The Hour of Patriotism a Discourse Delivered At the United Service of the First
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" "What fleet?" asked the astonished gentleman. "What fleet!" re- torted the indignant pilot, " Our allied fleet, the fleet of Greece at the siege of Troy. " The tra- veler tells us that he was electrified. The memo- ries of antiquity flashed with overwhelming glory upon his mind. He had forgotten that the poor pilot was of blood which was gentle and heroic when Britain was inhabited by cannibals ^ — which Tvas at the zenith of glory when history opens her earliest intelligible page. Who of us ...does not sympathize with the fine sensibility of that poor Greek? Who of us does not admire his claim of heirship, and love him for his fond pride over those waters and coasts gilded so long, long ago, with the precious memories of his fathers ? But what are the memories of a legendary fleet at Troy, in comparison with the historic glories of ou7' Mayflower riding at anchor on the wintry New England coast? What are the half- fabled characters of Agamemnon Ulysses and the rest, in the darkness of three thousand years ago, in comparison with the true and venerable name of ozfr just departed Washington?
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