{"id":15808,"date":"2023-01-13T02:47:00","date_gmt":"2023-01-13T07:47:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dotcw.com\/?p=12509"},"modified":"2020-09-23T11:14:25","modified_gmt":"2020-09-23T16:14:25","slug":"horatio-nelson-taft-475","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/horatio-nelson-taft-475\/","title":{"rendered":"Diary of Horatio Nelson Taft."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>W[ashington]. Tuesday Jan&#8217;y 13<sup>th<\/sup> 1863 (My Birth day) 57 years.<\/p>\n<p>The first thing that I hear in the morning is the <span class=\"underscore\">cry<\/span> of the News Boys, \u201c<span class=\"underscore\">Baltimore<\/span> <span class=\"underscore\">Sun<\/span> &amp; <span class=\"underscore\">Clipper<\/span>,\u201d \u201c<span class=\"underscore\">Morning<\/span> <span class=\"underscore\">Chronicle<\/span>,\u201d \u201c<span class=\"underscore\">Northern<\/span> <span class=\"underscore\">Battle<\/span>.\u201d At 3 o&#8217;clock the \u201cStar.\u201d About 4 o&#8217;ck it is \u201c<span class=\"underscore\">Star<\/span> <span class=\"underscore\">2<sup>nd<\/sup> <\/span> <span class=\"underscore\">Edition<\/span>,\u201d \u201c<span class=\"underscore\">Northern<\/span> <span class=\"underscore\">Union<\/span> <span class=\"underscore\">Victory<\/span>.\u201d After the N York mail gets in which is about <span class=\"underscore\">6<\/span> o&#8217;clock, the boys run through the Streets crying \u201c<span class=\"underscore\">N<\/span> <span class=\"underscore\">York<\/span> <span class=\"underscore\">Herald<\/span>, <span class=\"underscore\">Tribune<\/span>, and <span class=\"underscore\">Times<\/span>.\u201d The Baltimore papers and the Washington papers are sold at three cents, the NY at 5 cts, which are about three times the size of the \u201c<span class=\"underscore\">Sun<\/span>\u201d or <span class=\"underscore\">Star<\/span>. The old \u201cInteligencer\u201d is distributed without any <span class=\"underscore\">Noise<\/span>. It stands on its <span class=\"underscore\">dignity<\/span>. Treads where it trod forty years ago, never <span class=\"underscore\">radical<\/span> or <span class=\"underscore\">very<\/span> <span class=\"underscore\">divided<\/span> in anything, trimming its sails to suit the breeze as far as <span class=\"underscore\">prudence<\/span> allows. It has lived through all administrations for half a Century and almost always enjoyed the patronage of the Gov<sup>t<\/sup> until now. The <span class=\"underscore\">Globe<\/span> and the <span class=\"underscore\">Republican<\/span> are also daily papers. Nothing <span class=\"underscore\">New<\/span> today, all quiet. The Gov<sup>t<\/sup> seems waiting (like Mr M<sup>c<\/sup>Cawber) \u201cfor something to turn up.\u201d If it could only hatch out a Military genius who could lead our troops to Victory in Virginia, it would <span class=\"underscore\">pay<\/span> for sitting still. <span class=\"underscore\">Victory<\/span> is what we want now with gold at forty per cent over Treasury notes. I have not labored very <span class=\"underscore\">hard<\/span> today on the \u201cBoard,\u201d have not had much to do. Was down to \u201cWillards\u201d awhile, saw Gen<sup>l<\/sup> M<sup>c<\/sup>Dowell and Gen<sup>l<\/sup> Heintzelman there. Qr Master Knowles called upon me today at the office. The hundreds of officers around the City have got what (in former times) was a <span class=\"underscore\">Paradise<\/span> to the southern employees in the Departments of the Gov<sup>t<\/sup>, that is, \u201cHigh Salaries and nothing to do.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>W[ashington]. Tuesday Jan&#8217;y 13th 1863 (My Birth day) 57 years. The first thing that I hear in the morning is the cry of the News Boys, \u201cBaltimore Sun &amp; Clipper,\u201d \u201cMorning Chronicle,\u201d \u201cNorthern Battle.\u201d At 3 o&#8217;clock the \u201cStar.\u201d About 4 o&#8217;ck it is \u201cStar 2nd Edition,\u201d \u201cNorthern Union Victory.\u201d After the N York mail [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":21,"featured_media":95680,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[45],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-15808","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-the-diary-of-horatio-nelson-taft"},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/horatio-nelson-taft-e1622981709398.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15808","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/21"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15808"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15808\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/95680"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15808"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15808"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15808"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}