Capitolo 1
THE COUNTRY OR OF IMMUNITY THE FARM AND THE FIELD
Of HORATIO ALGER, JR.
THE COUNTRY OF IMMUNITY
CHAPTER ME. THE WAR REUNION
The Town hall in Rossville is standing on a moderate elevation
neglecting the principal road. It is only generally open when
a reunion has been called by the Selectmen to make city
business, or every now and then in the evening when a lecture on
the temperance or a political address will be delivered. Rossville
it is not great enough to sustain a course of lectures of lyceum, and
the townspeoples are forced for depending for intellectual nourishment
on such occasions of opportunity as these. The majority of the
inhabitants that part is taken in agricultural research, the
population is sprinkled rather, and the houses, with the
exception of some gathered around the shops, standing coop to
respectable distances, each camped on a farm of his really.
One afternoon of Wednesday, toward the closing of September 1862, a
it is probable that group of men and boys you/he/she would have been seen erect on the footsteps
and in the entrance of the House of City. Because they had met better desire
couples from a great placard that had been posted on on barns
and enclosures and in the shop of village and postoffice.
Raced as it follows:
WAR REUNION!
The citizens of Rossville are guests to meet himself/herself/themselves to the Town hall,
in Wednesday, September 24, to 3 P. M. to decide that measures
you/he/she will be taken toward to raise the quota of the city of twenty-five
men, under the recent call of the President of the United States.
All the patriotic citizens that are for to sustain the free one
institutions sent forth to us from our fathers, it is urgently
guest to be present.
The Hon. Solomon Stoddard is waited for to address the reunion.
One come, come everybody.
To the named time one hundred and fifty men had assembled in
the room. They was standing in groups, while discussing the recent call and
the general management of the war with that spirit of independent
he/she criticizes that so eminently it characterizes the small democracies