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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1898 Excerpt: ...twosworded envoys, leaning back in their open barouches, bare-headed, impassive,"--the first Japanese Embassy that visited this country, in 1860. The scene brings to this dreamer's mind a vision of the future and of his beloved America's part in it. Inspired by the vision, he sings: I chant the world on my Western sea, I chant copious the Islands beyond, thick as stars in the sky. I chant the new empire grander than any before, as in a vision it comes to me, I chant America the mistress, I chant a greater supremacy; I chant projected a thousand blooming cities yet in time on those groups of sea Islands My sail-ships and steam-ships threading the Archipelagoes, My stars and stripes fluttering in the wind. Commerce opening, the sleep of ages having done its work, races reborn, refresh'd. Lives, works resumed--the object I know not--but the old, the Asiatic, renewed as it must be, Commencing from this day surrounded by the world. In A paper recently read before the Iowa Commandery of the Loyal Legion and since bound in pamphlet form for preservation, Capt. E. D. Hadley ably and, we think, successfully refutes several popular errors relative to the Battle of Cedar Creek. These errors, embodied in the popular war poem, "Sheridan's Ride," are in substance that Sheridan, after a twenty-mile ride from Winchester, found Gen. Wright's Eighth Corps demoralized and panicstricken, and, seeing the situation at a glance, "Striking his spurs, with a terrible oath, He dashed down the line 'mid a storm of huzzas. And the wave of retreat checked its course there, because The sight of the master compelled it to pause." Captain Hadley quotes authority upon authority, Union and Confederate, to prove that we have been letting poets and romancers write the...
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