Aldrich, Thomas Bailey, 1836-1907 · Boston, CT : Hall and Locke · leaf 297
ussia, fled to America for relieffrom indigence and oppression. His birth was in 1767,at a time when the people of our land were but a bodyof dependent colonists, scarcely more than two millionsin number, scattered along an immense coast, with noarmy, or navy, or union; and exposed to the… … Jacksons Early Home. that reached his heart, was, that all men are free andequal; the first great fact that beamed on his under-standing was hiscountrys inde-pendence. The strife, asit increased,came near theshades of his ownupland resi-dence. As a boyof thirteen he witnessed the scenes of horror…
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