Chapter 10: last days with the tribune
- Dana's literary activities -- political campaign of 1860 -- Lincoln's Cooper Union speech -- Lincoln elected president -- signs of secession -- Bombardment of Fort Sumter -- the Union cannot be dissolved -- “forward to Richmond” -- tribune's change of policy -- Emancipation Proclamation -- Dana dismissed from the tribune
But neither the hatred of slavery nor the love of freedom, engrossing as they were, could absorb or afford occupation for all Dana's energy and activity. It must have been early in 1848-as he was in Europe during the last half of that year — that he translated and published a small volume of German “Stories and Legends” for children, under the title of The Black Ant.1 It included in its contents “The Inkstand,” “The curious Cockerel,” “The Christ-child,” “The Princess Unca,” “Nut Cracker and sugar Dolly,” and twelve others. The last of these was the longest. The little volume received wide circulation, and became most popular with American children, but was noticeable rather from the fact that it was one of the earliest, if not the actual forerunner, of a host which have since appeared both in Europe and America for the sepcial delectation of children. Four years later, in 1852, he edited and prepared for the press a work illustrated with steel engravings, known as Meyer's Universum,2 or views of the most remarkable
