It remained for yet another conflict after the civil strife to bring the name Old Glory into general and popular use, for the blended ranks of the Blue and the Gray opposed a common foe. When the North and the South joined hands against a foreign power and floated the Stars and Stripes above the emblem of Spain upon the island of Cuba, the flag of the Union became Old Glory to every man of the nation.
IN THE LIGHT OF THE OLD NORTH CHURCH
“History points no struggle for liberty which has in it more of the moral sublime than that of the American Revolution.”
THEY were a godly people, these revolutionary fathers of ours. They prayed as they thought; and they fought as they believed and prayed. They sought no quarrel with the mother country; they asked only independent action, considering themselves full grown in point of knowledge of their needs and desires, although but infants in age as compared with other subjects of Great Britain.
When, therefore, Old England announced, “You shall pay taxes!” the colonists demurred.
“We are not represented in your Parliament; we have no voice in your councils!”
“But you must pay taxes,” she commanded.
They replied, “We will not.”