It heard the Indian warwhoop long before the white man came. It heard the crack of the flintlock rifles of the fur traders and after them the axes of the pioneers. Scouting parties from the neighborhood of Fort Duquesne spoke here the accents of France. and in later years the creaking wagon wheels of migrants mingled with German and Irish and Scottish voices as the flood of population poured through Pennsylvania and on to the South. Afterward. when an enemy army held Philadelphia. and Congress fled to Lancaster and York. Emmitsburg was on the edge of the hurricane. and again in the last act of that drama. when the North had been recovered and Cornwallis at last was penned with his back to the sea.
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