{"id":16164,"date":"2023-02-21T09:35:00","date_gmt":"2023-02-21T14:35:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dotcw.com\/?p=13550"},"modified":"2020-09-23T13:36:12","modified_gmt":"2020-09-23T18:36:12","slug":"horatio-nelson-taft-514","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/horatio-nelson-taft-514\/","title":{"rendered":"Diary of Horatio Nelson Taft."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Washington Saturday Feb. 21<sup>st<\/sup> 1863.<\/p>\n<p>It was a mild pleasant morning but is quite cold tonight with indications of more snow. In the office all day as usual. Not much to do, read the news papers and old \u201cPepy<sup>s<\/sup> Diary\u201d about half the day, left him in the midst of the \u201cgreat Plague in London\u201d summer of 1664, more than a thousand per day dying of it. When it first broke out in a house, the House was closed and a <span class=\"underscore\">red<\/span> <span class=\"underscore\">cross<\/span> was Marked upon the door, and \u201cThe Lord have Mercy on us\u201d written under it. He was an Educated man but like every body else at that time was <span class=\"underscore\">realy<\/span> ignorant and believed in <span class=\"underscore\">charms<\/span>. <span class=\"underscore\">He<\/span> was silly enough to carry a <span class=\"underscore\">hares<\/span> <span class=\"underscore\">foot<\/span> in his pocket to protect himself from the <span class=\"underscore\">cholic<\/span> to which complaint he was subject. I have been this evening to hear <span class=\"underscore\">Mrs<\/span> <span class=\"underscore\">Swishelm<\/span> Lecture upon the Indian Murders in Minnesota last summer. She is a small delicate looking woman. She has been a very beautiful woman and may still be called beautiful for a lady over 40 or 45 yrs. She had a crowded House and her lecture was fine and quite characteristic of the woman. It had many very fine <span class=\"underscore\">hits<\/span> in it at rebels of the South and sympathisers at the North as well as at the \u201c<span class=\"underscore\">Noble<\/span> <span class=\"underscore\">Indian<\/span>\u201d \u201cas the puling sentimentalists of East call him.\u201d She was frequently applauded and sometimes most vociferously. I took a walk on the Av<sup>e<\/sup> after leaving the office before dinner. The Av<sup>e<\/sup> seemed to be more crowded than ever. The \u201cCurrency Bill\u201d pass the \u201c<span class=\"underscore\">house<\/span>\u201d last night, <span class=\"underscore\">good so far<\/span>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Washington Saturday Feb. 21st 1863. It was a mild pleasant morning but is quite cold tonight with indications of more snow. In the office all day as usual. Not much to do, read the news papers and old \u201cPepys Diary\u201d about half the day, left him in the midst of the \u201cgreat Plague in London\u201d [&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-16164","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\/16164","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=16164"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16164\/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=16164"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16164"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16164"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}