# Autographs for Freedom, by Mrs. Harriet Beecher Stowe, and Thirty-five Other Eminent Writers

Author: Griffiths, Julia, 1811-1895 [Editor]; Stowe, Harriet Beecher, 1811-1896 [Contributor]

Genre: Category: Essays, Letters & Speeches

Language: English

License: Public domain

Source: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/62962

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## Summary

The State of Virginia is famous in American annals for the multitudinous array of her statesmen and heroes. She has been dignified by some the mother of statesmen. History has not been sparing in recording their names, or in blazoning their deeds. Her high position in this respect, has given her an enviable distinction among her sister States. With Virginia for his birth-place, even a man of ordinary parts, on account of the general partiality for her sons, easily rises to eminent stations. Men, not great enough to attract special attention in their native States, have, like a certain distinguished citizen in the State of New York, sighed and repined that they were not born in Virginia. Y...

## Chapters

- [PART IV.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/autographs-for-freedom-by-mrs-harriet-beecher-stowe-and-thirty-dc871a29/chapters/4/index.md)
- [PART II.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/autographs-for-freedom-by-mrs-harriet-beecher-stowe-and-thirty-dc871a29/chapters/2/index.md)
- [PART III.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/autographs-for-freedom-by-mrs-harriet-beecher-stowe-and-thirty-dc871a29/chapters/3/index.md)
- [PART I.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/autographs-for-freedom-by-mrs-harriet-beecher-stowe-and-thirty-dc871a29/chapters/1/index.md)
- [Part 6.—ALBERT DURER.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/autographs-for-freedom-by-mrs-harriet-beecher-stowe-and-thirty-dc871a29/chapters/5/index.md)