Rensselaer Republican, Volume 22, Number 9, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 November 1889 — Thoroughbred Americans Every One. [ARTICLE]

Thoroughbred Americans Every One.

Dying American Patriot (a few years hence) —“My son, draw nearer. I want you to remambar that you come of a long line of American patriots who have never hesitated at the call of duty. Your great greatgrandfather fought, bled, and died in the Revolution; your great-grandfather fought in the Mexican war and suffer ed Untold agonies in Mexican prisons; your grandfather braved dangers innumerable in the Civil War; and I, my son, was one of those hundreds of thousands of windowless and seatloss patriots who, for two mortal days at the New York Centennial, endured the fearful crush of Broadway without seeing anything, v — New York Weekly-