Jasper County Democrat, Volume 20, Number 49, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 September 1917 — Suppose. [ARTICLE]

Suppose.

Ih IT-h' George Washington was offered a midshipman's warrant on a British man of war. His mother had at one time consented, but when rhe hour arrived she flatly rebelled, and as her signature was necessary to the enlistment. George did not at the age of fourteen become a British seaman. Suppose he had enlisted ? He was the one indispensable man of the Revolution. Suppose Gilbert Livingston had not voted New York into the L’nion at the constitutional convention? How many of us recall now that in a vote of GO delegates from New York there was a majority for the union of but two, and Livingston was the man who determined the decision. Suppose the advance .on Littie Round Top at Gettysburg had been made on the day Lee ordered it instead of a day later? Suppose the confederates had inarched on Washington after the. victory of Bull Bon? —Des Moines Register.