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It was also declared in Baltimore that men engaged to promote the Northern party were permitted to vote five or six times over, and the enormous number of votes polled on the government side gave some coloring to the statement. At any rate, an election carried under General Dix's guns cannot be regarded as an open election.
| Keyes's, | 30.3 | | Sedgwick's, | 32.0 | | Hooker's, | 43.7 | | McCall's | 44.4 | | Banks's, | 45.0 | | Porter's, | 46.4 | | Blenker's, | 47.7 | | McDowell's, | 48.2 | | Heintzelman's | 49.0 | | Franklin's | 54.1 | | Dix's, | 71.8 | | United States Regulars,| 76.0 | | Sumner's, | 77.5 | | Smiths's, | 81.6 | | Casey's | 87.6 |
Dix through the medium of the hotel chasseur, who had a confused comprehension of voluble English, she had mounted at Mr. Dix's entreaty to his room. There she found him, half clad and in his dressing-gown, staring helplessly at a wilderness of clothing and toilet articles for which there was no space in his suit cases and bag, already piled mountain high.
If the musician admires his great predecessors and strives to emulate them; if the painter in the presence of the Sistine Madonna feels lifted and touched, so that he never can be content with poor work again; if the sculptor is ready to bend his knees in the presence of the Venus of Melos, as he sees her standing at the end of the long gallery in the Louvre; if the lover of his kind admires John Howard, and can never be content unless he is doing something for his fellow- men again; if we can be touched by lives like Clara Barton's, like Florence Nightingale's, like Dorothea Dix's, like the great and consecrated ones of the earth; if in any department of life we can be lifted, humbled, thrilled, at the same time with the thought of the greatness and glory and beauty that are above and beyond us, then there is hope of growth, then there is life that can come to something fine and noble in the future.
She admired the statue in Hyde Park. She got run over by a milkcart." "When was that?" she inquired, more out of politeness than interest in the career of Mr. Dix's maiden aunt. "A minute before she died." "Oh," said Zora, taken aback by the emotionless manner in which he mentioned the tragedy. Then, by way of continuing the conversation: "Why are you called Septimus?" "I'm the seventh son.
By a like effort to soften the personal offensiveness of the nomenclature of this region, he invariably spoke of Dix's Peak, one of the southern peaks of the range, as "Dixie." It was some time since Phelps himself had visited his mountain; and, as he pushed on through the miles of forest, we noticed a kind of eagerness in the old man, as of a lover going to a rendezvous.
And, despite all I could say, he would not budge an inch. At last I submitted under the threat that he would never after have a word to say to me. By good luck, when I had paid into Mr. Dix's hand the thousand pounds I had received from Charles Fox, and cleared my outstanding bills, the sum I remained in Comyn's debt was not greatly above seven hundred pounds. And that was the end of Mr.
I am convinced there are circumstances of which neither Mrs. Dix's mother nor sister know anything. I'm a loyal man. You may trust me." "Very well," said Rattenden. "Have you ever heard of a man called Mordaunt Prince? Yes a well-known actor about the biggest blackguard that disgraces the stage. He was leading man at the theater where she last played.
Reference is made in the text to the utterances of the Tribune more because it was so prominent and influential than because it was very peculiar in its position. Wilson, Rise and Fall of Slave Power, iii. 63-69; N. and H. in. 255. See account of "the Pine Street meeting," New York, in Dix's Memoirs of Dix, i. 347.
They declined my services in every capacity save that of inducing the public to hurry forward funds and supplies. I told them of Miss Dix's opinion on that subject, and they agreed that it was quite useless to send anything to her, since she used nothing she received, and would not permit any one else to use stores. Late in the next week Mrs.
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