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Wendell Phillips, Theodore C. Pease, Speeches, Lectures and Letters of Wendell Phillips: Volume 2, Address to the Boston school children (1865). (search)
t in the last war, what was it that gave them their superiority? It was the brains they carried from these schools. When General Butler was stopped near the Relay House with a broken locomotive, he turned to the Eighth regiment, and asked if any one of them could mend it. A private walked out of the ranks, and patted it on the back and said, I ought to know it; I made it. When we went down to Charleston, and were kept seven miles off from the city, the Yankees sent down a New Hampshire Parrott that would send a two-hundred-pound shot into their midst. The great ability of New England has been proved. Now, boys, the glory of a father is his children. That father has done his work well who has left a child better than himself. The German prayer is, Lord, grant I may be as well off to-morrow as yesterday! No Yankee ever uttered that prayer. He always means that his son shall have a better :starting-point in life than himself. The glory of a father is his children. Our fathers