The Neutral Ground (Classic Reprint)

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Excerpt from The Neutral GroundLthough automobiles have now very gener ally taken the places that were formerly filled by horses and carriages, although electric lights and torches are now widely used instead of tallow dips and lard-lanterns, although telephone, telegraph and wireless communication between human beings who are at a distance from each other is now not at all unusual, although all these modern improvements and many others besides are quite commonly enjoyed by the people of the United States of America, yet the hearts that are throbbing in their bosoms like the blood that is ¿owing in their veins are warm and strong and pulsing, vibrant with life and quick to answer to the demands of emotion and of principle. There is inherent in the nature of every true American, a love that is almost reverential and a feeling of gratitude that is genuine and dominant for George Washington and those who were closely associated with him, when the fate of our proud and indomitable nation hung in the balance, when the question not only of our independence, but even of our existence as a separate nation among the other nations of the earth was as yet undecided. To wander with our brave forefathers in imagination through the wilderness, to bear with.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.