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he says she Bought: also some Pewter (Viz.) two Pewter dishes & four Pewter Plates, one pint and one half pint Pewter Porringer, my smallest Iron Pottage Pot, two Iron Skillets, one pair of Andirons my Tin Still, the Spining wheel and—four chairs. [some chamber furniture] also I do give the said Cloe her Time and Set her Free Immediately after my Decease. Benj. Willis October 5, 1767. And the administrator of the estate of Benj. Willis credits himself: by pasturing the deceased's negro woman's heifer, £ 4, 10s. by sundry clothes for negro man Prince, £35. Similar kind treatment is mentioned by Miss Wild in her article on Medford in the Revolution in the case of Zachariah Pool, who left money in his will for the care of his slave, Scipio. I have set forth, with little comment, the few brief facts relating to slavery in our town. Perhaps, on the whole, it is a matter of congratulation that the facts are so meagre. Happy is the people whose annals are uninterestin
other exploits, none of which indicate a system purely and entirely defensive. But while he was pursuing his quasi defensive system in Italy, the Romans were pursuing a prodigiously active system of offence abroad. Marcellus took Syracuse, and Scipio invaded and conquered Spain, and finally carried the war into Hannibal's own country. Fabius opposed this last enterprise, maintaining that Hannibal should be driven from Italy before the war should be carried abroad. Neverthless, notwithstanding his high authority, it seems to us very doubtful whether the Romans would ever have gotten rid of Hannibal if Scipio had not invaded Carthage. Washigton's campaigns were somewhat on the Fabian system. Yet it was repugnant to his disposition, which was naturally ardent and impetuous. He had to form an army out of the rawest description of materials which it is possible to imagine, and with these materials he was compelled to face veterans who had never known defeat, overwhelmingly super
effectual but still temporary blockade than could well be put in force by other means; but we did not imagine that the object was to change the very geography of nature in a point so essential. We only put on record against it an unavailing remonstrance. The scheme is more than heathen. When old Cato repeated at the end of every speech his perpetual formula, even in a Roman Senate, there was a Scipio always ready to retort."And my opinion is that Carthage should stand." "We hold with Scipio, not with Cato. But even the purpose of the cruel old Roman was nothing to this. A hostile or rebellious city, destroyed by ordinary means, may be rebuilt, and be to other generations, if not now, these at of comfort, prosperity, and happiness. But this 'choking up forever nature's channels of life, intercourse, and plenty,' is a measure dictated by neither wisdom nor any feeling with which Christian principle could have any sympathy. It will make us expressly execrated as is becomes kno
e, the Northern Executive and army have been engaged for more than a year in the work of actual confiscation. That, however, is denied to be legislative confiscation, and therefore, it is maintained, we must not reply with legislative confiscation. And this is their argument when the enemy is invading us with an army of six hundred thousand men and a navy of three hundred ships! All history shows the error of such a course on the part of a Government engaged in war. From the time that Scipio carried the war into Africa, aggressive measures have been shown to be the best for defence. If the Confederate flag were flying upon the City Hall of New York, our chance to make a good and honorable peace would be much better than if the flag of the United States were waving over the Capitol at Richmond. The Yankees know that under the sequestration law, the Confederate States are in fact taking care of and preserving their property; and they think they will come South and get back their
the Arch Enemy through his angels, or throw the pearls of mercy and peace before his swinish legions? Shall we not imitate God, then, and oppose sword to sword, torment to torment? I am at a loss to comprehend the creature, man. He makes war like a Turk and talks like a Christian, or talks like a Turk and makes war like a Christian. We shall never be rid of this war, in my opinion, until we carry home the terrors of their visitation. We must burn Carthage to save Rome! We must have our Scipio. The Yankee Hannibal can subsist his armies on the fruits of our labor for many more years than the Carthaginian subsisted his troops on the vitals of bleeding Rome. I cannot understand why I should be made to fight a duel on honorable principles with a fellow whom I have never wronged, and who is void of honor himself. If self-defence is the first law of nature, it is not first in military ethics. Burn, steal, rob, ravish, murder, and military priests will grant you absolution in the fo
The Daily Dispatch: July 22, 1864., [Electronic resource], Death of an American student in Germany. (search)
s. A standard writer on the Military Art states that, as a general rule, troops marching for many days in succession will move at the rate of from fifteen to twenty miles per day. In forced marches, or in pursuit of a flying enemy, they will average from twenty to twenty-five miles per day; and for only two or three days successively, with favorable roads, thirty miles per day may be calculated on.--The author mentions the following instances of rapid marches: The Roman infantry, in Scipio's African campaigns, frequently marched twenty miles in five hours, each soldier carrying from fifty to eighty pounds of baggage. Septimus Severus marched from Vienna to Rome, a distance of eight hundred miles, in forty days. Cæsar marched from Rome to the Sierra Morena, in Spain, a distance of four hundred and fifty leagues, twenty- three days. The French, for general activity during a campaign, have no rivals. In 1797, Napoleon, in less than four days, marched near fifty leagues, fo
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