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the Devil s Den, and became appropriately 

 confused between Seminary Hill and Ceme 

 tery Hill, and looked upon the sea of faces 

 from the North and from the South, and 

 listened to the silver tones of the orator of 

 the day at the gathering place in the na 

 tional cemetery, and to the manly words of 

 Longstreet and of Gordon, who had been 

 leaders in the invading army. 



And again : I see the streets of the Monu 

 mental city in April, 1892, and then a great 

 company gathered around a festal board. 

 And as the leader rises to speak, so rise 

 also all the members of the company, with 

 cheer upon cheer, and with eyes moist with 

 the dew that comes to men only when the 

 heart is touched. And before me now lies 

 the pencilled draft which so inadequately 

 recalls that speech as it was delivered, that 

 choicest of after-dinner speeches. And I 

 hear him conclude: &quot;Whatever may be 

 come of us, fellow pioneers, I say to you as 

 Latimer said to Kidley at the stake: Be 

 of good cheer, Brother Ridley, for we shall 

 this day light such a candle in England as 

 shall never be put out. If I were to pro 

 pose a legend for the league, I should turn 

 again to the episcopate, and take the reputed 

 words of the most famous of English church- 



