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...oyal man who has been disarmed is named, but the affida- vits show by name forty-two persons as disloyal who have been armed. They are as follows: [N... ...AJOR-GENERAL MEADE, Army of Potomac: Samuel Wellers, private in Company B, Forty-ninth Pennsyl- vania V olunteers, writes that he is to be shot for de... ...AL MEADE, Army of Potomac: Please suspend the execution of Samuel Wellers, Forty-ninth Pennsylvania V olunteers, until further orders. A. LINCOLN. TEL... ...BURG NOVEMBER 19, 1863. Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent, a new nation, conceived in Liberty, and dedi- cate... ...ua are in course of amicable adjustment. In conformity with principles set forth in my last annual mes- sage, I have received a representative from th... ...330 The Writings of Abraham Lincoln: V ol Seven TELEGRAM TO GENERAL G . H. GORDON. EXECUTIVE MANSION, WASHINGTON, April 11, 1865. BRIG . GEN. G . H. G...

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...nted them? Clearly this was no invention of his be- cause General Cass put forth the same doctrine in 1848 in his so called Nicholson letter, six year... ...the free States! In the slave States there were in 1800, three hundred and forty-eight thousand mulattoes all of home production; and in the free Stat... ...ears. I pre- fer to take, as the accepted maxim of the party, the idea put forth by Judge Douglas, that he don’t care whether slavery is voted down or... ... free States as to the free Territories, and that the peculiar reasons put forth by Judge Douglas for indorsing this decision commit him, in advance, ... ...s, I can neither write nor speak a word for the public, how dare I to send forth, by my author- ity, a volume of hundreds of pages, for adversaries to... ...OLN. 336 The Writings of Abraham Lincoln: V ol Five RESPITE FOR NATHANIEL GORDON February 4, 1862 ABRAHAM LINCOLN, PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STA TES OF... ... District of New Y ork held in the month of November, A.D. 1861, Nathaniel Gordon was indicted and convicted for being engaged in the slave trade, and... ...e earnestly besought me to commute the said sentence of the said Nathaniel Gordon to a term of imprisonment for life, which application I have felt it... ... for the commutation of his sentence may have prevented the said Nathaniel Gordon from making the necessary preparation for the awful change which awa...

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...o more. Nor mourn ye less his perished worth, Who bade the conqueror go forth, And launched that thunderbolt of war On Egypt, Hafnia, T rafalgar; W... ...hath slept: There sound the harpings of the North, Till he awake and sally forth, On venturous quest to prick again, In all his arms, with all his tra... ...hot: Lord Marmion waits below!” Then to the castle’s lower ward Sped forty yeomen tall, The iron-studded gates unbarred, Raised the portcullis’ ... ...can ride Mine errands on the Scottish side: And though a bishop built this fort, Few holy brethren here resort; Even our good chaplain, as I ween, Sin... ...ord Marmion.” “Nephew,” quoth Heron, “by my fay, Well hast thou spoke; say forth thy say.” 25 Sir Walter Scott XXIII. “Here is a holy Palmer come Fro... ... bear them bravely in the fight; Although against them come, Of gallant Gordons many a one, And many a stubborn Badenoch-man, And many a rugged Bor... ... grew Around the battle-yell. The Border slogan rent the sky! A Home! a Gordon! was the cry: Loud were the clanging blows; Advanced—forced back—now...

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... 1830, Mr. Patteson was raised to the Bench, at the unusually early age of forty. It is probable that there never was a period when the Judi- cial Ben... ... only one who is sent up; which is a good thing for me, as it will give me forty or fifty good marks in trials. I am so splitting with joy you cannot ... ...we are giving of our best, as our Church is giving of her best, in sending forth from her own bosom these cherished and chosen sons, so let there go f... ...s, ‘all longs, on Napoleon e Seylhia profugus, passage of Beresina, and so forth.’ His Latin verses were his strong point, and from this time forward ... ...e Bishop came round and put his hands on the heads of the whole set (about forty), and then going into the middle pronounced the prayer. The responses... ...n out of the sea.’ Erromango was occupied by the Scottish Mission, and Mr. Gordon was then living there in peace and apparent secu- rity, when a visit... ... dysentery, and had swept away a third of Mr. Geddie’s Anaiteum flock. Mr. Gordon’s letters had spoken of it as equally fatal in Erromango, and there ... ... Mission, like that of Anaiteum, came from the Scottish Kirk. Mr. and Mrs. Gordon, as has been seen, had been visited on every voyage of the ‘Southern... ...too true. The Erromango people had been little in- clined to listen to Mr. Gordon’s warnings, and he, a young and eager man, had told them that to per...

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...and shameful incident in the bishop’s career. It was the afternoon for his fortnightly address to the Shop-girls’ Church Association, and he had been ... ...f a Bishop palace for some future date when he perhaps would have the good fortune to have passed to “where beyond these voices there is peace,” forge... ...ere not so much phases of sleep as an intensification and vivid furnishing forth of insomnia. It added greatly to his dis- turbance that—exceeding the... ... firm was in various minor partners called Hartstein and Blumenhart and so forth, who had acquired a consider- able amount of ungentlemanly science an... ... assailed by a meticu- lous orthodoxy that was only too eager to cast them forth. The bishop dwelt for a time upon the curious fierceness or- thodoxy ... ...t noth- ing more until the end of the world could ever be known that Cosmo Gordon Lang did not know, that there could be no conception of God and his ...

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...le publicity yam- mered, “Say, what do you two think you’re doing? Telling fortunes or making love? Let me warn you that the doc is a frisky bacheldor... ...er in a row- boat ferry. They climbed the hill to the round stone tower of Fort Snelling. They saw the junction of the Mississippi and the Minnesota, ... ...ady for you to boss us!” They sat on the bank below the parapet of the old fort, hidden from observation. He circled her shoulder with his arm. Relaxe... ...of the flivver. ‘Bout a week ago I motored down to New Wurttemberg. That’s forty- three— No, let’s see: It’s seventeen miles to Belldale, and ‘bout si... ...and seven ‘s twenty- four, plus nineteen, well say plus twenty, that makes forty- four, well anyway, say about forty-three or -four miles from here to... ...nnovators called The Irish Players. She knew con- fusedly that a man named Gordon Craig had painted scen- ery—or had he written plays? She felt that i...

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...cutlass or the spade, idiot conscience applauds me; if I sit in the house and make twenty pounds, idiot con- science wails over my neglect and the day... ...ng talk with him about Samoan superstitions and my land—the scene of a great battle in his (Malietoa Laupepa’s) youth—the place which we have cleared ... ... done; in the South Sea book I have fifty pages copied fair, some of which has been four times, and all twice written, cer- tainly fifty pages of soli... ...y moralised over this the other day; how hard it was that the bad banana flourished wild, and the good must be weeded and tended; and I had not the he... ... their exuberant number and strength, the attempts—I can use no other word—of lianas to enwrap and capture the intruder, the awful silence, the knowle... ...in I fancy twelve; 162 Robert Louis Stevenson and the end will follow punctually next mail. It is my great wish that this might get into The Illustra... ... horror and pathos, and a kind of fierce glow of colour there is to it, and the surely remarkable wealth of striking incident, may guide our little sh... ...bly only about eleven pp. It is hard to say. But there it is, and you can do your best with it. Per- sonally, I believe I would in this case make even...

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...from all the country between that and Idaho on the Pacific slope—a spread of forty five degrees of longitude. The Mississippi receives and carries to ... ... This mud, solidified, would make a mass a mile square and two hun dred and forty one feet high. The mud deposit gradually extends the land—but only ... ...mory. Chief among them was the privilege to explore, far and wide, and build forts, and stake out continents, and hand the same over to the king, and ... ...ll of his money, in making perilous and painful trips between Montreal and a fort which he had built on the Illinois, before he at last succeeded in g... ... could strike for the Mississippi. And meantime other parties had had better fortune. In 1673 Joliet the merchant, and Marquette the priest, crossed L... ...ire Bell, and Horace Bixby, and Major Downing, and John Stevenson, and Billy Gordon, and Jim Brady, and George Ealer, and Billy Youngblood—all A 1 all...

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... I be so good as to show him a drunken man’—which I never did, having (un fortunately) none but sober people at hand. But I could hardly have respect... ...chral cry of ‘Cuckoo!’ Since then I have been ravenless. No account of the Gordon Riots having been to my knowledge introduced into any Work of Fictio... ...venteen Hundred and Eighty. However imperfectly those disturbances are set forth in the following pages, they are impartially painted by one who has n... ...lame in riding out here this blessed afternoon, and com 14 Barnaby Rudge fortably littered down in our stable at this minute; and he giving up a goo... ...mornings, and will have gone away upon some wild goose errand, seeking his fortune.—Why, what’s the matter, Doll? Yo u are making faces now. The girls... ...r 5 AS SOON AS THE BUSINESS of the day was over, the locksmith sallied forth, alone, to visit the wounded gentleman and ascertain the progress of ... ...lusive of women and children) rivet their eyes and thoughts on Lord George Gordon; and every day, from the rising up of the sun to the going down of t... ... and repose.’ ‘Go on before, landlord, and show the way,’ said Lord George Gordon; ‘we will follow at a footpace.’ ‘If you’ll give me leave, my lord,’... ... in deed, and thought, When was there ever power like this of Lord George Gordon’s!’ ‘It’s a great power. You’re right. It is a great power!’ he crie...

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...r away from the bathing-machines and pierheads, below the grassy slopes of Fort Keeling. The tide ran out nearly two miles on that coast, and the many... ...of tim- ber floating in a pool which was commanded by the seaward slope of Fort Keeling, and they sat down to- gether before this new target. ‘Next ho... ...e cartridges first,’ said Dick; and he helped Maisie down the slope of the fort to the sea,—a descent that she was quite capable of cov- ering at full... ...ot know what. Before them lay the Nile, and at the other end of it was one Gordon, fighting for the dear life, in a town called Khartoum. There were c... ...England at breakfast should be amused and thrilled and interested, whether Gordon lived or died, or half the British army went to pieces in the sands.... ...-hough of the stabbing spears, and a man on a horse, followed by thirty or forty others, dashed through, yelling and hacking. The right flank of the s... ...lmet, that he had fired his revolver into a black, foam-flecked face which forthwith ceased to bear any resemblance to a face, and that Torpenhow had ...

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...ring in the same periodical. The Confessions of an English Opium-Eater was forthwith published in book form. De Quincey now made literary acquaintance... ...s proved that forever by the medioc- *“Probably more boys have in the last forty years been brought to a love of literature proper by De Quincy than b... ...have replied, “Oh no; I’ll tell you what to do. Take lodgings for the next forty days on the box of his Majesty’s mail. No- body can touch you there. ... ...s of eggs were lying poached under our horses’ hoofs, then would I stretch forth my hands in sorrow, saying (in words too celebrated at that time, fro... ...e of its own more peremptory duties. Upholding the morality of the mail, a fortiori I upheld its rights; as a matter of duty, I stretched to the utter... ...in a footnote to that paragraph he gives the lady’s name as “Lady Madeline Gordon.” From an old Debrett, however, I learn that Lady Madelina Gordon, ... ...sh Mail-Coach and Joan of Arc second daughter of Alexander, fourth Duke of Gordon, was first married, on the 3d of April 1789, to Sir Robert Sinclair,...

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... by a party of the enemy, who fired at and pursued him. The fugitive being fortunate enough to escape their search, they returned to the house, and ch... ...ernahyle chanced to be in Edinburgh when Paul Jones came into the Frith of Forth, and though then an old man, I saw him in arms, and heard him exult (... ...‘Waverley, a Romance from the German,’ what head so obtuse as not to image forth a profli- gate abbot, an oppressive duke, a secret and mysterious ass... ... auburn hair, and a harp, the soft solace of her solitary hours, which she fortu- nately finds always the means of transporting from castle to cottage... ...ion. The wrath of our ancestors, for example, was coloured gules; it broke forth in acts of open and sanguinary violence against the ob- jects of its ... ...he den of some renowned out- law, a second Robin Hood, perhaps, or Adam o’ Gordon, and that at deep midnight, through scenes of difficulty and toil, s... ...t 198 Waverley him nane of your whingeing King George folk, but a gallant Gordon, at the least o’ him.’ The eyes of the assembly were now turned upon... ...as a pause and a whisper among the crowd—’Sec- retary Murray;’ ‘Lord Lewis Gordon;’ ‘Maybe the Chevalier himsell!’ Such were the surmises that passed ... ...ers, the motto of the Marquis of T uilibardine; Bydand, that of Lord Lewis Gordon; and the appropriate signal words and emblems of many other chieftai...

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... there had always been an M. D., not a D. D., in the family, owning a com- fortable demesne of spacious garden, and field enough for two cows, still g... ...r. May stood very high in his profession, and might soon have made a large fortune in London, had he not held fast to his home attachments. He was ext... ... and the conse- quence was a long and severe illness. The Swan Inn was not forty yards from Dr. May’s back gate, and, at every spare moment, he was do... ...aid Ethel. “Fame is coarse and vulgar— blinder than ever they draw Love or Fortune—she is only a personified newspaper, trumpeting out all that is ext... ...d Alan; “I don’t like leaving Flora alone with him,” and he was gone. “How fortunate that that youth is here,” said Mr. Wilmot— ”he seems to be quite ... ...ar about Alan’s news, and found it was important—his great friend, Captain Gordon, had got a ship, and hoped to be able to take him, and this might le... ...He had replied that the navy was not Hector’s destination, but, as Captain Gordon had no one else in view, had prevailed on him to pass on the proposa... ...y. “Yes, but that is all over now. You forget what we do on board. Captain Gordon himself calls me Mr. May!” Some laughed, others were extremely impre... ...the days now spent together would be a possession of joy for ever. Captain Gordon contrived to afford his lieutenant another fortnight’s leave, perhap...

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...birth and his- tory of James Stewart of Ardvoirlich, by whose hand the un- fortunate nobleman fell. Our subject leads us to talk of deadly feuds, and ... ... was in itself deserving of praise. A cavalier of honour, in search of his fortune, might, for ex- ample, change his service as he would his shirt, fi... ...e same views of the military character, is Sir James T urner, a soldier of fortune, who rose to considerable rank in the reign of Charles II., had a c... ...ntin- gencies, which I suppose the divell himselfe can neither forknow nor fortell; these being things which the Almightie hath keepd hidden in the bo... ...o encamps on the highest pinnacles of literature; and the author is so far fortunate in having incurred his censure, that it gives his modesty a de- c... ...other cavaliers of Angus and Kincardine, but even the potent family of the Gordons, whose extensive authority was only equalled by their extreme disli... ...the Garioch, and the Farquharsons on Dee-side, and the Clan Chattan on the Gordons’ lands, and the Grants and Camerons in Moray-land. And since that, ... ...vil War had made familiar to English ears:— — why is it harder, sirs, than Gordon, Colkitto or M’Donald, or Gallasp? These rugged names to our like mo... ... town, fell northward upon Aberdeen, where he expected to be joined by the Gordons and other loyalists. But the zeal of these gentlemen was, for 163 ...

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....” Mr. Carey always had a boiled egg at tea on Sunday, so that he might be fortified for the evening service. V PHILIP CAME gradually to know the peop... ...at she would not recover from the confinement which she was expecting in a fortnight. Her son was nine years old. How could he be expected to remember... ... room to rest, and Mr . Carey lay down on the sofa in the drawing-room for forty winks. They had tea at five, and the Vicar ate an egg to support hims... ...lley after another or came at last to some strange mansion. One day a good fortune befell him, for he hit upon Lane’s translation of The Thousand Nigh... ...affected profoundly the generation of which Philip was a member , had gone forth from its gates to achieve fame; it had produced one or two eminent la... ...ng with their silent dissatisfaction. He could not see either what General Gordon had to do with Livy . He hazarded an inquiry afterwards. “Eldridge w... ...ge was dreadfully put out because you asked him what he knew about General Gordon,” he said to the headmaster , with an attempt at a chuckle. Mr. Perk... ...t Dublin was on the Liffey . So I wondered if they’d ever heard of General Gordon.” Then the horrid fact was disclosed that the new head had a mania f... ... in his form that Philip was put on enter - ing the school. The Rev. B. B. Gordon was a man by nature ill-suited to be a schoolmaster: he was impatien...

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...nt of every pleasure which an islander conceives; and when the malangasets forth, the same welcome and the same joys expect them beyond the next cape,... ... be recognised even in Samoa. One native is said to have amassed a certain fortune; two clever lads have individually expressed to us their discontent... ...st, and the responsibility of administering with one hand so many conjunct fortunes, might well nerve the manager of such a company for desperate and ... ...le to keep to himself; and, whether or not by his fault, some of these un- fortunate documents became public. It was plain that the relations between ... ...Weber was a man ill to conquer. Zembsch was re- called; and from that time forth, whether through influence at home, or by the solicitations of Weber ... ...sudden call for money; it was some- thing of the suddenest that Sir Arthur Gordon himself, smart- ing under a sensible public affront, made and enforc... ...ks’s flank at the time of the disaster in the desert, and bade farewell to Gordon in Khartoum before the investment. The colonel was abrupt and testy;...

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... South Seas by Robert Louis Stevenson PART 1: THE MARQUESAS CHAPTER I—AN ISLAND LANDFALL F OR NEARLY TEN YEARS my health had been declining; and for s... ...d of June 1888, visited the eastern islands, and was left early the next year at Honolulu. Hence, lacking courage to return to my old life of the hous... ...pearing motive in herself. From close aboard arose the bleating of young lambs; a bird sang in the hillside; the scent of the land and of a hundred fr... ...had never studied Virgil, had never been conquered by Caesar, and never been ruled by the wisdom of Gaius or Papinian. By 8 In The South Seas the sam... ...e countryside, neither Toma nor his wife set foot on board the Casco. The temp- tation resisted it is hard for a European to compute. The flying city ... ...loudy daylight, that map of the world which forms its chief adornment. He was naturally ignorant of English history, so that I had much of news to com...

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...es upon which it opened. They would willingly have accepted less. But, un- fortunately, it sometimes happens, that, to gain as much as is needful in o... ...ecide banquets, where, out of tureens filled to the brim with—nothings the fortu- nate guest was helped to vast messes of—air. For a hungry guest to t... ... Amongst those applied to Scotland, it had been settled by Parliament that forty-two new churches should be raised in the highlands, with an endowment... ...power, two hundred and three clerical persons for the chapels of ease, and forty-two for the highland churches—making a total of two hundred and forty... ...out the legal es- tablishment; surmount it as a Roman vinea surmounted the fortifications which it beleaguered; and which, under what- soever practica... ...lue in the following manner:—At Argos one evening, at the table of General Gordon,’ (then commanding-in-chief throughout the Morea, and the best histo...

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......................................................................... 503 GORDON OF KHARTOUM ........................................................... ..., kiss me.’ Cried the breathless boy, ‘kiss thee?’ 20 But he thinks, kind fortune has favoured my youth; And thrice he has kissed Beauty Rohtraut’s m... ... T o see her dashing from her sides The rough, salt kisses of the sea. And forth into the bursting foam She spread her sail and sped away, The rolling... ...white wings, She fluttered on the ocean air. T o her no more the bastioned fort Shot out its swarthy tongue of fire; From bay to bay, from port to por... ...or thy voice may charm him yet; 37 Daughter of the dawn, He is gone! Pour forth all thy grief! Passionately sweep the chords, Wed them quivering to t... ...led by a radiant bower, In which the nightingale with charmed power Poured forth enchantment o’er the dark repose: And thus in me, and thus in me, the... ... transferred, not lost, Through love to kindle in our souls the more. 504 GORDON OF KHARTOUM Of men he would have raised to light he fell: In soul he...

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...ntry, he was readily admitted. The owner of the house, a gentleman of good fortune, was much struck by the rever- end appearance of his guest, and apo... ...tellectual powers of the youth were instantly and fully restored; he burst forth into prayer, and expressed, in the most glowing terms, his reliance o... ..., was well known about the middle of the last century, by the name of Jean Gordon, an inhabitant of the village of Kirk Yetholm, in the Cheviot hills,... ...ood’s Magazine, to the following purpose :- “My father remembered old Jean Gordon of Yetholm, who had great sway among her tribe. She was quite a Meg ... ...a place of shelter; and when he knocked at the door, it was opened by Jean Gordon. Her very remarkable figure, for she was nearly six feet high, and h... ...maging his clothes. When they found the money which the providence of Jean Gordon had made him retain, they held a consultation if they should take it... ...feast, which consisted of all the varieties of game, poultry, pigs, and so forth, that—could be collected by a wide and indiscriminate system of plund... ...ies of a tattered doublet, and more tattered pair of breeches, and sallied forth, a great white-headed, bare-legged, lubberly boy of twelve years old,... ... their cattle into his parks, stealing his wood, shooting his game, and so forth, “for the laird, honest man, he’ll never find it,—he never minds what...