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The Night Before The Battle Of Concord

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Parent Issue
Day
5
Month
January
Year
1872
Copyright
Public Domain
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Th.it night íli'Ti." was ,"., of alarm ■;i of initios that lay arouud Boston, and dyiag ist and the eracn ga)] f. the of farm -h :. mi Lrig alarm I alano I There -hing : coming like i rough the und the littlo ing-licfusos fchero was hei re tbc of a iiiuiii, and the assi m ;" 11 ; i ■■ ?i-.- with theif v, Bo all tUat night thero was rnarohing, : inustering, there was trouble; and the ro:id lrom Boston, a steady march of rs' feet ouwefrd, onward into tlio Land irnoaa last warlike distnrbanoé had vrhea tho ; is trod it. iniina In a knew, lili rost, that it was the sound of coming "Fools that mi-u '." Báid ho, as ■■ froui büd and looked out at üke stars ; " tin y do not livo long ïuougk to knof t lic . life, else they would combino togetuer to live ldng, inVtead of íhro'wing íTfraytto livcsottü u -; !.- 's ( aey (1.) AAd what Jiattera a littiü tyranuy m so short alilo 't hat matters a t'orru of govemmcnt for suuh ephemeral cread; Asinoviung brighfened, thoso s4é ■his clamor, - or sometiiing that was in ,'ai; air and caused the clinuor,-- gr. oud that Sopt:niin3 : to Ei t i il even in ïu-s solitud.. u thu atmosphore; - storm, wüd oxcitemont, a coming dood. Men hurrir i ftloog tlie isually lonely rond in group's, with weapi their hands,- the old fowling'■f' sovcn-foot barrol, witii whieh the 'urrtans hadühot dacka on the riv, i Valden Pnd; tutte heavy barqu vhicli perhapa had levejed one ot' Emg ■ Indiana; the old King giin, blazod away at th French of Lonisburg or (.uebco, - liunter, huftbandinan, vere hurrying each other. It was a good ;nuc, overybody ii:lt, to b-.: alivo, a r. [indrod, a closer sympathy between m vd and man ; a sensc of tho goodnesa of the voiid, of tho saorelness of country, of ■he excellence of lil'e; andyetita slight iccount oomparod with any truth, rinciplë ; tho weighing of tho material md ephemeral, and the flnding the formcr not worth considenng, when, neveri, it had so inuch to do with the -.lijnt of the crisis. ïho i of brute force ; tho feelíng that it liad ita fodliké side; t . Ing of heroic reath amid tho Boenes of ordinary life, so Uit it soemed as tf tl: y liad all boon Bgured sinco yestorday. ü, high, ïcroic, tremulous juncturo, whcn man èlt himself almost an ángel; on tho - .'.nlly look ■ JHi! ü, sfcrange rapturo of tho coming battlo ! We know somotking of hat timo now ; ivo tliat havo secu tbe . of tho villagc sol ng house green, anrl at railway staions ; andheard the drum , aud acón th ' ! -; ; soen the familiar f icos luit we Iiardly knew, now th.it we folt ihcin to bo horocs ; breáthed higher 1 "or thoir sakes; feit our eyes moistenid ; thaukod thoui in our souls for 1 ng ua that nature ia yet capable of hcroc momonta ; feit how a great impulse ii'í.s up a poople, and every cold, passionrent spectator, - lifts him up nto religión, :iml jnnkes hiin join in what i i not of ilcvoUoii, v prayr, when porhaps he but half approvos. -

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Old News
Michigan Argus