. The history of Penacook, , from its first settlement in 1734 up to 1900 . can stand up for the Granite state with an intelli-gent and patriotic feeling. As yet he had not felt it to be his duty to enlist. We all cher-ished the opinion that a few weeks campaign would make an endof civil strife, and his thoughts were still turned to his life-work. But the Peninsular campaign, in the early summer of 1862, putan end to all hopes of a speedy termination of the war, and thequestion of his duty to his country arrested his attention. July 2, 1862, writing of relatives in the service, he says: Iw
. The history of Penacook, , from its first settlement in 1734 up to 1900 . can stand up for the Granite state with an intelli-gent and patriotic feeling. As yet he had not felt it to be his duty to enlist. We all cher-ished the opinion that a few weeks campaign would make an endof civil strife, and his thoughts were still turned to his life-work. But the Peninsular campaign, in the early summer of 1862, putan end to all hopes of a speedy termination of the war, and thequestion of his duty to his country arrested his attention. July 2, 1862, writing of relatives in the service, he says: Iwish I could have the results in my character of such experience. MAJ. WILLIAM I. BROWN. 379 That is what will toughen, will develop, will strain every energyof being, will make a man more a man. There is something sonoble in this absorbing of little selfish interests in one great one !Before a man can sincerely and intelligently give himself a readysacrifice to his country, his whole nature must pass through anordeal that cannot but raise him in the scale of being. I do not. Maj. William I. Brown. mean that a patriot will long continue to balance his own interestsand his countrys before he will decide for the latter; but thattrue patriotism is something more than mere impulse, mere igno-rance of the cost, mere indifference. It is the result of a rational,settled conviction that the country needs great sacrifice, and isworthy of it. The patriotism of the country is going to haveanother test by raising three hundred thousand more men. Whowont have to go, who can? 380 HISTORY OF PENACOOK. Soon after writing this he left Providence for the vacation pre-ceding commencement, when he should leave college. Nothingremained to complete his college course but delivering his gradu-ating oration. He bade adieu to his classmates, little thinking that with mostof them the separation would be final. He had made all prepa-rations for completing his education at the Newton TheologicalInstitution
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