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July 11th, 1859 AD (search for this): chapter 21
was over, and people were deserting the banquet-hall, a small sort of a lawyer got upon his legs and proposed a toast complimentary to the General. Then. somebody called for the inevitable three cheers. Then others shook the General by the hand, so that he went back to his tavern quite mollified, and reassured that there was still a little dough left in Boston. We think that herein the more sagacious spirits of the company pursued a judicious course. Had General Palfrey ambled away in his wrath, nobody can tell how the trade of Boston might have suffered. And if there was policy in these little attentions, there was also humanity. This native of Boston was spared the pain of feeling that flunkeyism had altogether died out in the city of his nativity; and he will return to his crescent home to tell his neighbors that while the public men New England are hopeless traitors, the gentlemen who eat the public dinners are not bad fellows to break bread with after all. July 11, 1859.
July 25th, 1859 AD (search for this): chapter 22
rd to howl with repentant anguish, and to re quest the favor of a small mountain to cover him. The audacity of such men as he is, must be an apology for the introduction of such an illustration. Poor praters, they know not of what — coarse, unen-lightened gabblers of sublime teachings, very dear to the heart of humanity — polluting with the unsavory messes of social shame and sin the golden vessels of the altar — making the Father's house a house of merchandize and a, den of thieves — encouraging mockery, exciting skepticism and confirming unbelief --narrow, without pity, and zealous, without brains; there is nothing for it, but to leave them to the bitter laughter of the satirist and the unspeakable commiseration of the wise. Grace may indeed supply the deficiencies of the mere intellect, while the heart remains tender; but what grace can rescue him whose heart grows hard as his head grows soft, and who increases in selfishness as he decreases in intelligence? July 25, 1859<
July 29th, 1859 AD (search for this): chapter 23
d be thought harsh or unfeeling, than that the young men of America should be made to believe that this life which has now closed affords them the best example — that the syren sentences of Mr. Everett should mislead them from the path of public duty — that his example and his words should beguile them into an avoidance of their political responsibilities, into a contempt for the theories, or an admiration for the general practice of our government; into lives secluded, sybaritical, and proudly, boastingly shallow and useless. The times are full of great occasions, and suggest great duties to the sinewy and courageous nature. We can spare something of scholarship, something of intellectual elegance, something of fastidious taste; but too many noble minds have already been smitten, too many lives once full of promise have been wasted; our short history already records too many tragedies for the sensitive, and too many comedies even for the most inveterate satirist. July 29, 1859
September 1st, 1859 AD (search for this): chapter 24
l remembrance to solace her stewing and boiling labors, we are not informed. Such stuff as this The Fayetteville (N. C.) Observer prints is always caught up by the dough press, and especially by the dough-religious press, and is paraded ostentatiously as if it really meant something. So far as it goes towards proving anything touching the slave system, its good influence upon the master, its justice to the slave, its information is worse than useless, for it deludes some honest, well-meaning and weak people out of the common sense with which the institution should be considered. Nobody says that there are not benevolent masters. Nobody says that there are not contented slaves. Nobody says that there are not individual cases in which the relation is a happy one. But nobody upon the authority of these isolated instances, appealing to sensibility rather than sense, should judge of a system which must be theoretically bad, and is known to be bad in practice. September 1, 1859.
January 10th, 1860 AD (search for this): chapter 25
ity, for she can bear with patience wrongs and falsehood which would drive a cultivated woman to insanity. There is a certain redeeming fascination even in a consistency of crimes. If we were in Virginia, compelled to witness every hour the crowding evidences of human folly — the legalized negation of all that rescues our common nature from contempt — the ambition to win all things without the resolution to win them by earnest effort — the folly which supposes that violent passions have power to repeal the laws of nature — we would ask of Providence if by no miracle wrong could be remedied and right established, that we might partake of the besotted destiny of our neighbors, and might forget forever that we were not made like the beasts that perish. To this condition Gov. Wise would reduce his fellow-creatures, black and white, in Virginia. He is right. If black men are to remain beasts, it must be upon the condition that white men shall share the bestiality. January 10, 1860<
February 21st, 1860 AD (search for this): chapter 26
gallant dead to be quietly interred in Yankee soil. Of course the remains would be sent for; and, of course, Josiah, as the instigator of the fatal fray, would be called upon to foot the bill. What a doleful termination of the Josiah-Jubilee! We notice that last week the Massachusetts House of Representatives considered Mr. Perham's gratuitous public services, and did not very highly approve the same, being undoubtedly of the opinion that it could do its own inviting without outside assistance. Josiah, like most public benefactors, was scurvily treated. One Haskell thought Perham a fool. One Shaw insisted that he was a nuisance. Upon this a lively debate ensued, but the question of fool or nuisance was not put to the House. It seemed to be agreed that he was either the one or the other; and, whether brainless or a bore, we can easily understand why the Virginia Legislature--not the Massachusetts — treated his invitation with a certain degree of respect. February 21, 1860
March 17th, 1860 AD (search for this): chapter 27
and with no wish to interfere with the family arrangements, we must say that we have never found such biographies too edifying. We like Clio well enough, in a homespun gown, writing with a plain, honest goose-quill, of human lives and of earthly achievements. In our estimate of a public man, we do not deem it advisable to begin by taking it for granted that he was of perfect character. The world thinks as we think, and has always thought so. It does not care to have its heroes always in full dress. Writers of biography have too often befooled mankind — have too often given us some sublime creation of their own fancies, something painfully virtuous, something Too bright and good For human nature's daily food. Mr. Choate's biography may not be worth writing at all, for his life was not an important one to mankind ; but if we were to elect his biographer in view of our own entertainment and instruction, we should vote not for the family, but for Colonel Parker. March 17, 1860
June 27th, 1860 AD (search for this): chapter 28
the cheap defenses of ethnological sciolism. His political philosophy makes the circuit of the world --his political morality is applied to the entire world of mankind, and all coming generations, without any exceptions whatever. After Mr. Cushing's pilferings from encyclopedias and stereotyped nonsense about white and black and yellow races — after the intolerable conceit, ignorance and inhumanity of his imitators — after the inconclusive conclusions of text-twisting and text-splitting doctors of divinity — after the ignoble efforts of fools and of knaves to extenuate a moral wrong by appeals to physical distinctions — it is plea it to find a man like Mr. Bancroft adhering to a sensible and simple construction of the axioms and adages of honest and fearless Republicanism. These trimmers — these torturers of plain words, of plain morality into tenth century sophistications have now their answer, and they have it from a very high, if not from the highest quarter. June 27, 186
July 26th, 1860 AD (search for this): chapter 29
one million five hundred thousand dollars. We are afraid that it is just possible that Col. Scott will be obliged to wait awhile for that money; and our advice to Sir George, if he really desires to be the Alexander of Mexico, is to courageously make up his mind to defray all the expenses out of his private resources, which are undoubtedly unlimited. We beg leave, most respectfully, to call the attention of our friend, Mr. Buchanan, to this Proclamation. It may divert his mind from a too constant contemplation of his recent misfortunes; and he may pleasantly employ himself during the brief remainder of his official existence, either in assisting or arresting this expedition — it really makes no difference which. Should he determine to try a new sensation, and for once insist upon a rigid execution of the laws, we beseech him not to begin with a Proclamation, for in that particular line of warfare he cannot for a moment compete with Sir George Bickley, K. G. C. July 26, 1860
December 19th, 1860 AD (search for this): chapter 30
eather — a garment shabby, but passable in a fog; split here and there, but in all its looped and windowed raggedness better than total nakedness; or to pursue the figure, fit enough to be straw-stuffed and hoisted upon a pole to terrify the croaking crows. Of these relics, it may be to said, that while there is life in them, there is a letter. We learn accordingly that Mr. Fillmore, from that very library, we suppose, which witnessed his Know-Nothing adjurations, wrote upon the 19th of December, 1860, an epistle to Somebody, which only now do we find emerging from Somebody's pocket and creeping into the public journals. It appears that Somebody requested Mr. Fillmore to go to the South as a Grand Plenipotential Pacificator. For that high office by Somebody was Mr. Fillmore nominated, and by Somebody was he unanimously confirmed at a Union meeting held by Somebody expressly for the purpose. Mr. Fillmore is urged to undertake this patriotic mission. He may smell tar and see pro
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