The skull of a gallant Massachusetts soldier has been converted into the drinking-cup of a Georgia colonel, that he may, far away among his slaves, renew the festive barbarism of another age under the name of “The Feast of Skulls.
He highlights the grotesque use of a soldier's skull as a drinking cup, symbolizing barbarism.
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According to recent calculations, its annual cost is not less than a thousand millions of dollars.
Still further: every ship-of-war that floats costs more than a well-endowed college.
The subterfuges of the politician cannot escape it.
Out of this pernicious prejudice have proceeded that persecution and neglect which are the too frequent lot of the world's pioneers.
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