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She insisted so much that her father promised her this in front of the men of the village . Europe in his veins , whose direct ancestor three centuries before had been emperor not only of those provinces , but of all Germany and half Christendom besides , whose immortal father had under God been the creator and saviour of the new commonwealth , had made sacrifices such as man never made for a people , and had at last laid down his life in its defence ; who had himself fought daily from boyhood upwards in the great cause , who had led national armies from victory to victory till he had placed his country as a military school and a belligerent power foremost among the nations , and had at last so exhausted and humbled the great adversary and former tyrant that he had been glad of a truce while the rebel chief would have preferred to continue the war - - should aspire to rule by hereditary right a land with which his name and his race were indelibly associated by countless sacrifices and heroic achievements . ) Nonetheless , O'Day 's father retained his interest in mechanical things and shared that interest with his growing son , who " spent a lot of ... Outside the hospital , a father clutched his ill daughter on his hip and wept as he approached Mays . It was nearly a week after the poor girl had been so severely whipped and for no cause whatever , that her father learned on the circumstance through one of the servants .