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Identifier: appealtoarms186120hosm (find matches)
Title: The appeal to arms, 1861-1863
Year: 1907 (1900s)
Authors: Hosmer, James Kendall, 1834- (from old catalog)
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Publisher: New York and London, Harper & brothers
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t I 186 2) EMANCIPATION 215 meditation. Chase writes with disgust that, at thefinal consideration, the president mentioned thatArtemus Ward had sent him * His book. Proposedto read a chapter which he thought very funny; theheads, also (except Stanton), of course. The chapterwas High-handed Outrage at Utiky. ^ GeorgeEliot has somewhere remarked that there is nogreater trial of friendship than a different taste injokes. Yet others than Chase have thought it un-fortunate that, at such a moment, one of the solemncrises of American history, the great president shouldhave enjoyed a piece of grotesque buffoonery. Per-haps a similar instinct caused Cromwell and theother signers of the death-warrant of Charles I. todo it with laughter, smearing one anothers faceswith ink.^ Both Lincoln a.nd Cromwell, men ofrough antecedents, when wrought up, perhaps, toan agony in the anxiety of difficult hours, theirhearts strained almost to bursting, could relieve thetension by a sudden falling back upon the

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