D. P. Thompson

D. P. Thompson
Daniel Pierce Thompson (1795–1868) was an American novelist and lawyer best known for his historical fiction set in New England. His most notable works include "The Green Mountain Boys" (1839), which dramatizes the role of Vermont's militia during the American Revolution, and "Locke Amsden" (1847), which explores the challenges of rural education. Thompson's writing often reflected his deep knowledge of Vermont history and its people, blending fact with fiction to create vivid narratives. In addition to his literary career, Thompson also held public office, including roles as a legislator and probate judge in Vermont.

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  "A shout as of waters—a long-uttered cry:   Hark! hark! how it leaps from the earth to the sky!   From the sky to the earth, from the earth to the sea   It is grandly reechoed, We are free, we are free!" Every thing, the next morning, seemed as quiet and peaceful in the village, as if nothing unusual had occurred there. The commotion of the preceding night appeared to have wholly... more...

CHAPTER I. "God made the country and man made the town." So wrote the charming Cowper, giving us to understand, by the drift of the context, that he intended the remark as having a moral as well as a physical application; since, as he there intimates, in "gain-devoted cities," whither naturally flow "the dregs and feculence of every land," and where "foul example in most... more...