Life and Adventures of Timothy Murphy

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Whilst the greatest effort has been made to ensure the quality of this text, due to the historical nature of this content, in some rare cases there may be minor issues with legibility. After a country has emerged from a state of degradation and vassalage to the highest degree of prosperity and happiness, its citizens too often forget the individuals by whose patriotism those blessings were acquired and preserved. Rome forgot her Brutus - Greece her Epaminondas - Syracuse her Archimedes -and England her Alfred; and if such great and good men are not properly remembered and cherished, how much sooner will those who acted in an humbler sphere be forgotten! The old adage that Republics are ungrateful, has gone to the world. It is too true that we are prone to forget those who purchased Liberty with suffering, privation and even life. Every man who lent his aid in that cause which emphatically tried men's souls, was a'link in the great chain which led to our civil and political liberty. In that momentous and eventful struggle to which we allude, although some names sounded louder in the annals of fame, yet all were moved by the same general principles - all had the same objects in view, viz., the acquisition of civil, political and religious Liberty. The lives of all were equally dear - yet if an officer perished, his kindred, his friends, aye, the nation would lament his fate, and the bright halo of glory would illu mine his memory; but if the common soldier who faced the glittering bayonets of his country's foes. Perished in the conflict he was frequently unhonored and unmourned.