[Homer_J_Simpson]

Continued from September 16 (reply #16).

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[colorado tanker]

Interesting. I did not know secession sentiment was this strong as early as 1856.

[Homer_J_Simpson]

Continued from September 21 (reply #28).

September 22. With Ellie to see The Rivals at Wallack’s tonight. Rather a satisfactory performance on the whole, in spite of a most un-Hibernian Sir Lucius O’Trigger and a very dreary Falkland and Julia. But for that dismal pain the author is mainly responsible. A “good comedy” well played is entertaining while it lasts, but after all, these productions, from Congreve & Co. down to Mr. Boucicault seem to me as shallow, silly, frivolous, and unreal as any compositions I know of. One can imagine comedy that should be to The Rivals or London Assurance what Pendennis and The Newcomes are to the old novels of fashionable life.

The Diary of George Templeton Strong, Edited by Allan Nevins and Milton Halsey Thomas, Abridged by Thomas J. Pressly