. The Century book of famous Americans : the story of a young people's pilgrimage to historic homes . s all mightily interesting. As Uncle Tom told them the story ofHarpers Ferry, the young people looked with eager eyes upon the steepand rocky heights, the winding, rushing river, the old houses on each bank,and the monument that marks the spot where Brown of Ossawatomie andhis handful of followers faced death unflinchingly for principle — a fool-ish and harebrained band of fanatics, no doubt, but, as Bert assured them,his soul is marching on; and Uncle Tom declared that yonder gray-stone monum
. The Century book of famous Americans : the story of a young people's pilgrimage to historic homes . s all mightily interesting. As Uncle Tom told them the story ofHarpers Ferry, the young people looked with eager eyes upon the steepand rocky heights, the winding, rushing river, the old houses on each bank,and the monument that marks the spot where Brown of Ossawatomie andhis handful of followers faced death unflinchingly for principle — a fool-ish and harebrained band of fanatics, no doubt, but, as Bert assured them,his soul is marching on; and Uncle Tom declared that yonder gray-stone monument beside the Potomac and the canopy-covered rock on the beach at Plymouth are foster-broth-ers— each the beginning of a newera in the history 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 JOHN BROWN. 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 Lee marched over the mountain-wall —Over the mountains, winding down,Horse and foot, into Frederick BY THE POTOMAC 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
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