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...duel, is "The Sea Hawk," which is a long-winded account of Geoffrey Thorpe, a nautical counterpart of Jesse James, who drained the Spanish Main of every ingot of gold t'other side of Lisbon. He gets his fingers burned in Panama, re-crosses the Atlantic as a galley-slave, beats up on the Spanish crew, sails the galleon to England and single-handed saves the British Empire from the Spanish Armada. All of which goes to show that England cannot be invaded,--we-hope-we-hope-we-hope...
...argument is unAmerican. It is an economic tenet of democracy that the free laborer produces more than the slave-laborer. If highly paid labor does not produce even more in proportion to its higher standard than subsistence labor, then democracy has not been economically feasible...
Died. William A. Barns, 113, ex-slave reputed to be the Civil War's oldest veteran; in San Francisco. Negro Barns, whose age was corroborated by Army records, claimed that he ran away to join the Union forces, attributed his longevity to "gin and pork chops...
...near-great figures of New England's flowering had been up to their transcendental ears in Abolitionism and underground railroading. But with the thrill of victory came a chill realization that it was not the same country. It was not even quite the same New England. The slave power was gone, but the bankers remained. Most of the young men were dead or gone West. The New England mind recoiled from the consequences of victory with the same instinctive consternation that made Henry Adams recoil from U. S. Grant. Wrote Henry Adams, describing his and his father...
...From them he learned, and through them he was profoundly drawn toward that subtle, serenely intricate theology which traces all evil to the pig (Ignorance), the cock (Ego, Desire), the serpent (Anger); which insists: ""The cruelty of the tyrant is as worthy of pity as the groans of the slave...