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# The Poetical Writings of Fitz-Greene Halleck/A very Modest Letter from one Great Man to another

[Mr. Editor: I wish you to precede the lines I send you enclosed, by republishing Mr. Hamilton’s late letter to the Governor verbatim, in order that the world may see that, on this occasion, at least, the poet does not deal in fiction.]
“To De Witt Clinton, Governor of the State of New York.
“Sir: To your shame and confusion let it be recorded, that you dare not assume the responsibility of preserving to our national councils a patriotic and distinguished statesman, while you could advocate the publication of an insidious and base attack upon private character through the public organ of your administration.
“You know the motive of my visit to Mr. Root—you were not ignorant that the senatorial reëlection of Rufus King was to me a subject of deep personal concern; and on this occasion you declared that you had marked my course, and that this support should recoil with vengeance upon the Republican party. To those intimate with your pusillanimity and intrigues, you disappoint no expectation. The traducer of America’s brightest ornaments can only be consistent within the sphere of his degeneracy. It is the pride of the name I bear, to be distinguished by your envenomed malignity—one and all, we are opposed to your administration and your character. I am induced to make this explanation as a permanent obligation to the public; to my own feelings it is perfectly humiliating. I have the honor to remain,
“Assembly Chamber, March 8th, 1819.”
A VERY MODEST LETTER FROM ONE GREAT MAN TO ANOTHER.
“To be a well-favored man is the gift of fortune, but to write and read comes by nature.”Dogberry.
ow dare you, Sir, presume to say, And write and print the paltry thing, That I did wrong the other day To give my vote for Mr. King?
’Twas natural that I should take a Particular interest in it, Sir, For I’ve been agent at Jamaica, And he a foreign minister.
You say you’ve marked my course of late, And mean to make what I’ve been doing A means of breaking up the State, And bringing on our party’s ruin.
With all who’ve known your scoundrel tricks, Since first you came to curse the nation, The Lucifer of politics, “You disappoint no expectation.”
It suits your mean and grovelling spirit Thus to attack great men like me; You slander only chiefs of merit, Stars in our country’s galaxy!
Elijah, when his task was done, His mantle o’er Elisha threw; Now I’m my father’s eldest son, And heir to all his talents too.
We’re proud to say, the world well knows You never liked our family;
We, “one and all,” have been your foes, My brother Jim, and John, and I.
For my own sake, you well may wonder That I these lines to you have sent; It is to lay the public under An “obligation permanent.”
Done into English and verse by H.
# The Poetical Writings of Fitz-Greene Halleck/Album Verses

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ithin a rock, whose shadows linger, At moonlight hours, on Erie’s sea, Some unseen, Indian spirit’s finger Woke in far times sweet minstrelsy. ’Twas in the summer twilight only, When evening winds the green leaves stirred, And all beside was mute and lonely Its wild aërial tones were heard.
So I—that fabled rock resembling, With heart as cold, and head as hard— Appear, although with fear and trembling, At Beauty’s call, as Beauty’s bard. Yet why despair if winds can summon Minstrels and music when they please? For who but deems the lips of woman More potent than an evening breeze?
Her lips the magic word have spoken, That bids me call from far and near Each minstrel-pen, to leave its token Of fealty and of friendship here. These consecrated leaves are given To you, ye rhyme-composing elves;
To poets who were taught by Heaven, And poets who have taught themselves.
To wits, whose thistle-shafts by flowers Are hid, their points in balsam dipped; To humor, in his happiest hours, And punsters—if their wings are clipped. But friendship, with her smiling features, Will come, ’tis hoped, without a call; For though your wits are clever creatures, One line of hers is worth them all.
Let names of heroes and of sages, On history’s leaf eternal be; A few brief years on Beauty’s pages Are worth their immortality. At least this charmèd book permits us To brave oblivion’s withering power, Till she who summons us, forgets us; And who would live beyond that hour?
# The Poetical Writings of Fitz-Greene Halleck/A Sketch

A SKETCH.
er Leghorn hat was of the bright gold tint The setting sunbeams give to autumn clouds; The ribbon that encircled it as blue As spots of sky upon a moonless night, When stars are keeping revelry in heaven; A single ringlet of her clustering hair Fell gracefully beneath her hat, in curls As dark as down upon the raven’s wing; The kerchief, partly o’er her shoulders flung, And partly waving in the wind, was woven Of every color the first rainbow wore, When it came smiling in its hues of beauty A promise from on high to a lost world, Her robe seemed of the snow just fallen to earth, Pure from its home in the far winter clouds, As white, as stainless; and around her waist (You might have spanned it with your thumb and finger), A girdle of the hue of Indian pearls Was twined, resembling the faint line of water That follows the swift bark o’er quiet seas. Her face I saw not: but her shape, her form, Was one of those with which creating bards
People a world of their own fashioning, Forms for the heart to love and cherish ever, The visiting angels of our twilight dreams. Her foot was loveliest of remembered things, Small as a fairy’s on a moonlit leaf Listening the wind-harp’s song, and watching by The wild-thyme pillow of her sleeping queen, When proud Titania shuns her Oberon. But ’twas that foot which broke the spell—alas! Its stocking had a deep, deep tinge of blue— I turned away in sadness, and passed on.
# The Poetical Writings of Fitz-Greene Halleck/Address

ADDRESS.
AT THE OPENING OF A NEW THEATRE.
November, 1831.
here dwells the Drama’s spirit? not alone Beneath the palace roof, beside the throne, In learning’s cloisters, friendship’s festal bowers, Art’s pictured halls, or triumph‘’s laurelled towers, Where’er man’s pulses beat, or passions play, She joys to smile or sigh his thoughts away: Crowd times and scenes within her ring of power, And teach a life’s experience in an hour.
To-night she greets, for the first time, our dome, Her latest, may it prove her lasting home; And we her messengers delighted stand, The summoned Ariels of her mystic wand, To ask your welcome. Be it yours to give Bliss to her coming hours, and bid her live Within these walls new hallowed in her cause, Long in the nurturing warmth of your applause.
’Tis in the public smiles, the public loves, His dearest home, the actor breathes and moves,
Your plaudits are to us and to our art As is the life-blood to the human heart: And every power that bids the leaf be green, In Nature acts on this her mimic scene. Our sunbeams are the sparklings of glad eyes, Our winds the whisper of applause, that flies From lip to lip, the heart-born laugh of glee, And sounds of cordial hands that ring out merrily, And heaven’s own dew falls on us in the tear That woman weeps o’er sorrows pictured here, When crowded feelings have no words to tell The might, the magic of the actor’s spell.
These have been ours; and do we hope in vain Here, oft and deep, to feel them ours again? No! while the weary heart can find repose From its own pains in fiction’s joys or woes; While there are open lips and dimpled cheeks, When music breathes, or wit or humor speaks; While Shakespeare’s master-spirit can call up Noblest and worthiest thoughts, and brim the cup Of life with bubbles bright as happiness, Cheating the willing bosom into bliss; So long will those who, in their spring of youth, Have listened to the Drama’s voice of truth, Marked in her scenes the manners of their age, And gathered knowledge for a wider stage, Come here to speed with smiles life’s summer years, And melt its winter snow with pleasant tears;
And younger hearts, when ours are hushed and cold, Be happy here as we have been of old.
Friends of the stage, who hail it as the shrine Where music, painting, poetry entwine Their kindred garlands, whence their blended power Refines, exalts, ennobles hour by hour The spirit of the land, and, like the wind, Unseen but felt, bears on the bark of mind; To you the hour that consecrates this dome, Will call up dreams of prouder hours to come, When some creating poet, born your own, May waken here the drama’s loftiest tone, Through after-years to echo loud and long, A Shakespeare of the West, a star of song, Bright’ning your own blue skies with living fire, All times to gladden and all tongues inspire, Far as beneath the heaven by sea-winds fanned, Floats the free banner of your native land.
# The New Student's Reference Work/Webster, Mass.

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Web'ster, Mass., a town, embracing a group of villages in Worcester County, on the French River and on the Boston and Albany, and the New York, New Haven and Hartford Railroads, 16 miles south-southwest of Worcester. Incorporated in 1832, the town owns and operates its local waterworks, and, besides its municipal buildings, has a public library, together with good schools and attractive churches. Its chief industries, in addition to those connected with the railroads, embrace cotton and woolen mills, shoe-shops etc. It also has several newspapers, a national bank, a number of hotels; there is, moreover, a lake of 1,200 acres in extent in the neighborhood. Population 11,509.
# The New Student's Reference Work/Welding

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​Welding, the process by which metals, as iron and platinum, and glass are, when in a fused, plastic, white-hot state, united by hammering and heavy pressing. Car-rails, when laid together, are spliced and clamped by cars going over them fitted with electric current and welding apparatus, after which they are submitted repeatedly to heavy pressure.
# The New Student's Reference Work/Westphalia

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​ Westpha′lia, a province in western Prussia, bordering on Holland. It is 110 miles long and 124 wide, covering 7,803 square miles. The Lippe, Ruhr, Ems and Weser are the principal rivers, the Weser crossing Weser Hills by a pass called the Westphalian Gate. The Lippe divides the country into two parts, the northern portion flat like Holland and the southern portion having hills and valleys. The farming is carried on by small farmers with old methods, the most important crops being hemp and flax. Cattle, goats and hogs are raised, the latter yielding the well-known Westphalian hams. Mineral resources give great prosperity. There are large coal-fields in the north, and it produces more iron-ore than any other province of Prussia except Silesia. It also is rich in copper, zinc, sulphur and salt. The leading manufactures are linen-weaving and iron-working. Westphalia was the name of the western part of the duchy of Saxony. It was divided when Henry the Lion's Saxon domains were distributed by Emperor Maximilian, the archbishops of Cologne receiving a part, with the title of dukes of Westphalia. Napoleon formed the kingdom of Westphalia for Jerome, his brother, which was abolished after the battle of Leipsic. The congress of Vienna (1815) finally gave Westphalia to Prussia. The peace of Westphalia at Osnabrück and Münster, in 1648, ended the Thirty Years' War. Population 3,618,090.
# The New Student's Reference Work/Webster, Noah

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Webster, Noah, an American scholar, was born at Hartford, Conn., Oct. 16, 1758. He studied at Yale College and served in the militia under his father in the Revolutionary War. While a teacher at Goshen, N. Y., he published Grammatical Institutes of the English Language. He published books and lectured on political subjects, taught an academy at Philadelphia, practiced law at Hartford, edited a magazine and a newspaper, and wrote pamphlets on epidemic diseases, banking and international law. He was almost the first American to see the importance of Winthrop's Journal to the history of New England, editing and publishing it. He also was influential as a pamphleteer and a political publicist in the people's discussions of the federal constitution of the new nation. In 1807 he published a grammar and began his American Dictionary of the English Language; but decided to fit himself more perfectly for the work, and spent ten years in the study of the origin of the English language and its connection with other languages. Seven years were then spent on the dictionary, including a visit to Europe to consult books and scholars at Paris and at Cambridge. The dictionary was published in 1828 in two volumes in the United States, followed sooa by an edition of 3,000 copies in England. It has long been a standard dictionary of the English language, and has passed through many editions and revisions. More than 300,000 copies have been sold yearly, and the income from the book still is about $25,000 a year. As celebrated as the dictionary is Webster's Spelling-Book, which was used for many years in every school in the land, and of which more than 70,000,000 copies have been sold. Webster also published a History of the United States. He was one of the founders of Amherst College and a member of the Massachusetts legislature while residing in Amherst, and of the Connecticut legislature when living at New Haven. He died on May 28, 1843.
# The New Student's Reference Work/Weismann, August

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​Weismann (vīs′män), August, a distinguished German zoölogist, was born at Frankfort-on-the-Main on Jan. 17, 1834, and studied medicine at Göttingen, Paris and Vienna. He early showed a decided fondness for natural science, being specially interested in biology. In 1873 he was appointed professor at Freiburg, and has since devoted himself enthusiastically to research. His writings embrace Studies in the Theory of Descent, Germ Plasm, Essays on Heredity and other works bearing on evolution.
# The New Student's Reference Work/West Virginia University

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​ West Virginia Univer′sity, located at Morgantown, was founded in 1867 as West Virginia Agricultural College. In 1868, by act of legislature, the name was changed to West Virginia University. The organization includes colleges of art and sciences, engineering and mechanic arts, agriculture, school of music and commercial and preparatory schools. The faculty numbers 71, the students 1,422 and the library 25,000 volumes. In 1907 the income was $224,353.
# The New Student's Reference Work/West Point, N. Y.

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​ West Point, N. Y., the seat of the United States Military Academy, is a village of Orange County on Hudson River, 52 miles north of New York City. It is a promontory about 180 feet above the river, commanding the fine scenery of the Highlands and surrounded by hills reaching from 500 to 1,500 feet in height. The military school was founded in 1802, and provides free education for 300 cadets, who are bound to serve in the army (q. v.) for eight years. Each congressional district can send one cadet and ten are appointed by the president. The course of training lasts four years, and the graduates have the rank of second lieutenant in the regular army. The buildings include several batteries, besides the library, stone barracks and buildings for instruction, and contain many war relics and portraits of military heroes. West Point was guarded during the Revolutionary War by two forts and a chain across the river, which were taken by the British in 1777, but abandoned by them after Burgoyne's surrender. The point was afterwards strengthened by forts and other works, which Benedict Arnold, the commander, was bargaining to betray to the British, when the arrest of Major André (q. v.) defeated the plot. See Military Schools.
# The New Student's Reference Work/West Springfield, Mass.

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​ West Spring′field, Mass., a town consisting of a cluster of villages on Connecticut River, in Hampden County, opposite Springfield and on the Boston and Albany Railroad. Settled about the middle of the 17th century as part of Springfield, it was separately incorporated in 1774, and has become an attractive place of residence for the people of Springfield. It owns its own waterworks, and here are the repair-shops of the Boston and Maine Railroad; here also is a well-equipped public library, besides good schools and churches. Its industries include the manufacture of paper, cotton-cloth and cigars. Population 9,224.
# The New Student's Reference Work/Weir, Robert Walter

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​Weir (wēr), Robert Walter, an American painter, was born at New Rochelle, N. Y., June 18, 1803. After studying in Italy for several years he was made professor of drawing at West Point, N. Y., where he remained for 42 years. His best-known works are The Landing of Henry Hudson; Columbus before the Council of Salamanca; Indian Captives in the Boston Athenæum; Embarkation of the Pilgrims in the rotunda at Washington; and Christ in the Garden. Some of his works in private collections at New York are very fine, as a View of the Hudson from West Point; Rebecca from Ivanhoe; and A Pier at Venice. He died at New York on May 1, 1889.
# The New York Times/1865/4/15/Personal

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Personal.
St. Louis, Friday, April 14.
Maj-Gen. Banks and family left this morning for New Orleans.
# The New York Times/1865/4/15/Feeling in the Country

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Feeling in the Country.
Philadelphia, Saturday, April 15.
The State House bell has been tolling all the morning.
The solemn hue of mourning drapes all the telegraph and newspaper offices.
Most of the stores are clotel, and the tokens of grief are universal.
The citizens generally are bowed down with grief.
The doors and shutters of private dwellings are draped with the habiliments of woe.
Every countenance is sad, and hearts that but yesterday beat with joy are now gloomy and despondent.
Rochester, Saturday, April 15.
The Intelligence of the assassination of President Lincoln and Secretary Seward caused the most profound sensation in this city. Business is suspended. Public and private dwellings are hung with emblems of mourning. Bells are tolled, and a public meeting is to be held at 3 P.M. on the call of the Mayor. The expression of sorrow is universal in this community.
Buffalo, Saturday, April 15.
All stores are closed, buildings draped in black, flags at half mast, and bells tolllng. The utmost grlef and consternation prevails. The churches, instead of being decked in flowers for Easter, will be hung in black.
Baltimore, Saturday, April 15.
The feeling here at the horrible crime which has deprived the country of Its beloved President is too deep for utterance. The sorrow is profound. Flags are at half mast and draped in mourning. The bells are tolling mournfully.
Profound rage pervades all loyal hearts. One intense feeling of abhorrence and detestation for all connected with the rebellion has taken the place of every other feeling,
Albany, Saturday, April 15.
The death of President Lincoln has cast gloom and sorrow over the entire city.
The State Legislature has, after passlag resolutions of deep regret, adjourned till Tuesday morning next.
Newark, N. J., Saturday, April 15.
Profound gloom prevails here over the mournful tragedy at Washington. Flags are at half-mast and places of business are closed. The streets are filled with crowds of people discussing the sad event. The Daily Advertiser office is heavily draped with mourning.
Washington, Saturday, April 15.
The exitement throughout Washington is intense, and the horrible proceedings of last night the only theme of conversation.
Poughkeepsie, Saturday, April 15.
Intense excitement prevailed here this morning in relation to the National disaster.
A woman named Frisbee exulted in pubilc over the assassination of the President, when the house to Malt-street, in which she resided was immediately surrounded by several hundred infuriated people, who demanded her immediate arrest.
A young man named Denton interfered with the mob, when he was immediately throttled, and, together with the woman, was handed over to the authorities, who lodged them in jail. This being accomplished, the populace quietly dispersed.
The city is draped in mourning, and the gloom is general.
# The New York Times/1865/4/15/Fort Sumter Celebration in Bangor

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Fort Sumter Celebration in Bangor.
Bangor, Me., Friday, April 14.
The restoration of the Old Flag to Fort Sumter was celebrated here to-day by a national salute at noon, by a display of all the flags on public and private buildings, and by the raising of the Stars and Strips one thousand feet above the city by means of a monster kite bearing the name of U. S. Grant.
# The New York Times/1865/4/15/From Washington

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FROM WASHINGTON.
Gen. Grant's Movements—Arrival of Rebel Officers—The Pirate Shenandoah.
Washington, April 15.
Lieut. Gen. Grant left Washington this evening for New Jersey.
About five hundred and forly rebel officers arrived here this afternoon from City Point, including Gens. Ewell, Corse, Huntes, Barton, Kershaw, Dubois and Sims, and Maj. Campbell Brown, Assistant-Adjutant General to Gen. Ewell, together with Commodore Hunter and J. B. Tucker, of the rebel navy. The officers above named will at once be sent to Fort Warren. The remaining 431 have been committed to the Old Capitol. While in the Provost-Marshal's office, Gen. Ewell declared that he did not order the burning of Richmond, but that it was done by the mob. A gentleman from City Point says that Ewell yesterday sent a card to Richmond for publication to the same effect. The indignation against him in that city is intense. Ewell and the other general officers claim that although captured previous to Lee's surrender, they are entitled to the benefit of the terms between the latter and Gen. Grant.
The employes of the Washington Arsenal, about 1,500 of them, had a grand procession to-night, in honor of the recent victories. They had national flags of the largest size, banners and transparencies, with appropriate mottoes and designs. Fireworks were exhibited on the entire line of march, and the music of instrumental bands was accompanied with huzzas and patriotic songs. They marched past the President's house, the War Department, and the Bureau of the Chief of Ordnance. The streets were densely crowded with spectators, and altogether there was a brief but jubilant season.
The government has received information that, at the latest dates, the pirate Shenandoah was at Melbourne, for the purpose of removing her spar deck, cabin and houses, and to alter her ports, so as to fir the ship for woring four more eight-inch guns, which she had in her hold. Her officers hoped to enlist a hundred more men. The Treasury Department has received three books, the opening entry of them being March 18, Montgomery, Ala., containing the names of agents appointed by the Confederate Government to raise funds for the benefit of that concern. It also gives information on the subject of subscription to bonds, including letters of instruction.
Washington, Friday, April 14—9 P. M.
The Sixty-third Illinois Regiment, of Gen. Sherman's command, has arrived here on their way home, their term of service having expired.
# The New York Times/1865/4/15/Movements of Gen. Grant

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MOVEMENTS OF GEN. GRANT.
His Return to Washington—Dispatch from Mrs. Grant.
Burlington, N.J., Saturday, April 15.
Lieut-Gen. Grant left Burlington for Washington, a 6 o'clock this morning.
MRS. U. GRANT.