The Old Bell of Independence; Or, Philadelphia in 1776

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Henry Clay Watson. The Old Bell of Independence; Or, Philadelphia in 1776

PREFACE

INTRODUCTION

STORY OF GENERAL WASHINGTON

THE SPY'S FATE

STORY OF THE SERMON

STORY OF THE PRAYER

STORY OF LYDIA DARRAGH

THE DEAD MAN'S LAKE

STORY OF THE HALF-BREED

STORY OF THE DEATH OF COLONEL LOVELACE

STORY OF THE MURDER OF MISS M'CREA

STORY OF THE DEFENCE OF SHELL'S BLOCK-HOUSE

STORY OF BATE'S BEVENGE

STORY OF GENERAL WAYNE

STORY OF THE OUTLAW OF THE PINES

THE TORY'S CONVERSION

THE TIMELY RESCUE

BATTLE OF GERMANTOWN

BATTLE OF THE KEGS

ARNOLD'S TREASON

CAPTURE OF GENERAL PRESCOTT

JONATHAN RILEY AND FRANK LILLY

THE MASSACRE OF WYOMING

STORY OF THE DAUPHIN'S BIRTHDAY

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It was a season of unparalleled enthusiasm and rejoicing, when General Lafayette, the friend and supporter of American Independence, responded to the wishes of the people of the United States, and came to see their prosperity, and to hear their expressions of gratitude. The national heart beat joyfully in anticipation; and one long, loud, and free shout of welcome was heard throughout the land.

Arriving at New York in August, 1824, General Lafayette journeyed through the Eastern States, receiving such tokens of affection as the people had extended to no other man except Washington, and then returned southward. On the 28th of September, he entered Philadelphia, the birth-place of the Declaration of Independence, the greater part of the population coming out to receive and welcome him. A large procession was formed, and thirteen triumphal arches erected in the principal streets through which the procession passed.

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'It was but a day past and our land slept in peace. War was not here—wrong was not here. Fraud, and woe, and misery, and want, dwelt not among us. From the eternal solitude of the green woods arose the blue smoke of the settler's cabin, and golden fields of corn looked forth from amid the waste of the wilderness, and the glad music of human voices awoke the silence of the forest.

'Now! God of mercy, behold the change! Under the shadow of a pretext—under the sanctity of the name of God—invoking the Redeemer to their aid, do these foreign hirelings slay our people! They throng our towns; they darken our plains; and now they encompass our posts on the lonely plain of Chadd's Ford.

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