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James Parton, The life of Horace Greeley, Chapter 21: editorial repartees. (search)
lo! the only sound was made by a dumb old woman, whose tongue was loosed by the excitement of the occasion. The rest had all stood with mouths and ears wide open to hear the great noise, and so forgot to make any! The moral we trust our Whig friends everywhere will take to heart. Provocation. The passage in the President's Message which condemned those who opposed the Mexican war as unpatriotic. Reply. Picture for the President's bed-room: is this war? Monterey, Oct. 7, 1846. While I was stationed with our left wing in one of the forts, on the evening of the 21st, I saw a Mexican woman busily engaged in carrying bread and water to the wounded men of both armies. I saw this ministering angel raise the head of a wounded man, give him water and food, and then carefully bind up his wound with a handkerchief she took from her own head. After having exhausted her supplies, she went back to her own house to get more bread and water for others. As she was retur