"And who was the Gray Champion? I have heard, that, whenever the descendants of the Puritans are to show the spirit of their sires, the old man appears again. His hour is one of darkness, and adversity, and peril. But should domestic tyranny oppress us, or the invader's step pollute our soil, still may the Gray Champion come; for he is the type of New-England's hereditary spirit; and his shadowy march, on the eve of danger, must ever be the pledge, that New-England's sons will vindicate their ancestry." - Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Gray Champion, 1804-1864
"And who was the Gray Champion? I have heard, that, whenever the descendants of the Puritans are to show the spirit of their sires, the old man appears again. His hour is one of darkness, and adversity, and peril. But should domestic tyranny oppress us, or the invader's step pollute our soil, still may the Gray Champion come; for he is the type of New-England's hereditary spirit; and his shadowy march, on the eve of danger, must ever be the pledge, that New-England's sons will vindicate their ancestry." - Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Gray Champion, 1804-1864
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