MARK TWAIN'S AUTOBIOGRAPHY- -VOLUME 2. Title: Mark Twain's Autobiography. In 2 volumes - Volume 2). A Project Gutenberg of Australia e.
September 10, 2016 OVERCOMING UNREASONED FEAR. It was at a press conference on a controversial proposal to re-introduce grizzly bears to the Selway. MARK TWAIN'S AUTOBIOGRAPHY With an introduction by Albert Bigelow Paine 1924 First Edition VOLUME 2 New York, Tuesday, January 23, 1906. Book *. Author: Mark Twain. Book No.: 0. 20. 05. Language: English. Date first posted: August 2. Date most recently updated: August 2. This e. Book was produced by: Don Lainson dlainson@sympatico. Production notes: Nil. Project Gutenberg of Australia e. Books are created from printed editions. Australia, unless a copyright notice. We do NOT keep any e. Books in compliance with a particular. Be sure to check the. You may copy it, give it away or re- use it under the terms. Project Gutenberg of Australia License which may be viewed online at. To contact Project Gutenberg of Australia go to http: //gutenberg. A Project Gutenberg of Australia e. Book. Title: Mark Twain's Autobiography Volume 2. Author: Mark Twain. GO TO Project Gutenberg of Australia HOME PAGEWith an introduction by Albert Bigelow Paine. First Edition. VOLUME 2. New York, Tuesday, January 2. About a meeting at Carnegie Hall, in the interest of Booker. Washington's Tuskegee Institute.- -An unpleasant political. Mr. Twichell. There was a great mass meeting at Carnegie Hall last night, in. Booker Washington's Tuskegee Educational. Institute in the South, and the interest which New York people. Institute was quite manifest, in the fact that. Hall and two thousand outside, who were trying. Mr. Choate presided, and was received with a. He is fresh from. England, as our Ambassador, where he won the. English people by the gifts of his heart, and won the royalties. Government by his able diplomatic service, and captured. For. thirty- five years Choate has been the handsomest man in America. And when I used to. England, five or six years ago, I thought him the. They were largely attracted by the. Mark Twain was to be present and would. A. P. It was at a Fourth of July reception in Mr. Choate's house in. London that I first met Booker Washington. I have met him a. I didn't notice it until he turned. It was a great. surprise to me to see that he was a mulatto and had blue eyes. Always, before, he was. I had never noticed whether he had eyes at all. He has accomplished a wonderful work in this quarter of a. When he finished his education at the Hampton Colored. School twenty- five years ago he was unknown and hadn't a penny. But by the. persuasions of his carriage and address and the sincerity and. North, and with it he has built. South. In that school the students are. Booker Washington has scraped. Southern fields among the colored people six thousand. The Institute's property is worth a. A most remarkable man is Booker Washington. And he is. a fervent and effective speaker on the platform. When the affair was over and the people began to climb up on. I shake hands with people who used. Arkansas, in New Jersey, in. California, in Jericho- -and I have to seem so glad and so happy. And this is the kind of thing that. One pretty creature was glad to see me again, and remembered. Hartford- -I don't know when, a great many. Now she was mistaking herself for somebody. It couldn't have happened to her. But I was very. cordial, because she was very pretty. We might have had a. I had to talk with and. There was one young fellow, brisk, but not bright. He said his. mother used to teach school in Elmira, New York, where he was. She holds. you in high esteem, although, as she says, she has to confess. I don't think he even heard. I said, he was so eager to tell me all about it, and I said. I was never in. a schoolhouse in Elmira, New York, even on a visit, and that his. Langdons, the. family into which I married. No matter, he didn't hear it- -kept. I don't know what. He didn't get anything out of me to. I said. These episodes used to vex me, years and years ago. But they. don't vex me now. If a person thinks that he has. I require of him is that he. I am perfectly willing to remember all about it and add. Twichell came down from Hartford to be present at that. And. reference was made again to that disastrous Boston speech which I. Whittier's seventieth- birthday dinner; and Joe asked me. I was still minded to submit that speech to that club in. Washington, day after to- morrow, where Colonel Harvey and I are. Because I have examined that speech a. I find it gross, coarse- -well, I needn't. I didn't like any part of it, from the. I found it always offensive and detestable. I can't. account for it. I am the person concerned. If I could put myself. I could. analyze it and explain to my satisfaction the change which has. As it is, I am merely moved by instinct. My instinct. said, formerly, that it was an innocent speech, and funny. The. same instinct, sitting cold and judicial, as a court of last. I expect this latest verdict. Twichell's congregation- -the only congregation he has ever had. Joe entered the army as chaplain in the very beginning of. Civil War. He was a young chap, and had just been graduated. Yale and the Yale Theological Seminary. He made all the. campaigns of the Army of the Potomac. When he was mustered out. I am speaking of called him, and he has served. I have found among my old MSS. It has a heading and looks as if I. I can clearly see. I didn't print it. It is full of indications that its. Twichell about that time, and. I think I can see, all. I was trying to hint at. Twichell, and the episode of that preacher whom I met on the. And. now that I read that old article, I perceive that I probably saw. I hadn't covered. Twichell up, and hadn't covered up the episode that I was hinting. Hartford could read everything between the. I was trying to conceal. I will insert this venerable article in this place, and then. Joe's history and tell about it. THE CHARACTER OF MANConcerning Man- -he is too large a subject to be treated as a. I will merely discuss a detail or two of him at this. I desire to contemplate him from this point of view- -this. Creator. For his history, in. Of the entire brood he is the only. That is the basest of all instincts, passions, vices- -the most. That one thing puts him below the rats, the grubs, the. He is the only creature that inflicts pain for sport. But if the cat knows she is. All creatures kill- -there. Also- -in all the list he is. Shall he be extolled for his noble qualities, for his. The other animals. There are certain sweet- smelling sugar- coated lies. One of. these is, that there is such a thing in the world as. Another is, that the world loves to. Another is. that there is such a thing in the world as toleration- -in. Out of these trunk- lies spring many branch ones: to. And yet. other branch lies: to wit, that there is heroism in man; that he. And. these other branch lies, to wit: that conscience, man's moral. Creator, but is put. And yet one other branch lie: to wit. I am I, and you are you; that we are units, individuals, and. This makes well- nigh. This is a man, not a. Consider the first- mentioned lie: that there is such a. Surely if anything. The scattering exceptions to the rule only. The whole population of. New England meekly took their turns, for years, in standing up in. Statistics and the. New. England forty years to breed his fellow. There is a law, with a. Asylum Street. crossing more than five minutes at a time. For years people and. New England trains monopolized that crossing. I. used to hear men use vigorous language about that insolent. We are discreet sheep; we wait to see how the drove is going. We have two opinions: one private. Mrs. Grundy. until habit makes us comfortable in it, and the custom of. Look at it in politics. Look at the. candidates whom we loathe, one year, and are afraid to vote. Look at the tyranny of. Bible texts and billies, and pocketing the insults. Southern master. If we would learn what the human race really is at. A Hartford. clergyman met me in the street and spoke of a new. He said, . You would have supposed he. Cid, and Greatheart, and Sir Galahad, and. Bayard the Spotless all rolled into one. Yes- -by. that time; and therein lies the pathos of it all, the. It shows at what trivial cost of effort a. Does he believe his lie yet? Oh, probably. not; he has no further use for it. It was but a passing incident. Jan, 1. 1, '0. 6.- -I can't remember his. It began with K, I think. He was one of the American. New Testament, and was nearly as great a scholar. Hammond Trumbull. And what a paltry poor lie is that one which teaches that. When a man leaves a political party, he is. And he is traduced, derided, despised. His character is. The preacher who casts a vote for conscience' sake runs the. And is rightly served, for he has been teaching. Mr. Beecher may be charged with a crime, and his. Take the editor so. All the talk about tolerance, in anything or anywhere, is. It is in no man's heart. Intolerance is everything for. The mainspring of. Let us skip the other. To consider them would prove nothing. God, and then goes out into. New York, Wednesday, January 2. Tells of the defeat of Mr. Blaine for the Presidency, and. Mr. Goodwin's votes were. Cleveland. It is plain, I think, that this old article was written about. James G. Blaine for the Presidency and the. Grover Cleveland, the Democratic candidate- -a. Republican- party domination which had. I had been accustomed to vote for. Republicans more frequently than for Democrats, but I was never a. Republican and never a Democrat. In the community, I was regarded. Republican, but I had never so regarded myself. As early as. 1. 86. I had had this curious experience: that whereas up to. I had considered myself a Republican, I was converted. Republican. Hearst of to- day. Yellow Journalism- -that calamity of. Hearst was a Missourian; I was a Missourian. He was a long. lean, practical, common- sense, uneducated man of fifty or. I was shorter and better informed- -at least I. One day, in the Lick House in San Francisco, he. I am not a changeable person. But look at the. condition of things. The Republican party goes right along, from. United States is its. Nothing can be worse for a. To lodge all power in one party and keep it. The parties ought. He is a little boy, but I am.
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