Wendell Phillips: “Under the Flag”

Glossary

• diadem crown
• Fort Sumter the U.S. fort on the coast of South Carolina, site of the first hostilities in the Civil War
• Jack Cade the leader of a revolt in England in 1450
• Jesuits an order of Catholic priests, known historically for their efforts to expose and eliminate heresy, or false church doctrine
• olive-branch a traditional symbol of peace
• Potomac the Potomac River, often used as a figure of speech to refer to the area surrounding Washington, D.C., and the seat of government
• Sumner Charles Sumner, U.S. senator, abolitionist, and one of the leaders of the Radical Republicans during Reconstruction
• Thermopylae the Greek site of the Battle of Thermopylae in 480 BCE
• Thierry nineteenth-century liberal French historian Augustin Thierry
• Wat Tyler leader of the English Peasants’ Revolt of 1381