Patriotic Gore by Edmund Wilson

Author:Edmund Wilson [Wilson, Edmund]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Published: 2019-07-29T00:00:00+00:00

Not so with these vermin that feed on my blood. Of that I have not a drop to spare without missing it, to say nothing of the torture of having it sucked out as they do it. I would willingly let them alone if they would let me alone, and I would even contribute something to their support and sustenance. But to live and let live is not in accordance with the laws of their existence. Hence they justly bring their death upon themselves.”

He was transferred on August 20 — by the order of President Johnson, whom Linton had been to see — to a larger room higher up, and was allowed to receive visitors. At last — on September 1 — Linton arrives at the fort and stays in the prison with him. “Sunday Sept. 3. — After midnight, the fever I had had all day passed off. Read in Ezra. Linton read me portions of this journal. He read the first pages yesterday. To-day, he read on from where he left off yesterday. When he got to the second days imprisonment here, I told him to stop. It made me sad. For some cause, his emotions overpowered him and he wept aloud. I, too, wept, but told him not to grieve. It was all over I hoped. I had suffered greatly, but did not now. The doctor called soon; called again before noon, and again this evening. Linton and I spent the day in talking. How pleasant a day it was to me!” Alexander Stephens and Reagan were released on October 12, under a general order from Washington, and they left the fort the next day. The Stephenses spent a few days in Boston, where many people came to see them. Alexander Stephens and Reagan went out for a night to Topsfield, where they were entertained by a millionaire, who, says Stephens, “had large interests in the South and may lose a good deal there…. All the persons I saw or met on this trip, common people and all, seemed delighted to see me out of prison.” But in the meantime his hair had grown white.

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