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xne jjixiup ue cun gruap me lhuiju,And chase the Barons proud.”And woman, also, gentle woman, the patriot mother of America, came to the rescue. With more than spartan valor, she not only cried “shame” oh the unworthy son who turned his back on his country’s enemies, but herself, clad and disguised in the dress and armor of a soldier, in more instances than one, took her post in the ranks and gave an example of heroism, of seli-denial and patient endurance, which men might have emulated, .And it is a fact worthy of being written in letters of gold on the page of history, and preserved among the sacred archives of our country, that at this moment (if the person is still living) the United States government is paying a yearly pension to the venerable surviving husband of a gallan t female, a native of Massachusetts, who, during the revolutionary war, served for near three years in the continental army, was engaged in several battles, and never while she lived, forfeited her character for virtue, or claimed from her country any other or higher reward than the glorious consciousness of having helped to gain its independence. The circumstance is as honorable to the sex, as it is exalted anti humane in the government, that this performs while it rewards noble actions. (Distinguished foreigners also—ami-rebt1cvC1titlsisitltl16tintlubgotlctlt;p,0tlbtloy
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New Harmony Indiana Statesman
New Harmony, Indiana, US
Sat, Aug 24, 1844
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