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Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing) 1 1 Browse Search
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Carlyle's laugh and other surprises 1 1 Browse Search
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Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Tennessee, (search)
ase system, but will not renew the lease......Sept. 4-5, 1891 Miners at Briceville set free 160 convicts, and 140 more at another prison......Oct. 31, 1891 Over 200 convicts set free in east Tennessee by miners......Nov. 2, 1891 Ex-Gov. Albert S. Marks dies suddenly at Nashville......Nov. 4, 1891 National Real Estate Association formally organized at Nashville......Feb. 18, 1892 Mining troubles in Coal Creek Valley settled; convicts to be replaced by white free miners......Feb. 19, 1892 Steel cantilever bridge over the Mississippi at Memphis opened......May 12, 1892 Confederate soldiers' home at the Hermitage opened......May 12, 1892 Miners burn the convict stockade at Tracy City, Aug. 13, and make an attack on the stockade at Oliver Springs......Aug. 16, 1892 Miners capture the stockade at Oliver Springs, and send the guards and convicts to Knoxville......Aug. 17, 1892 Miners defeated and routed by militia under General Carnes......Aug. 19, 1892 Conv
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Carlyle's laugh and other surprises, chapter 13 (search)
, reading it in camp during the Civil War, accepted it as an absolutely true narrative, until I suddenly came across, in the very midst of it, a phrase so wholly characteristic of its author that I sprang from my seat, exclaiming Aut Caesar Aut nullus; Edward Hale or nobody. This is the story on which the late eminent critic, Wendell P. Garrison, of the Nation, once wrote (April 17, 1902), There are some who look upon it as the primer of Jingoism, and he wrote to me ten years earlier, February 19, 1892, What will last of Hale, I apprehend, will be the phrase A man without a country, and perhaps the immoral doctrine taught in it which leads to Mexican and Chilean wars-- My country, right or wrong. Be this as it may, there is no doubt that on this field Hale's permanent literary fame was won. It hangs to that as securely as does the memory of Dr. Holmes to his Chambered Nautilus. It is the exiled hero of this story who gives that striking bit of advice to boys: And if you are ever