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MARCH 4, 1865, the day of Lincoln's second inauguration as President, began in a driving rain that raddled Washington's famously muddy thoroughfares — women would wear the mud caked to their long dresses throughout the day's ceremonies. Walt Whitman saw Lincoln's carriage dash through the rain "on sharp trot" from the White House to the Capitol, scene of the swearing-in. He thought Lincoln might have preceded the tacky parade in order to avoid association with a muslin Temple of Liberty or a pasteboard model of the ironclad Monitor. Though Whitman was a close observer of the President, and would shadow him throughout this day, there was no way for Lincoln to recognize him in the crowd.
It was otherwise with Frederick Douglass. After the parade had arrived at the Capitol's east portico and the presidential company had come out, Lincoln recognized the civil-rights leader from Douglass's earlier visits to the White House. He pointed him out to Andrew Johnson, who had just been sworn in as Vice President in the Senate chamber. Douglass thought Johnson looked drunk, but did not know what a fool the Tennessean had made of himself after taking the oath. After Johnson had given a rambling and slurred speech attacking privilege, he melodramatically waved the Bible in the air and passionately kissed it. Benjamin Butler, of Massachusetts, who later led the impeachment effort against Johnson, said in a public speech that the Vice President "slobbered the Holy Book with a drunken kiss." Lincoln, who studiously avoided looking up during Johnson's odd performance in the Senate, quietly told the parade marshal, "Do not let Johnson speak outside." Perhaps Lincoln was trying to be compensatorily reassuring when he made conversation with Johnson by pointing out Douglass. But Johnson's disoriented sullenness came out as pure hate when this former slave owner looked at the escaped slave who was now a celebrity. Douglass recorded the instant.
The first expression which came to his face, and which I think was the true index of his heart, was one of bitter contempt and aversion. Seeing that I observed him, he tried to assume a more friendly appearance, but it was too late; it is useless to close the door when all within has been seen.
Much of future tragedy could be glimpsed in that silent exchange of glances — and much of the problem Lincoln faced in framing a speech for this occasion. Johnson, who had served as governor of the border state of Tennessee, was just one of the many compromises Lincoln had been forced to make in his attempt to shorten the war and make reintegration of the nation possible. It is easy for us to think of reconstructing the nation as a task that came after the war. But Lincoln faced problems of reconstruction soon after the war began. He had to govern sectors recaptured from the South, to keep border states from joining the rebellion, and to woo wavering parts of the southern coalition. All this involved the use of carrots as well as sticks — promises of amnesty, discussion of gradual emancipation, bargaining over things like black suffrage. These in turn alienated the radical Republicans, who wanted no compromise on the question of slavery or black civil rights.
This was a fight that could not be delayed until the war was over, and it flared up most bitterly after the occupation of New Orleans, in May of 1862. Lincoln hoped to make Louisiana, with its high percentage of educated freemen, a showcase of the way the South could be reunited with the North on the basis of a free black work force. But when congressmen were elected by Louisiana's provisional government, which seemed too conservative to Congress, they were not initially seated, and Congress continued with its own plan of reconstruction, entertaining such notions as that southern state lines should be erased and the conquered area territorialized. Lincoln feared that such congressional initiatives would reduce his flexibility in trying to bargain with the South. He placated the radicals with his Emancipation Proclamations (provisional on September 22, 1862, final on January 1, 1863) enough to be able to make his Proclamation of Amnesty and Reconstruction on December 8, 1863. It readmitted any state that could form a government of at least 10 percent of the electorate which was willing to take an oath of allegiance to the Union and to accept the Emancipation Proclamation. Lincoln's proposal failed to affect the nettlesome problems in Louisiana (the Emancipation Proclamation did not apply to those parts of Louisiana that were not formally out of the Union when it was issued). In December of 1864 Lincoln was still protesting to critics that his approach to Louisiana was merely a temporary expedient for putting the state back in operation, and that " we can never finish this, if we never begin it."
People were laboring through all these controversies as they labored through the mud to Lincoln's inaugural ceremony. The end of the war was in sight — Lee would surrender at Appomattox a mere five weeks after the inauguration. But what would be done with that victory? Lincoln's appeal for latitude in the use of executive power, on the grounds that it was needed for waging the war, would lose all force when the guns fell silent. What new authority would he argue for to reach new goals? This was as thorny a situation, in its own way, as that which Lincoln had addressed in his lengthy First Inaugural. Then he had had to explain what terms he would accept for maintaining peace (including a promise to leave slavery perpetually undisturbed where it already existed) and what terms he would not accept (secession). That was a legal argument, involving constitutional philosophy, with many fine distinctions to be sharply drawn. If anything, the legal problems were even more complex in 1865. Would the Confederacy be a conquered nation? Or would it be a continuing part of America, in which some had committed crimes and others were innocent? How could the guilty be distinguished from the innocent, for assigning proper punishments or rewards? On what timetable? Under whose supervision? Using what instruments of discipline or reform (trials, oaths of allegiance, perpetual disqualification for office)? And what of the former slaves? Were they to be allowed suffrage, indemnified for losses, given lands forfeited by the rebels, guaranteed work and workers' rights? The problems were endless, and the very norms for discussing them were still to be agreed on. Lincoln had his work cut out for him, and his audience could reasonably expect a serious engagement with matters that were haunting everyone on the eve of victory.
ONLY against the backdrop of such concerns can we appreciate the daring, almost the effrontery, of the Second Inaugural's most obvious characteristic — its extreme brevity. It is true that the Gettysburg Address is even briefer (272 words to the Inaugural's 703), but that was given at a ceremonial occasion for which Lincoln was not even the principal speaker. No one expected serious discussion of national imperatives when the business of the day was honoring fallen soldiers. It is a different matter when a presidential address is given during a war that is collapsing into a potentially more divisive peace. Yet Lincoln almost breezily dismissed questions of both war and peace, saying that nothing in either called for lengthy treatment. Was he not able to appreciate the scale of the difficulties facing him? Did he think he could reduce them to manageable size by ignoring or belittling them?
That this bold defiance of expectation was deliberate is clear from the pride Lincoln took in this speech. Some have wondered if he realized what a masterpiece he had created at Gettysburg. He clearly knew that he had done well; but he expected to do even better in the years ahead — years he would not be given. He believed he had already equaled or surpassed the Gettysburg Address at least once — in his Second Inaugural. Eleven days after delivering it he wrote to Thurlow Weed, the Republican organizer in New York, that he expected it to "wear as well as — perhaps better than — any thing I have produced."
Yet if this later speech was better than the earlier one, that was because it built on the earlier one. At Gettysburg, Lincoln had proved to himself and others the virtues of economy in the use of words. He had put many-layered meaning in lapidary form. He aspired to the same thing in his inaugural speech. This is the more surprising when we consider the full-blown nature of most nineteenth-century oratory, and the fact that Presidents had so few opportunities for making speeches at that time. They did not deliver their annual messages to Congress in person. They did not address the conventions that nominated them. They could address groups that came to visit them in Washington, but Lincoln tried to avoid impromptu statements. All the words of a man in his position had to be well considered. He had denied himself the chance to make campaign speeches in both his presidential races, for fear of saying something divisive. All this must have been frustrating to Lincoln, who knew well the power of his oratory — what it had accomplished in the "House Divided" speech and the Douglas debates of 1858, and the Cooper Union speech in 1860, and at Gettysburg in 1863. The temptation must have been strong to load his inaugural address with everything he had been wanting to say. Here, at last, was his opportunity, too good to be wasted, and at just the moment when major issues were being hotly debated and an intervention by the President was desired.
The first thing to admire, then, is the discipline that kept him from saying anything more than what he considered essential, just as at Gettysburg. The earlier speech was a model for more than its brevity. He used the same rhetorical ploy to begin the two addresses. At Gettysburg he would not dedicate the battlefield, though he admitted that that was "altogether fitting and proper." In the Second Inaugural he would not make an extended speech, though he conceded that doing so had been "fitting and proper" at his first inauguration. (The phrase "fitting and proper," occurring in these two short addresses, thus ends up being repeated in the inscriptions on the Lincoln Memorial.) Familiarity with both speeches has made us appreciate too little how unexpected this approach was at the time.
We most easily read Lincoln's refusal to dedicate the battlefield as acting like a praeteritio in rhetoric: "I will not mention ... " But it has been mentioned in the very statement that refuses mention, and that device draws more attention, after all, to the "unmentioned" thing. So we expect Lincoln to say that he will not dedicate in some sense or other, leaving the impression of dedication at a deeper level. But Lincoln was not doing anything so tame. He did not distinguish different kinds of dedication. He turned the whole subject upside down: We cannot dedicate the field. The field must dedicate us.
THE defiance of expectation is not so obvious in the Second Inaugural, but it is clearly there, and is carefully stated in order to exclude things that people wanted Lincoln to say. He said that he would not speak at length, as he did in the First Inaugural (when he was "loth to close"), when there were important things to discuss. Now, in contrast (and this had to be a shocker to some people), there was nothing useful to say about the war. It took its course, and he did not even pretend to be steering it anymore, much less to predict the time of its conclusion.
The progress of our arms, upon which all else chiefly depends, is as well known to the public as to myself; and it is, I trust, reasonably satisfactory and encouraging to all. With high hope for the future, no prediction in regard to it is ventured.
That impersonal last sentence, with its dangling prepositional phrase, reflects the nonassertiveness that Lincoln wanted to recommend at this point. To show that predictions were worthless, he pointed out how little the war's development had been, or could have been, predicted.
Neither party expected for the war, the magnitude, or the duration, which it has already attained. Neither anticipated that the cause of the conflict might cease with, or even before, the conflict itself should cease. Each looked for an easier triumph, and a result less fundamental and astounding.
With the end in sight, Lincoln did not voice the expectable, even forgivable, emotion that most leaders would in such a situation — a declaration that the rightful cause had triumphed, as it must. "The prayers of both [sides] could not be answered; that of neither has been answered fully. The Almighty has His own purposes." To Lincoln, as he looked back, even his First Inaugural seemed to have been an exercise in futility.
On the occasion corresponding to this four years ago, all thoughts were anxiously directed to an impending civil-war. All dreaded it — all sought to avert it. While the inaugeral [sic] address was being delivered from this place, devoted altogether to saving the Union without war, insurgent agents were in the city seeking to destroy it without war — seeking to dissolve the Union, and divide effects, by negotiation. Both parties deprecated war; but one of them would make war rather than let the nation survive; and the other would accept war rather than let it perish. And the war came.
Events were beyond anyone's control. War came of itself, the personified process overriding personal agents.
What was going on here? His audience had a right to think Lincoln disingenuous when he said there were no thorny policy problems to be addressed now, as there had been in the First Inaugural. His words sound almost eerily "above it all." As the historian David Donald says, "It was a remarkably impersonal address. After the opening paragraph, Lincoln did not use the first-person-singular pronoun, nor did he refer to anything he had said or done during the previous four years." Lincoln was hardly the one to say that no great issues were resolved by the war, or that high ideals should not be used for guidance in the waging of peace. His Gettysburg Address had been sweeping in its claims — that the war would demonstrate whether all men are created equal, and would determine whether popular government could long endure. Now he was expressing an agnosticism about human purpose in general, and a submission to inscrutable providence. This resigned mood seems inappropriate for bracing people to the task of rebuilding a nation — a nation bloodily wrenched from all normal politics and facing problems without precedent.
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Sunday's matchup between the San Francisco 49ers and the Arizona Cardinals will mean plenty to Jim Harbaugh and Co.
Following last season's run to the NFC Championship Game, the San Francisco 49ers looked poised to make another deep run in the postseason.
Yet postseason aspirations have been put on hold following a 42-13 loss at the hands of the Seattle Seahawks Sunday night -- a loss that has put the NFC West division up for grabs heading into Week 17.
Regardless of how Week 17 turns out, San Francisco is headed to the playoffs. But with a win over the Cardinals Sunday or a Seahawks' loss to the Rams, they will secure the division crown for the second consecutive season. The 49ers would prefer to do so with a win, however, because a potential first round bye is still up for grabs, as well.
Alex Smith torched the Cardinals (18-of-19 for 232 yards and three touchdowns) back in Week 8, but the Redbirds won't be seeing him come Sunday. Second-year quarterback Colin Kaepernick will be making his seventh career start since replacing Smith in Week 11.
For the Cardinals, the game represents nothing more than the conclusion of a long, painful season.
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� Could we see Alex on Sunday? (CSN Bay Area)
Does Jim Harbaugh leave Colin Kaepernick in to get more experience and risk injury in what at that point is garbage time against a frustrated opponent? Does he bring in Alex Smith to get some reps in case Colin gets hurt in the playoffs? What if defense and special teams have set up most of the scoring and Colin looks inconsistent? Any chance in garbage time he plays Scott Tolzien to avoid any Alex questions or issues? (I doubt that).
� Manningham out: Assessing 49ers' targets (ESPN.com)
The season-ending knee injury Manningham suffered against Seattle on Sunday night will cost the 49ers their most targeted wide receiver other than Michael Crabtree.
A potential Pro Football Hall of Famer seeking his first Super Bowl ring, Moss certainly carries more clout than Brett Swain and Joe Hastings, the two receivers who lined up with Crabtree in the 2011 regular-season finale at St. Louis.
Tuesday, December 25
� 49ers must get Davis involved (CSN Bay Area)
If the short-handed 49ers are to make another deep postseason, they will need to involve tight end Vernon Davis in their offensive plans more.
� Report: Manningham done for the season (CSN Bay Area)
Wide receiver Mario Manningham suffered an ACL injury in San Francisco's loss to Seattle Sunday and will miss the remainder of the 2012 season, including the playoffs.
� Harbaugh has few words for loss (SF Gate)
A day after enduring his most lopsided loss as a head coach since 2007, Jim Harbaugh was in no mood to rehash Sunday's 42-13 whipping in Seattle.
� Harbaugh has history of getting teams to �reorganize, refit and regroup' (SF Gate)
If there was a theme to Harbaugh's brief media session Monday it was that his team has to "reorganize, refit and regroup," a phrase he trotted out more than once.
Monday, December 24
� Matt and Mindi: First round bye needed for 49ers (CSN Bay Area)
The 49ers need a win Sunday and a loss by the Green Bay Packers to secure a first round bye. After losing two of their last four, that bye could be pivotal for a team that could use some rest.
� Purdy: 49ers' whole season changed by ugly loss to Seahawks (Sacramento Bee)
Sunday's 42-13 loss to the Seattle Seahawks didn't just leave the NFC West division up for grabs, it changed the whole tone and complexion of the 49ers' season.
� 49ers get Seahawks' message loud and clear in 42-13 defeat (San Francisco Chronicle)
The message was loud in clear in the Seahawks' 42-13 pounding of the 49ers Sunday night: If San Francisco doesn't get back to playing physical football, they won't last long in January.
� Cohn:Loss dents myth of Harbaugh as great coach(Press Democrat)
Jim Harbaugh is on the verge of leading the 49ers to their second division title in as many years, yet Sunday's loss may have exposed several of the coach's flaws.
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The marketing director of a new minor-league baseball team must design, conduct, and then interpret survey research to determine optimal ticket pricing that will yield large attendance figures and contribute to the owner's goal of breaking even in the first year of play. The pricing assignment becomes more challenging when other variables like concessions revenue are considered. Students are asked to complete a quantitative assignment as part of case analysis, but they must grapple with less quantifiable factors as well.
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Char-%gosta 9{ews netos publication of the J Sa&sh ami'Xpotetiai Tribes ***"VsvN>_^ <-Ì the 'Jfot head Indian %esavation Transportation to Dec. 18 hearing in Helena to be provided If you're interested in observing the justice system as it deals with a lawsuit that's been called an "attack on Indian self-government", you should go to Helena this Thursday. Because driving to the hearing site at the state capitol is a several-hour endeavor, made tougher by winter road conditions, a 54-passenger bus has been chartered so interested Tribal members can attend the important event. In order to arrive by the proceeding's 9:30 am. start, the bus will be leaving the cultural center in Elmo at 5 am It will pick up passengers at the Pablo Complex around 530 am.; at the Longhouse in St Ignatius at 6 am.; and at the Salish Indian senior citizens' center in Arlee at 630 am. Seating will be available on a first- come, first-served basis. Lunch will be provided, and possibly dinner as well, depending on how long the hearing lasts. People are asked to call Greg DuMontier at 675-2700 (ext. 420) so he can get an idea of how many will be taking the bus. (Concludes on page four) Tribes on water rights conference agenda S is ài Tribal Chairman Ron Therriault will be participating in two panel discussions at a two-day Indian water rights conference next week in Spokane, Wash. He'll be part of an afternoon panel Dec. 17 that will handle the subject of "Tribal Co-management of Irrigation Projects". Earlier that same day, he'll join Tribal biologist Ginger Thomas for a discussion about "In-stream flows for fish: What Tribal policy-makers need to know about experts and in-stream flow quantification methodologies". Tribal member Jim Normandeau, who works for the Bonneville Power Administration, is also scheduled to speak. The conference, "Fulfilling Indian Water Rights: Practical Approaches", is set for Dec. 16 and 17 at the Sheraton Hotel in Spokane. It's being sponsored by the Columbia River Inter-Tribal Fish Commission of the Yakima, Nez Perce, Warm Springs and Umatilla tribes. a Forest-management plan to be topic at quarterly A ten-year management plan drafted by BIA's Forestry Branch is scheduled to be discussed at the upcoming January 1987 quarterly Council meeting. Forester Vic Dupuis advises that it will be about the last chance people will have to contribute comments to the plan. Discussion should begin around 10 am., he said. The quarterly is set for 9 am. on Friday, Jan 2,1987, in the Council's chambers at Tribal headquarters in Pablo.
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Title | 1986-12-12 Char-Koosta News |
Creator | Confederated Salish and Kootenai Tribes of the Flathead Reservation. |
Subject | Salish Indians --Newspapers.; Kutenai Indians --Newspapers.; Pablo (Montana) --Newspapers.; Kootenai Indians |
Description | Transportation to Dec. 18 hearing in Helena to be provided; Tribes on water rights conference agenda; Forest-management plan to be topic at quarterly; New Tribal Education committee convenes; Loughouse priority list. |
Publisher | Confederated Salish and Kootenai Tribes of the Flathead Indian Nation |
Date Original | 1986-12-12 |
Date Digital | 2007-07-11 |
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Rights Management | Copyright (c) Salish and Kootenai Federated Tribes, all rights reserved. |
Contributing Institution | Salish Kootenai College |
Contributor | D'Arcy McNickle Library |
Source | CSKT PN 4883.J6 C4 |
Language | en |
Relation | Vol. 15; No. 18 |
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ya know what? i am now into season two of homeland i have to agree. at first i was all..this is so intriguing..i want to see where it goes..but by the 3rd episode i was like this fucking damian lewis might be the ugliest, worst actor on the face of the earth. mike barely can watch. he keeps mumbling..."there's NO WAY that guy would be married to THAT HOT ASS WOMAN!"
and something happened to claire along the way too..
overact much??!! if i have to see her chin quiver one more time i am going to cut out my eyes.
i WILL say that i appreciate the story line...in that....it's stupidity to think that all muslims are terrorists. and that no wonder WE are viewed as the terrorists over there.
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You are too funny with Homeland. I just started watching it a couple of weeks ago and I like it, but I so don't buy them as falling in love and I can't stand looking at Brody. - December 12, 2012 at 11:50 AM
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My husband says the same thing about Homeland. He rolls his eyes when I'm watching it. I have to admit, they are dragging out the story line...seems like the same thing each week and it's getting old!
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Homeland is amazing...so is SNL's spoof of Clare Danes in her entirety and Brody's mouth...but god do I love that show...I love the Bachelor to so really I'm easy to please.
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Nathalie Djurberg & Hans Berg, Maybe This is A Dream
Kölnischer Kunstverein, 9 April – 1 June 2014
Swedish artist-and-composer duo Nathalie Djurberg and Hans Berg have achieved art-world prominence with their haunting Claymation videos. They explore the complexities of the human condition, while generally leaning towards the darker elements that inhabit it. Sinister tales of suffering, taboo-breaking explorations of sexual desires and, more often than not, graphic portrayals of violence make up the core of the works' storylines. Rendered in Djuerberg's signature style of magnificently handcrafted sets and characters, and accompanied by Berg's enchanting musical scores, the titillating videos are tempting to the eye, and allure just as much as they disturb (or rather allure because they disturb?) while, formally speaking, they adopt the semblance of children's animation.
The show at Cologne's Kunstverein presents a host of recent video works in the space's large screening-room. This from of presentation differs from the videos' usual projections in which each work is shown separately in a black box or as part of an installation. Somewhat less enveloping but poignant nevertheless, the cumulative effect of sitting through several video works in the cinema-like setting is in itself a confrontation with one's own boundaries, inciting a range of feelings, from pleasure to antagonism.
The adjacent exhibition space is dedicated to one immersive installation, The Black Pot (2013). An abstract film containing no characters, plot or gore, this work is a mesmeric meditation on ontogenesis – the transformation of an organism from egg to mature form. Berg's hypnotic music correlates to the organic dance of round forms on the large screen, as if both inspiring their movement as well as responding to its spawns. The darkened space is filled with large sculptural elements, shaped like colorful giant eggs or oversized doughnuts with rainbow glaze. In this bubbling pot of mystic biology, anything could hatch from these eggs.
Keren Cytter, Siren
Galerie Nagel Draxler, April 9 – 30 2014
The show includes two works by Israeli-born, New York-based artist Keren Cytter, winner of the 2009 Absolut Art Award: The new video Siren, which premiered earlier this year at the 10th Marrakech Biennale, and the piece Les Ruissellements du Diable from 2008, which constituted an important stage in the artist's growing oeuvre. Cytter often opts for simple, not to say raw, technical means in her short films but rather than seeming driven by aesthetic motivations, the films appear all the more captivating with their pointed disregard to the more "sophisticated" possibilities of cinematic image making.
In Siren, Cytter takes this central characteristic of her practice even further. She explores "poor images" mass produced by smartphones and edited on widely available computer programs. A female protagonist instigates a murder, convincing a male character to do it in the name of all women and for the sake of the battle of the sexes. At the time of the murder, the male victim is engaged in a sex-chat on his computer, and so the murderer later accuses the female protagonist of having plotted the murder because of her unrequited love to the victim. Finally, he stabs her, too. The scenes are repeated cyclically in the film with slight variations in context and quality: We see the plotters editing their own murder footage to embellish it with digital special effects such as a cute rain of flowers, or synching a soundtrack of songs with "siren" in their titles culled from Soundcloud.
The ambiguity of narrative voice, but also of the characters' motivations, corresponds well with the earlier work Les Ruissellements du Diable (literally "The whisper of the devil") where nothing is what it seems. It's a multi-layered, multi-referential work, where the male and female narrators blend into one another, film credits appear in the middle, and every monologue is mediated.
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