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Georgia (Georgia, United States) (search for this): chapter 3.22
ther side. When our stock of available questions had run low and interest in our society began to flag, the expedient was resorted to of re-enacting the celebrated scene in the debating club so graphically described by Judge Longstreet in the Georgia scenes. Many of you remember the question in that famous debate, Whether, in popular elections, the vote of factions should predominate according to the bias of jurisprudence, or according to the force of internal suggestion. At first it was proposed to introduce the same question, but as it was found that one of the proposed debaters was familiar with the debate in Georgia scenes, it was found necessary to substitute another; and so, after considerable conference amongst those admitted to the secret, the following question was agreed upon and announced, Whether the foundations of wise legislation are to be sought in the inherent principles of social ethics, or in the philosophy of practical utility. The first speaker in the affi
Orange Court House (Virginia, United States) (search for this): chapter 3.22
al regiment prided itself on its band of music, the leader or drum-major of which was a handsome Pole, of almost giant stature, whose tall form was rendered still more imposing by his lofty Cossack hat and plume, and by the immense mace which he balanced gracefully in his hand, marking time for his musicians as he led them along the line of flashing bayonets in the parade. We had a drum-major, too — a noble-hearted Virginian, whose hand I have recently had the pleasure of shaking at Orange Court-house. Nearly as tall as the Pole, we made up the additional height by stacking some of our old Confederate farmer-shaped hats one upon another. He had carved out of wood a fair counterpart of the mace of his Yankee rival, and, when thus equipped, he moved up and down along the line of the regiment, followed by his band, one with a half flour-barrel suspended from his neck for a drum, another with two tin plates as cymbals, a third with an old cracked flageolet which had been thrown away b
Europe (search for this): chapter 3.22
estion, which had nothing to do with a priori or a posteori, but was a question as to the true basis of legislation. The speaker bowed politely, though it was evident that he was very much disconcerted, and, being a passionate man, somewhat angered. He said, however, pleasantly that if the president would bear with him for a moment he would convince him that his wandering from the question was only apparent and not real; that the president well remembered the two great ethical schools of Europe at the close of the last century, the one having its highest exponent in Paley, whose cardinal doctrine was that expediency was the sole ground of right; the other in Reid, the great master of the intuitional or common sense school. He was proceeding most eloquently to defend the intuitional school, when the president again called him to order. This time the rising storm of anger was apparent, but he checked it, righted himself gallantly and made a third sally and a fourth, only each time
Baltimore, Md. (Maryland, United States) (search for this): chapter 3.22
ad we not been provided with better food through the generosity of friends in Baltimore, without the knowledge of the officers of the fort, few of us would have survcommissary stores that had been condemned for army use and sold at auction in Baltimore, and which were bought by the steward of the prison for a mere trifle and isshigh rates of profit. We did not live upon these rations. Kind friends in Baltimore supplied us from time to time with money. Cooked vegetables and fruits were as needful to our comfort and health. Indeed, if the friends of the South in Baltimore had been permitted to do for us all that their generous hearts prompted, our es of recreation; forbidden the privilege of receiving visits from friends in Baltimore; our only communications with home being through the doubtful and unsatisfacto the fort in badly damaged apparel. Many had been supplied by the ladies of Baltimore through underground channels of communication; but many were still somewhat t
Aurora, Ill. (Illinois, United States) (search for this): chapter 3.22
fforts, while his opponent was cheered at every point, and in the final vote the unlucky orator was sure to be in a lean and helpless minority. Well do I remember when it was made my duty to defend the negative in the question, Is love a safe guide in the formation of matrimonial alliances? I traversed, as far as I could in unaided memory, all history and literature to establish the proverbial blindness of love — then entered the domain of poetry and art, painting Cupid the blind boy, as Aurora with her rosy fingers drew aside the curtains of the dawn, and Apollo, god of day, drove his fiery steeds up along the eastern sky, whilst the poor boy groped in his blindness and shot his arrows at random through the air. Then I entered the domain of Metaphysics, and with Kaut's marvellous trichotomy as my guide, showed how in that three-fold adjustment of man's nature god-like reason was designed to sit upon the throne, love with all other passions to be in subjection to its wise control —
Cupid (search for this): chapter 3.22
eted his most masterly efforts, while his opponent was cheered at every point, and in the final vote the unlucky orator was sure to be in a lean and helpless minority. Well do I remember when it was made my duty to defend the negative in the question, Is love a safe guide in the formation of matrimonial alliances? I traversed, as far as I could in unaided memory, all history and literature to establish the proverbial blindness of love — then entered the domain of poetry and art, painting Cupid the blind boy, as Aurora with her rosy fingers drew aside the curtains of the dawn, and Apollo, god of day, drove his fiery steeds up along the eastern sky, whilst the poor boy groped in his blindness and shot his arrows at random through the air. Then I entered the domain of Metaphysics, and with Kaut's marvellous trichotomy as my guide, showed how in that three-fold adjustment of man's nature god-like reason was designed to sit upon the throne, love with all other passions to be in subject
Yankee Doodle (search for this): chapter 3.22
followed by his band, one with a half flour-barrel suspended from his neck for a drum, another with two tin plates as cymbals, a third with an old cracked flageolet which had been thrown away by some soldier of the fort, and the fourth with a coarse comb, covered with a slip of paper, after the well-remembered mechanism of our childhood, the scene was striking beyond description, especially when, as was generally the case, the full power of the orchestra was exhausted upon Hail Columbia, Yankee Doodle, or some other favorite National air. Then again, for the entertainment of lonely evenings, we organized a literary society, which held its meetings once or twice a week, immediately after supper, and which numbered some twenty or more clever debaters. Many and various were the subjects discussed; vast and heterogeneous the stores of original thought evolved by men who had no access to books, and amidst throes which attested the profoundness of that vasty deep from which the treasur
Falstaff (search for this): chapter 3.22
it occurred that when we were drawn up in line, here stood an officer of more than ordinary height of stature, his long arms protruding several inches through his coat sleeves, and by his side a small but ambitious little soldier, who looked for all the world as if his coat had swallowed him. These fancy uniforms, capped with the far-famed Confederate hat, which assumed under exposure to the weather every hue of color and every possible transformation of shape, made up a regiment of which. Falstaff himself might justly have been proud. The soldiers of the garrison had their guard mountings, and so had we. We were their prisoners — the rats were ours. Every morning our guard was duly mounted. A sentinel was stationed at each hole where the rats were burrowing beneath our walls. When the alarm was sounded and the enemy under chase, the Department of the Patapsco expected every man to do his duty, and woe to the unfortunate sentinel who suffered the enemy to escape. The great ev
J. Longstreet (search for this): chapter 3.22
ength amidst a feeble effort at applause, which, as I saw, came from my colleague appointed on the same side. And when the final vote was taken, my voice was the only one heard in the negative, even my colleague having ingloriously deserted me and whipped over to the other side. When our stock of available questions had run low and interest in our society began to flag, the expedient was resorted to of re-enacting the celebrated scene in the debating club so graphically described by Judge Longstreet in the Georgia scenes. Many of you remember the question in that famous debate, Whether, in popular elections, the vote of factions should predominate according to the bias of jurisprudence, or according to the force of internal suggestion. At first it was proposed to introduce the same question, but as it was found that one of the proposed debaters was familiar with the debate in Georgia scenes, it was found necessary to substitute another; and so, after considerable conference among
James D. Reid (search for this): chapter 3.22
t he was very much disconcerted, and, being a passionate man, somewhat angered. He said, however, pleasantly that if the president would bear with him for a moment he would convince him that his wandering from the question was only apparent and not real; that the president well remembered the two great ethical schools of Europe at the close of the last century, the one having its highest exponent in Paley, whose cardinal doctrine was that expediency was the sole ground of right; the other in Reid, the great master of the intuitional or common sense school. He was proceeding most eloquently to defend the intuitional school, when the president again called him to order. This time the rising storm of anger was apparent, but he checked it, righted himself gallantly and made a third sally and a fourth, only each time to be interrupted by the mild voice of the president, and to be provoked by a suppressed titter in the audience, until at length, when for the fourth time the president had
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