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ERNESTINE L. ROSE
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need be, the dagger to the hearts of the enemies of her country’s liberty and rights. Indeed, it is told of her that once when an insurrection broke out in Poland, soon after she first went to England, and while she was yet a young girl, she set out to return to Poland, hoping in her enthusiasm to find some way by which to aid her countrymen in their struggle; but she was stopped by the authorities at Coblentz, and was reluctantly obliged to return.