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Sergeant Oats, Prison Life in Dixie: giving a short history of the inhuman and barbarous treatment of our soldiers by rebel authorities, Chapter 21: our last prison. (search)
uty as a suspender. From the waist, upward, I was smoked and tanned to the complexion of well-cured bacon. Do not think that I was not as welldressed as was fashionable, for the poor did not enjoy a gun-sling to hold their pants up. Bob had a pair of pants, and a shirt, minus the sleeves, that he had made out of a blouse and piece of sack; he also had a piece of pants-leg, which he used for a hat. He would pull one end of it on his head, and throwing the other end backward, he looked like a Grand Turk in full dress. While we were in this prison our rations consisted of a pint of meal per day. We were there one month, and drew nothing but meal during our stay-we did not even draw salt to season it. Bob and I made ours into mush most of the time. There was plenty of it, such as it was. One day one of the guards shot an alligator, about eight feet long, which he gave to the prisoners. Some of the boys tried steaks off of its tail. That was the only meat eaten in that prison.
Horace Greeley, The American Conflict: A History of the Great Rebellion in the United States of America, 1860-65: its Causes, Incidents, and Results: Intended to exhibit especially its moral and political phases with the drift and progress of American opinion respecting human slavery from 1776 to the close of the War for the Union. Volume I., Vi. Slavery under the Constitution. (search)
treble prices on this account, we leave nothing to be added to complete the outlines of a system of legalized and priest-sanctioned iniquity, more gigantic and infernal than heathenism and barbarism ever devised. For the Circassian beauty, whose charms seek and find a market at Constantinople, is sent thither by her parents, and is herself a willing party to the speculation. She hopefully bids a last adieu to the home of her infancy, to find another in the harem of some wealthy and powerful Turk, where she will achieve the life of luxury and idleness she covets. But the American-born woman, consigned by the laws of her country and the fiat of her owner to the absolute possession of whomsoever bids most for her, neither consents to the transfer, nor is at all consulted as to the person to whom she is helplessly consigned. The Circassian knows that her children will be free and honored. The American is keenly aware that hers must share her own bitter and hopeless degradation. It wa
Colonel Theodore Lyman, With Grant and Meade from the Wilderness to Appomattox (ed. George R. Agassiz), chapter 9 (search)
sarabia from the Russians, the Banat and part of Transylvania from the Austrians, and make a grand pan-Roumanian empire, with no protectors at all. All of which we shall know when they do it. Captain Botiano (that's his name) informed me that his countrymen were descended from Roman colonists, led thither by Trajan. To judge from the gallant Cappy, as a specimen, the colonists must have intermarried considerably with various Gentiles; for his face denotes a combination of Greek, Italian, and Turk, with a dash of Tartar and a strain of some other barbarian, whose features are to me not familiar. On the whole, I felt like saying to him: Oh, fiddle! don't come humbugging round here. Just put on a turban, and stick five silver-mounted pistols and seven oriental daggers in your cashmere sash, and look like yourself! For you must know he has received his education in the French army, and now appears trussed in a modern uniform, a cross between a British Grenadier Guard and a Prussian Ch
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Kansas, (search)
dness which I now begin to expose is immeasurably aggravated by the motive which prompted it. Not in any common lust for power did this uncommon tragedy have its origin. It is the rape of a virgin Territory, compelling it to the hateful embrace of slavery; and it may be clearly traced to a depraved longing for a new slave State, the hideous offspring of such a crime, in the hope of adding to the power of slavery in the national government. Yes, sir; when the whole world alike, Christian and Turk, is rising up to condemn this wrong, and to make it a hissing to the nations, here in our republic, force—ay, sir, force— has been openly employed in compelling Kansas to this pollution, and all for the sake of political power. There is the simple fact, which you will in vain attempt to deny, but which in itself presents an essential wickedness that makes other public crimes seem like public virtues. But this enormity, vast beyond comparison, swells to dimensions of wickedness which the i
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), New Amsterdam. (search)
re were freedom and toleration there in a degree, the population increased, and the Dutch were soon largely mixed with other nationalities When a stranger came, they did not ask him what was his creed or nation, but only, Do you want a lot and to become a citizen? The Hollanders had more enlarged views of the rights of conscience than any other people at that time. New, like old, Amsterdam became quite a cosmopolitan town. Of the latter, Andrew Marvell quaintly wrote: Hence Amsterdam, Turk, Christian, pagan, Jew, Staple of sects and mint of schism grew; That bank of conscience where not one so strange. Opinion but finds credit and exchange; In vain for Catholics ourselves we bear— The Universal Church is only there. When New Amsterdam was surrendered to the English (1664) it contained more than 300 houses and about 1,500 people. On the return of Governor Stuyvesant from his expedition against the Swedes on the Delaware he found the people of his capital in the wildest confu
Raphael Semmes, Memoirs of Service Afloat During the War Between the States, Chapter 24: (search)
ion, too, was quite curious. All the nations of the earth seemed to have assembled upon the Rock, for the purposes of traffic, and as each nationality preserved its costume and its language, the quay, market-place, streets and shops presented a picture witnessed in few, if in any other towns of the globe. The attractions for traffic were twofold: first, Gibraltar was a free port, and, secondly, there were seven thousand troops stationed there. The consequence was, that Christian, Moor, and Turk, Jew and Gentile, had assembled here from all the four quarters of the earth, bringing with them their respective commodities. The London tailor had his shop alongside that of the Moor or Turk, and if, after having been measured for a coat, to be made of cloth a few days only from a Manchester loom, you desired Moorish slippers, or otto of roses, or Turkish embroidery, you had only to step into the next door. Even the shopmen and products of the far East were there; a few days of travel o
Knight's Mechanical Encyclopedia (ed. Knight), O. (search)
and was depressed by a weighted beam. This was before Archimedes and the screw. The basin represented is 8 feet in diameter, and a stone trough in the vicinity was doubtless used to receive the oil as it flowed from the press. The basins and posts with huge stones on top are numerous in some sections of Palestine, where the long-lived olive has rotted away and left no trace. 2,400 years have passed since these lands were fully tended; the Assyrian, Persian, Greek, Roman, Saracen, and Turk have overrun the land, and the modern Syria is now occupied by a million and a half of people divided, by race or religion, into 16 tribes, who are Ishmaelites in deed and many of them in blood. The Spanish olive-mill (c) is used for crushing that fruit to obtain the oil, which stands instead of butter and lard in a land that once afforded Columella a subject for praise in the conduct and productions of the dairies of Andalusia. The Spain of to-day is not what it was in the time of Cato,
Knight's Mechanical Encyclopedia (ed. Knight), S. (search)
s are as old as Osymandyas (2100 B. C.). The sarcophagi of Egypt and Phoenicia are elaborately carved with inscriptions in their respective characters. Thompson ( The land and the book ), in speaking of the Pass of Dog River, says:— In this grand, wild gorge is an assemblage of ancient mementos to be found nowhere else in a single group, so far as I know. That old road, climbing the rocky pass, along which the Phoenician, Egyptian, Assyrian, Persian, Greek, Roman, Arab, Frank, and Turk have marched their countless hosts for 4,000 years, his much to tell the student of man's past history, could we but break the seal and read the long roll of revelations. Those faintly cut emblems of Sesostris; those stern, cold soldiers of Chaldea; those inscriptions in Persian, Greek, Latin, and Arabic, — embody a chain of history which we long to solve. See pen. The original flexible iron-pen of modern times was an experimental affair probably, and is mentioned by Chamberlaque, 1685.
Knight's Mechanical Encyclopedia (ed. Knight), T. (search)
and then in a solution of alum and galls, next in limewater, then boiled in a solution of madder, washed and dried, again steeped in alum and galls, and boiled with madder; after three successive boilings with soap, pearlash, and other ingredients, it is exposed to the air for some time, and finally boiled with water and bran and then dried. Tur′key-stone. A fine quality of oil-stone from Turkey, — novaculite. Sir Thomas Gresham paved the old Royal Exchange, London, with Turkeystone. Turk′s-head. （Nautical.) a. An ornamental knot, like a turban, worked on to the end of a rope. b. A knot formed on a manrope or other standing rope. It is formed by taking a round turn around the rope with a piece of log-line, crossing the bights on each side of the round turn, sticking one end under one, and the other under the other cross, as shown at b, and following the lead until it shows three parts all around, as at c. Turk's-head. Turn. （Mining.) A pit sunk in a drif
Elias Nason, The Life and Times of Charles Sumner: His Boyhood, Education and Public Career., Chapter 12: (search)
dness which I now begin to expose is immeasurably aggravated by the motive which prompted it. Not in any common lust for power did this uncommon tragedy have its origin. It is the rape of a virgin Territory, compelling it to the hateful embrace of slavery; and it may be clearly traced to a depraved longing for a new slave State, the hideous offspring of such a crime, in the hope of adding to the power of slavery in the national government. Yes, sir; when the whole world, alike Christian and Turk, is rising up to condemn this wrong, and to make it a hissing to the nations, here in our Republic, force--ay, sir, force — has been openly employed in compelling Kansas to this pollution, and all for the sake of political power. There is the simple fact, which you will vainly attempt to deny, but which in itself presents an essential wickedness that makes other public crimes seem like public virtues. But this enormity, vast beyond comparison, swells to dimensions of wickedness which the
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