The magazine of American history with notes and queries . ptain Lyon. I repeated the remark, with additional emphasis. Do you really believe that? he inquired. Yes, I do. Then, sir, rising as he spoke, his face as red as a beet, and his smalllight blue eyes flashing with anger, I can have no further argument with such a—such a Good evening, and he darted from the porch without supplying verbally the epithet that was in his mind. Some time afterward, 2*8 BRIGADIER-GENERAL NATHANIEL LYON, U. S. A. when ^ve had become friends, I asked him what he would have said if hehad spoken without restraint.
The magazine of American history with notes and queries . ptain Lyon. I repeated the remark, with additional emphasis. Do you really believe that? he inquired. Yes, I do. Then, sir, rising as he spoke, his face as red as a beet, and his smalllight blue eyes flashing with anger, I can have no further argument with such a—such a Good evening, and he darted from the porch without supplying verbally the epithet that was in his mind. Some time afterward, 2*8 BRIGADIER-GENERAL NATHANIEL LYON, U. S. A. when ^ve had become friends, I asked him what he would have said if hehad spoken without restraint. I should have called you a narrow-minded,bigoted, and fanatical ass/ he answered, with a hearty laugh. But Ishould have been wrong, as I generally am, he added after a momentspause, when I jump at conclusions hastily, for you were only ignorantand hide-bound by the influence of the early education to which you hadbeen subjected, and by which you were led to accept as truths doctrinesthat have not a shred of proof to support them. You believed because. NATHANIEL LYON. some one in whom you had confidence told you they were true. You wereexactly like the great mass of mankind. If men and women could get ridof their early prejudices, and would look at Scripture exactly as they wouldat any other collection of stories, the Christian religion would not stand aday. I mention this instance for the reason that it affords an excellent exam-ple of General Lyons independence of character, which he was constantlyexhibiting in all the relations in which he might be placed, even at the riskof making himself personally disagreeable. Indeed, his intenseness anddesire to inculcate his views on others made him utterly regardless of theeffects of his speeches and conduct, so far as concerned the wounding of BRIGADIER-GENERAL NATHANIEL LYON, U. S. A. 239 the feelings of those with whom he was thrown. At the same time he was,as I shall have occasion to show, a man in whom the principles of abstrac
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