Publisher's Synopsis
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1901 edition. Excerpt: ... i JOURNAL, WEDNESDAY EVENING, SEPTEMBER 25, 1901, Stonewall Jackson Saved McKjinley for the Nation? Was the boy whose life was saved by Stonewall Jackson at the battle of Antietam no other than William McKinley, the martyred President of the United States? The statement is made by Mr. Arnold B. Hall, of Pendergrass, Ga., who gives an account of the occurrence while paying a tribute to the memory of President McKinley. The communication of Mr. Hall follows: In contemplating the history of men. one is reminded of the fact that some are remembered as powers for good in a benighted world. The lives of such persons are more effective mottoes than any the human voice might utter or the human hand might write. Our fallen chief was such a man. Such men prefer being a dewdrop, reflecting the colors of the rainbow, than an ocean of mist. Horace Greeley, the great American journalist, said: 'They win bloodless but immortal victories." We may review the lives of Marlborough, of Wellington, of Napoleon himself, but we search in vain for a grainier warrior than the man whose victories "redden no river and whiten no plain." Such men regard the glittering crowns of idle kings as caps of tools in sawdust rings, and prize the tribute of a newsboy higher than the eulogy of royalty. Such men as our nation's hero survive the wreck of time and the de cay of governments, because their spirit lives among their countrymen. "In the happiest hour of all the voyage, while eager winds kiss every sail, and sunlit wavelets wash the vessel, in mid-stream, or, on the breakers near the further end i of the shore, a wreck shall mark at last the end of each and all No pecan that we could sing, no death monument that we could build, could reach to that faraway realm..."
