FIFTY YEARS AFTER—THE VIEW OF A FEDERAL OFFICER OF ’61-’65
In case of direct and insoluble issue between Sovereign State and Sovereign Nation, every man was not only free to decide, but had to decide the question of ultimate allegiance for himself; and whichever way he decided he was right.
Charles Francis Adams
(Massachusetts)
January Fourteenth
LAYING THE ATLANTIC CABLE
Maury furnished the brains, England gave the money, and I did the work.
Cyrus W. Field
(At a banquet in New York)
After a little while
The cross will glisten and the thistles wave
Above my grave;
And planets smile.
Sweet Lord, then pillowed on thy gentle breast,
I fain would rest,
After a little while.
James Ryder Randall
Matthew Fontaine Maury born, 1806