Democratic Sentinel, Volume 5, Number 42, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 November 1881 — A Basis of Legends. [ARTICLE]

A Basis of Legends.

The struggles and purposes of the people that lived in the early dawn of the race, whose achievements echo and re-echo to us through the misty mediums of romance and song like the objects of the earth’s surface seen in a mirage, take colossal proportions, picturesque outlines. The smallest event seen through the mellow atmosphere of centuries looms up in varied and fabulous shapes, while the most commonplace revolutions in dynasties are magnified into heroic episodes. The American race, which reads with wonder the myths of Tell and similar intangible inventions, passes by almost unheeded the infinitely more thrilling chain of actions by which their fathers evoked from misfortunes, established in adversity the first principles of freedom upon an unknown continent. The events are too near, the personages that took part too closely allied in blood, for the present age to invest them with the awe-struck reverence and wonder with which actions are treated, coming to us through untrustworthy hearsay or roseate fragments of romance. The time will come, however, when that struggle which began in Massachusetts in 1775, and ended seven years later in the swamps of Vir ginia, wdl form the basis of 1. gends as thrilling and a dramatic per<sonie as imposing as the Illiad or the Odyssey.

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