Author : Alexander Hamilton Stephens
Publisher : General Books
ISBN 13 : 9781458965240
Total Pages : 354 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (652 download)
Book Synopsis Recollections of Alexander H Stephens by : Alexander Hamilton Stephens
Download or read book Recollections of Alexander H Stephens written by Alexander Hamilton Stephens and published by General Books. This book was released on 2012-02 with total page 354 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: was to feed the chickens and not to do violence to Binks, the dog, when he worried them. Residents of no small importance were Mr. Stephens's dogs. A deceased favourite, Rio, mentioned in the Journal, became a public character through much travel with his master; he was a beautiful creature of almost human intelligence, seeming to understand his master's speech and to enter into all his moods. In 1859, Mr. Stephens writes Linton: A part of my daily duties is to doctor Rio. Poor fellow, he is blind He writes of a dark and wintry afternoon in 1861, which closed a day spent in reading letters advocating secession: I felt as if I wanted to get away from all company. I took my poor old blind dog, string in hand, and sought solitude. I went through the old fields, and through the pines, sighing in the chill wind, until I came to the place your grandmother settled. What a wreck was before me I went to the spot where I met you on my first visit to your grandmother's after you went there to live. You were then a very little boy. You ran out to the gate to meet me. Do you remember the time and the spot ? . . . Emotions, deep and strong, swelled my breast. Rio whined in sympathy and raised a mournful howl. Mr. Stephens's affection for his brother Linton was of unusual depth and tenderness, and almost maternal in solicitude. As soon as his own problem of poverty was conquered, he assumed the care of this young half- brother and sent him by turns to his own alma mater, to Virginia University, and Harvard College. When in 1859, Linton became a judge of the Supreme Court of Georgia, Mr. Stephens's gratification was less that the honour had been conferred on him than that he was so equal to it. Judge Stephens, at the time of his visit toFort Warren, was a handsome man of forty-two. Duri...
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