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Charles Congdon, Tribune Essays: Leading Articles Contributing to the New York Tribune from 1857 to 1863. (ed. Horace Greeley), chapter 56 (search)
ongress is always purchasing this thing or that — seeds, pictures, patent plows — and why should n't it invest a million or so, in these plenteous times, in lexicons and chrestomathies! Is n't it evident that if we are to be saved, it must be, not by Major nor even by Brigadier Generals, but by sound professors of Hebrew. At any rate, something should be done. The universe has not been in such a perilous condition since the war of the Titans. Divine Providence is in a dangerous way; and it is certainly odd that our only safeguard against the premature catastrophe of nations should be communications in The Boston Courier. Let us all go at our Aleph-Beth-Gimmel at once; for if we do n't, who knows what mischief may be done when Ham gets a good opportunity to break Shem's head! We do not think that we shall hereafter support any man for the Presidency who is not well up in his Hebrew, points and all. It will never do to have Providence thwarted in this loose way. March 22, 1