. The Century book of famous Americans : the story of a young people's pilgrimage to historic homes . istory of America andthe world. And we ve seen em both, saidJack. Perish with him the folly that seeks throughevil good, said Christine, drawing upon herfavorite Whittier, Long live the generous purpose unstainedwith human blood; Not the raid of midnight-terror, but thethought which underlies; Not the borderers pride of daring, but theChristians sacrifice. Christine was always, so Jack de-clared, rounding up with Whit-tier, and Uncle Tom had to admit that Whittier was really the only poetwho h
. The Century book of famous Americans : the story of a young people's pilgrimage to historic homes . istory of America andthe world. And we ve seen em both, saidJack. Perish with him the folly that seeks throughevil good, said Christine, drawing upon herfavorite Whittier, Long live the generous purpose unstainedwith human blood; Not the raid of midnight-terror, but thethought which underlies; Not the borderers pride of daring, but theChristians sacrifice. Christine was always, so Jack de-clared, rounding up with Whit-tier, and Uncle Tom had to admit that Whittier was really the only poetwho had given immortality to this romantic region. So, when in the regionabout Sharpsburg, he recalled the struggle at Antietam near by, and thelater turning-point of the Civil War at Gettysburg, Christine thought ratherof Barbara Frietchie and Stonewall Jackson, and knew that it was thesevery hill-gaps that had made history and a noble poem as well, On that pleasant morn of the early fall,When Lee marched over the mountain-wall —Over the mountains, winding down,Horse and foot, into Frederick town.*. JOHN BROWN. BY THE POTOMAC 217 South of Washington Junc-tion, where the railroadbranches off to Frederick, Un-cle Tom pointed out to them,across the Virginia border, thedirection in which, so he said,lay Leesburg, the nearest pointof departure for the home of afamous American — a states-man and a President, a manwhose name is now al-most a household word— James Monroe ofVirginia.
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