The magazine of American history with notes and queries . ocks. Methinks I see her as an eagle, mewing her mighty youth, andkindling her undazzled eyes at the full midday beam purging and unseal-ing her long-abused sight at the fountain itself of heavenly radiance, whilethe whole brood of timorous and flocking birds with those that love the twi-light, fl itter about, amazed at what she means, and in their envious gabblewould prognosticate a year of Sects and Schisms. Such was the vision that broke upon the mental eye of one of theprofoundest thinkers and noblest patriots of England. If the his
The magazine of American history with notes and queries . ocks. Methinks I see her as an eagle, mewing her mighty youth, andkindling her undazzled eyes at the full midday beam purging and unseal-ing her long-abused sight at the fountain itself of heavenly radiance, whilethe whole brood of timorous and flocking birds with those that love the twi-light, fl itter about, amazed at what she means, and in their envious gabblewould prognosticate a year of Sects and Schisms. Such was the vision that broke upon the mental eye of one of theprofoundest thinkers and noblest patriots of England. If the historianof the mother-land can not truthfully record its perfect fulfillment there,may it not be the hope and aspiration of the nation that broke away fromher control, forgetting all our sad past and burying it forever in its graveof blood, and looking cheerfully to the future with its rainbow of promise,to more than surpass the dream of the poet in the peaceful glories thatshall crown the coming history of free, united and happy America. Utica, New PERSONAL RECOLLECTIONS OF PRESIDENT JOHNSON Towards the close of 1867 I found a note one morning on my breakfasttable from Senator E. D. Morgan, dated from the senate chamber, Wash-ington, informing me that the President had that day sent in my name tothe Senate as minister to a foreign mission—then about to be established—and that the nomination would be unanimously confirmed. As I had neither applied for nor expected the appointment, and hadno personal acquaintance with nor had ever seen President Johnson, I wasmuch surprised at the information ; none the less so, as the President wasat the time exceedingly unpopular with the party whose principles Iespoused. Indeed, so strained were the relations between the Executiveand the two houses of Congress that rumors of impeachment were alreadyin the air, and hitherto for some time every nomination sent by the Presi-dent for confirmation by the Senate had been rejected by that b
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