Baked Meats of the Funeral: A Collection of Essays, Poems, Speeches, Histories, and Banquets (Classic Reprint) - Hardcover

Miles O'reilly

9780332517049: Baked Meats of the Funeral: A Collection of Essays, Poems, Speeches, Histories, and Banquets (Classic Reprint)

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ISBN 10: 0332517047 ISBN 13: 9780332517049

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Excerpt from Baked Meats of the Funeral: A Collection of Essays, Poems, Speeches, Histories, and Banquets

The chapter giving the song of The Flaunting Lie, as it has been called, and the history thereof, with the other songs of the same series, will be read with inte rest by all who remember how bitterly our honored friend, Mr. Horace Greeley, was assailed for his imputed authorship of that much misquoted and garbled lyric during the last ten years, and more especially during the recent Presidential canvass. For evil or for good, that song has now passed into history; and in connexion therewith the author would only say, that he was at all times ready to avow its authorship, but was restrained by the suggestion of hir. Greeley that in politics, a lie well stuck to is as good as truth and that, no matter what avowals were made in regard to the song, Mr. Greeley's enemies would still continue to hold him responsible therefor, and to garble and misquote such verses of it as might seem to suit their purposes.

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