SCENE 2D-Cabinet Meeting. Abraham... [Enter Committee of five Senators.] Good morrow, your honors; We are come, your Highness, [Hands out a paper, which Abraham reads.] I say, your Highness, Here's my portfolio... take it back: I can't be useful unless I'm wholly black. Salmon...And here's my portfolio, full of checks; Take it, and I'll run my chance for Senator. Montgomery... And, your Highness, I, too am ready for the slaughter. I'll see 'em d..d e'er I Edwin... Will yield an Inch. I'd rather die. Abraham... Take back your folios, all; We're all upon ill fortune's track, And together we will sink or swim. Go back, ye intermeddling solons, Do your worst, but unless you're the stronger, I'll stand this "pressure" a little longer. [Exeunt Committee, exasperated.] Edwin... A pretty bold attempt, your Highness For little boys to Wade beyond their depths, Without bladders 'neath their arms. Edwin... [Enter Halleck.] Here comes the fatal cause Of all our most malicious ills. Halleck... Such epithets address you sir, to me? I'll not brook such contemptuous slurs. Sir, you are a coward, and never fought for spurs. Edwin... Me a coward...then you're a lying whelp, And dare not resent, without procuring help. Halleck...(Slaps his face.) Take that, paltroon, my legal tender, And show how brave you play your own defender. [They clinch and have a savage set-to.] My rabid Lords, Abraham... It grieves me sore to see this cruel sport, Strewing blood and hair about my virtuous court. Most vicious mastiffs, D. of Y... I pray you both, preserve your strength; You'll need it all on ropes, at length. Chandler... Let them fight. See the claret; good Lord, how Stanton reels, MORAL. Sad is the moral...brother shouldn't war with brother, 185 Brown, John... His "solution". His Harper Ferry Raid... Various Extracts, ......64 to 72 Amnesty... President's Proclamation--N. Y. Round Ta- ble on..... 304 Arms...Frauds in purchase of.... 312 Glories in interference with elections....... 290 176 267 Andrew, Gov... His "Roads Swarm "--Letter........ What followed in Massachusetts Legislature... 157 Other Republican papers Denounce... Brougham, Lord...On coercion.... Approves of arrests for wearing badges. Blood-Thirsty Threats...Sen. Wilson in Maine Against copperheads...... 157 144 192 238 160 280 Bastile... Victims liberated from...... 239 166 240 166 .286-7 Phillips on the Rampage.... C. B. Smith pledges Policy of... 172 174 Brinsmade, Mrs... Her arrest and remarks on. 229-234 244 Democrats...Loyalty and patriotism of.... Of New York...Iowa...Ohio... Wisconsin... Ken- 297 Agitation for, in England--Sudden--Paley's 14 17 18 Hailing Extermination and Damnation....... Sumner's Revolutionary Spirit... Declaration of Independence--Revised.... phis Appeal....... On Cause of the War. On Compromise..... On Northern Conspiracy.. Disunionits... The other class.... Duer, Judge... On Martial Law... Discouraging Enlistments... Boston Liberator.. Douvall, Rev. Wm. O...Hopes for Civil War........... 117 116 274 Douglas, S. A....To S. S. Hayes, J. Taylor and Mem- Threatened and punished for voting. ..298-303 .290..1 Of 1814 protest against disunion.... 28 Of New Jersey, spurn the treason.................... 29 320 Debt...The public...cost of the war...is a public, a na- tional blessing.... 304 Our National, &c... 824 Disgraceful Outrage...At Boscobel.. Discipline...At Vicksburg..... 305 Despotism...Seeks semblance of legality....Solicitor Whiting misconstrues law.. 234 Have we not a military.... 263 Seward pronounces unconstitutional.............. A leaf from French History... 268 Message of Gov. Seymour, 1864, on.................................................. 269 Plantations abandoned........ Capt. Hamilton statement... Editor New York Loss of labor... Decay of estates...Only to free Proclamation... New York Tribune on...... Springfield-Utica letter, on........................................................................... 168 |