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The Daily Dispatch: March 30, 1864., [Electronic resource], An Englishman in Yankeedom. (search)
art man," significantly tapped his forehead as he spoke. Lunacy. Cela n'empes hepas. Lunacy in an American politician does not seem to count, and we may be approaching the dark millennium foreshadowed by the poet of the "roughs," Wait. Whitman; the time when there is to be nothing but "money, business, railroad, exports, imports, custom precedents, pallor, dyspepsia, smut, ignorance, and unbelief;" when judges and criminals shall be transposed and the prison keepers be put in prison, and insanity have the charge of sanity. You will excuse me for quoting a bard who is considered by many of his brethren to be himself as mad as a March hare, but there is much method and not a little wisdom in "Wait. Whitman, one of the roughs, a cosmos, disorderly, fleshly, sensual," who lounges and loafs at his ease, and sounds his "barbaric yawp over the roofs of the world." Nathaniel Hawthorne. Mr. Nathaniel Hawthorne, of Concord, Mass., author of "The Scarlet Letter," "The H