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University of Central Florida STARS African American Legacy: The Carol Mundy African American Legacy: The Carol Mundy Collection – Text Collection, 1794-2010 1-16-1864 Harper's Weekly. Find similar works at: https://stars.library.ucf.edu/carolmundy-text University of Central Florida Libraries http://library.ucf.edu This None is brought to you for free and open access by the African American Legacy: The Carol Mundy Collection, 1794-2010 at STARS. It has been accepted for inclusion in African American Legacy: The Carol Mundy Collection – Text by an authorized administrator of STARS. For more information, please contact [email protected]. Recommended Citation "Harper's Weekly." (1864). African American Legacy: The Carol Mundy Collection – Text. 26. https://stars.library.ucf.edu/carolmundy-text/26 • [ $1100 FOR FOUR MON'l'llS. Vor,. VIII.-No. 38G.J NEW YORK, SATURDAY, MAY 21, 1864. $ 00 PER YEAR IN ADVANOE. lc'ntered ru:cording to Act of Con!?l'es!', in the Yenr lSG~, by Harper & B~her,,, in the Clerk's OOice of the Disl)ict Court for th< ,them District of New York. 322 HARPER'S WEEKLY. (MA_y 21, 1864. AT GETTYSBURG. General GRANT secured absolute unity of pur friend whether it would not be extremely foolish time made t'amilinr to us by the portraits of pose among his Generals. He established that in us to advocate his giving place to another ?.'.L\1nE A.NTOINl:.'TTE and CHARLOTTE CoRDAY, LIXE a furnace of fire blazed the midsummer sun moral discipline which is the source of perma man, who seems to us less desirable, merely the crowd sits or stands, cowed and shuddering, When to aaddle we leaped at the order, while a wretch, who seems the very incarnation Spurred on by the boom of the deep-throated gun nent strength in every army. He ught with because that other had beeR formerly a " Dem That told of the foe on our border. him the personal inspiration of vast and contin ocrat?" of the hideous ferocity of the Revolution, has A mist In our rear Jay Antietam's dark plain, uous success. He assembled a host. He and If the majority of Union men, at any primary climbed a column, and, elevated above the heads And thoughts of Its carnage came o'er us; his officers, filled with the profoundest convic meeting or convention in the land, have been of the crowd, points leeringly at 11. woman whose But milling before us surged fields of ripe grnJn, name he calls, to join the melancholy procession And we swore none should reap It before. us. tion of the importance of victory, imparted it by formerly Republicans and are now in favor of all they did and by all they were to the men. l\'Ir. LINCOLN'S nomination, and send delegates to the scaffold which is seen in the corridor pass That night, with tho ensign who rode by my side, .And when March and April were passed, when to secure it, we can not see why our correspond ing the. grated door. The victim has 4alfrisen On the camp's dreary edge I stood picket, the soft May sun announced steady weather, ent or any man, who is only a Unionist, should from her seat, clasping her hands, but without Our ears Intent lest every wind-rustle should Wde A spy's stea!Lhy tread In the tWcket; and all the elemental conditions were ripe, he have any other than the common feeling of dis turning her bend, whi.le her loYer sits not far And there, while we watched the first arrows of dawn gave the word to his faithful and indomitable appointment when we do not have our way. away, mute, motionless, frozen with horror. Through the veil of the rising mlet'• quiver, ally, BUTLER, and the Union armies moved to He may be very sure that the old Republican It is one of the most tragical pictures ever He told how the focman had closed In upon a battle which they knew must be desperate, party will no more be revived than the old Dem painted. At the first glance it seems too great llls home by the Tenneoseo River. and which all men believed would be decisive. ocratic party ; and if the Baltimore Convention an outrage upon human nature to perpetuate a He apoke of a sire In his wenkneBB cut down, The chapter of our history which opened on shall nominate a candidate of Democratic ante moment so terrible. But after a little while the With last breath the traitor flag scorning the 3d of May is not ended as these words are cedents, our friend will see the Union men who real justification of the work is apparent in the (And his brow at the mem'ry grew dark with a frown written. But the first week's work is of such were Republicans working and voting for him utter loathing which seizes the mind of the spirit 'Bhat paled the red light of the morning). For days he had followed the cowardly band, augury that we have the right to hope for a suc just as earnestly as they expect, and have a from which such atrocities spring. A thousand And when one lagged to forage or trifle cess which should bring every true American to right to expect, their late Democratic friends fold more fervent than the most eloquent de Had seared In his forehead the deep Mlnie brand, his knees in religious gratitude-a success which will work and vote for a candidate of Republic scription or denunciation the picture exposes the And scored a fresh notch on h.1.8" rlfie. will be a victory for the people of every country, a11 antecedents, should he be nominated. true character of the great crime, and helps to "But on• of tho rangers had cheated hla fnte and ,vill mark an epoch in the advance of civil Meanwhile our "determination" that Mr. explain the profound indignation which thrilled For Wm ho would search the world over." ization. The words of the President ar~ ech LINCOLN shall be nominated is only a very i,ro the world at that time, and has made the very Such cool-plotting passion, such keenness of hate, oed instinctively by the popular heart. '' While found conviction that it is best for the country words French Revolution synonymous with the Ne'er saw I In woman-ocomed lover. O who woald have thought that beneath those dark curls what remains undone demands our most sincere t~at he should be. most revolting inhumanity. The student who Lurked vengeance.as sure as death-rattle; prayers to and reliance upon Him (without whom in reading the English history of that peribcl is Or fancied those dreamy eyes, soft ao n girl's, all human effort is vain), I recommend that all disposed to quarrel ,vith Prrr's coercive domes Could light with tho fury of battle Y patriots, at their homes, in their places of pub - THE HUMILIATION OF EN tic policy, no longer wonders as he contemplates To horse I pealed the bugle, while grape-shot an<! shell lic worship, aild wher.ever they may be, unite in GLAND. this palpitating scene, at the ,vid~ and willing Overhead through the forest were crasWng. common thanksgiving and prayer to Almighty support that policy received from the British· A cheer for tho flag I and the summer light fell God." THE expulsion of GARIBALDI from England people. Wl1at sacrifice was not cheap, he asks, On the blades from a thousand sheaths flashing. is the announcement to the world that the pleas that tended to keep the English annals unstain A• mad ocean waves to the storm-revel flock, ure of LOUIS NAPOLEON is the policy of Great So on we dashed, heecl11!ss of dangers ; ed by such crime as this? It is a terrible pic A moment our long line surged back at the ohock, TO A JACKSON DEMOCRAT. Britain. It has long been the proud boast of thre. It represents unalleviated human suffer Then swept through the ranks of tho lmngers. A OALM and pleasant letter from "a Jack that country that it offered exile to the political ing. But its moral is clear, and the pain it oc refugees of every land. Tyrants and their vic I looked for our enolgn-ahead of hla troop, son Democrat" in Indianaj giifs us an occasion casions is justified by the lesson it teaches and Presolng on through the conflict Infernal, to explain more fully our position in regard to tims. Cn.A.RLES TENTH, LOUIS PHILIPPE, DoN the influence it exerts. His torn flag furled round Wm In festoon and loop, the Presidency. Our correspondent says that 1\-lrGUEL, Ros.As, LEDRU ROLLIN, MAZZINI, This is the reply we make to the friendly ex lie spurred to tho side at Ws Colonel. he is one of the four hundred thousand War LoUis BLANC, METTERNICH, GALEN GA - the postulations we receive upon the publication of And his clear voice rang out, as I •aw Ws brlg!Jt sword escaped from the dungeons of Spaudau, and Through shako and gsudy plume oWver, Democrats who have sustained Mr. Lincoln such cuts as will be found in this paper to:day. With" tWs for the last of the murderous horde!" heartily, because he is the constitutional Prey;i Spielberg, and SiberiA; the fugitives from the They depict the most shocking barbarities, the And'' this for the home by tho river!" dent and is trying to save the Government.