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Charles Congdon, Tribune Essays: Leading Articles Contributing to the New York Tribune from 1857 to 1863. (ed. Horace Greeley), Alexander the Bouncer. (search)
Alexander the Bouncer. all great men have their weak side. Alexander of Macedon was given to grog. Alexander, of Georgia, V. P. C. S., is given to gammon. His weakness is to say the thing that is not --this being the periphrastical way in whce from their families? Hirelings, forsooth! When you go to the Confederate treasury to draw your quarter's salary, O Alexander — mind, we do not say that you will get it — pray will you then be a hireling? Mercenaries are those who are retainen mercenary?--our soldiers extemporised from the field, the factory and every haunt of industry? Answer that question, Alexander! The rapidity with which an Italian buffo-singer can deliver the words of his song is tediously slow in comparison wthough, according to Gov. Pickens, you be, pray, whatever may happen, try to tell the truth. See what a mean figure V. P. Alexander cuts, standing in a tavern balcony, retailing silly gossip to his gaping dupes! A lie is like a tumbler of soda-w
Charles Congdon, Tribune Essays: Leading Articles Contributing to the New York Tribune from 1857 to 1863. (ed. Horace Greeley), A Bacchanal of Beaufort. (search)
so far to relax the vigilance of the blockade as to let the cratur in? If the rebels will but promise to drink them-and of that we need no assurance — why not let them. have all the strong waters they pant for? Why not send them brandy in bombs, and old wheat under a flag of truce? why not drop bottles of tipple into their camps from our balloons? Who does not see that we might have one of their Major-Generals in a mania à potu in a week! Then, of course, he would fancy himself to be Alexander the Great, and in his jollity he would kill some Col. Clitus, whose kinsman would kill the General, and his cousins, in turn, Clitus's cousins; and so with a merry go-rounder of murder, we should have half the commissioned officers of the Confederacy dead speedily. But this is digression. We must return to the cup-captured citizen of Beaufort. We are apprehensive that Mr. Barnum has been a little rash in offering a reward of $1,000 for the catching and caging and delivery at his Broad
Charles Congdon, Tribune Essays: Leading Articles Contributing to the New York Tribune from 1857 to 1863. (ed. Horace Greeley), Concerning Shirts. (search)
bad cotton crops and. we are nowhere. What a cheerful prospect! This is, of course, a change. There was a time when shirts save their own painted skins --as the amiable Cowper has it-our sires had none. There was a time when man struggled through his dark destiny in a linen shirt. There have been great men who still cut a considerable figure in history, who knew not the blessing of a cotton shirt. It is reasonable to suppose that Solomon in all his glory never enjoyed that comfort, Alexander the Great triumphed in a steel shirt, and tippled in a silk one. Julius Caesar — poor man!--went in wool. We have some reason for supposing that Gen. Washington himself always wore linen. But the difficulty is that once having worn a cotton shirt, mankind must continue to wear one, or cease to exist, No more fig-leaves now! No more purple and fine linen! No more leathern conveniences! We may, indeed, fancy that ours will be the privilege, pitiable at the best, of going shirtless if
Charles Congdon, Tribune Essays: Leading Articles Contributing to the New York Tribune from 1857 to 1863. (ed. Horace Greeley), The necessity of Servility. (search)
her style of falsehood. Rome was great-Rome submitted to a Dictator — therefore all nations desiring to be great, must establish a Dictatorship, raising to that dignity some successful soldier. Greece was great — but then all her slaves were white — therefore no nation can be great without white slaves. Imperial France was great, but it was by theft — therefore no nation can be great without stealing territory. That is why Prussian Frederick is called Great — because he stole Silesia. Alexander frequently was carried to bed much intoxicated — therefore he was styled the Great--Drinker, we suppose, being understood. Jonathan Wild was dubbed the Great by Fielding — why remind our readers that the novelist meant The great thief? It is, we repeat, a pity that our General, who believes Greatness and Rascality to be convertible terms, did not expatiate a little upon his discovery. For our own part we have thought, fondly, we suppose, that the kind of greatness to which he all
Charles Congdon, Tribune Essays: Leading Articles Contributing to the New York Tribune from 1857 to 1863. (ed. Horace Greeley), Index. (search)
ion of316 Freedmen, Probable Vices of362 Franklin on British Policy366 Fast Day, Mr. Davis's377 Gregory, M. P.163 Greenville, Lord, on Emancipation329 Goethe on the Future of America808 Greatness, Historical856 Hamilton, Alexander, on the Union297 Hawks, Dr., his Twelve Questions305 Independence, Declaration of139 Independence, Southern Association for265 Ireland, The Case of294 Johnson, Reverdy42 Johnson, Dr., his Favorite Toast329 Lord, President3,lliam H158, 187 Repudiation of Northern Debts162 Red Bill, a New Orleans Patriarch318 Romilly, Sir Samuel828 Robertson, Dr., on Slavery803 Screws, Benjamin, Negro Broker8, 88 Society for Promoting National Unity186 Stevens, Alexander H148 Secession, The Ordinance of178 Slidell, Miss204 Secessionists, The Dissensions of219 St. Domingo, The Argument from326 Saulsbury, Senator334, 351 Tyler, John, his Diagnosis128 Times, The London158, 177, 309, 366, 374