hazelmere in an old-fashioned but elegant country house,in which he was born, on a farm, one of the largest in Sussex, the gift of hisEnglish constituents in token of their admiration for the great commonerswork in the Anti-corn Law agitation. The gift of the people amounted to $300,000, and it is rarely Iememberednow, since thirty years have passed, that Richard Cobden had made up his mindto move to America and accept the offered presidency of the Hlinois Railroad,with the ultimate intention of seeking a seat in the United States Senate as aSenator from the State of Hlinois. John Bright, predicting with assured cer-tainty the triumph of the North and the rapid advance of Liberal ideas inEngland, persuaded the great commoner of England to forego his intention ofbecoming an American citizen. Cobden died l)efore the end of the Americanstruggle, but he lived after Gettysburg to see with prophetic eye through the. Governor Andrew G. Curtin. 16-t THE STORY (^F gloom tlie coming glory of free in America, and his last words to me were these: Under another four years of Abraham Lincoln, if he is reelected (as I assured him he would he in 1SG4), all the principles of the Declaration of Independence will be executed;your government will rest on therights of individual liberty andthe right of every man to beara share in the government ofthe country whose laws he obeys,and whose liayouet in the hour ofdanger he bears. And the personal freedomwhich the dark children of thel?epublic have won by our I)loodand theirs will not be a vainmockery, exposed to violation atthe caprice of their masters, en-
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