Caswell and Gaston and Davis and Bragg Macon, the wise the peerless D. H. Hill, The old State's fairest page, is writ her name- Two centuries later, is the spic'd account That breathes the splendid story! Deathless be Land of the brave Scotch-Irish, whose grim molds Back in the olden days, her stout arms bore Were tyranny's acknowledg'd foes, from whom * Penelope Barker. Worth Bagley's name, he from whose veins there leap'd Home of the Carrs-the Winstons and the Dukes Whose names have glorified the old North State? IV. THE ROLL CALL OF THE STATES-(Continued) N EXT, Alabama!* On her coat-of-arms, Blazes the ancient legend: "Here We Rest!" That charm'd the early settlers. But the strain To which that grand old State has ever mov'd In tenderest motherhood, sustain'd its life, * Alabama seceded from the Union January 11, 1861, and became the seat of the provisional government of the Confederate States of America. She was the fourth State to withdraw. |