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26024 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "And that very pretty creature is an actress; if you drop an interviewer into the left hand corner of the dressing-room you will hear her say: 'I love a country life, and am never happier than when I am working in my little garden,'--insert here the photograph in the sun-bonnet--... |
26024 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Sunday Times"
}
] |
26024 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "What we are here for is to teach people self-control. The rest is merely incidental."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Bring the larger vision into the addition of a customer's account. The only natural limit to the charge for washing a garment is the cost of the garmen... |
26024 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Ode to a Nightingale I could not bring myself to say that two and two were four; nothing less than fourteen seemed to give me any satisfaction. Hector knew how quickly responsive and keenly sentient I was. A friend once told me that he had said of me that I made arithmetic a rha... |
26024 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Marge, you really _are_."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "In the ordeal by laundry the soft-fronted often outlasts the starched."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I am ambitious. That is to say, I live not in the present, but in the future. At one time I had... |
26024 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I suppose you don't happen to know what the time is?"
}
] |
26024 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Well, I must be getting on."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "The Woman Vampire"
}
] |
26024 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "You know, Marge, there are not many girls in the laundry I would say as much to."
}
] |
26024 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Why, I said,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Hush! he said, warningly."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "It is exactly like it, but in the interests of the shareholders we do not wish that to be generally known. It would destroy confidence."
}
] |
26024 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Take a good thing when you see it. People have lost fortunes by opening their mouths too wide."
}
] |
26024 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Marge, I have lived long, and in the course of my life I have received much advice. My invariable rule has always been to thank for it, expressing my gratitude with some warmth and every appearance of sincerity. This is all that the adviser requires. It gives him, or her, comple... |
26024 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "The Snark was a Boojum,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Hullo, hullo! Are you there? Harris speaking.... Hullo, hullo.... Are you there?"
}
] |
217147 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I--Let me think, let--me--think."
}
] |
41680 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "counties and"
}
] |
41680 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Unionists"
}
] |
41680 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Condition of Affairs in the South 311 General Grant's Report 311 Carl Schurz's Report 312 Truman's Report 312 Report of the Joint Committee on Reconstruction 313 The"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Loyalists"
}
] |
41680 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Restoration 341 Amnesty Proclamation 349"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Proscribing Proscription 356 The"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Restoration Convention 358 Personnel and Parties 358 Debates on Secession and Slavery 360"
},
{
"from": "gpt"... |
41680 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "RECONSTRUCTION"
}
] |
41680 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "RECONSTRUCTION"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Convention"
}
] |
41680 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Disintegration and Absorption"
}
] |
41680 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Outrages"
}
] |
41680 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Independent Candidates 781 The Campaign of 1874 782 Platforms and Candidates 782"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Political Bacon 783"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Hays-Hawley Letter 786 Intimidation by Federal Authorities 789 Intimidation by Democrats 7... |
41680 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Bully for Alabama"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "738 Callis, John B."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "760 Clemens, Jere"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "96 Confederate Monument, Montgomery"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "178 Crowe, ... |
41680 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Federal road."
}
] |
41680 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "party, of the wealthier and more cultivated people. It did not appeal to the"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "with much success; but it was always a respectable party, and there was no jealousy of it then, and now"
}
] |
41680 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "The contest in Alabama was simply between the Compromise, with maintenance of the Union, and rejection of the Compromise to be followed by secession. It was not a campaign between Whig and Democrat, but between Union and Secession. The old party lines were not drawn. Association... |
41680 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Union leaders were Judge Benajah S. Bibb, James Abercrombie, Thomas J. Judge, Henry W. Hilliard, Thomas H. Watts, Senator William R. King,--nearly all Virginians or North Carolinians by birth or descent. At the State"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Union Convention he... |
41680 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Union Whigs in the black counties became intolerable. They had to combat secession at home, and they had to guard against trouble among their slaves caused by the abolitionist propaganda. By 1855 almost all the Alabama Whigs had become"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "... |
41680 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Union men were rendered helpless by the turn politics were taking in the North. The formation out of the wreck of the old Whig party of the distinctly sectional and radical Republican party, the attitude of the leaders of that party, the talk about the"
},
{
"from": "gpt... |
41680 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Constitutional Union party (the old Whigs and"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Americans or"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Know-nothings"
}
] |
41680 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "In case of the election of a"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Black"
}
] |
41680 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Union leaders declared for secession and by noon of the next day the"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Union party had gone to pieces. The leaders who had opposed secession to the last--Watts, Clanton, Goldthwaite, Judge, and Hilliard--now took their stand by the side o... |
41680 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "and the southern branch formed the United Synod South.[33] The East Alabama Presbytery (O.S.) in 1861 supported the Presbytery of Memphis in a protest against the action of the General Assembly of the church in entering politics. The Presbytery of South Alabama (O.S.) met at Sel... |
41680 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Commercial Conventions"
}
] |
41680 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "In violation of Constitution and laws southern people were refused permission to pass through the North with their property. The South was refused a share in the lands acquired mainly by her diplomacy, blood, and treasure. The South was robbed of her property and restoration was... |
41680 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "who wanted immediate and separate secession of the state without regard to the action of the other southern states; the"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "who were divided among themselves, some wanting the coöperation of the southern states within the Union in order to ... |
41680 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "laws, return a single fugitive slave, prevent abolition in the Federal district and territories, or the suppression of interstate slave trade? By secession Alabama would relinquish her interest in the Union and leave it in the control of Black Republicans. It would be almost imp... |
41680 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "or"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "from"
}
] |
41680 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Clemens of Madison, elected as a coöperationist, said that in voting for secession he did it with the full knowledge that in secession they were all about to commit treason, and, if not successful, would suffer the pains and penalties pronounced against the highest political cri... |
41680 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I now ask that the vote may be taken,"
}
] |
41680 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "An Ordinance to dissolve the Union between Alabama and other States united under the Compact styled 'The Constitution of the United States of America.'"
}
] |
41680 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "If Cotton is King, his throne is peace,"
}
] |
41680 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Free trade"
}
] |
41680 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "We are one united people and can never be dissevered."
}
] |
41680 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "it was possible that the people of north Alabama might yet bear the designation; that any invasion of their rights or any attempt to force them to obedience would result in armed resistance; that the invader would be met at the foot of the mountains, and in armed conflict the qu... |
41680 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "With them, says the grave historian of the convention,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "In memory of the illustrious men who brought fame to the flag, he said,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Let him who has tears prepare to shed them now as we lower this ... |
41680 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Defender of North Alabama,"
}
] |
41680 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "He asked for authority to hang them and wrote,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I hear the most deplorable accounts of excesses committed by soldiers. [68] About fifty of the citizens of Athens, at the suggestion of Mitchell, filed claims for damages. Thereupon Mitchel... |
41680 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "element of the population suffered much from the same class of Confederate troops. The Union element, it was said, suffered more from the operation of the impressment law. The Confederate and state governments strictly repressed the tendency of Confederate troops to pillage the"... |
41680 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Many of the soldiers spread themselves over the country and burned all the property of the rebels in the vicinity, and shot a rebel lieutenant who was on furlough."
}
] |
41680 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Most of the fields they passed were covered with briers and weeds, the fences burned or broken down. The chimneys in every direction stood like quiet sentinels and marked the site of once prosperous and happy homes, long since reduced to heaps of ashes. No cattle, hogs, horses, ... |
41680 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "On the morning of August 23, 1864, the fort was surrendered.[89] Though the outer defences had fallen, the city could not be taken. The inner defences were strengthened, and were manned with"
}
] |
41680 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "or"
}
] |
41680 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "In April, 1864, General Clanton wrote to Governor Watts that the"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Yankees spared neither age, sex, nor condition."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "and nothing was left that would in the least aid the Confederates. On the nigh... |
41680 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "and that 100,000 negroes should be placed in the field.[153] It was too late, however, for success. Wilson, on his raid, picked up the Confederate negro troops at Selma, and took them with him.[154] In 1862, the"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Creoles"
}
] |
41680 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "The regiments of reserves raised late in the war and stationed within the state were not very good. Yet there were instances of regiments, with bad reputation when stationed near home, making splendid records when sent to the front. The spirit of the troops at the front was high... |
41680 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "over which the Confederacy could have no control, yet the state militia was subject to all the laws of Congress."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Troops of war,"
}
] |
41680 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "The writer declared that the enrolling officers chosen were frequently of bad character; that inefficient men were making attempts to secure"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "offices in order to avoid service in the army; and that the exemption of slave owners by the"
... |
41680 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "originated with them, as well as the criticism of the"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "It would have been better for the Confederacy if more planters had stayed at home to direct the production of supplies, and the fact was recognized in 1864,[220] when a"
},
{
... |
41680 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "The governor also attacked the policy of the Bureau in refusing to allow the enrolment in the same companies of boys under eighteen and men over forty-five.[224] In regard to the attempts to disband his small force of militia in active service, the governor used strong language.... |
41680 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "or"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "who later joined with the deserters from the army; the other was the legal or constitutional opposition of the old coöperation or anti-secession party, which maintained an unfriendly attitude toward the Confederate administration, th... |
41680 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "or"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "people. These were the people who gave so much trouble during the war, as"
}
] |
41680 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "was applied to those who were opposed to secession and who wished to give the Union a longer trial. They were mostly the old Whigs, but many Democrats were among them. Then again the coöperationists, who wanted delay and coöperation among the states before secession, were called... |
41680 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "were poor people, often destitute. There were, he reported, about three"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "to one"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "in parts of Morgan, Blount, St. Clair, Winston, Walker, Marion, Taylor, and Jefferson counties, and he thought t... |
41680 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "in Marion County. The colonel reported that the number of tories had been greatly exaggerated, though the woods seemed to be swarming with deserters, and he learned that they had a secret organization.[262] The deserters always infested the wildest and most remote parts of the c... |
41680 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": ": On the first raid six mules, five horses, a wagon, and fifty-two negroes were taken; on the second, the remainder of the mules, a cart, the milch cows, some meat, and the cooking utensils. On the third the wagons were loaded with the last of the meat, and all of the sugar, cof... |
41680 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "for revenge, and for superior privileges over the non-unionist population. Material advantage and personal dislikes were too often the basic principles of their unionism. They were extremely vindictive, demanding that all Confederate sympathizers be driven from the country. Thus... |
41680 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "thought entitled him to the everlasting gratitude and protection of the United States. But a newspaper correspondent, who was on a sharp lookout for all signs of weakness in the Confederacy, said:"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "You can tell the southern loyalists as ... |
41680 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "men, they kept very quiet, and for two years there was no trouble.[274] But during the winter of 1862-1863, numerous outrages were committed by outlaws who were called, indiscriminately, tories and deserters. Much trouble was given by an organization called the First Florida Uni... |
41680 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Home Guards,"
}
] |
41680 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "and was prepared for all its consequences.[282] He first opposed, then voted for, the ordinance of secession, and afterwards accepted the office of commander of the militia under the"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Republic of Alabama. For a year Clemens was loyal to ... |
41680 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "[285] General O. M. Mitchell seemed to think that the negroes were the only"
}
] |
41680 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "and that"
}
] |
41680 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "and obstructionists, who were without the courage to do more than keep out of the army and talk sedition. In addition to the 2576 enlistments in the Federal army credited to Alabama, it is probable that several hundred more were enlisted in northern regiments. Some of these were... |
41680 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Deserter Book"
}
] |
41680 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "people of north and southeast Alabama than the latter suffered from all causes combined. The state and Confederate authorities were very lenient--too much so--in their treatment of these people. There was no great need of a strong Confederate force in north Alabama, since only r... |
41680 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "We may well congratulate ourselves and return thanks that a timely action on our part has saved our liberties, preserved our independence, and given us, it is hoped, a perpetual separation from such a government. May we in all coming time stand separate from it, as if a wall of ... |
41680 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "politicians and a few individuals of more importance were directing against the civil and military policy of the administration. The doughty warriors of the office and counter were sure that the"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Yankees should have been whipped in ninet... |
41680 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "He who is now ... in favor of reconstruction with the states under Lincoln's dominion, is a traitor in his heart to the state ... and deserves a traitor's doom.... Rather than unite with such a people I would see the Confederate states desolated with fire and sword.... Let us pr... |
41680 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "statesmen were sure that a different policy under another leader would have been crowned with success, though what this policy should have been, perhaps no two would have agreed. This feeling was largely confined to the less well informed, but it was also found in a number of th... |
41680 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Peace Society,"
}
] |
41680 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "that is, in favor of ending the war at once and returning to the Union.[321] A Confederate official who had wide opportunities for observation reported that the district (Talladega) in which he was stationed had been carried by the peace party under circumstances that indicated ... |
41680 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "law. The Gilchrist story was here originated by Clemens and told for the first time. The story was that J. G. Gilchrist of Montgomery County went to the Secretary of War, Mr. Walker, and urged him to begin hostilities by firing on Fort Sumter, saying,"
},
{
"from": "gpt"... |
41680 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "of north Alabama, which they said was never strongly devoted to the Confederacy. It was asserted that all the counties north of the cotton belt and those in the southeast were ready for a movement toward reconstruction. Giers stated that approaches were then being made to Govern... |
41680 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": ""
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "and"
}
] |
41680 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Mechanical arts and industrial pursuits, hitherto practically unknown to our people, are already in operation. The clink of the hammer and the busy hum of the workshop are beginning to be heard throughout our land. Our manufactories are rapidly increasing and the inconvenience w... |
41680 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Morton's Fork"
}
] |
41680 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "or shinplasters were issued, and in some communities it almost supplanted the legal money as a more reliable medium of exchange. The Alabama legislature passed severe laws against the practice of issuing"
}
] |
41680 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Why, auntie, that is money! remarked the young man."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Haw, haw! the old crone chuckled,"
}
] |
41680 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Direct Trading Companies,"
}
] |
41680 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "SMALLPOX in large letters, and over which fluttered a yellow flag. He loaded the ambulance with quinine, ether, morphine, and other valuable drugs, and other articles of merchandise scarce in Alabama. The yellow flag and the magic word"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "... |
41680 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "as they were called, scoured the country for corn and other provisions. Something was always given them, and these supplies were sent to the station or landing for them. Money was sometimes given to them, and a crowd of"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "on their way hom... |
41680 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "and performed the rough tasks that fell to the soldier--splitting wood, digging ditches about the camp, hauling, and building. The Third Alabama regiment of infantry, one of the best, left Alabama a thousand strong in rank and file and several hundred strong in negro servants. T... |
41680 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Yankee"
}
] |
41680 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "The Home School, was conducted by Mrs. Tuomey, wife of the well-known geologist, and the other by Professor Saunders in the building later known as the"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Athenæum."
}
] |
41680 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "A. An unlawful blockade by the miserable and hellish Yankee nation."
}
] |
41680 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Macaria, by Augusta J. Evans of Mobile. It was printed by Goetzel, who also published Mrs. Ford's"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Exploits of Morgan and his Men, which was pirated or reprinted by Richardson of New York. Evans and Cogswell of Charleston published Miss ... |
41680 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "This called forth warm discussion and was at once modified by the insertion of the words,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "The Address of the Confederate Clergy to Christians throughout the World."
}
] |
41680 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "after 1861 received scant respect from their neighbors, and the government refused to recognize the validity of these"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "The preachers at home were nearly all old or physically disabled men. Gray-haired old men made up the conferences, ass... |
41680 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "ministers and no"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "bishops, but the Secretary of War at Washington, in an order dated November 30, 1863, placed at the disposal of Bishop Ames of the northern Methodist Church, all houses of worship belonging to the southern Methodist Chu... |
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