couldn’t serve because he couldn’t find him. In every little quiet home, men were waiting with their muskets ready for the call to arms, and in a hundred villages the sturdy minute-men drilled on the public greens and waited. Gen. Gage, with his proud British regulars, was in Boston, waiting for the spirit of rebellion to rise a little higher and give him an excuse to shoot upon the brave and honest pioneers.
Then it was that Patrick Henry called out, “Give me liberty or give me death.” Then it was that the Continental Congress met in Philadelphia and Virginia sent her illustrious son, Thomas Jefferson, to speak for her, and say that she would do her part. Then it was that royal governors were losing their royal nerve, and trembling in their royal shoes. Then it was that George Washington stood at his mother’s armchair, and bending over her bade her good-bye, and went forth to take command. Then it was that John Paul Jones came forth from his retreat
