The Old Guard, 1864, Vol. 2

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Excerpt from The Old Guard, 1864, Vol. 2: A Monthly Journal, Devoted to the Principles of 1776 and 1787States is a love of novelty and excite ment, and a proneness to run after won ders. Within ten years we have had six or seven popular excitements which, each in its turn, entirely eclipsed the wildest moment of the war furore. 1. There came the Jenny Lind excitement, when the whole people were made crazy by the tricks of an adroit eh m man, to see and hear a singing woman, who, with confessed merits, °was infc rior as an artiste and as an accom plished lady, to some who preceded, and to many who have followed her. Such was the popular madness that many went two thousand miles to see her. Men that could poorly adord the price of an ordinary ticket to the opera, paid ten, and twenty, and thirty dol lars to hear her. Others paid a thou sand dollars for a favorite seat. Octo genarians and unmusical fossils, i sine from the frigid land of Maine to New York, at ruinous expense, to hear five or six songs, when they knew noi the di¿'erence between a soprano and a: on tralto voice, and perhaps could not tell 01d Hundred from Yankee Doo lie. The whole land seemed to be possessed of a musical devil. And yet it was not love of music, it was not appro.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.