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# Letitia Elizabeth Landon (L. E. L.) in Fisher's Drawing Room Scrap Book, 1837/Carthage

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* RUINS AT CARTHAGE.
* Artist: J. Salmon - Engraved by: H. Adlard
CARTHAGE.
"Early on the morning following, I walked to the site of the great Carthage,—of that town, at the sound of whose name mighty Rome herself had so often trembled,—of Carthage, the mistress of powerful and brave armies, of numerous fleets, and of the world’s commerce, and to whom Africa, Spain, Sardinia, Corsica, Sicily, and Italy herself bowed in submission as to their sovereign—in short,—"Carthage, dives opum, studiisque asperrima belli :" I was prepared to see but few vestiges of its former grandeur, it had so often suffered from the devastating effects of war, that I knew many could not exist; but my heart sunk within me when ascending one of its hills, (from whose summit the eye embraces a view of the whole surrounding country to the edge of the sea.) I beheld nothing more than a few scattered and shapeless masses of masonry. The scene that once was animated by the presence of nearly a million of warlike inhabitants is now buried in the silence of the grave; no living soul appearing, if we occasionally except a soldier going or returning from the fort, or the solitary and motionless figure of an Arab, watching his flocks from the summit of the fragment of some former palace or temple."—Sir G. Temple’s Excursions in the Mediterranean.
ow it lieth—earth to earth—
And to which that earth gave birth—
Palace, market-street, and fane;
Dust that never asks in vain,
Hath reclaimed its own again.
Dust, the wide world’s king.
Where are now the glorious hours
Of a nation’s gathered powers?
Like the setting of a star,
In the fathomless afar;
Time’s eternal wing
Hath around those ruins cast
The dark presence of the past.
Mind, what art thou? dost thou not
Hold the vast earth for thy lot?
In thy toil, how glorious!
What dost thou achieve for us,
Over all victorious!
God-like thou dost seem. But the perishing still lurks
In thy most immortal works;
Thou dost build thy home on sand,
And the palace-girdled strand
Fadeth like a dream.
Thy great victories only show
All is nothingness below.
"The small dome in the centre belongs to the lesser set of cisterns; on the left are the ruins of a palace or church; and on the extreme left the remains of an ancient edifice, on which now stands Burj Sidi Boo-Saeed, or Fort St. Louis. To the right is seen part of the ancient Cothon, Halek el Wad, the lake of Tunis and the bay; and beyond these the Hammam ’l Enf, and the Boo-kurneen; and in the distance the Jabel Zaghwan."— Sir G. Temple’s Journal.
# Letter from President Joe Biden to the Speaker of the House of Representatives and the President of the Senate, 2021-01-30

Dear Madam Speaker: (Dear Madam President:)
In accordance with section 1014(c) of the Congressional Budget and Impoundment Control Act of 1974 (2 U.S.C. 685(c)), I am withdrawing 73 proposed rescissions previously transmitted to the Congress.
The withdrawals are for the Departments of Agriculture, Commerce, Education, Energy, Health and Human Services, Homeland Security, the Interior, Justice, Labor, State, and the Treasury, as well as the African Development Foundation, the Commission of Fine Arts, the Corporation for National and Community Service, the District of Columbia, the Environmental Protection Agency, the Inter-American Foundation, the Millennium Challenge Corporation, the National Endowments for the Arts and Humanities, the National Gallery of Art, the Peace Corps, the Presidio Trust, the United States Agency for International Development, the United States Army Corps of Engineers, the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, and the Legislative Branch.
The details of the rescission withdrawals are contained in the attached report.
Sincerely,
JOSEPH R. BIDEN JR.
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# Letter from President Trump to Democratic Leader Charles Schumer (April 2, 2020)

Senator Charles E. Schumer
United States Senator
Washington, D.C. 20515
Dear Senator Schumer:
Thank you for your Democrat public relations letter and incorrect sound bites, which are wrong in every way.
1. As you are aware, Vice President Pence is in charge of the Task Force. By almost all accounts, he has done a spectacular job.
2. The Defense Production Act (DPA) has been consistently used by my team and me for the purchase of billions of dollars’ worth of equipment, medical supplies, ventilators, and other related items. It has been powerful leverage, so powerful that companies generally do whatever we are asking, without even a formal notice. They know something is coming, and that’s all they need to know.
3. A "senior military officer" is in charge of purchasing, distributing, etc. His name is Rear Admiral John Polowczyk. He is working 24 hours a day, and is highly respected by everyone. If you remember, my team gave you this information, but for public relations purposes, you choose to ignore it.
4. We have given New York many things, including hospitals, medical centers, medical supplies, record numbers of ventilators, and more. You should have had New York much better prepared than you did, and as Dr. Fauci and Dr. Birx said yesterday, New York was very late in its fight against the virus. As you are aware, the Federal Government is merely a back-up for state governments. Unfortunately, your state needed far more of a back-up than most others.
If you spent less time on your ridiculous impeachment hoax, which went haplessly on forever and ended up going nowhere (except increasing my poll numbers), and instead focused on helping the people of New York, then New York would not have been so completely unprepared for the "invisible enemy." No wonder AOC and others are thinking about running against you in the primary. If they did, they would likely win.
Fortunately, we have been working with your state and city governments, Governor Andrew Cuomo and Mayor Bill DeBlasio, to get the job done. You have been missing in action, except when it comes to the "press." While you have stated that you don’t like Andrew Cuomo, you ought to start working alongside him for the good of all New Yorkers.
I’ve known you for many years, but I never knew how bad a Senator you are for the state of New York, until I became President.
If you have any questions, please do not hesitate to call. Or, in the alternative, call Rear Admiral Polowczyk.
Sincerely yours,
Donald J. Trump
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# Letter from Sereno E. Payne, Chairman of the Committee on Merchant Marine and Fisheries

Fifty-fith Congress.
Sereno E. Payne, Chairman. :
| George D. Perkins. | William S. Booze. |
| Albert J. Hopkins. | John F. Fitzgerald. |
| John Simpkins. | W. Jasper Talbert. |
| Philip B. Low. | Henry D. Clayton. |
| James R. Young. | Samuel T. Baird. |
| Archibald Lybrand. | Levin Irving Handy. |
Committee on
The Merchant Marine and Fisheries,
House of Representatives U. S.,
Washington, D. C., Feb. 5, 1898.
Dict. by S. E. P. to B.
Hon. George W. Ray,
Chairman Com. on Invalid Pensions,
City.
Dear Sir:-
I hand you herewith papers in the claim of Harriet Tubman Davis, a Bill for the relief of a woman whom is before your Committee. Mrs. Davis is now receiving a pension at $8. per month as widow of her husband. Claim for increase is because of her own personal services in the war. She was employed as nurse, cooking the Hospital, and as a spy during nearly the whole period of the war. I know her personally, and she is a most interesting old colored woman, I should judge nearly eighty years of age; having been born a slave, she does not know her age. And about the year 1876, as well as prior thereto, a bill for her relief went to the Committee on War Claims, and all her papers, copies of which are presented herewith, were referred to that Committee by Gen. MCDougall, who then represented our District in Congress. The history of her case was written up by Charles P. Wood now deceased, of Auburn, N. Y., and is presented herewith. Her affidavit is also presented as to the truth of the history written out by Mr. Wood. For all her services she only received about $200. during the entire war. She rendered very valuable aid as the letters, copies of which are herewith presented, will show. I am told by Gen. McDougall that he filed the originals of these papers and he believes the account of her services is correct. It seems to be a very deserving case. I thought it much better to introduce a bill for the ​increase of her pension, that she might have the enjoymeny of it during the remainder of her life, which certainly, in the course of nature, cannot last long, instead of asking a lump sum and trying to get it in as a claim on account of money equitably due her from the Government for services. I think her case is exactly parallel to one passed in the House yesterday for a war nurse increasing her pension although the case of Mrs. Davis seems to me much stronger. If this case can have the early at attention of the Committee, I shall be very much gratified.
Yours very truly,
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# Letter from Robert Lee to Jefferson Davis (30 Aug. 10 P.M.)

Letter from Robert Lee to Jefferson Davis after second battle of Bull Run
Groveton, 30 Aug. 10 o'clock P.M.
Presdt Davis: This Army today achieved on the plains of Manassas a signal victory over combined forces of Genls. McClellan and Pope. On the 28th and 29th each wing under Genls. Longstreet and Jackson repulsed with valour attacks made on them separately. We mourn the loss of our gallant dead in every conflict yet our gratitude to Almighty God for his mercies rises higher and higher each day, to Him and to the valour of our troops a nation's gratitude is due.
R. E. Lee
# Letter from President Donald J. Trump to Speaker Pelosi (January 17, 2018)

THE WHITE HOUSE
WASHINGTON
January 17, 2019
Dear Madame Speaker:
Due to the Shutdown, I am sorry to inform you that your trip to Brussels, Egypt, and Afghanistan has been postponed. We will reschedule this seven-day excursion when the Shutdown is over. In light of the 800,000 great American workers not receiving pay, I am sure you would agree that postponing this public relations event is totally appropriate. I also feel that, during this period, it would be better if you were in Washington negotiating with me and joining the Strong Border Security movement to end the Shutdown. Obviously, if you would like to make your journey by flying commercial, that would certainly be your prerogative.
I look forward to seeing you soon and even more forward to watching our open and dangerous Southern Border finally receive the attention, funding, and security it so desperately deserves!
Sincerely,
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# Latter-Day Psalms/Salvation

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# Lancashire Legends, Traditions, Pageants, Sports, &c./Part 3/Ignagning and Ignagus

Part III: Sports and Games; Ignagning and Ignagus.
IGNAGNING AND IGNAGNUS.
Some years ago a morris or sword-dance known by this name was common in the Fylde. Some fifty years ago there were seven actors in it. A "merryman" first entered the house for permission to act. This being granted, there advanced a "Toss-pot" in rags, the Grand Turk and his son, St George, a Doctor, and a Bessy. St George and the Turk fight; the latter falls; but the Doctor, after boasting of his qualifications and travels, brings him again to life, saying—
"I've a bottle in my pocket called alicumpane: Rise, brave Turk, and fight the battle again."
The whole concludes with a song. A horse-head was carried [the "hobby "], and this was formerly a sport of Whitsuntide; but now its successor, named "Jolly Lads," is performed at Easter. I believe it to be a remnant of the Danish sword-dance; but what is the derivation of ignagning? I have been told it was in honour of the sun—a kind of agnalia; whilst others say that it derives its cognomen from Ignis Agnæ.—Notes and Queries, v. 315.
# Lancashire Legends, Traditions, Pageants, Sports, &c./Part 3/Bull-baiting

Part III: Sports and Games; Bull-baiting.
BULL-BAITING.
This inhuman practice has been followed within the last fifty years, both at Chatburn and Waddington, near Clitheroe. This sport, however, is now quite extinct; but a lady still resides in Burnley who ran up into the attic when the last baited bull broke loose from its tormentors at Chatburn.
# Lancashire Legends, Traditions, Pageants, Sports, &c./Part 3/Cockfighting for Eccles Tithes

Part III: Sports and Games; Cockfighting for Eccles Tithes.
ECCLES TITHES STAKED ON A COCKFIGHT.
A singular tradition prevails in Eccles, to the effect that in the reign of Henry VIII., or in that of Edward VI., the tithes of Eccles became the subject of a bet on a cockfight, and were won from Brandon, Duke of Suffolk, by Sir John Anderton, of Lydiate, in this county. According to this tradition, the tithes were granted to the Duke by his royal master, Henry VIII. Subsequent to this grant a cockfight took place in Westminster, when Sir John Anderton is said to have produced the first duck-wing cock that was ever fought at a main, with the vaunting challenge—
"There's the jewel of England! For a hundred in hand, And a hundred in land, I'll fight him 'gainst any cock in England!"
The Duke of Suffolk, on finding that Anderton was able to make good his bet, produced another cock, and bet the tithes of Eccles parish as his share of the wager. Anderton won the battle, and became possessed of the tithes; and he afterwards, according to the story, sold them to Sir John Heathcote, of Longton, county of Stafford. So much currency has this story obtained, that duck-winged cocks are called "Anderton jewels" in Lancashire to this day. The whole story (adds Baines) appears to be a fabrication.
# Lancashire Legends, Traditions, Pageants, Sports, &c./Part 3/Fighting "Up and Down"

Part III: Sports and Games; Fighting "Up and Down".
UP AND DOWN FIGHTING.
Writing about 1832, Mr Baines, in his "Lancashire," says there is amongst the inhabitants of Bolton [and the neighbourhood] a mode of settling their quarrels by single combat that cannot be too strongly condemned. At almost every assize in Lancashire several individuals are ​tried for murder or manslaughter, arising out of battles, when, to the astonishment of strangers, evidence is given of parties mutually agreeing to fight "up and down," which includes the right of kicking—punching, or purring, as it is called in Lancashire—on every part of the body, in all possible situations, and of squeezing the throat, or "throttling," to the very verge of death. At races, fairs, and on other public occasions, contests of this nature are witnessed by crowds of persons who take part on each side with as much interest as is excited by the regular boxing-matches of the South. That death often occurs in such matches will not be thought extraordinary, especially when it is considered that clogs, or heavy wooden-soled shoes, covered with iron plates, and studded with large nails, are commonly worn in the districts where this barbarous custom prevails. To check these revolting contests, several of the judges, about seventy years ago, revived the almost obsolete punishment of burning in the hand, upon conviction of manslaughter arising from kicking. By an Act of the third year of George IV., cap. 38 [1822], that punishment is abolished; but the punishment of transportation for life, or for years, or imprisonment and hard labour not exceeding three years, is extended to this crime; and it is understood that the highest infliction will be resorted to, if necessary, for the purpose of putting an end to a practice which is a disgrace to a civilised country. Persons best acquainted with the habits and pastimes of the inhabitants say that the custom of up and down fighting, with purring, was less frequent amongst the forty thousand inhabitants of 1831 than it was amongst the fifteen thousand inhabitants of 1773; and they augur that, from the combined operation of the terrors of the law, the dissemination of religious instruction, and that spirit of civilisation which is slowly but perceptibly ​spreading through the district, it will shortly only be known as a matter of history.
# Lancashire Legends, Traditions, Pageants, Sports, &c./Part 3/Hand Ball, Bandy Ball

Part III: Sports and Games; Hand Ball, Bandy Ball.
HAND-BALL.
This is still a favourite play in East Lancashire, especially with schoolboys and girls. Four stones are placed in the form of a lozenge. One of the party is then selected to give the ball. On its being thrown, the boy or girl on the outside of the row hits it with the hand. The thrower then runs for the ball, and if she can hit the striker before he or she reaches the next stone, the one who is hit becomes the thrower, and the other takes a place at the head of the line. By increasing the number of stones, more players can be accommodated; and each stone is called "home."
BANDY-BALL.
This game is played with a ball of wood and stout cudgels. The ball is struck in the same manner as "golf," and that side which drives it first across a given line wins the game.
# Lancashire Legends, Traditions, Pageants, Sports, &c./Part 3/Hunting at Extwistle Hall

Part III: Sports and Games; Hunting at Extwistle Hall.
HUNTING AT EXTWISTLE HALL.
Most of our Lancashire gentry appear to have been fond of field-sports; and their prowess has frequently been made the subject of local songs and ballads. The late Mr Harland included one of these—"The Stonyhurst Buck Hunt"—in his "Early Lancashire Ballads;" and the following composition relates to the same "noble sport," by one of the Parkers of Extwistle, near Burnley. From some memoranda, in a copy of "Merlinus Liberatus," for 1699, the present owner of Extwistle and Cuerden considers "the Owd Squire" to have been Robert Parker, of Extwistle, who married a co-heiress of Christopher Banastre, of Banke, and by her obtained Cuerden. He kept a "Journal of Events," which includes the days he went hunting and killed "haires."
OWD SQUIRE PARKER O' EXTWISTLE HALL.
"Come all ye jolly sportsmen, give ear to me all, An' I'll sing you of a huntin at Extwistle Hall. Sich huntin, sich huntin, you never did see; So come, jolly sportsmen, and listen unto me. Sich huntin, sich huntin, you never did see; So come, jolly sportsmen, and listen unto me.
"There were Squire Parker, and Holden o' th' Clough, T' one mounted on Nudger, and t'other on Rough; An' tantivy, tantivy, the bugles did call, To join in that huntin fra Extwistle Hall. Sich huntin, sich huntin, you never did see; So come, jolly sportsmen, and listen unto me.
"They hunted fra Roggerham to Wyecoller Moor, But t' buck kept ahead and made th' horses to snore;
There were th' Owd Dog and Pincher, but Rover bet all That started that morning fra Extwistle Hall. Sich huntin, sich huntin, you never did see; So come, jolly sportsmen, and listen unto me.
"They hunted to Langridge, and then back again, Till by Pendle Water the buck it were ta'en; Some horses they stumbled, some riders did fall, For they'd hunted beawt restin fra Extwistle Hall. Sich huntin, such huntin, you never did see; So come, jolly sportsmen, and listen unto me.
"Owd Nudger kept leadin, and let nought come near. An' it neighed an' it marlocked when th' hunters did cheer; So come, jolly sportsmen, an' join wi' me all In a health to Squire Parker o' Extwistle Hall. Sich huntin, sich huntin, you never did see; So drink to Squire Parker, Rover, Nudger, an' me."
The above song was taken down from the singing of "Blacking Tommy," alias "Tommy o' Raddles," alias Thomas Walker, who can sing the song, but not recite it. The word beawt signifies without; and marlock is an expressive dialectical word signifying pranks, or playful tricks.
# Lancashire Legends, Traditions, Pageants, Sports, &c./Part 3/Barley Brake and Blindman's Buff

Part III: Sports and Games; Barley Brake and Blindman's Buff.
BARLEY-BRAKE AND BUFF.
This game was formerly played in May. Randle Holme, the Chester antiquary, and heraldic deputy of Sir William Dugdale, mentions barley-brake as among the sports which prevailed in Lancashire, and which he thus records in doggerel from Rowland—
"To play at chess, or pue and inkhorn,
To dance the morrice, play at barley-brake, At all exploits a man can think and speak," &c.
Many of the games mentioned in his rude verses are now forgotten; but there is some reason to think that barley-brake still lingers in Lancashire and other counties under its more modern name of prison bars. It may be further observed that "Blindman's Buff" was formerly called "blende-bok," and has been supposed to be the same with the jul or yule-bok, the goat or stag of the Pagan Yule-tide. Rudbeck supposes this game to be a relic of the rites of Bacchus, who is pointed out by the name of Bocke; and he considers the hoodwinking, &c., of this game as a memorial of the bacchanalian orgies. From the Gothic celebration of these rites is perhaps to be deduced the Lancashire boggart, the name of an undefined sprite which has connected its name to Boggart Hole, in Pendle Forest (?), the scene of pseudo-witchcraft. The boggart is the terror of children; and when a horse takes fright at some object unobserved by its master, the vulgar opinion is that it has "seen th' boggart." Originally, the strange disguises worn by the principal mummer and representative of the Bock of Yule, have given rise to the superstition respecting a terrible sprite, the Bocker, which ​becomes in the provincialism of Lancashire the boggat. Mummers and maskers were finally suppressed by a statute of Henry VIII., which awarded against them an imprisonment of three months, and a fine at the discretion of the justices; so that in England the game of blindman's buff, and probably the modern entertainment of the masquerade, are the only relics of the Bock of Yule.