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...Society of Friends, commonly called Quakers, which began to form around George Fox exactly 300 years ago, has done its sober best to take away the occasion for war by refusing to bear arms. "The leveled gun, the battle-brand, we may not take," wrote Quaker Poet John Greenleaf Whittier...
...first number, published in 1857, had offered its handful of readers Ralph Waldo Emerson, James Russell Lowell, Dr. Oliver Wendell Holmes, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Harriet Beecher Stowe and John Greenleaf Whittier...
...Completely legendary. After writing his famous poem about Barbara, Poet John Greenleaf Whittier was told that Stonewall Jackson did not even pass the Frietchie house in Frederick, Md. and that if he had, Barbara could not have leaned out the window to speak her impassioned lines ("Shoot, if you must, this old gray head . . .") as she was bedfast at the time. Snapped Whittier: "It seems to be admitted that Barbara Frietchie had a Union flag in her house; if she did not show it on that occasion, so much the worse for Frederick City...
Irving Asher Abrams, George Motley Angle, William Pollard Bartlett, Sheldon David Berman, Douglas Aldrich Brown, Lyman Greenleaf Bullard, Thomas Dudley Cabot, Jr., William Cannon Cahall, 3d., Worthington Campbell, Jr., Melvin Jerome Carro, Edward McDermott Casey, Francis Henry Caskin, 3d., Bradford Cobb, Timothy Coggeshall, Charles Thompson Cowen, Julian Crocker, Leon Antoine Dance, Jr., Malcolm Mark Donahue, Arthur John Egan, Thomas Laurence Farmer, Robert William Gallant, David Milton Gordon, Stanley Kotzen Gordon, Richard Currier Gove, Edward Lowell Hadley, Robert James Harbison, 3d., Bartlett Harwood...
...RICHARD GREENLEAF...