. The Spirit of '76 : devoted to the principles, incidents, and men of '76 and colonial times . deliberately indicted themselves ? In spite of ail these things, patriotism is not dead,nor is its unquenchable flame diminished in the hearts ofits fathers and mothers. It will yet again and again purify and „„„^ .,11 ,.f ..„.. I.,,, ;,, ,... «,..! ...,,,..., H,...,. „ , tl ennoble all of our boys in blue and cause them to prove thenselves worthy descendants of the brave men and woi. proudly to death everywhere; at home or abroad; on land andon sea; counting their lives as naught in u


. The Spirit of '76 : devoted to the principles, incidents, and men of '76 and colonial times . deliberately indicted themselves ? In spite of ail these things, patriotism is not dead,nor is its unquenchable flame diminished in the hearts ofits fathers and mothers. It will yet again and again purify and „„„^ .,11 ,.f ..„.. I.,,, ;,, ,... «,..! ...,,,..., H,...,. „ , tl ennoble all of our boys in blue and cause them to prove thenselves worthy descendants of the brave men and woi. proudly to death everywhere; at home or abroad; on land andon sea; counting their lives as naught in upholding, for countryand humanity, The ensign of the free —the Stars and Stripes ofLiberty. John Jay Scoviuce. Illinois Society, Sons of the American Revolution. I send you herewith the repoit printed in the ChicagoInter-Ocean relative to the dinuer of the Illinois Society of theSons of the American Devolution. On account of the ChicagoPeace Jubilee exercises (in part) occurring at time of Yorktownanniversary, and also because the troops (Spanish war veterans)to whom we tendered the reception, were many of them at thattime not yet in good physical condition, we deferred our usualYorktown dinner, and this year recognized as appropriate theanniversary of the disbandment of Washingtons arm}*, Novem-ber 2, 1783, and had our dinner and reception fall upon theevening of November 2. There was a very full and very enthu-siastic attendance, and the affair was in all , a pronouncedsu


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