Diary ...: From November 18, 1862, to October 18, 1863Lee and Shepard, 1864 |
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Strana 60 - Ring out, wild bells, to the wild sky, The flying cloud, the frosty light : The year is dying in the night ; Ring out, wild bells, and let him die. Ring out the old, ring in the new, Ring, happy bells, across the snow : The year is going, let him go ; Ring out the false, ring in the true. Ring out the grief that saps the mind, For those that here we see no more ; Ring out the feud of rich and poor, Ring in redress to all mankind. Ring out...
Strana 171 - His enemies charge him with being lacking in practical sense, and in natural ability — qualities which his friends claim for him in the highest degree. The late Count Gurowski said of him: " Sumner is a little afraid of losing ground with the English guardians of civilization. Sumner is full of good wishes^ of generous conceptions, and is the man for the millennium. Sumner lacks the keen, sharp, piercing appreciation of common events Sumner attributes to envy his anomalous position with the best...
Strana 4 - In the Clerk's Office of the District Court for th<\ Southern District of New York.
Strana 241 - Chase looks down upon any advice, suggestion, or warning. O, the great man ! A time must come when all these great men will be held to a terrible account, will shed tears of blood, and their names will be scorned by coming generations, and the track to the White House may become also the track to the Tarpeian rock. June 5. — I often meet Mr. Lincoln in the streets. Poor man ! He looks exhausted, care-worn, spiritless, u 4 extinct.
Strana 98 - Alex," of Bedford, was let off on that plea, and after ever proved one of the best soldiers in his regiment. THE LIFE AND DEATH OF A PATRIOT SOLDIER. — A surgeon in one of the military hospitals at Alexandria, writes in a private note: " Our wounded men bear their sufferings nobly; I have hardly heard a word of complaint from one of them. A soldier from the ' stern and rock-bound coast...
Strana 99 - ... and loftiest aspirations of the American people, whipped in— and this literally, not figuratively— whipped Mr. Lincoln into the glory of having issued the Emancipation Proclamation. The laws promulgated by this dying Congress initiated the Emancipation— generated the Proclamation of the 22d of September, and of January 1st. History will not allow one to wear borrowed plumage.
Strana 208 - I hope to live long enough to see the end of this war, and then to disentangle my brains from the pursuits which now fill them.
Strana 78 - ... prefer peace than see devoted men so recklessly murdered by such .... A critique of the first volume of the "Diary" asserts that all my statements are made after the events occurred, ex post. To a very respectable General I showed a part of the original manuscript which squared with the printed book. Often I am ashamed to find that the bit of study and experience acquired by me goes so far when compared with many around me, and in action. I foresee, because I have no earthly personal views, no...
Strana 104 - ... political bearings of the words, mediation, and arbitration; and to crown all, these advocates bring to market their imbecility. The Africo- Americans ought to receive military organization and be armed. But it ought to be done instantly and without loss of time ; it ought to be done earnestly, boldly, broadly ; it ought to be done at once on all points and on the largest scale ; it ought to be done here in Washington, under the eyes of the chief of the people ; here in the heart of the country...