. Book of the Royal blue . r answered and said, sir, quod he, I had a brother whych dyd a certayneoffense wherefore he was hangyd, andchauncing to thynk nowe uponn hys deth,it makes me to wepe. The story continues, telling of the sur-prise of the merchaunt upon also taking abite of the hote custerd, and how he wept,too. Whereupon the courtier asks him whyhe weeps, and the merchant responds: I wepe, because that thou wast nothangyd, whenne that thy brother washangyd. The same story, with the exception thatthe characters are American Indians, whoexperiment with cayenne pepper, appearsin one of t
. Book of the Royal blue . r answered and said, sir, quod he, I had a brother whych dyd a certayneoffense wherefore he was hangyd, andchauncing to thynk nowe uponn hys deth,it makes me to wepe. The story continues, telling of the sur-prise of the merchaunt upon also taking abite of the hote custerd, and how he wept,too. Whereupon the courtier asks him whyhe weeps, and the merchant responds: I wepe, because that thou wast nothangyd, whenne that thy brother washangyd. The same story, with the exception thatthe characters are American Indians, whoexperiment with cayenne pepper, appearsin one of the March magazines, attributedto the late Bishop Whipple. It is not theonly one of ancient lineage that is seenevery day. It may be that the quips andjests which lure the chuckle and the smileto-day are but reincarnations of happydoings and sayings that have lived theirlittle lives many a time and oft in the dimpast, and have come to us again, becausein them is the vital, inextinguishable sparkof humor, pure and feiiirf^m CHANGES IN THE GOVERNMENTS PURPOSES WROUGHT BY THE CIVIL WAR. BY COLONEL ALEXANUEK K. M CURE. FEW of even our most intelligent citizensof the present time take pause toconsider how entirely different werethe purposes and efforts of the governmentat the beginning of our civil war from thepurposes and efforts after it had been inprogress for nearly two years. PresidentLincoln and the Republican leaders, withfew exceptions, never regarded the aboli-tion of slavery as one of the vital purposesin suppressing rebellion until nearly halfthe period of the war had been far from aiming at the overthrow ofslavery, every declaration made by PresidentLincoln during his campaign, after hiselection, in his inaugural address, and inhis many utterances to visitors at the WhiteHouse, distinctly disclaimed any such pur-pose, and frankly declared that slavery wasprotected by the constitution, and that itcould be overthrown only by changing thefundamental
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