The Pennsylvania-German : devoted to the history, biography, genealogy, poetry, folk-lore and general interests of the Pennsylvania Germans and their descendants . A : 9 - y ! ^ %. - / /^: I ? ? ^ jya«>*>.\V-fe>:>.: ?. ?*-^ »•. I BARBARA FRIETCHIE AT HOME. 1(9 principals in the affair of the fiap^, nor dowe think any should arise now amongtheir friends. The poet Whittier re-ceived his materials from Mrs. South-worth, of Georgetown. D. C, and usedbut little license in working them up, asthe letter written to him and quoted infull in his life well shows. That Ramsburg, a
The Pennsylvania-German : devoted to the history, biography, genealogy, poetry, folk-lore and general interests of the Pennsylvania Germans and their descendants . A : 9 - y ! ^ %. - / /^: I ? ? ^ jya«>*>.\V-fe>:>.: ?. ?*-^ »•. I BARBARA FRIETCHIE AT HOME. 1(9 principals in the affair of the fiap^, nor dowe think any should arise now amongtheir friends. The poet Whittier re-ceived his materials from Mrs. South-worth, of Georgetown. D. C, and usedbut little license in working them up, asthe letter written to him and quoted infull in his life well shows. That Ramsburg, also of George-town but visiting in Frederick at thetime, exercised his imagination somewhatin giving the matter to 2^Irs. Southworthand to the press, is probable ; tho wheth-er the little touches necessary to make thestory tell well were given at first handor were the work of an imaginative re-porter, is now in doubt. Whittier, thobesieged repeatedly, was always conser-vative in giving out anything that mightcast suspicion on the facts as set fordi inthe poem. And this is much the attitudeof the average citizen of Frederick to-day. As the late Dr. Daniel Zacharias,Barbaras pastor during the last third ofher life, remarked when ques
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