PART III

IDEALS AND HEROES OF FREEDOM

INTRODUCTION 289

SCOTLAND’S STRUGGLE FOR INDEPENDENCE

TALES OF A GRANDFATHER _Sir Walter Scott_ 293

THE STORY OF SIR WILLIAM WALLACE 293

ROBERT THE BRUCE 301

THE BATTLE OF BANNOCKBURN 311

EXPLOITS OF DOUGLAS AND RANDOLPH 318

THE PARTING OF MARMION AND DOUGLAS _Sir Walter Scott_ 325

BRUCE’S ADDRESS AT BANNOCKBURN _Robert Burns_ 328

ENGLAND AND FREEDOM

THE LAST FIGHT OF THE REVENGE _Sir Walter Raleigh_ 330

YE MARINERS OF ENGLAND _Thomas Campbell_ 336

ENGLAND AND AMERICA NATURAL ALLIES _John Richard Green_ 338

ENGLAND AND AMERICA IN 1782 _Alfred, Lord Tennyson_ 340

ENGLAND TO FREE MEN _John Galsworthy_ 341

MEN WHO MARCH AWAY _Thomas Hardy_ 343

EARLY AMERICAN SPIRIT OF FREEDOM

GRANDFATHER’S CHAIR _Nathaniel Hawthorne_ 345

HOW NEW ENGLAND WAS GOVERNED 345

THE PINE-TREE SHILLINGS 349

THE STAMP ACT 354

BRITISH SOLDIERS STATIONED IN BOSTON 359

THE BOSTON MASSACRE 364

SOME FAMOUS PORTRAITS 370

THE GRAY CHAMPION _Nathaniel Hawthorne_ 376

WARREN’S ADDRESS AT BUNKER HILL _John Pierpont_ 385

LIBERTY OR DEATH _Patrick Henry_ 386

GEORGE WASHINGTON TO HIS WIFE 390

GEORGE WASHINGTON TO GOVERNOR CLINTON 393

SONG OF MARION’S MEN _William Cullen Bryant_ 395

TIMES THAT TRY MEN’S SOULS _Thomas Paine_ 397