A short time later when the call came t< defend the Union and these new American almost as one man sprang to the colors. th blood of Celt and Puritan became mingled b a deathless union on the hardfought eartl of a hundred fields. What appeals to me. however. is not s4 much what they did as what they contribute( to the great melting pot that is America They became Americans as we have seen almost at the moment they left the gang. plank. Indeed. it is rumored that some o them even voted here in Boston without the formality of naturalization. The suggestioi that this was a necessary prerequisite wa indignantly resented as a challenge to thei patriotism. And in these strange unsettled and parlou times we find among their descendants few if indeed there are any. whose loyalty to thi country and its institutions and the princi ples for which it stands can be questioned. "God and country" was the lesson Patricl Taught. "God and country" was the lessor learned.
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