[6] This poem, which is here quoted in part only, was read at the reunion of the Army of the Potomac, in Detroit, June 14, 1882, General Grant being present on the occasion.
[7] Copyright, by Fleming H. Revell Co. Reprinted by permission of the publishers.
[8] The author was working as a miner at Connellsville, Pennsylvania, when the strike and general riot occurred, during which he was beaten into unconsciousness and hustled off to jail.
[9] And the chief captain answered, With a great sum obtained I this citizenship.—Acts xxii. 28.
[10] This and the two following paragraphs are part of an address given at an Americanization meeting held in Attleboro, Massachusetts, in 1917.
[11] Copyright, 1917, by The Four Seas Company. By permission of the publishers.
Transcriber’s Notes:
Footnotes have been moved to the end of the text and relabeled consecutively through the document.
Punctuation has been made consistent.