. The Century book of famous Americans : the story of a young people's pilgrimage to historic homes . e of the first bugle-blasts of theRevolution. What place is that? queried Bert was already studying his time-table. Williamsburg,he announced. Let s see; is nt there an old, oldcollege there ? Yes, Uncle Tom replied; William and Mary College, the oldestcollege in the United States, excepting Harvard. Washington was its chan-cellor; Presidents Jefferson, Monroe, and Tyler, Chief-Justice Marshall, andGeneral Winfield Scott were once students there. In that old town werethe headquarter
. The Century book of famous Americans : the story of a young people's pilgrimage to historic homes . e of the first bugle-blasts of theRevolution. What place is that? queried Bert was already studying his time-table. Williamsburg,he announced. Let s see; is nt there an old, oldcollege there ? Yes, Uncle Tom replied; William and Mary College, the oldestcollege in the United States, excepting Harvard. Washington was its chan-cellor; Presidents Jefferson, Monroe, and Tyler, Chief-Justice Marshall, andGeneral Winfield Scott were once students there. In that old town werethe headquarters of Nathaniel Bacon, earliest of American rebels against AT THE GATEWAY OF THE WEST 93 kingly authority. There stood the old Capitol building in which Washing-ton sat as a burgess, and in which young Thomas Jefferson heard PatrickHenrys first famous and fiery speech against the crown. That was nt the liberty-or-death speech, was it, Uncle Tom ? askedRoger. No; it was earlier than that, Uncle Tom replied. It was the speechhe made in connection with his resolutions against the Stamp Act, and in it. THE PRINCIPAL STREET OF YORKTOWN. he thundered out: Caesar had his Brutus, Charles the First his Cromwell,and George the Third — Treason, treason ! came the cry from thescandalized loyalists,— may profit by their example, said Henry; and thenadded, If this be treason, make the most of it ! That was great! cried Jack. I tell you, he had sand, had nt he ! How that must have rattled those old Tories ! said Ro^er. 94 THE CENTURY BOOK OF FAMOUS AMERICANS
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