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Identifier: abrahamlincolnba01newy (find matches)
Title: Abraham Lincoln and the battles of the Civil War
Year: 1886 (1880s)
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Subjects: Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865 Generals Generals
Publisher: (New York, N.Y.) : (The Century Co.)
Contributing Library: Lincoln Financial Foundation Collection
Digitizing Sponsor: The Institute of Museum and Library Services through an Indiana State Library LSTA Grant

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day afternoons oi the old tune, the military, but also in the most unwarlike sense That is Congo Square. The trees are modern. So are the buildingsabout the four sides, for all their aged looks.So are all the grounds adornments. Tremcmarket, otf.bevond, toward the swamp, is not the place of arms, and of hearts and hands,and of words tender as well as words noble. The Place Congo, at the opposite end ofthe street, was at the opposite end of every-thing. One was on the highest ground; the 50 verv old, and the scowling, ill-smelling other on the lowest. The one was the rendez- prison on the right, so Spanish-lookingdilapidated, is not a third the age itseems; not fifty-five. In that climateeven,- year of a buildings age counts forten. Before any of these M. Cayetanoscircus and menagerie were here. Caye-tane the negroes called him. He wasthe Barnum of that region and day Miche Cayetane, qui sortie de rHa\ane,AvtC so chouals et somacaques. and vous of the rich man, the master, the military
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THE KENl.K/Vc^t -, I IIP. KICH MAN. That i.s, who came from Havana with jiishorses and baboons. Up at the other end of Orleans street, hidonly by the old padres garden and the cathe-dral, glistens the ancient Place dAmies. Inthe early days it stood frjr all that was best;the place for political rallying, the retail quar-ter of all fine goofls and wares, and at sunsetand by moonlight the promenade of good so- ofhcer—of all that wentto make up the rulingclass; the other of thebutcher and baker, the rafts-man, the sailor, the quad-roon, the painted girl, and the negroslave. Nomeanernamecould be giventhe spot. The negro was the most de-spised of human creatures and the Congo theplebeian among negroes. The white mansjjlaza had the army and navy on its right andleft, the court-house, the council-hall and thechurch at its back, and the world before it.The black mans was outside the rear gate,the poisonous wilderness on three sides andthe proud mans contumely on its front,liefore the city o

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