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Browsing named entities in a specific section of Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events: Poetry and Incidents., Volume 5. (ed. Frank Moore). Search the whole document.
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Purcell (search for this): chapter 93
Traitorous and incendiary Legends.
Richmond, April 22.--Yesterday morning the walls of the houses of Purcell, Ladd & Co., E. B. Spence & Co., Binford & Porter, the Powhatan House, and other conspicuous establishments about the town, were covered with incendiary and blasphemous writings, a verbatim copy of some of which we give at the writer was an indifferent poet and an illiterate and blasphemous man, there can be but one opinion among those who scan
the writing on the walls.
On Purcell, Ladd & Co.'s east wall:
On Yorktown's walls the cry is still they come.
Change your bells into cannon, and charge with confederate 5‘s.
Southern Lexi bably by the watchman on his way to extinguish the lamps at the corner.
At an early hour of the day all these ribald inscriptions, except those on the house of Purcell, Ladd & Co.,and E. B. Spence & Co., were effaced by the proprietors of the different houses.
Those of the latter places, owing no doubt to the fact that the owne
Pluto (search for this): chapter 93
Porter (search for this): chapter 93
Traitorous and incendiary Legends.
Richmond, April 22.--Yesterday morning the walls of the houses of Purcell, Ladd & Co., E. B. Spence & Co., Binford & Porter, the Powhatan House, and other conspicuous establishments about the town, were covered with incendiary and blasphemous writings, a verbatim copy of some of which we give below.
The writing was in a fair, round, and deliberate hand, and all evidently performed by one and the same person — the writing in the various places named being the dust, In the Lord you vainly trust, For the Lord you fain would cheat With halcyon lips and Pluto's feet.
The cry is still they come.
Also a copy of the apparently favorite lines:
Southern hearts are beating low.
On Binford & Porter's west wall:
On Yorktown Heights the cry is still they come.
Change your bells into cannon, and charge with confe---, here the midnight scribe appears to have been interrupted in his work, most probably by the watchman on his way to ext
Binford (search for this): chapter 93
Traitorous and incendiary Legends.
Richmond, April 22.--Yesterday morning the walls of the houses of Purcell, Ladd & Co., E. B. Spence & Co., Binford & Porter, the Powhatan House, and other conspicuous establishments about the town, were covered with incendiary and blasphemous writings, a verbatim copy of some of which we give below.
The writing was in a fair, round, and deliberate hand, and all evidently performed by one and the same person — the writing in the various places named being rs grasp the dust, In the Lord you vainly trust, For the Lord you fain would cheat With halcyon lips and Pluto's feet.
The cry is still they come.
Also a copy of the apparently favorite lines:
Southern hearts are beating low.
On Binford & Porter's west wall:
On Yorktown Heights the cry is still they come.
Change your bells into cannon, and charge with confe---, here the midnight scribe appears to have been interrupted in his work, most probably by the watchman on his
Crow (search for this): chapter 93
Boggs (search for this): chapter 93
Ladd (search for this): chapter 93
Traitorous and incendiary Legends.
Richmond, April 22.--Yesterday morning the walls of the houses of Purcell, Ladd & Co., E. B. Spence & Co., Binford & Porter, the Powhatan House, and other conspicuous establishments about the town, were covered with incendiary and blasphemous writings, a verbatim copy of some of which we giv riter was an indifferent poet and an illiterate and blasphemous man, there can be but one opinion among those who scan
the writing on the walls.
On Purcell, Ladd & Co.'s east wall:
On Yorktown's walls the cry is still they come.
Change your bells into cannon, and charge with confederate 5‘s.
Southern Lexicon cov the watchman on his way to extinguish the lamps at the corner.
At an early hour of the day all these ribald inscriptions, except those on the house of Purcell, Ladd & Co.,and E. B. Spence & Co., were effaced by the proprietors of the different houses.
Those of the latter places, owing no doubt to the fact that the owners of t
April 22nd (search for this): chapter 93
Traitorous and incendiary Legends.
Richmond, April 22.--Yesterday morning the walls of the houses of Purcell, Ladd & Co., E. B. Spence & Co., Binford & Porter, the Powhatan House, and other conspicuous establishments about the town, were covered with incendiary and blasphemous writings, a verbatim copy of some of which we give below.
The writing was in a fair, round, and deliberate hand, and all evidently performed by one and the same person — the writing in the various places named being identical in character.
The dirty work must have been begun before the street-lamps were extinguished at twelve o'clock on Saturday night, as it could not possibly have been accomplished in the dark.
We are confirmed in this opinion by the fact that all the writings are in the neighborhood of the lamps.
From the amount of writing, and the size of the letters, grant it to have been performed by one hand, it is computed that it could not have occupied the writer less than an hour, that is, from
May 24th (search for this): chapter 93