The death of William Tecumseh Sherman, which took place to-day at his residence in the city of New York at 1 o'clock and 50 minute...s p.m., is an event that will bring sorrow to the heart of every patriotic citizen. No living American was so loved and venerated as he.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
There was the murdered corpse, in covert laid, And violent death in thousand shapes displayed;... The city to the soldier's rage resigned; Successless wars, and poverty behind; Ships burnt in fight, or forced on rocky shores, And the rash hunter strangled by the boars; The newborn babe by nurses overlaid; And the cook caught within the raging fire he made.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
There saw I how the secret felon wrought, And treason labouring in the traitor's thought,... And midwife Time the ripened plot to murder brought.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Taking a good mouthful, I felt as though I had taken liquid fire; the tomato was chile colorado, or red pepper, of the purest kind.... It nearly killed me, and I saw Gómez' eyes twinkle for he saw that his share of supper was increased.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Now owing, I'm much disposed to fear, To his terrible taste for tippling,... That highly respectable gondolier Could never declare with a mind sincere Which of the two was his offspring dear And which the Royal stripling.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The man of large and conspicuous public service in civil life must be content without the Presidency. Still more, the availability... of a popular man in a doubtful State will secure him the prize in a close contest against the first statesman of the country whose State is safe.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I prefer to make no new declarations [on southern policy beyond what was in the Letter of Acceptance]. But you may say, if you dee...m it advisable, that you know that I will stand by the friendly and encouraging words of that Letter, and by all that they imply. You cannot express that too strongly.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »