... President having accorded per- mission for a pic-nic of negro children, on the groundsof the Presidential mansion, on Independence Day. A New York paper of the Peace Democracy school speaks of it as ‘perhaps the most disgraceful sight to human eyes divine”—a ...

... different what was promised, of the very poorest description, and, Sunday, only two meals allowed. the 4th of July—being Independence Day—we were given for supper sour bread and cold water. On remonstrating against such treatment, as being entirely contrary ...

... and the victory Gettysburg came a year too soon for the present occupant of the White House. The rejoicings with which Independence Day was celebrated in 1863 were the last that the North has had. Since then all has gone wrong. Grant's failure to capture ...