Notes of a Busy Life, Band 1

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Stewart & Kidd Company, 1916
 

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Seite 449 - Which I wish to remark, And my language is plain, That for ways that are dark And for tricks that are vain, The heathen Chinee is peculiar, Which the same I would rise to explain.
Seite 449 - But the hands that were played By that heathen Chinee, And the points that he made, Were quite frightful to see — Till at last he put down a right bower, Which the same Nye had dealt unto me. Then I looked up at Nye, And he gazed upon me; And he rose with a sigh. And said, "Can this be ? We are ruined by Chinese cheap labor," And he went for that heathen Chinee.
Seite 467 - And it is hereby further declared that the efforts of the Government should be steadily directed to the establishment of such a safe system of bimetallism as will maintain at all times the equal power of every dollar coined or issued by the United States, in the markets and in the payment of debts.
Seite 32 - Chickamauga there was a partial reorganization in which our brigade was made the First Brigade of the Third Division ; better known as Turchin's Brigade; a designation of which we were very proud because of the gallant old hero who commanded us and of whom we were all very fond and for whom we had great admiration. It participated also in the Grand Review at Washington at the close of the war.
Seite 449 - In a way that I grieve, And my feelings were shocked At the state of Nye's sleeve, Which was stuffed full of aces and bowers, And the same with intent to deceive.
Seite 151 - I am very busily engaged in the courts and will be, according to the present outlook, until the very day of the Convention, so that I do not see how it will be possible for me to get away from here. In view of this I trust you will write anything that it may occur to your mind as proper for me to know bearing upon the situation or in regard to anything you may want done.
Seite 348 - I have found that man one mass of bruises from the top of his head to the soles of his feet, and I have seen him succumb in six days, and I attribute it to this treatment.
Seite 472 - ... the existing gold standard must be preserved. All our silver and paper currency must be maintained at parity with gold, and we favor all measures designed to maintain inviolably the obligations of the United States and all our money, whether coin or paper, at the present standard, the standard of the most enlightened nations of the earth.
Seite 74 - Division after division passed, each commander of an army corps or division coming on the stand during the passage of his command, to be presented to the President, cabinet, and spectators. The steadiness and firmness of the tread, the careful dress on the guides, the uniform intervals between the companies, all eyes directly to the front, and the tattered and bulletriven flags, festooned with flowers, all attracted universal notice. Many good people, up to that time, had looked upon our Western...
Seite 74 - ... tattered and bullet-riven flags, festooned with flowers, all attracted universal notice. Many good people, up to that time, had looked upon our Western army as a sort of mob; but the world then saw and recognized the fact that it was an army in the proper sense, well organized, well commanded and disciplined; and there was no wonder that it had swept through the South like a tornado.

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