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Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 18. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), chapter 3 (search)
claimed the admiration of the brave of every nation. Virginia rebels. In conclusion Captain McCabe said: Virginians, in yonder battle-crowned capital of our ancient Commonwealth looks down upon us in imperishable bronze the counterfeit presentment of our mother's greatest son of the first Revolution, seated in easy majesty on his mettled steed, such as he may have seemed to his ragged, expectant soldiery as he scanned with serene constancy the varying chances of the fray that day at Germantown or at Princeton, while grouped beneath him stand the heroic figures of those great Virginians who shared with him the peril and the glory of guiding the new nation out of the dark and narrow bondage of royal tyranny into the broad light of republican freedom. rebel he was to those who denied the chartered liberties of his struggling countrymen, but to-day, under every sun and in every clime, the name of this rebel is to all freemen the synonym of constitutional liberty. And yet had