Posted on 07/17/2018 6:31:09 AM PDT by Homer_J_Simpson
A recent biographer believes Emily Dickinson was epileptic, at a time when epilepsy was considered a moral failing, especially in a female.
In the world of bearded religious terrorists, John Brown was ahead of his time.
The habit of disinternment/reinternment was more popular back in the day. Like the pharaohs of ancient Egypt, we had our impressive burial monuments. I’ve been to Lincoln’s and McKinley’s. But unlike the Egyptians, we didn’t spend 20 years of national effort to build them while they were alive. We waited until they were dead and then built them. Couldn’t have the body laying around stinking up the place in the meantime you know.
Good points. I can understand moving someone from a battlefield grave or a quickie grave when he suddenly dropped dead in Des Moines, but President Monroe had a perfectly decent burial the first time.
July 23. Since the previous date another Free-State Missourian has been over to see us, who reports great excitement on the other side of the line, and that the house of Mr. Bishop (the man who fled to us) was beset during the night after he left, but on finding he was not there they left. Yesterday a proslavery man from West Point, Missouri, came over, professing that he wanted to buy Bishop's farm. I think he was a spy. He reported all quiet on the other side. At present, along this part of the line, the Free-State men may be said, in some sense, to “possess the field;” but we deem it wise to “be on the alert.” Whether Missouri people are more excited through fear than otherwise, I am not yet prepared to judge. The blacksmith (Snyder) has got his family back; also some others have returned, and a few new settlers are coming in. Those who fled or were driven off will pretty much lose the season. Since we came here about twenty-five or thirty of Governor Denver's men have moved a little nearer to the line, I believe.
SOURCE: Franklin B. Sanborn, The Life and Letters of John Brown, p. 476
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