| Marion Harland - 1865 - 426 Seiten
...drop of my blood to save her soil from desecration. It is no poetical figure, to say that we — ' Strike for our altars and our fires, Strike for the...green graves of our sires, GOD and our native land ! ' " " Our unofficered bands have been guilty of many outrages — of shameful disregard of the rights... | |
| Marion Harland - 1867 - 424 Seiten
...drop of my blood to save her soil from desecration. It is no poetical figure, to say that we — ' Strike for our altars and our fires, Strike for the...green graves of our sires, GOD and our native land ! ' " " Our unoificered bands have been guilty of many outrages — of shameful disregard of the rights... | |
| J. Marshall Crawford - 1867 - 410 Seiten
...Mosby arrived on the field, and after a brief consultation prepared to meet the invaders, and to, — " Strike for the green graves of our sires, God, and our native Land." Fifty Yankees were sent out to meet us as decoys ; and their charge upon our rear and left flank struck... | |
| John N. Holloway - 1868 - 608 Seiten
...accustom freemen to the duties of slaves, and when such fatal danger as that is menaced, then is the time to "' 'Strike for our altars and our fires, Strike...the green graves of our sires. God and our native laud.' "As he paused there was for an instant a deep silence as when a question of life or death is... | |
| John N. Holloway - 1868 - 602 Seiten
...accustom freemen to the duties of slaves, and when such fatal danger as that is menaced, then is the time to " 'Strike for our altars and our fires. Strike for the green lrraves of our sires, God and our native land.' "As he paused there was for an instant a deep silence... | |
| 1890 - 1146 Seiten
...instructed to do by our great poet, when that day shall come, if it ever does come ; let us — " ' Strike for our altars and our fires; Strike, for the green graves of our sires; Strike till the last armed foe expires; For God and our native land.' " Comrade ES Johnson said : "... | |
| 1918 - 664 Seiten
...accustom freemen to the duties of slaves, and, when such fatal danger as that menaces, then is the time to "Strike for our altars and our fires, Strike for...green graves of our sires, God and our native land." The address exerted a powerful influence on the convention and it is said that many of the delegates... | |
| Albert Jeremiah Beveridge - 1928 - 782 Seiten
...notable. There Reeder, in a speech that bristled with bayonets, adjured the settlers in Halleek's words to 'Strike — for our altars and our fires; . Strike...green graves of our sires; God and our native land!' The sentiment elicited cheers and the orator was unanimously nominated for Delegate in Congress. Another... | |
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