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| INTRODUCTION TO THE 1998 EDITION THE BOETHIUS OF CRAWFORDVILLE |
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| PART I INTRODUCTION Mr. Stephens's parentage -- Childhood and youth -- Education -- Law student and lawyer -- His account of his political life to 1859 -- In the Legislature -- In Congress -- On slavery, expansion, imperialism -- Compromise of 1850 and Missouri Compromise -- Dred Scott case -- Retires from Congress -- A summing up of his character, activities, benefactions -- Advocate of progress -- Father of Weather Bureau -- Personal appearance -- Effect as a speaker -- Social charm -- Ambition -- "Union Speech" -- Toombs in opposition -- Correspondence with Lincoln -- Stephens and Lincoln -- Secession -- Vice-President -- Stephens and Davis -- Differences with Confederate administration -- Lincoln's administration -- Stephens's peace missions -- Liberty Hall -- Fraternal love -- The Journal -- Motive and aim of his political life -- In prison |
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| PART II PRISON JOURNAL OF ALEXANDER H. STEPHENS |
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CHAPTER 1 Mr. Stephens is arrested -- Toombs's escape -- Upton's headquarters -- Crawfordville -- A parting scene -- Davis party -- The Clays -- Other prisoners -- A homeless black boy -- Meets Mr. Davis -- On the Clyde -- Discusses state of country and his "Union Speech" with Federal officers -- "Jeff and Jimmy" -- Table etiquette and Mr. Davis -- Hampton Roads -- Farewell to Davis -- Other partings -- With Reagan on the Tuscarora -- Captain Frailey's attentions -- Boston Harbour |
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CHAPTER II Fort Warren -- Good-by to Reagan -- In a cell -- Money -- Ration -- Newspaper misrepresentation -- Letter to General Dix -- Sutler's bill -- Library -- Davis in irons -- Greeley's book -- Mental agony -- Lieutenant Woodman -- Jackson and DuBose -- Appeals again to Dix -- Proclamation of Amnesty -- His position -- His slaves -- Emancipation -- Threatened with illness -- Lincoln anecdote -- Cannot eat ration -- Opinion of Greeley's book -- Will write memorial of the war -- His case and Lafayette's -- Comments on report of what Davis said of Lincoln's assassination |
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CHAPTER III Lincoln's assassination -- A family gathering -- Fast day for Lincoln -- Last Sunday at home -- Last sight of Linton -- Last talk with his negroes -- Departure from Richmond -- Desired welfare of both sections; no prejudice against the North -- Considers applying for amnesty -- "Loyalty," "Disloyalty" -- Oath of allegiance -- Sutler's bill -- Glimpses Reagan -- Improved attention? -- Stared at -- Expenses -- Governor Joe Brown -- Permitted to write home -- His custom about prayer -- Letter to Linton -- Mails -- Sunday -- Inconsistencies in religious practice and profession -- Dogma of equality -- Golden Rule -- Walk with Woodman |
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CHAPTER IV Matutinal singing -- Letter - writing -- Court - martial in Washington -- Collapse of the Confederacy; the reason for -- Lincoln and Davis -- "Cornerstone Speech" -- A cup of tea -- No nervous dread of death -- Sustained by conscience -- Soldiers' and Negroes' fare -- Use of liquor -- Meals from sutler -- Canadian mission -- Davis's speech -- "Mental comets" -- Peeped at |
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CHAPTER V Letter from home -- Curious gazers -- Makes application for amnesty; no confession of guilt; reviews his course; recites his principles; never disloyal to Constitution; love for the Union; his motive; "Continental Regulator"; slavery; efforts for prisoners; accepts issues of war; would help to restore peace and order |
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CHAPTER VI Ill -- Woodman and the surgeon -- Race riot -- Forebodings -- Racial inequality -- His Negroes -- Wants fair trial for new system -- Gerrit Smith -- Dinner from sutler -- Views Boston from bastion -- First view of ocean, in 1833 -- Choice of "Masters" -- DuBose's letter -- Surgeon's visit -- Opinion of Greeley -- Last advice to his servant, Harry; "Harry's bottle" -- Misquoted by Botts -- The only justification for secession -- "Doom of Treason" -- Wants trial -- Can meet death, but not exile! |
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CHAPTER VII His Dalton speech, 1860 -- Boyce's speech -- Secessionists freed while he is held -- The meerschaum -- Ewell's humour -- Health exercises -- Constant fire -- Geary attentive -- Mitchel and O'Brien -- No letters -- Wonders if he is forgotten -- His mercy to the unfortunate; aid to youths seeking education -- Discusses Spanish history -- Overthrow of constitutions cause of Spain's decline? -- James Johnson, Governor of Georgia; his classmate; incidents of graduation; estimate of Johnson -- Andersonville; Confederate Government and its prisoners; his advice to Davis; why it could not be followed |
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CHAPTER VIII A vigil; thoughts of home -- Report that Seward has his application -- Summer solstice and Mr. Davis's prophecy -- The President flooded with appeals for Amnesty -- Ximenes's mop -- An incident -- Geary "like home folks" -- Pardon and exile -- Watch-mender's kindness -- Bostonian offers aid -- Chain-gang -- News of Confederate leaders -- Mrs. Seward's death -- Heartsick -- Writes an imaginary interview with himself: South's darkest hour; a talk with Bishop Elliott recalled; slavery; Radical policy of equality; his imprisonment; amnesty; South should conform to new order; faith in the people; progress and war; the country's future |
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CHAPTER IX A mile-walk -- Flood of tears -- Dreams -- Man a triune being -- Spiritual communications -- Ominous press statement -- Linton and Cambridge -- Ill -- Kindnesses -- Cicero's "true religion" -- A Mexican sage -- Hampton Roads Conference -- Guards on the beat -- Reconstruction -- Negro suffrage; his plan -- Omens -- Asks Major Allen to publish a correction -- Letter to Linton; outlines remarkable plan for representative government -- The Conference again; misstatements -- Perplexed about application -- New moon -- Unlucky -- Examination for college |
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CHAPTER X Imaginary interview; why he did not publish statement of Peace Conference at the time; why he allied himself with the Confederacy -- Medical Inspector's visit -- News from home -- Withdraws application -- "O that I were as in times past!" -- Reminiscence of school-days -- Judge Bingham's argument no answer to Reverdy Johnson's; the Constitution made for war as well as for peace; "life and soul of the Nation" -- Geary refuses draft |
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CHAPTER XI Reading Cicero and Job -- Cicero's love for Quintus and his love for Linton compared -- "Fancy" interview; discipline of himself; humour; the Government's inconsistency; his application -- Huzzaing; "mustered out" -- Raspberry tea |
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CHAPTER XII Fourth of July -- Incongruity between celebration and facts -- McKinley Anecdote -- A Biblical analogy -- St. Paul's defence -- A charade -- Stared at -- Farragut and Anderson -- Elder Lincoln -- Reverend Jacob Manning's speech -- Preachers as jurors -- Defect in priestly character -- Naturalization: State and United States citizenship -- A habeascorpus case -- His home and servants -- St. Paul and athletics -- Letter from Linton! -- Balloon ascension -- Jackson released |
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CHAPTER XIII Sunday at Fort -- Rights without securities -- Negroes tortured -- Redfield-Saxe anecdote -- Exchanges bows with Reagan -- A soldier's courtesy -- Water-carriers -- Pauline Epistles -- Advises Linton concerning visit -- Aristotle on slaves -- Fears serious illness -- Bewails physical frailty -- Inequality of his situation with his services to mankind -- The Golden Circle -- Misquoted again |
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CHAPTER XIV His estimate of Jefferson Davis -- Truth about Southern Cause -- Southern people led to believe secession the only way to save the Constitution; loyal to principles of 1776; Davis at first at head of united people; sympathy of enemies -- Lincoln's usurpations -- Davis's -- Effects -- Southern leaders -- South's degradation -- "Falling from grace" -- Toombs's secession speech -- A Cabinet decision -- Stephens writes Governor Johnson of Georgia -- Incorrect versions of his speeches -- Lincoln and a Cabinet position -- Linton and secession |
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CHAPTER XV Dream visits -- Pauline Epistles -- "Garbled extracts" from Bible -- Suggestion for preachers -- Ideas about dreams -- Friendship -- Judge Collamer's story -- Woodman leaves soon -- Mr. Stephens saddened -- More distortion of his speeches -- Charlotte speech a warning -- General Lee's movement into Pennsylvania; Morgan's invasion of Ohio -- "Reconstruction" -- Peace mission of 1863 -- Cotton Loan -- Opinion of Joe Brown -- Andrew Johnson's speech in 1861 -- Strange spectacle: brother fighting brother for same object |
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CHAPTER XVI Letter from Linton -- Solitary confinement -- Ewell and aide released -- Seward's reported remark -- First hand-shake in prison -- "Fancy" interview -- Grows weaker -- Held for "political speculation" -- Peculiarity of apostolic letters -- Reminiscence: admission to the bar -- Talk with Woodman -- Breaks down, weeping -- Seaverns's hospitality; Mrs. Seaverns and little Annie -- The Dictator -- Grief at Woodman's impending departure -- Letter to Seward; pleads feebleness, former acquaintance; requests interview; etc.; Hampton Roads Conference -- Writes trivialities to preserve sanity -- Flowers through the bars |
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CHAPTER XVII "Row with bedbugs" -- More bad luck -- Smoking amenities -- Cicero on "slaves" -- Glad to see Woodman -- Dave Holt's "dripping moon" -- "Bucket Letters" -- Meets hospital steward -- Turning-points in life -- Cicero and Paley as moralists -- Polite lies -- Lawyers and the truth -- His own rule -- A lawyer's office and duty -- Solomon and immortality -- Mr. Davis's freedom enlarged -- Solomon's Song -- Changes at the Fort -- Major Appleton -- No news from Seaverns's appeal |
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CHAPTER XVIII Release from close confinement -- Visits -- Library and librarian -- Major Allen's congratulations -- Flowers from Mrs. Appleton -- Notable anniversary -- Code of Jesus -- A Boston friend -- A mouse -- Curious gazers -- Grant at Faneuil Hall -- Opinion of Grant -- Had Lincoln lived -- Christ's genealogy -- Atlantic cable -- Visit from Woodman -- Letters and flowers -- Noon on the ramparts -- Friendship -- Major Appleton's visit -- Social life on the bastions -- Captain Livermore -- The sentry -- Alone? |
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CHAPTER XIX Confiscations -- A child visitor -- President ill -- Noon signal -- Reminiscence; with Linton at the woodwright's -- Financial statement -- Newspaper bill -- A bitter journal -- Bedbugs; and observant guard -- No letters; "in prison, soon forgot" -- A walk outside the Fort -- A Georgian's grave -- Longing for home -- Woodman's attentions -- Mrs. Salter's -- Annie Seaverns's -- More gazers -- Mr. Baskerville -- Mr. Parrott's visit -- At the Appletons' |
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CHAPTER XX In Captain Baldwin's parlour -- A visitor -- Leaves money -- A Fort fog -- "The Cavalier Dismounted" -- Southern aristocracy; Cavalier and Puritan; effect of slavery; outside agitation vs. internal reform -- Georgia "self-made" -- Toombs's ancestry -- St. John's Gospel -- Hampton Roads Conference -- Little Charles Nutler -- The Major's quarters -- Christ's incarnation -- His view of Toombs; an exposition -- Presentiment -- Atlantic cable -- Failing eyesight and whitening hair -- Anguish -- Walk with Major Appleton |
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CHAPTER XXI A luxury -- Letter from Linton -- Mabel Appleton -- Noon signal and the workmen -- A pleasure party; Mr. Stephens wounded -- Strange whisperings -- An Irish greeting -- Rawhide shoes and armed overseers -- Gun-works -- Rule for testing accuracy -- Mrs. Appleton's note -- Discusses with Mr. Burlingame, Andersonville; defends Davis; his own efforts for prisoners -- Commissary rooms -- "Pope's "Universal Prayer" -- Mail-carrier story -- Purchased release not desired -- Walk around the Fort -- Thermometer and guard -- Prisoner and servitor; a melon -- An old Congress friend -- Farewells -- A gracious visitor |
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CHAPTER XXII Sabbath at Liberty Hall in mind-picture -- Prison conditions -- Senator Wilson calls -- Permission to see Reagan -- A pathetic meeting -- Harrington's good-will -- Fort music -- The messes -- When Atlanta "was a forest" -- Dred Scott case -- Davis's flight -- Reagan's letter to Texas -- The Livermores -- Copper works -- "Fancy" interview; negro question; Republic needs repose; patriot's duty -- Governor Cumming -- The cable -- Fears for Liberty Hall -- Asks President for interview -- Dr. Willis -- Letter from Linton |
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CHAPTER XXIII Hoping Linton may come -- Reagan applies for amnesty -- Reagan's Memoirs -- Swedenborg -- Stephens's idea of God; of man -- Last stroll perhaps with Woodman -- Baldwin's hospitality -- "Last Judgment" -- Bedbugs and mouse -- Better quarters promised |
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CHAPTER XXIV New quarters -- Robertson's Sermons -- Courtesies to Woodman -- Wonders why Linton figures so little in his dreams -- A curtain -- A little boy -- Dreams of Linton -- News from home -- At the pump -- Woodman's farewell call -- Linton in Washington -- Opinion of Greeley -- Reagan's enlargement -- Linton and Governor Brown -- Midway community -- Advises Geary |
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CHAPTER XXV Report that Davis denounces him -- Reagan messes with him -- "Smutty stories" -- Matthew Arnold -- Anxiety about Linton -- Offers to teach Geary Latin -- "Dog and Wolf" story -- Mrs. Livermore -- Old Congress days -- Letter from Linton -- General Denver's visit -- Washington gossip -- Greeley's letter -- Seward vindictive? -- Newspaper news -- Soldiers disciplined |
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CHAPTER XXVI Linton and H. V. Johnson come -- No release -- Reagan's children -- Linton and the diary -- A dinner party -- The charade -- Visits from Mr. Myers and others -- Writes Grant and the President -- Seward's reason -- Letter to Seward -- Georgia news -- A friendly cat -- Indignation -- A libellous tract -- Beecher on the negro -- The President's policy -- H. V. Johnson advised; negro education -- Cards and a story -- Writes Seward -- A sea monster -- Efforts for release -- Garrison to be mustered out -- Seward's note -- Letter to Mrs. Appleton -- Reagan's good news -- Mrs. Salter and daughters -- Harry's letter -- President's policy -- Letter from Grant's aide -- Letter to Miss Van Lew; forged speeches -- Home news -- Newton's letter -- Gifts |
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CHAPTER XXVII Free again! -- At home -- Last entry at Fort -- Partings -- In Boston -- Callers -- Visits Mr. Pierce -- People glad at his release -- Hillard's message to the President -- In Washington -- Private interview with the President; Stephens's views on negro suffrage; Johnson's on the negro question -- At Lynchburg; warned -- An aged traveller` -- Waste and desolation -- Liberty Hall |
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| PART III CONCLUSION Elected to the Senate -- Letter to President Johnson -- At Grant's Reception -- Denied his seat in the Senate -- Letters on the political situation; Reconstruction; the race question -- Literary labours -- Grant-Greeley campaign -- In Congress -- On Lincoln -- Family ties -- Linton's marriage -- Linton's death -- Letters to John Stephens -- On lobbying -- Governor of Georgia -- His death |
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