[185] _Evening Post_, December 30, 1899; Ogden, I, _passim_; _The Nation_, June 25, 1885, May 23, 1902. [186] Ogden, II, Chap. XVII. [187] Ogden, II, Chap. XI. [188] _Ibid._, II, 51. [189] Studies in Contemporary Biography, 372. [190] Tacitus, History, I, 1. [191] Republic. [192] June 23, Rhodes, VI, 382. [193] Ogden, II, 66. [194] Ogden, II, 140. [195] Problems of Modern Democracy, 209. [196] Ogden, II, 199. [197] _Ibid._, II, 202. [198] Random Recollections, _Evening Post_, December 30, 1899. [199] Ogden, II, 202. [200] _Ibid._, II, 214. [201] _Ibid._, II, 238. [202] _Ibid._, II, 219. [203] _Ibid._, II, 237. [204] Biographical Studies, 378. [205] Ogden, I, 301, 307. [206] Life and Letters, II, 485. [207] Random Recollections, _Evening Post_, December 30, 1899. [208] Ogden, II, 30, 136, 213, 214, 247, 253. [209] Unforeseen Tendencies of Democracy, 117. [210] Ogden, II, 51. [211] Essays, 38. [212] Vol. 52, p. 267. [213] Vol. 52, p. 66. [214] June 25, 1885. [215] Ogden, II, 116. [216] _Ibid._, I, 252. [217] Biographical Studies, 370. [218] Ogden, II, 229. [219] _Evening Post_, December 30, 1899. WHO BURNED COLUMBIA? A paper read before the Massachusetts Historical Society at the November meeting of 1901, and printed in the _American Historical Review_ of April, 1902. WHO BURNED COLUMBIA? The story goes that when General Sherman lived in New York City, which was during the last five years of his life, he attended one night a dinner party at which he and an ex-Confederate general who had fought against him in the southwest were the chief guests; and that an Englishman present asked in perfect innocence the question, Who burned Columbia? Had bombshells struck the tents of these generals during the war, they would not have caused half the commotion in their breasts that did this question put solely with the desire of information. The emphatic language of Sherman interlarded with the oaths he uttered spontaneously, the bitter charges of the Confederate, the pounding of the table, the dancing of the glasses, told the Englishman that the bloody chasm had not been entirely filled. With a little variation and with some figurative meaning, he might have used the words of Iago: "Friends all but now, even now in peace; and then but now as if some planet had outwitted men, tilting at one another's breast in opposition. I cannot speak any beginning to this peevish odds."