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Henry Morton Stanley, Dorothy Stanley, The Autobiography of Sir Henry Morton Stanley, part 1.4, chapter 1.10 (search)
e glowed with a child's rapture as he dilated upon the superiority of the Tranter over the Colt, or the old-fashioned pepper-box ; but, when he took up a beautiful Smith and Wesson, he became intoxicated with his own bewildering fluency, and his gestures were those of an oratorical expert. Then some other excuse would be found for, had his courage been of a more compact quality, he would have competed with the man of South Bend for honour. He selected, however, the choicest of his stock of Smith and Wesson's vest-pocket revolvers, and was lavishly extravagant with the ammunition. At the outset, he could not resist blinking at the flash of his own pea-shoohipped by the men, such language made them war-mad. Then one day I heard that enlistment was going on. Men were actually enrolling themselves as soldiers! A Captain Smith, owner of a plantation a few miles above Auburn, was raising a Company to be called the Dixie Greys. A Mr. Penny Mason, living on a plantation below us, was
Henry Morton Stanley, Dorothy Stanley, The Autobiography of Sir Henry Morton Stanley, part 1.4, chapter 1.11 (search)
establish himself as a dictator. Colonel Lyons was purely and simply a soldier: Lieutenant-colonel A. T. Hawthorn was too vain of military distinction, and the trappings of official rank, to have stooped to be a patriot in the ranks; but Captain S. G. Smith was a patriot of the purest dye, of the most patrician appearance, one of the finest and noblest types of men I have ever met: a man of stubborn honour and high principles, brave, and invariably gentle in demeanour and address. Our First- had declared war to the death. We could not be sold, but our liberties and lives were at the disposal of a Congress about which I, at least, knew nothing, except that, somewhere, it had assembled to make such laws as it pleased. Neither to Captain Smith, nor to Lieutenant Mason, nor even to my messmate Armstrong, could I speak with freedom. Any of them might strike me, and I should have to submit. They could make me march where they pleased, stand sentry throughout the night, do fatigue-du
Henry Morton Stanley, Dorothy Stanley, The Autobiography of Sir Henry Morton Stanley, part 2.13, Index (search)
in Africa, 408; as an orator, 445, 446, 465. Sandford, General, 338. Saragossa, fighting at, 241-243. Saunderson, Colonel, 489. Scheabeddin, quoted, 371. Schnitzer, Edouard. See Emin Pasha. Seton-Karr, Mr., 474. Sherman, General W. T., 226, 227, 426. Shiloh, 186-204. Shipman, Mr., 205, 206, 212, 213. Short, Bishop, Vowler, 17, 30. Slate, James M., 169, 180, 204. Slave-trade in Africa, 344, 407, 413, 419-422, 457. Smalley, Mr., 17. Smith, Parker, 478, 480. Smith, Captain S. G., 165, 168, 188, 189. Socialism, thoughts on, 530. Soldiering, 167-215. Solomon's Throne, 248. Soul and mind, thoughts on, 521, 522. Spain, Stanley in, 240-244. Speake, James, 89, 102-105, 121. Speake, Mrs., 105, 106. Speke, Mr., 435, 462. Stairs, Lieutenant, 354, 360, 381, 390. Stanley, Denzil, Stanley's son, 483, 485, 486. Stanley, Henry Morton, his progenitors, 3, 4; dawn of consciousness, 4; earliest recollections, 4-7; his grandfather, 7, 8; at the Prices',