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10th.
Received Roget’s wedding
cards + started in barge for
Harlem at 10.30 a.m. Arrived
at the church in season to
hear some excellent music before
the happy couple arrived entered.
Brides maids + grooms appeared
to be very happy.
Rodgers looked splendid
+ the whole affair was conducted
according to the most approved
focus of the 5th. Avenue. Suppose [?]
The pews on either side of
the middle aisle up which
the couple passed were crowded
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with very good [carrot: looking] representatives of
the fair sex. I got a fine seat in
the corner of the church, and
from behind one of the columns
I looked with safety at them
all. Although I was without the
white kids + immaculate linen
in which all the gentlemen flourished
still I don’t believe one of them
wished for the bride a happy future
more sincerely than I. Because
I knew Rodgers.
In a few days I shall try
to write him a note of good
wishes for himself + bride.
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Last Evening went to see pictures
at “The Artist Aids fund society.”
Liked Rosa Bonheim’s picture. Centre
figure of horse, especially his head,
very natural. How his eye glares as
he struggles with the bit. Light + shade
beautifully + strikingly shown in the
execution of one of the pair of horses
on the right. How natural the attitudes
of the two men to the left fixing the
bridle! A glorious triumph [carrot: of Art] evident
even to me.
“Open your eyes + shut your mouth.”
is very good.
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The owl has been very active
today.
12th.
Have been very busy today.
Letter from chum [?] on little bits of
paper. Exercised some. No time
to study. Must work tonight. Whether
I succeed in passing the Ordnance Board
or not I am determined to keep up
the Study of Mathematics. It is the true
kind of mental discipline that we
get from such studies. A good
mathematician ought not to have
weak thoughts on any subject.
Played two games of
chess with Lieut. Col. Perkins tonight.
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Splendid picture from L.
Chaplain of the 2nd. N.Y.C.
_____,,_____
17th.
Very stormy day indeed.
“Nelson bearing down with the whole
fleet could not see with his blind
eye the Admiral’s order to retire
but passed forward + won the victory.”
“Dr ____ first thought the
musical instrument has three instead
of four strings; but a subsequent and
fuller examination of the subject
showed that he was mistaken.”
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Gen. Stanard [?] called on us today.
All our names appeared in the Tribune
this morning.
20th.
Mr. Huggins of the Christian
Commission visits us today to scatter
his good tracks + pleasant words
among the men.
Mr. Brown is very grateful
because I let his boy go home
until transportation has been
furnished.
P.M. initiates me into
the particulars of another swindling
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operation.
“Van” makes me a present
of “Norma” + Rigoletto”.
Lt. W. H. Male gives me
a copy of Rhodes Air.
Send orderly to purchase a
book on European History + he brings
me [carrot: back] Chilos history of England telling
the story of Alfred’s letting the
cakes burn + of Robin Hood.
Armstrong’s dumb bells
are excellent to keep up
ones constitutional.
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The English veteran has returned
having been entirely successful
bringing both money + papers.
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Last night listened to an
address from Wendall Philips [sic]
at the Cooper Institute. It was
very interesting to me, being the
first time that I ever heard
him. His opening + closing
sentences were the best. He
is decidedly the best orator
I have ever heard.
When quoting “John
Brown’s remark to Theodore
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Parker, an old grey haired man
at my left cried “yes + thank God
for it, too!”
The audience hissed when
he basted [?] the chief Justices so; but
W. P. was quite undisturbed.
I had read the address
before hearing it spoken + so was
prepared for those striking passages
where [carrot: he] says “Chattanoga + 200 pound
Parrot [?] Shell thrown 5 miles gave
sound sleep to the occupant at the
White House” + “Ward Beecher
by his matchless Eloquence has
melted the great heart of the
English people + welded it to
our side.”
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It remains to be seen whether his
criticism of Secy. Chase’s fin cial
system is just. And in his
examination of the “recreant”
Secretary’s Anti Slavery record
calling his principle “base metal”
unable to stand the test, eve
Horace thought him altogether, too,
severe.
In short it seemed to me
no one of the public men whose
names had been mentioned during
his discourse had by their acts
won his esteem so much as John
Brown.
Surely his thoughts on the
subject of reconstruction were very
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interesting. The debt of the South! Why
may it not be a proper subject of
alarm to our Government? It
certainly is no plain + straight
way in which the nation must
go even after its regeneration, its
resurication [?]. It is intricate +
beset with enormous difficulties.
And it will require all the
wisdom + patriotism + fidelity
of our best men to carry
the country through the trying
period [carrot: of reaction] which invariably follows
war.
But H.G. was sounder
in the views he expressed, and
certainly they were more in
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keeping with the views of the Audience.
Then the call for three cheers
for the President more clearly
developed the spirit + tone of
the assembly.
I shall long remember
this meeting at the Cooper
Institute.
Stopped at Lovejoys
after eating oysters + keeping
eyes open for a while.
What a world + what a city!
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