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The Daily Dispatch: February 2, 1865., [Electronic resource], Selling out. (search)
"most elegant and desirable property, ancient family mansions, fine orchards, never-failing springs," etc., employed to do the "Going — going — gone." The live stock, white and black, to go with the estate. Specimens of these, including the various public functionaries, civil and military, portly country gentlemen, and members of the City Councils, men of all estates and all colors, should be congregated about the auctioneer, to enable the bidders to make a personal inspection. Napoleon, Palmerston, etc., might thus make a close examination of the property, including the animals, poke their fingers in their ribs, and make sure that there is no cheating. It would be a picturesque spectacle; and if the day were good, so as to allow of photographing, it would be a picture that every man present might hand down with pride and pleasure as an heirloom to his posterity. The eager crowd below and the colossal statues above — Jefferson, with his crotche's of independence; Mason, with his ab<