DETERMINING THE RESPONSIBILITY OF THE NEW BOARDER "I will illustrate by an incident," said Mrs. Paynter. "As I say, this young man spends his entire time in his room, where he is, I believe, engaged in writing a book." "Oh, me! Then he's penniless, depend upon it!" HENRY SYDNOR HARRISON (_Queed_) _Cyrus Hall McCormick born, 1809_ February Sixteenth A chicken that had done duty at a previous repast was set before the Rev. Scervant Jones, the first Baptist preacher of Williamsburg, Virginia, at the tavern of a Mr. Howl. Upon which the Reverend gentleman pronounced the following blessing: "Good Lord of love Look down from above, And bless the 'Owl Who ate this fowl And left these bones For Scervant Jones." _Fort Donelson surrenders, 1862_ February Seventeenth A NORTHERN VIEW * * * It was the most monstrous barbarity of the barbarous march. There is no reason to think that General Sherman knew anything of the purpose to burn the city, which had been freely talked about among the soldiers through the afternoon. But there is reason to think that he knew well enough who did it, that he never rebuked it, and made no effort to punish it. WHITELAW REID (_Ohio_) _Sherman burns Columbia, 1865_ February Eighteenth We have changed the constituent parts, but not the system of our government. The Constitution formed by our fathers is that of the Confederate States, in their exposition of it; and, in the judicial construction it has received, we have a light which reveals its true meaning. JEFFERSON DAVIS (_Inaugural Address_) _Jefferson Davis inaugurated, 1861_ _Federal forces enter Charleston, S. C., 1865_ February Nineteenth Ye marshes, how candid and simple and nothing-withholding and free Ye publish yourselves to the sky and offer yourselves to the sea! Tolerant plains, that suffer the sea and the rains and the sun, Ye spread and span like the catholic man who has mightily won God out of knowledge and good out of infinite pain And sight out of blindness and purity out of a stain. SIDNEY LANIER February Twentieth After the passage of the Anti-Ku Klux Statute by the State of Tennessee, several instances occurred of parties being arrested in Ku Klux disguises; but in every case they proved to be either negroes or "radical" Brownlow Republicans. This occurred so often that the statute was allowed by the party in power to become a dead letter before its repeal. It bore too hard on the "loyal" men when enforced. J. C. LESTER and D. L. WILSON As the young German patriots of 1812 organized their struggle for liberty under the noses of the garrisons of Napoleon, so these daring men, girt by thousands of bayonets, discussed and adopted under the cover of darkness the ritual of "The Invisible Empire." THOMAS DIXON, JR. _Governor Brownlow of Tennessee calls out the militia to suppress the Ku Klux Klan, 1869_