. Abraham Lincoln and the battles of the Civil War . st and the frayWith deep-eyed thought and more than mortal power was his beyond the touch of artOr armed strength : It was his mighty heart. E. W. Gilder. THE QUESTIONER OF THE SPHINX. BEHOLD me ! with swift foot across the land,Where desert winds are sleeping, I am comeTo wrest a secret from thee; O thou, dumb,And careless of my puny lips command. Cold orbs! mine eyes a weary world have ear! in mine rings ever a vexed humOf sobs and strife. Of joy, mine earthly sumIs buried as thy form in burning sand. The wisdom of the n
. Abraham Lincoln and the battles of the Civil War . st and the frayWith deep-eyed thought and more than mortal power was his beyond the touch of artOr armed strength : It was his mighty heart. E. W. Gilder. THE QUESTIONER OF THE SPHINX. BEHOLD me ! with swift foot across the land,Where desert winds are sleeping, I am comeTo wrest a secret from thee; O thou, dumb,And careless of my puny lips command. Cold orbs! mine eyes a weary world have ear! in mine rings ever a vexed humOf sobs and strife. Of joy, mine earthly sumIs buried as thy form in burning sand. The wisdom of the nations thou hast heard; The circling courses of the stars hast ! Thrill! By my feverish presence stirred, Open thy lips to still my human moan, Breathe forth one glorious and mysterious word,Though I should stand, in turn, transfixed,— a stone! M. Virginia Donaghe. HOOKERS APPOINTMENT AND REMOVAL. BY AN OFFICER WHO OCCUPIED RESPONSIBLE AND CONFIDENTIAL POSITIONS AT THEHEADQUARTERS OF THE ARMY OF THE POTOMAC, AND IN THE WAR THEN, after theMud Marchthat succeededthe disaster ofFredericks-burg, GeneralBurnside, in afit of humilia-tion, telegraph-ed to Washing-ton requesting,for the secondtime, to berelieved, thequestion of hissuccessor wasalready beingconsidered asa stungby the loud roarthat went up forMcClellan fromthe army thathad twice metdisaster afterparting withhim, the cabinet were not shaken in the con-clusion that McClellan must not be restored,for the jocund Seward, equally with the patientLincoln, drew the line at a military dictator-ship, such as would be practically implied by asecond restoration, under such pressure. Butwhile firm, the authorities were circumspect,and concluded that it would not be prudentto increase the tension between themselvesand a possible pretorian camp by sending anoutsider to take the command from Burn-side. Subject to this conclusion, GeneralHalleck and Secretary Stanton favored thetransfer of Ro
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