{"id":16205,"date":"2023-02-25T09:39:00","date_gmt":"2023-02-25T14:39:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dotcw.com\/?p=13554"},"modified":"2020-09-23T13:38:12","modified_gmt":"2020-09-23T18:38:12","slug":"horatio-nelson-taft-518","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/horatio-nelson-taft-518\/","title":{"rendered":"Diary of Horatio Nelson Taft."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Washington Wednesday Feb. 25<sup>th<\/sup> 1863.<\/p>\n<p>A bright pleasant day but the Snow has mostly melted and the thin mortar composition lies from four to eight inches in depth in the streets. Little boys are at the crossings broom in hand trying to keep back the flood from a narrow path and saying \u201c<span class=\"underscore\">Please<\/span> <span class=\"underscore\">give<\/span> <span class=\"underscore\">me<\/span> <span class=\"underscore\">a<\/span> <span class=\"underscore\">penny<\/span>.\u201d I fear they do not get many, few will give a five cent \u201cshin plaster\u201d or \u201cstamp\u201d and <span class=\"underscore\">cents<\/span> are <span class=\"underscore\">scarce<\/span> which is <span class=\"underscore\">bad<\/span> for the boys. Went up to the Capitol after leaving office and the \u201c<span class=\"underscore\">Enrolment<\/span> <span class=\"underscore\">Bill<\/span>\u201d passed while I was in the chamber of the \u201cHouse.\u201d It now only needs the signature of the President to become a law. Wrote to my sister Harriet and to [S Abel?] today. Sent Agricultural Reports to Capt Budd Sag H[arbor]. and to Dr Ford of Chemung NY. This evening I have been to hear the celebrated <span class=\"underscore\">Mason<\/span>&#8211;<span class=\"underscore\">Jones<\/span>, the Irish Orator. He was a fine speaker and all that I had expected. He spoke about one hour and a half without the least hesitation and without a note or scrap of writing. His subject was \u201cJohn Philpot Curran.\u201d The House (Willards Hall) was crowded. Four Soldiers have called upon me today for assistance in getting their discharge papers, or <span class=\"underscore\">pay<\/span>, or for <span class=\"underscore\">clothing<\/span>. A <span class=\"underscore\">stream<\/span> of discharged soldiers has been flowing through the R Road Depot for the past two months, from one to two hundred pr day. It is astonishing how prevalent the <span class=\"underscore\">heart<\/span> <span class=\"underscore\">disease<\/span> has become since this war began. I think it should in most cases be called the \u201c<span class=\"underscore\">faint<\/span> <span class=\"underscore\">heart<\/span>\u201d disease.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Washington Wednesday Feb. 25th 1863. A bright pleasant day but the Snow has mostly melted and the thin mortar composition lies from four to eight inches in depth in the streets. Little boys are at the crossings broom in hand trying to keep back the flood from a narrow path and saying \u201cPlease give me [&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-16205","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\/16205","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=16205"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16205\/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=16205"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16205"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16205"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}