The Lower of Liberty (Classic Reprint) - Hardcover

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It has been suggested, that it would be well to have in the collection one representation, at least, of our ban ner, all tattered and torn; but, on reflection, I shrank from the thought of thus helping to commemorate the fact that it had been insulted by those who had solemnly sworn to keep it flying in the face of all foes without and foes within. I chose rather to regard it as a thing of divine life, which, though trampled on for a while, will, from its inherent self-restoring power, rise again, and, in company with him from whose teachings it Sprang and blossomed into the Flower of Liberty, will, to the end of time and throughout the world, keep pace with the progress of Christianity and equal rights. After four years of as heroic bravery in deadly combat as was ever recorded of the embattled hosts of Alexander, Caesar, Napoleon, or Wellington, it now shakes out its trium phant folds over all the late rebellious States of the Union. It waves, alas! Over rivers and seas, over moun tains and plains, crimsoned with the blood of many thousands of gallant and noble young men, Whose souls, like setting suns, Have left their radiance flung on sea and shore.

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