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William H. Herndon, Jesse William Weik, Herndon's Lincoln: The True Story of a Great Life, Etiam in minimis major, The History and Personal Recollections of Abraham Lincoln by William H. Herndon, for twenty years his friend and Jesse William Weik, Chapter3. (search)
played an important role before the curtain was rung down. Taylor's father was the second for Johnston, and William Whitten officiated in a similar capacity for Grigsby. They had a terrible fight, relates Taylor, and it soon became apparent that Grigsby was too much for Lincoln's man, Johnston. After they had fought a long time without interference, it having been agreed not to break the ring, Abe burst through, caught Grigsby, threw him off and some feet away. There he stood, proud as Lucifer, and swinging a bottle of liquor over his head swore he was the big buck of the lick. If any one doubts it, he shouted, he has only to come on and whet his horns. A general engagement followed this challenge, but at the end of hostilities the field was cleared and the wounded retired amid the exultant shouts of their victors. Much of the latter end of Abe's boyhood would have been lost in the midst of tradition but for the store of information and recollections I was fortunate enough
Benson J. Lossing, Pictorial Field Book of the Civil War. Volume 1., Chapter 13: the siege and evacuation of Fort Sumter. (search)
renaded, and made a fiery speech to the populace, in response to the compliment. Gentlemen, he said, I thank you, especially, that you have at last annihilated this cursed Union, reeking with corruption, and insolent with excess of tyranny. Thank God! it is at last blasted and riven by the lightning wrath of an outraged and indignant people. Not only is it gone, but gone forever. In the expressive language of Scripture, it is water spilt upon the ground, and cannot be gathered up. Like Lucifer, son of the morning, it has fallen, never to rise again. For my part, gentlemen, if Abraham Lincoln and Hannibal Hamlin, to-morrow, were to abdicate their office, and were to give me a blank sheet of paper to write the conditions of reannexation to the defunct Union, I would scornfully spurn the overture. . . . I invoke you, and I make it in some sort a personal appeal — personal so far as it tends to our assistance in Virginia — I do invoke you, in your demonstrations of popular opinion,
Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events: Documents and Narratives, Volume 2. (ed. Frank Moore), chapter 99 (search)
uthority of our Government, we are necessarily cowards. We know whence this taunt comes, and we estimate it at its true value. We hold that there is a higher courage in the performance of duty than in the commission of crime. The tiger of the jungle and the cannibal of the South Sea Islands have that courage in which the revolutionists of the day make their especial boast; the angels of God and the spirits of just men made perfect have had, and have that courage which submits to the law. Lucifer was a non-submissionist, and the first secessionist of whom history has given us any account, and the chains which he wears fitly express the fate due to all who openly defy the laws of their Creator and of their country. He rebelled because the Almighty would not yield to him the throne of heaven. The principle of the Southern rebellion is the same. Indeed, in this submission to the laws is found the chief distinction between good men and devils. A good man obeys the laws of truth, of
Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events: Poetry and Incidents., Volume 4. (ed. Frank Moore), chapter 43 (search)
od By noble martyrs shed; and thus they speak-- “O sons once named Americans, but now The world-mocked orphans of a nameless land, Why rush ye to destruction? Happier far Than ye the tawny tribes your fathers drove From the primeval forests — the red chiefs Who bravely perished on their hunting-grounds, Or passing o'er the mountains of the West, Went down in gloom, like nature's final sun, To rise no more forever! Better thus Than live the foul dishonor of your sires, Whose progeny like Lucifer of old Rebelled against the power that made them gods, And perished in their treason. Come, ye winds, Swift-winged couriers of the tropic sky, Heralds of death and ruin — come, ye fires That in volcanic caverns ever burn, And crisp pale cities in your molten jaws-- Come, burning plagues, and ye tempestuous waves, Who strangle navies in your watery arms-- Earthquakes and lightning strokes, all earthly ills Which Heaven inflicts and trembling men abhor-- Fell bolts in God's red armory of wra<
Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events: Poetry and Incidents., Volume 5. (ed. Frank Moore), chapter 5 (search)
cannot be disguised, The thing is getting risky: Winchester, Donelson, Roanoke, Pea Ridge, Port Royal, Burnside's stroke At Newbern — by the Lord, I choke!” Jeff took a drink of whisky. “McClellan, too, and Yankee Foote; Grant, Hunter, Halleck, Farragut, With that accurst Fremont to boot;” (Right here he burst out swearing; And then, half-mad and three parts drunk, Down on his shaking knees he sunk, And prayed like any frightened monk, To ease his blank despairing.) He prayed: ”O mighty Lucifer! Than whom of all that are or were There is no spirit worthier To be our lord and master; O thou Original Secesh! Please pity our poor quaking flesh, And break this tightening Union mesh, And stop this dire disaster! ”We trust we have not been remiss In duty or in sacrifice; We feel we have wrought thine abyss Some services, good devil! The hottest hell-fire marked our track O'er the green land we have made black; We think our hands have not been slack In doing work of evil. ”Have
Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events: Poetry and Incidents., Volume 6. (ed. Frank Moore), chapter 156 (search)
an crime;--but never Hath any one in earthly annals read Of blunder like your efforts to dissever Our glorious country! Lucifer once made A similar but unprovoked endeavor! But different his fate — perchance you know-- When he “seceded,” they just let him go. I know that Milton undertakes to prove, (But probabilities a good deal straining,) That Lucifer, on falling from above, Enlisted armies, and had soldiers training, And then in mad, rebellious fury drove Against angelic hosts, in rude cays the poet; and to human level, He thus brings down the conduct of the devil. But sacred chronicle has nothing said Of Lucifer behaving in this way. Some shabby tricks it seems that he had played, And so in Heaven could no longer stay. But war, I'ng headlong into his own dominions. And this was all. So Milton's solemn song Belies the devil, (in angelic verse,) For Lucifer is guiltless of the wrong Of armed rebellion! This is something worse Than even he enacted, when on pinions strong The <
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Discoveries of the nineteenth century. (search)
Discoveries of the nineteenth century. Alfred Russell Wallace, in his book, The wonderful century, makes a comparison between the great inventions and discoveries of the nineteenth century and those of the entire previous historical period, which is as follows: Of the nineteenth century. 1. Railways. 2. Steamships. 3. Electric telegraphs. 4. The telephone. 5. Lucifer matches. 6. Gas illumination. 7. Electric lighting. 8. Photography. 9. The phonograph. 10. Rontgen rays. 11. Spectrum analysis. 12. Anesthetics. 13. Antiseptic surgery. 14. Conservation of energy. 15. Molecular theory of gases. 16. Velocity of light directly measured, and earth's rotation experimentally shown. 17. The uses of dust. 18. Chemistry, definite proportions. 19. Meteors and the meteoritic theory. 20. The Glacial Epoch. 21. The antiquity of man. 22. Organic evolution established. 23. Cell theory and embryology. 24. Germ theory of dis
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Dyer, Eliphalet, 1721-1807 (search)
nnecticut, after a long drought, a frog-pond became almost dry, and a terrible battle was fought one night by the frogs to decide which should keep possession of the remaining water. Many thousands were defunct in the morning. There was an uncommon silence for hours before the battle commenced, when, as if by a preconcerted agreement, every frog on one side of the ditch raised the war-cry, Colonel Dyer! Colonel Dyer! and at the same instant, from the opposite side, resounded the adverse shout of Elderkin too! Elderkin too! Owing to some peculiarity in the state of the atmosphere, the sounds seemed to be overhead, and the people of Windham were greatly frightened. The poet says: This terrible night the parson did fright His people almost in despair; For poor Windham souls among the beanpoles He made a most wonderful prayer. Lawyer Lucifer called up his crew; Dyer and Elderkin, you must come, too: Old Colonel Dyer you know well enough, He had an old negro, his name was Cuff.
Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events: Documents and Narratives, Volume 1. (ed. Frank Moore), Doc. 57.--a proclamation.-by the President of the United States. (search)
tion, inaugurated civil war, and its first blow has been successful; but even its victory will bring down upon its head a signal defeat and terrible retribution in the end, for it will rouse the loyal States from a forbearance under insult and defiance unparalleled in the history of any Government; and with right for their cause, and force and means able to maintain it, the hour will soon come when South Carolina and her Confederates in Treason will rue the day when, with a spirit worthy of Lucifer, they undertook to break up the best and most beneficent Government on the face of the earth. We have firm trust in God that it will be so. Courier and Enquirer. The Government of the United States is prepared to meet this great emergency with the energy and courage which the occasion requires, and which the sentiment of the nation demands. The President issues his proclamation to-day, convening Congress for the 4th of July, and calling for seventy-five thousand volunteers for the
Knight's Mechanical Encyclopedia (ed. Knight), L. (search)
mp-hanger. Candle-stick.Lamp-post. Carbon-light.Lamp-shade. Carbureting-machine.Lamp-tongs. Cata-dioptric light.Lamp-wick. Catoptric light.Lantern. Chandelier.Leading-light. Cigar-lighter.Light. Clock-work lamp.Light-ball. Colored light.Light-barrel. Cresset.Lighter. Gas Cric.Lighthouse. Dark-lantern.Lighting-devices. Dark-lamp.Lighting gas by electricity. Deck and side light.Light-room. Deflector.Light-ship. Dioptric light.Lime-light. Dobereiner's lamp.Link. Double light.Lucifer. Drop-light.Lucimeter. Drummond-light.Luster. Electric light.Magnesium-lamp. Electrophorus.Magnesium-light. Extinguisher.Match. Fan-light.Match-box. Fan tail.Match-boxing machine. Fishtail-burner.Match-safe. Fixed light.Mechanical lamp. Flashing light.Night-light. Flash-pipe.Nursing-lamp. Floating-light.Oxycalcium-light. Foot light.Oxyhydrogen-light. Fountain-reservoir lamp.Parachute-light. Gas.Petroleum-burner. Gas-alarm.Petroleum-lamp. Gasalier.Photies. Gas-bracket.Photo
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