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Leaves of Grass was first published in 1855 and contained only twelve poems. Whitman continued to add to and revise his collection over the next 30 years. Over the years, Whitman published a number of volumes of Leaves of Grass as he wrote more poems and increased the collection. He explores many issues and themes in his work, and it is impossible to breifly summarize the entire work here.
These eNotes attempt to describe and analyze many of Whitman's major poems. The entire "deathbed" edition of Whitman's work contains over 400 poems. While it is not possible to discuss every poem, a fair sampling is offered here. The oganization of this MaxNotes follows the sections of the Norton edition of Leaves of Grass. Poems from each section are included for analysis and discussion.
Estimated Reading Time
The Norton Critical Edition of Leaves of Grass is 707 pages long and includes the entire "deathbed" collection of almost 400 poems along with an assortment of uncollected poems and manuscript fragments. Much of the language is dated, and Whitman uses some unusual and unique images, words, sentences, and even spelling throughout the text. It may be difficult for readers to fully comprehend the entire collection, a section, or even one poem during a first reading.
The average reader might want to divide his or her reading time into many sessions of two to three hours, focusing on a few poems in each section during each session. It should be noted here that Whitman spent over 30 years writing and revising Leaves of Grass. The reader should plan to spend a considerable amount of time with each poem and/or section of the book.
Summary (Masterplots II: Christian Literature)
Brought up in a family with Deistic and Quaker leanings, the second oldest of eight children, Walt Whitman never belonged to a church but attended Sunday school at times and was surrounded by the religious and political foment of antebellum America at home and during an apprenticeship in the publishing trade. A journalist, editor, and publisher in early adulthood, he blended the styles of journalism and the King James Bible to develop a long-lined free verse that coheres as biblical poetry does: with rhythmic phrasing and repetitive syntactic strategies (such as anaphora).
Whitman envisioned his book as a new bible for the United States, one that would give the people a sustaining literature of religious love, ecstasy, faith, and common values that would define, guide, and elevate a national people to greatness. The aim to write a new bible for the United States, "the new Israel," was common in the antebellum decades; however, it was Whitman's book that achieved the range and rhythms of American voices and ideals in powerful and unique poetry that viewed the whole of individual and national life as spiritual.
Although a lyrical expression of the self's experience, Leaves of Grass as a whole strives to function as an epic. In an essay, "The Bible as Poetry," Whitman located the Bible as the center of his own art for its "naturally religious poetry" that, without artificiality, celebrated a people's greatness and contained the...
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Summary (Masterplots, Fourth Edition)
"America" is the first word of Walt Whitman's 1855 preface to Leaves of Grass, but this most American of poetic achievements is also the most universal. "The United States themselves are essentially the greatest poem," Whitman says, a belief that informs Leaves of Grass and led Whitman to redefine "poem" in such a way as to change forever the face of poetry.
Whitman paid for the publication of the first version of Leaves of Grass and even set some of the type himself. It is a slim volume, containing a preface and twelve poems, each several pages in length, sprawling across the pages, and looking quite unlike the neatly rhymed and metered poems then popular with readers. Whitman revised and expanded the book six times and reprinted it twice more. The final and most complete version of Leaves of Grass, published while Whitman was near death (1891-1892), includes hundreds of pages and dozens of poems. Through its various versions, Leaves of Grass always remained a unified whole, and several themes and stylistic innovations remain constant.
Whitman believed that his lyrical epic poem about a new land required a new voice. Leaves of Grass represents a major innovation in poetic form. It is the first great nineteenth century work in English in what has come to be called free verse, poetry without obvious rhyme or meter. Whitman draws on other poets' experiments with unrhymed,...
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Summary and Analysis
Inscriptions: Summary and Analysis
One's-Self I Sing - Summary
Inscriptions begins with the poem One's-Self I Sing, a celebration of "The Modern Man." Whitman begins by declaring: "One's-Self I sing, a simple separate person,/Yet utter the word Democratic, the word En-Masse." He continues his salute to both men and women ("the female equally with the male I sing"), and he describes human life as "immense in passion, pulse, and power."
In Cabin'd Ships at Sea - Summary
Whitman depicts a sailing ship at sea ("joyous full of faith, spreading white sails"), and then goes on to compare his book of poems to a ship, calling it "a lone bark cleaving the ether …," and his readers mariners on a journey. The poet then urges his book to fulfill its destiny to carry its message around the world "o'er the boundless blue from me to every/sea …" Whitman dedicates this poem or "song" to his readers or "mariners and all their ships" and declares his love for them: "dear mariners, for you I fold it here in every leaf."
To Foreign Lands - Summary
In this brief poem, Whitman declares his intention to use his poetry to describe and define America to the people of other countries:
I heard that you asked for something to prove this puzzle the New World,
And to define America, her athletic Democracy,
Therefore, I send you my poems that you behold in them...
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Song of Myself: Summary and Analysis
One of the major poems of the collection, Song of Myself, is divided into 52 separate sections and is comprised of 1,346 lines. In Song of Myself, Whitman pays tribute to himself and his readers ("I celebrate myself and sing myself…") as he depicts the physical, emotional, and spiritual world around him. The poem begins with Whitman describing himself as he "loafes" or relaxes contentedly, "observing a spear of summer grass." The poet delights in his environment, fully appreciating the sights, sounds, and smells that surround him. He tells his readers that in spite of the difficulties and distress human beings experience, the world and all life is, and always will be, perfect. Hard times are always temporary, the poet says, and "they are not me myself." Whitman goes on to urge his readers to "loafe with me on the grass" so that they might fully appreciate their own lives and the world around them.
In the next major section of the poem, Whitman describes a colorful array of people—from happy children and young lovers to wagon drivers, blacksmiths, escaped slaves, and desperate, lonely adults—with equal appreciation and passion. He goes on to portray hunters, deacons, machinists, drunkards, reporters, dancers, parents, prostitutes, pedlars, the President, brides, and "opium-eaters." Whitman then asserts that he is as much a part of all people as they are of him. Even his thoughts, he claims,...
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Children of Adam: Summary and Analysis
To the Garden the World - Summary
In many ways, the few lines of this first poem belonging to Children of Adam establish the many themes Whitman writes about throughout the whole of the cluster: the paradise of Adam and Eve in the Garden of Eden, the meaningfulness of procreation, an admiration for the human body—male and female, and a celebration of physical love between men and women.
The opening line, "To the garden the world anew ascending," immediately presents Whitman's vision of rebirth. This is a return to the Garden of Eden to experience "anew" all its passionate innocence and abundant splendor, as well as its revelry in the paradise of self fulfilling physical love between men and women. The poem establishes Adam as its (and the cluster's) central figure, a man reawakened to the beauty of the people surrounding him—"potent mates, daughters, sons." He is at once in awe of others' bodies ("all beautiful to me, all wondrous") and intensely aware of his own ("My limbs and the quivering fire that ever plays through them").
The depiction of physical desire briefly introduced here is explored in full in the poems that follow. Whitman does not return to Adam specifically until the last poem from the cluster but leaves him, for the moment, in an image suffused with contentment, both with himself and with his mate: "Content with the present, content with the past, / By my side or back of me Eve...
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Calamus: Summary and Analysis
In Paths Untrodden - Summary
The opening poem of the Calamus cluster in Leaves of Grass establishes what the collection will be about: affection between men. Whitman plainly declares that he is "Resolv'd to sing no songs to day but those of manly attachment." Indeed, he identifies his specific subject matter as "all who are or have been young men," and he intends to "celebrate the need of comrades." The poem also establishes the difficulty of choosing such a subject; in order to do so, Whitman must find himself "Escaped from the life that exhibits itself, / From all stands hitherto publish'd." He needs to think in a new and different way and find "standards not yet publish'd." He needs to remove himself "from the clank of the world" to such an extent that he is alone "in this secluded spot," the only place where he can "dare" to write truthfully and openly about "manly attachment" or "athletic love."
Whoever You Are Holding Me Now in Hand - Summary
As is characteristic of Whitman, he pulls his reader into the experience of this poem right in the beginning by addressing it to "you," the reader. The reader "holds" Leaves of Grass —and, by extension, Whitman—"in hand" as he/she reads the poems. This poem is patterned "against the fickle nature of human emotions, the 'ups and downs' of love between people" in a relationship. Whitman presents a...
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Birds of Passage and Sea-Drift: Summary and Analysis
Pioneers! O Pioneers! - Summary
The poet describes and pays tribute to the American pioneers who bravely set out to discover and settle new lands in America's western frontier. Whitman says he too is a part of this "resistless restless race" who through "the battle" and even in "defeat" continues its relentless journey of discovery. The pioneers have chosen to abandon the comfort and safety of their homes and endure dangers and hardship in their quest for adventure and a better life.
We primeval forests felling,
We the rivers stemming, vexing we and piercing deep the mines within,
We the surface broad surveying, we the virgin soil upheaving,
Pioneers! O pioneers!
Year of Meteors- Summary
The poet recounts some of the significant events that occurred during the year 1859–1860.
Year of meteors! brooding year!
I would bind in words retrospective some of your deeds and signs.
It was a year when "comets and meteors transient and strange" appeared in the sky, but it was also a year of great political and social upheaval in the United States. Eighteen sixty was the presidential election year when Lincoln and Douglas held their famous debates. Other significant events of the time included the abolitionist John Brown being hung for treason on December 2, 1859 in Virginia; ships of...
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By the Roadside: Summary and Analysis
When I Heard the Learn'd Astronomer - Summary
The poet attends a lecture, where an astronomer is impressing the audience with his intelligence and the evidence he has gathered to support his claims, his findings: the "proofs," "figures," and "columns" of facts; the "charts and diagrams, to add, divide, and measure." The astronomer is met with "much applause," but the poet finds himself unimpressed with the science he has just been taught. He seems baffled, to an extent, by his reaction: "How soon unaccountable I became tired and sick." It is as if his mind tells him that he should be impressed with the astronomer's lecture, but his heart tells him that the glory of nature itself is impressive, not the facts of science. He prefers the quiet of the outdoors at night to the astronomer's lecture and the noise of the "lecture-room" filled with applause. In that silence, he gains a greater appreciation of the stars and finds himself in awe of "the mystical moist night air."
O Me! O Life! - Summary
Whitman contemplates his purpose in life, the reason for his existence, particularly when he admits that he is not so very different from the others around him, "the endless trains of the faithless." In the face of "struggle," vanity, "the plodding and sordid crowds," and "the empty and useless years," the poet asks: What good is my life "amid these"? An answer comes to him that is...
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Drum-Taps: Summary and Analysis
First O Songs for a Prelude - Summary
Whitman begins this section, which is devoted to the Civil War, with a rousing portrayal of New York City and the Union preparing for war. The poet describes regiments of soldiers marching through Manhattan as exuberant crowds line the streets, cheering on their heroes. Men from all occupations rush to volunteer while women sign up to serve as nurses.
To the drum-taps prompt,
The young men falling in and arming,
The mechanics arming, (the trowel, the jack-plane, the black-smith's hammer, tost aside with precipitation,)
The lawyer leaving his office and arming, the judge leaving the court
The driver deserting his wagon in the street, jumping down, throwing the reins abruptly down on the horses' backs,
The salesman leaving the store, the boss, book-keeper, porter, all leaving…
The onlookers and the new recruits have yet to experience the horrors of war, and there is nothing but "unpent enthusiasm" as artillery and cannons "bright as gold" move along the crowded streets. War fever has gripped the city and the Union, and Whitman sums up the nation's mood:
War! an arm'd race is advancing! the welcome for battle, no turning away;
War! be it weeks, months, or years, an arm'd race is advancing to welcome it.
Eighteen Sixty-One - Summary
Whitman compares this...
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Memories of President Lincoln: Summary and Analysis
When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom'd - Summary
The first poem of the Memories of President Lincoln grouping is its best known. As an elegy, it commemorates the death of President Lincoln by assassination on April 14, 1865, though it never mentions the president directly. Whitman begins the poem by painting a picture of spring and fading flowers, which mark the event of the death of the president. In the same way that spring will return and the lilacs will bloom again, so will the president remain in Whitman's thoughts. Caught in a moment of deep grief over the loss "of him I love," Whitman feels "helpless" at the "cruel hands that hold [him] powerless" in the face of death,
In the third and fourth sections of the poem, Whitman introduces two of its key symbols. The lilacs, a perennial flower of spring, contain in "every leaf a miracle," and Whitman breaks off a "sprig with its flower" to keep with him. The thrush, a "shy and hidden bird," sings a song "of the bleeding throat, / Death's outlet song of life." Its song about death keeps the bird alive.
The next few sections follow the course of a coffin passing "through lanes and streets" and "[t]hrough night and day." Whitman is describing his impressions of the processions he witnessed or imagined when President Lincoln's body was carried through more than a dozen American cities. He is affected by the gatherings that witness...
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Autumn Rivulets: Summary and Analysis
There Was a Child Went Forth - Summary
The subject of Whitman's poem is a child growing up. Everything that touches the child's life is in some way absorbed or remembered by the child: any and all objects "became part of him for the day or a certain part of the day, / Or for many years or stretching cycles of years." Whitman then goes on to list the variety of objects that influence this child and become a part of his identity: flowers, plants, animals, trees, people, landscapes, parents, family traditions, city streets, automobiles, boats, ocean waves, the sky, and the air. Each object in its own way makes an impression upon the young child, who will carry these impressions and experiences with him "every day" that he "goes forth."
This Compost - Summary
In this poem, the poet wonders at the change that has overcome him, his changing attitude toward nature. He begins by declaring his uneasiness: "Something startles me where I thought I was safest, / I withdraw from the still woods I loved." Realizing that there are countless "distemper'd corpses" buried in the earth, the poet believes all the ground to be tainted. Though he cannot see where those dead bodies have been laid to rest, he is sure that if he ploughs the land, he will "expose some of the foul meat." Yet, he is intrigued that the earth, now a "compost" to him, does not "sicken" itself and reveal the signs of the corpses it...
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From Noon to Starry Night: Summary and Analysis
Thou Orb Aloft Full-Dazzling - Summary
In this poem, Whitman conveys his impressions of the sun, as he celebrates the "full dazzling" effects it has on him. He sees the sun shining its rays on land and on water, and he writes that he has "always loved" the "illustrious" sun from his youth to the present time. Whitman understands that the sun does not answer his worshipful declarations with words, but he feels that the sun communicates with him in its own way: "sudden breaks and shafts of flame gigantic, / I understand them, I know those flames, those perturbations well." After praising the sun for sending its "fructifying heat and light" to all lands and waters nationwide, Whitman asks that this orb "shed thyself on mine and me, with but a fleeting ray out of thy million millions." With just a few of its rays, the sun can "dazzle" the poet and prepare him, by casting "shadows," for the slow coming of the nighttime.
To a Locomotive in Winter - Summary
In this poem, Whitman focuses his attention on one specific object for his "recitative": a locomotive. In the same way that he lists the attributes of the sun (in Thou Orb Aloft Full-Dazzling) or of the work of many Americans (in I Hear America Singing), Whitman describes in full detail the functions of a locomotive "in the driving storm." He describes the "black cylindric body" from its "head light" to the "train of cars...
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Whispers of Heavenly Death and Songs of Parting: Summary and Analysis
Whispers of Heavenly Death - Summary
The poet begins the final clusters of Leaves of Grass with a series of reflective poems about death and dying. In this first poem, images of "unseen rivers," "currents flowing," and enormous clouds "swelling and mixing" remind the poet that death is a common, and inevitable, human experience. And while the end of life may be a sad event, there is nothing to fear. The clouds and the sky are "mystical," peaceful images that suggest the ubiquitous presence of death. When one gazes heavenward, one can be assured that "Some soul is passing over."
A Noiseless Patient Spider - Summary
In this brief poem, Whitman observes a spider spinning a delicate web:
It launch'd forth filament, filament, filament, out of itself,
Ever unreeling them, ever tirelessly speeding them.
He then compares his soul ("Surrounded, detached, in measureless oceans of space…") to the spider and the web. Just as the spider attaches its strands of web, his soul searches for a "bridge," or connection, to all things in the universe:
Till the bridge you will need be form'd, till the ductile anchor hold,
Till the gossamer thread you fling catch somewhere, O my soul.
To One Shortly to Die - Summary
Whitman speaks frankly but lovingly to a nameless friend...
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Individual Longer Poems: Summary and Analysis
Song of the Open Road - Summary
Whitman extends an invitation to the reader to travel with him, spiritually and literally, and he will lead by example. The opening lines of the poem celebrate both the options that lie before Whitman and the length and breadth of the continent: "The long brown path before me leading wherever I choose." Whitman finds all he needs ("The earth, that is sufficient") in these possibilities, as he begins to walk on the road. He imagines all who have traveled the same path before him, believing "that much is also unseen here." Not only is there the physical path of the road for the traveler to behold, but the road is full of the "unseen existences" or "spirits" of those who have passed before Whitman. He feels the presence of all these people.
The road speaks to Whitman, and he imagines that it makes several statements to him in order to keep him traveling. Whitman wonders if the road implores him not to leave it; he imagines the road advising him not to "venture" off its path. He hears the voice of the road declaring that it is "prepared" and "well-beaten," and thus ready for Whitman to "adhere" to his journey. Whitman then reassures the road that he will not abandon it, for he has the utmost respect for it: "You express me better than I can express myself, / You shall be more to me than my poem."
The road encourages Whitman to shed the "limits" he places on...
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Leaves of Grass Summary: Homework Help
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Abstract: The magnetic hysteresis properties for well-defined micron-sized magnetite samples produced by electron beam lithography (EBL) are presented. In addition to measuring standard hysteresis parameters, first-order reversal curve (FORC) diagrams are also reported. EBL produces samples that consist of particles with very tightly constrained size distributions, and spatial distributions that govern the degree of intergrain magnetostatic interactions are accurately controlled and known. Thus EBL samples are significantly better characterized compared to powdered samples, which are conventionally used to characterize the size dependency of magnetic hysteresis properties of naturally occurring magnetic minerals. Compared with the hysteresis properties of powdered samples of the same nominal sizes, EBL samples display more multidomain-like (MD) behavior. The influence of magnetostatic interactions fields on hysteresis properties is analyzed. When magnetostatic interactions are effectively in only one direction, the hysteresis properties become more single domain-like, and if the interactions are in more than one direction, hysteresis becomes more MD-like, in agreement with numerical models. URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10311/360 Files in this item: 1
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WEDNESDAY, Jan 31, 1883-10 a. m.The SPEAKER took the chair at 10 o'clock and called the House to order.
The session was opened with prayer by Representative Brazelton, of Jennings County.
On motion by Mr. JEWETT the general appropriation bill for 1883-4 and 1884-5, introduced yesterday from the Committee on Ways and Means, was read the second time and 150 copies ordered printed for the use of members of the General Assembly.
Mr. HEFFREN moved that the House resolve itself in to a Committee of the Whole on the state of the Commonwealth, for the further consideration of the status of the proposed Constitutional amendments, acted upon by the last General Assembly.
The motion was agreed to, and accordingly the House resolved itself into a Committee (Mr. Jewett in the Chair), the question being on concurrence in the Patten and Jewett minority report from the Judiciary Committee. [See pp. 79, 108, 113,116,118 of the Brevier report ]
Mr. BEST thought that in the further discussion of the question before the Committee, it would be almost impossible for any member to offer anything new. The ground had been fully covered. He entered into a lengthy argument citing page: 138[View Page 138] authorities and precedents to show that all the changes and amendments to our National and State Constitution have been declared unconstitutional by great Constitutional lawyers, but in the end they have had to confess that they were in the wrong, and were compelled to acquiesce in the voice of The people. Mr. Best cited as example the thirteenth, fourteenth and fifteenth amendments to the National Constitution were held to be unconstitutional by many great men and a great party, until notified by the people, and since that time they have been a part of the Constitution, and no one has questioned the fact The people have demanded that these amendments shall be submitted to them, and the Republican party has always been willing to allow the people to speak their voice on this question. No gentleman on this floor should allow his Judgment to be biased by any decision of the Supreme Court. The framers of the Constitution knew the meaning of the word "enter," and did not use it when they meant "spread at large."
Mr. HANSON thought that in the discussion of he question much time had been unnecessarily consumed in a vain effort to envelop the real issue before the House in a tissue of misleading statements calculated to draw the attention from the main question. This is not the first time in our brief history when a great party has attempted to stifle the voice of the people and prevent their will from crystallising into the organic law by the 'stop thief" cry of violating the Constitution. Has any one attempted to have any amendment inserted in the Constitution without the concurrence of the people at a popular election? I regard the provision that the amendments with the yeas and nays shall b^ entered on the Journals as mandatory. It means what it says. And I only insist that gentlemen on the opposite side who have insisted so strenuously upon a literal construction of the Constitution, shall he compelled to swallow the same medicine they hive prescribed for us. Believing, as I do, that both the letter and spirit of the Constitution have been complied with, and that these amendments are now properly before the General Assembly to be acted on as the Constitution requires, I deem it my highest duty as well as pleasure to cast my vote in such manner as to carry from these hails to the people, in whose voice and will reside the ultimate and exclusive right to create or change the fundamental law of our State, the amendment proposed by our last General Assembly to be finally passed upon by a popular vote.
On motion, the Committee arose and reported progress, and asked to sit again: at 2 o'clock. The report was concurred in by the House.
Then came a recess until 2 o'clock.
Mr. HEFFREN moved that the House now proceed with the business on the Speaker's table.
The motion was agreed to.
Senate Joint Resolution No. 1 was taken up, read the first time, and, on motion by Mr. Jewett, referred to the Committee on Education.
The bill [S. 1] for a reorganization of the Benevolent Institutions was taken up, read the first time and passed to the second reading.
On motion, the House resolved itself into Committee of the Whole [Mr. Jewett in the Chair] for the further consideration of the present status of the proposed Constitutional amendments.
Mr HOWLAND did sot desire to make any lengthy remarks on the question. He thought we have had entirely too much said already, and believed that not a vote would, be changed if this discussion was to be continued until the end of the session. He thought that the framers of the Constitution so constructed it and made it so plain that any one could understand its meaning; that the amendments must be entered on the journal in full with the yeas and nays thereon, there can be no doubt. Every member who voted for that Constitution voted for it with that understanding. He believed that it was so construed thirty years ago, and he so construed it now.
Mr. CAMPBELL had been sitting here as a Juror to decide a case which, in his opinion, should not have occupied the time of the House one hour. On the assembling of this House every member thereof was furnished a copy of the journal of the proceedings of the House of the last General Assembly. In that journal every man can find sufficient evidence to satisfy any reasonable man that the House of the last General Assembly received petitions from a respectable number of legal voters of the State, asking that certain amendments to the Constitution be passed upon by that body and submitted to the people; and we can find in that journal, in my mind, reasonable evidence that that House, in good faith, complied with the request of the people; that the amendments were properly passed by that Legislature, were signed by the presiding officers of the two Houses, and were filed in the office of the State Librarian and a certified copy of the same filed in the office of the Secretary of State, he did not believe any member on the floor doubts. In the fall of these facts it is surprising that any member of this House, who was a member of the last General Assembly, should oppose the proposition that those amendments are properly before this House. Mr Owen, in the Constitutional Convention,said, "We do not propose that the organic law shall be in the power, of the Legislature" What are we doing now but taking the organic law of the State in our hands? We were sent here with an understanding that those amendments were pending, and that we were to vote for or against them according to our own sentiment and the sentiment of the people who sent us here.
Mr. KNOWLES had always been in favor of short prayers and short services at funerals. He considered the amendments legally before the House for its action thereon.
Mr. HOLLER said: Were I capable of discussing this question from a legal standpoint, I should consider it useless to do so at this stage of the discussion. I desire that my position upon this important question shall be known. We are to-day discussing the legality of a question which, if it was adopted by the Senate and this House, would strike down one of the greatest evils existing in our Nation. Sir, as Representatives of the citizens of the great State of Indiana, I believe it is our duty to support every legal measure that, will have a tendency to elevate our fellow-man. For this reason I stand here to-day in favor of submitting these amendments to the people. I know that there are many Democrats in the County of St Joseph who are desirous that these amendments shall be submitted to the people.
Mr. PETERS said: The question before this Legislature for the last four days has been, are there any Constitutional amendments legally pending before this General Assembly for its action thereon? The Senate has already decided that there are no such amendments legally before us, and I think it decided wisely. I take it that the Constitution means what it says In the section providing for its own amendment. If the framers of the Constitution had thought that the entering of the title to amendment would be sufficient evidence to identify such amendment after two years had passed, they would have said so, or they would not have said that the amendments, with the yeas and nays thereon, shall be entered w the journal. We will admit for the sake of argument that the word "enter" is susceptible of a definition that would admit an amendment by its title, and will gentlemen who hold this view turn with me to page: 139[View Page 139] the journal and see whether or not this has been complied with? I take it that if this is the case amendments would go through the same course that bills or acts would go through. They would be read and numbered and placed on the journal in that manner, and they would be spoken of or referred to the Committee by that name and number. If they were amended in any way as to affect their title, they would be referred to and placed on the journal by their amended title. If gentlemen will examine the House journal they will find that House joint resolution No. 7 was amended by striking out certain words in tie title, and it, is afterward referred to under the old title so having passed the Senate. Now, gentlemen, is this the same resolution that passed the House in the first place?
Mr. THOMAS believed that certain amendments to the Constitution were proposed two years ago, and so far as he could see, those proposed amendments were now legally pending before this House for its action thereon. He thought that as they were acted upon by the last Legislature they necessarily came before this General Assembly for its occurrence or rejection. He believed that every man in the State understood that the said amendments have been pending for he last year, and he would vote to submit the amendments to the people.
Mr. FLEECE came here to represent the people of Hendricks County, a County in which there has not been a saloon for twenty years. He stood pledged to his people and to God to vote to submit these amendments. It is every one's duty to keep his pledges. No political party has a right to bind the conscience of any man on the question of the Constitutional amendments.
Mr. HENDERSON believed the proposed Constitutional amendments were honestly and fairly before this General Assembly. The people not only of this but of other States are anxiously awaiting to see what kind of medicine this General Assembly will administer and the result of the administration. So far powerful sedatives and poisonous doses have been given upon the one side in the way of technicalities and formalities, and upon the other side good and wholesome food mingled with the pure and sparkling waters that have a tendency to invigorate and make them strong; and to-day, though dead in the Senate, we find they still live in the House and have power, backed up by the people of the great State of Indiana in their sovereign capacity. If the very letter of the Constitution must be complied with, it would cut off almost any possible chance for an amendment to the Constitution; therefore a liberal construction must be had to carry out the spirit and intention of that instrument. If we do not give the people the rights guaranteed to them by that Constitution, we take an advanced step toward centralization and revolution, which, if not checkmated by the people, may result in the destruction of this, the grandest and most noble Republic of all the Nations of the world.
Mr. McMULLEN said: The discussion of the question before the Committee has taken a wide range. He was here to defend the Constitution as it is, which we must all do until it is changed. He liked the Constitution because it is the Democratic law of this great Commonwealth. Our government is a Democratic-Republic forms neither purely Democratic nor purely Republican; but the fundamental law of our State-the Constitution-has more Democracy in it than any other, being even endorsed by the direct, vote of the people.
In the Constitution, Article 16. we have the will of the people clearly and fully expressed. They have said in no uncertain language what their will is. They have said their will is, when the Constitution is to be amended you shall amend it thus and so, and by the report which we seek to have this Committee recommend to the House for adoption, we say the people will, must and shall be obeyed; that if their fundamental law is to be amended, it shall be amended as they direct though the heavens fall. When the people sent you here to represent them they sent you here to represent them under, by and according to the Constitution. They have said you shall amend the Constitution thus and so, and you say they did not mean that we will do it another way. In effect you say they did not mean what they said and do that to all in the name of the people. No tyrant ever oppressed his people but what he did it in the name of liberty. You talk long and loud and cry out for the rights of the people and at the same time are trampling under foot the will of the people expressed to you by the highest and most sacred way known to a free people, viz. by their written Constitutional law. He believed these amendments are not properly before this General Assembly, and therefore would vote against their submission.
Mr. HEFFREN moved that the Committee rise, report progress and ask leave to sit again next Tuesday at 10 o'clock.
The motion was agreed to, and-
The House concurred in the report of the Committee.
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Posted: Mon Feb 11th, 2008 07:51 pm |
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Rebel Yell Belle,Bourbon,Battlefields
I had a board game as a boy that, I think, was called "The American Heritage Civil War Game". The board was a map of the USA and the playing pieces were small, plastic infantry, cavalry and artillery figures. You rolled dice to determine your moves and the idea was to line up your forces to "jump" enemy pieces, thus eliminating them from the game. The game box had a picture of the battle of Lookout Mountain on it. Anybody familiar with this one??? |
Posted: Mon Feb 11th, 2008 07:52 pm |
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Rebel Yell Belle,Bourbon,Battlefields
Oh yeah, almost forgot...the first time I played it was against my mom. She beat the snark outta me! |
Posted: Tue Feb 12th, 2008 04:33 pm |
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David White Member
Yeah, I remember that one, was it Battle Cry? It wasn't as good as Broadside (War of 1812) or Dogfight (ww1) games in that American Heritage series but it was okay. The other game in the series was Hit the Beach (ww2) which I never saw or played. |
Posted: Tue Feb 12th, 2008 09:38 pm |
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Rebel Yell Belle,Bourbon,Battlefields
Yeah, I think that was the name. I also had Dogfight (Liked to be the German player). |
Posted: Tue Feb 12th, 2008 09:54 pm |
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David White Member
Actually during the Centennial there was a pretty good game from Parker Brothers called 1863 tht was much better than Battle Cry. A buddy of mine had it and we spent hours playing it. Relied more on your skill and cunning versus a dice roll like Battle Cry did. Here is a link to what it looked like: http://www.boardgamegeek.com/image/64376 Last edited on Tue Feb 12th, 2008 09:54 pm by David White |
Posted: Wed Feb 13th, 2008 12:39 am |
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David, I vividly recall playing '1863' and 'Dogfight.' Man, the mention of these games really brought back fond memories. Did anybody here play the old Avalon Hill strategy wargames? I was introduced to 'Tactics II' by a friend around 1960. We'd spend hours moving those unit counters around a tabletop battlefield grid. A few years later, I bought 'Gettysburg' (1964) and believe it or not, it turned out to be my first real introduction to the actual battlefield. Amazing how much I learned from that game, at least topographically. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gettysburg_%28game%29 Later, I bought the more complicated 1977 version of the game. In between, I played D-Day, Afrika Corps, B-17, Battle of the Bulge, Stalingrad, Chancellorsville. I lived a sheltered life. Recently, saw a 1964 version of Gettysburg in a flea market. Asking $250 for it. Yikes. My own game had already gone the way of my baseball cards. |
Posted: Wed Feb 13th, 2008 05:07 pm |
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Wow, I still have my old board wargames up in the attic, including the old Gettysburg which was my first true wargame. Maybe I need to pull all that stuff down and sell it, I certianly don't play them anymore now that most of them are on computers now. Unfortunately my mom gave all my baseball cards and toy soldiers away, ^%*!+ but the wargames were something she did not, becasue I was still playing them in college and beyond for a few years. |
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Posted: Fri Feb 15th, 2008 10:22 am |
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Memories, memories! I still have all my old board wargames on the shelf, the Avalon Hill ones (ie: Gettysburg, Blitzkreig, etc.) were the best! I vastly prefer board war games to computer war games. The only down side is making sure that the cat doesn't reposition units during breaks! I've been trying to get my daughter to play Gettysburg with me - she made an unkind comment regarding Marse Robert's sanity planning the 3rd day - I want to give her the opportunity to walk in his shoes, so to speak. |
Posted: Fri Feb 15th, 2008 10:28 am |
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Along the same lines, did any of you have the toy solider playset made by Marx that came out during the Centenial years - "The Battle Of The Blue And Gray"? Checkout the prices on Ebay now, the original is astronomical, and the reissue from the 90's goes for 2 or 3 hundred bucks! Boy, I wish Mom and Dad had consulted with me when they were cleaning out the attic and basement after I moved out! |
Posted: Fri Feb 15th, 2008 04:09 pm |
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David White Member
Yes, my mom has apologized profusely about all my toy soldiers when I showed her what they were worth, could have paid for any storage fees plus over the years if she needed the space. What should we be making our kids save today, Wiis, Play Stations, I doubt it. |
Posted: Sat Feb 16th, 2008 03:22 am |
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Sadly, it seems that none of the stuff that our kids use today is meant to last. For you parents, how many mp3 players, cellphones, digital cameras, etc., have you replaced for your kids? It's sad in a way...we are lamenting the loss of our artifacts of youth, and there is a huge market for the surviving originals and the repros...somehow, I don't think 40 years from now my daughter will have fond memories of and want to once again possess her 1st mp3 player. What does that bode for them, that there may be no sentimental artifacts of their innocence? |
Posted: Sun Feb 17th, 2008 01:16 am |
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Rebel Yell Belle,Bourbon,Battlefields
Yeah, I had the Marx Giant Blue & Gray Battle set complete with "exploding" redoubt and "firing" mortar. And, for some reason, the South won every battle I set up. Sure with I had that set now... |
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Buried Treasure brings another piece of the outside into the art gallery. Finch has fabricated a treasure hunt complete with gold coins and maps drawn in invisible ink. Framed maps to several sites in South Texas hang in the gallery, tempting the viewer by protecting their secrets until someone is bold enough to destroy the piece in order to find the gold (the ink only reveals itself when the paper is heated). Like many of his other works, Buried Treasure hints at Finch's impressions of the place he is in.
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Last Friday, the Assembly Appropriations Committee passed AB 1998 and will be voted upon this Friday by the full Assembly.
If passed and signed by Gov. Schwarzenegger, who has shown support for the move, the law would go into effect Jan. 1, 2012.
San Francisco made history when it became the first city to officially ban plastic shopping bags in 2007, making it a pioneer of the outlawing of common to-go plastic products.
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An Indian Visits the Talbot County Free Library, by Bill Peak
Friday, August 19th, 2011Bill Peak writes a monthly article for the Star-Democrat about working at the Talbot County Free Library. Thank you, Bill, for allowing us to reprint this in our OMOB blog—and for your thoughts about our One Maryland One Book Selection.
An Indian Visits the Talbot County Free Library, by Bill Peak
Printed in the Star-Democrat, August 14, 2011
It's become an annual event in my life. Every year the Maryland Humanities Council selects their One Maryland One Book (the book people all across the state will read more or less at the same time), and every year I worry that the work selected—inevitably a book written for adults—will have little appeal for teens and pre-teens, an age-group we very much want to interest in reading. So what did I think when I learned that this year, for the first time in the history of the program, they'd chosen a work of teen fiction? I worried that our adult patrons wouldn't read it. (Note to Maryland Humanities Council: "Library guys aren't easy to please.")
But that wasn't the worst of it. Not only was the work written for teens, it was written and drawn for teens. That's right, throughout Sherman Alexie's "The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian" there are hand-drawn cartoons. Now you have to understand, when it comes to baseball and literature I am a dyed-in-the-wool conservative. Baseball should be played only on living, breathing, sun-drenched grass, and literature should enter our minds only through the medium of living, breathing, meaning-drenched words. There are things a cartoonist can do with his pencil that a writer can't do with hers … and vice versa. For a writer to resort to cartooning to make his point strikes me as an admission of defeat: I am not a good enough writer to communicate this with words, so I am going to draw you a picture instead.
But one of the hats I wear at the Talbot County Free Library reads "One Maryland One Book Coordinator," which means that, however reluctantly, I had to check out a copy of Alexie's book and read it.
And I have to admit, I couldn't put it down. Told from the point of view of a young Indian boy who, at the beginning of his freshman year, makes the momentous, politically incorrect decision to attend a white high school "off the rez," the book is an exploration of all the cross-currents of self-hate and reverse discrimination that can sometimes afflict today's under classes. A story that one might reasonably expect to be very sad turns out (thanks to the great cockeyed wit of its teenaged narrator) to be not only funny but, occasionally, laugh-out-loud funny as well. It also manages to stay true to the experience of adolescent males the world over … which is code for: "Some people may find some of the material in this book morally objectionable." But, then again, I suspect some people may find adolescent males in toto morally objectionable.
Oh, and about those cartoons. They end up being a lot of fun too, extending and enhancing the story Sherman Alexie has to tell in the same way that Sidney Paget's original illustrations extended and enhanced Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's. So stop by the Talbot County Free Library when you get a chance and check out a copy of "The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian," then sign up for one of the book discussions I'll be hosting on September 22 and 26. Who knows, we may all find our opinion improved of the sometimes clownish, sometimes glorious, adolescent male.


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This family-friendly hotel is located in San Antonio (Northwest - Six Flags), close to Malibu Castle, Crossroads Mall, and University of Texas Health and Science Center at San Antonio. Local attractions also include North Star Mall and South Texas Medical Center.
Hotel Features
In addition to a restaurant, Embassy Suites San Antonio NW features an indoor pool. Other amenities include a 24-hour business center and wireless Internet access (surcharge).
Room Amenities
In addition to sofa beds and refrigerators, guestrooms feature microwaves along with wireless Internet access (surcharge) and high-speed (wired) Internet access (surcharge).
Hotel Amenities
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In addition to an indoor pool, Embassy Suites San Antonio NW provides a spa tub and a fitness facility. The hotel offers a restaurant. A complimentary breakfast and manager's reception are offered (may not be available daily). Public areas are equipped with high-speed wireless Internet access (surcharge).
This 3.5-star property offers access to a 24-hour business center and audiovisual equipment. Event facilities measuring 13920 square feet (1293 square meters) include conference/meeting rooms, a ballroom, and banquet facilities. This family-friendly hotel also offers multilingual staff, gift shops/newsstands, and coffee/tea in the lobby. Onsite self parking is complimentary.
- 24-hour front desk
- Air-conditioned public areas
- Airport transportation (complimentary)
- ATM/banking
- Audiovisual equipment
- Ballroom(s)
- Banquet facilities
- Number of floors - 8
- Business services
- Multiple large conference rooms
- Coffee/tea in lobby
- Free breakfast
- Fitness facilities
- Dry cleaning/laundry service
- Elevator/lift
- Express check-out
- Gift shops or newsstand
- Wireless Internet access - surcharge
- Laundry facilities
- Multilingual staff
- Total number of rooms - 216
- Free parking
- Free self parking
- Porter/bellhop
- Luggage storage
- Restaurant
- Room service (limited hours)
- Safe-deposit box at front desk
- 24-hour business center
- Meeting facilities size (feet) - 13920
- Meeting facilities size (meters) - 1293
- Number of meeting/conference rooms - 4
- Complimentary reception
- Spa tub
- Swimming pool - indoor
- Television in lobby
- Tour assistance
- Wedding services
- Internet
Available in all rooms: Wireless Internet access (surcharge), Wired high-speed Internet access (surcharge)
Available in some public areas: Wireless Internet access - surcharge
- Parking
Free parking, Free self parking
- Room Amenities
- Premium TV channels
- Pay movies
- Hypo-allergenic bedding available
- Balcony
- Air conditioning
- Complimentary weekday newspaper
- Blackout drapes/curtains
- Voice mail
- Microwave
- Refrigerator
- Coffee/tea maker
- Wake-up calls
- Daily housekeeping
- Extra towels/bedding
- Turndown service (on request)
- Sewing kit
- Complimentary toiletries
- Hair dryer
- Iron/ironing board
- Electronic/magnetic keys
- Clock radio
- Sofa bed
- Cribs/infant beds available
- Wireless Internet access (surcharge)
- Wired high-speed Internet access (surcharge)
- Dining
Guests are offered a complimentary cooked-to-order breakfast. A complimentary manager's reception is offered in the evening each day.
Plaza Grill - This restaurant serves breakfast, lunch, and dinner.
Room service (during limited hours) is available.
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An indoor pool and a spa tub are on site. Other recreational amenities include a fitness facility.
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- Check-in
Check-in time starts at 4 PM
- Check-out
Check-out time is noon
- Payment types
Accepted at this hotel: American Express, MasterCard, Visa
- Pets
Pets not allowed
- General
Extra-person charges may apply and vary depending on hotel policy.
Government-issued photo identification and a credit card or cash deposit are required at check-in for incidental charges.
Special requests are subject to availability upon check-in and may incur additional charges. Special requests cannot be guaranteed.