'Did I not burn Greytown? was it not I who made the niggers run? who
shall stand before me?'
Now they had made a thing which they called a steam-ram, an iron-covered
boat, like unto a serpent, even like unto the evil beast which crawleth
upon its belly, eating dirt, as do many of those who made it.
And all the South rejoiced over it, the voices of many editors were
uplifted,
According to the Revised Statutes,
Prophesying sure death and sudden ruin, on back action principles.
Yea, there were those who opined that the ram would suffice to destroy
the whole North, or at least its navy--there or thereabouts.
And they cried aloud that the rams of Jericho were nowhere, and that the
great ram of Derby, was but as a ramlet compared to this.
And the reporters of the _Crescent_ and _Bee_, and _Delta_, and
_Picayune_, and they of the kangaroon Creole French press, went to see
it,
And returned with their eyes greatly enlarged, so that they seemed as
those of the fish men take from a mile depth in the Gulf of Nice,--which
are excessively magnocular,--even as large as the round tower of
Copenhagen were their optics,
Declaring that on the face of the earth was no such marvel as the ram;
the wonderful wonder of wonders did it seem unto them; sharp death at
short notice on craft of all sizes.
Pages:
341
342
343
344
345
346
347
348
349
350
351
352
353
354
355
356
357
358
359
360
361
362
363
364
365