are minded, also, to establish the idolatrous forms of English Episcopacy; so that, when Laud shall kiss the Pope's toe, as cardinal of Rome, he may deliver New England, bound hand and foot, into the power of his master!"

A deep groan from the auditors-a sound of wrath, as well as fear and sorrow-responded to this intelligence.

"Look ye to it, brethren," resumed Endicott, with increasing energy. "If this king and this arch-prelate have their will, we shall briefly behold a cross on the spire of this tabernacle which we have builded, and a high altar within its walls, with wax tapers burning round it at noonday. We shall hear the sacring bell, and the voices of the Romish priests saying the mass. But think ye, Christian men, that these abominations may be suffered without a sword drawn? without a shot fired? without blood spilt, yea, on the very stairs of the pulpit? No-be ye strong of hand and stout of heart! Here we stand on our own soil, which we have bought with our goods, which we have won with our swords, which we have cleared with our axes, which we have tilled with the sweat of our brows, which we have sanctified with our prayers to the God that brought us hither! Who shall enslave us here? What have we to do with this mitred prelate with this crowned king? What have we to do with England?"

Endicott gazed round at the excited countenances of the people, now full of his own spirit, and then turned suddenly to the standard-bearer, who stood close behind him.

"Officer, lower your banner!" said he.

The officer obeyed; and, brandishing his sword, Endicott thrust it through the cloth, and with his left hand rent the Red Cross completely out of the banner. He then waved the tattered ensign above his head.

"Sacrilegious wretch!" cried the high-churchman in the pillory, unable longer to restrain himself, "thou hast rejected the symbol of our holy religion!"

"Treason, treason!" roared the royalist in the stocks. "He hath defaced the King's banner!"

"Before God and man, I will avouch the deed," an

swered Endicott. "Beat a flourish, drummer!—shout, soldiers and people!-in honor of the ensign of New England. Neither Pope nor Tyrant hath part in it now!"

With a cry of triumph, the people gave their sanction to one of the boldest exploits which our history records. And forever honored be the name of Endicott! We look back through the mist of ages, and recognize in the rending of the Red Cross from New England's banner the first omen of that deliverance which our fathers consummated after the bones of the stern Puritan had lain more than a century in the dust.

Other Works by Nathaniel Hawthorne

Fanshawe, 1828 Novel

Twice-Told Tales, 1837 Stories

The Celestial Railroad and Other Stories, 1842 (Signet Classic CY1086)

Mosses from an Old Manse, 1846 Stories

The House of the Seven Gables, 1851 Novel (Signet Classic CY1043)

The Snow-Image and Other Twice-Told Tales, 1851 Stories The Blithedale Romance, 1852 Novel

The Life of Franklin Pierce, 1852 Biography

A Wonder Book for Girls and Boys, 1852 Stories
Tanglewood Tales, 1853 Stories

The Marble Faun, 1860 Novel (Signet Classic CW1084)
Our Old Home, 1863 Novel

The American Notebooks, 1868

The English Notebooks, 1870

French and Italian Notebooks, 1871

Selected Biography and Criticism

Arvin, Newton. Hawthorne. Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1929.

Fogle, Richard H. Hawthorne's Fiction: The Light and the Dark. Norman, Okla.: University of Oklahoma Press, 1952. James, Henry. Hawthorne. Ithaca, N. Y.: Cornell University Press, 1956.

Levin, Harry. Power of Blackness: Hawthorne, Poe, Melville. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, Inc., 1958.

Matthiessen, F. O. American Renaissance: Art and Expression in the Age of Emerson and Whitman. New York and London: Oxford University Press, Inc., 1941.

Stewart, Randall. Nathaniel Hawthorne: A Biography. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1948.

Van Doren, Mark. Nathaniel Hawthorne: A Critical Biography. New York: The Viking Press, Inc. (Compass Books), 1957.

Waggoner, H. H. Hawthorne: A Critical Study. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press; London: Oxford University Press, 1955.

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