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Then, everything was overslaughed by the thought of going into camp with the precious birds, of cleaning one and carefully stewing it, making a delicate, fragrant broth, the very smell of which would revive Si, and every spoonful bring nourishment and strength.
And, by the way, Stanley was one of the many good soldiers who were overslaughed by the big promotion obtained by Schofield.
Of couse we'll give you another show. Come right along in your old place, and welcome." There was but one dissenting voice. It was that of Jake Alspaugh: "No, I'll be durned if we want ye along any more. We've no place for sich fellers with us. We only want them as has sand in their craws." But the protest was overslaughed by the multitude of assents.
Those familiar with the Navy Register of those days will recall some half-dozen old die-hards, who figured from year to year at the head of the lieutenant's list; continuously "overslaughed," never promoted, but never dismissed. To deal in the same manner with such men as the two veterans first mentioned would have been insulting; the distinction of promotion had to be conceded.
Here was a reality of war, and the boys' tide of questions became a torrent that for once overslaughed Shorty's fine talent for fiction and misinformation. "How many battles had been fought there?" "How many Union soldiers had been killed?" "How many rebels?" "Where were they buried?" "How big a ball did the guns shoot?" "How far would it carry?"
From the commencement of this century, upwards of forty years, the office of Chief Justice has always been held by slaveholders; and when, upon the death of Judge Marshall, the two senior justices upon the bench were citizens of the free states, and unsurpassed in eminence of reputation both for learning in the law and for spotless integrity, they were both overlooked and overslaughed by a slaveholder, far inferior to either of them in reputation as a lawyer, and chiefly eminent for his obsequious servility to the usurpations of Andrew Jackson, for which this unjust elevation to the Supreme Judicial bench was the reward.
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