. . . “in the name of the Lord” to the Commander in Chief, or the
President, it may have a suggestive influence with the Government to repeat an
interesting anecdote of Cromwell – given in the collection of Percy, on war:
“Cromwell kept is fanatics in order in their own way, for
when one of them waited upon him as he said ‘in the name of the Lord’ to know
the destination of one of his fleets, Cromwell said, ‘My good friend, the Lord
shall know, for thou shalt go with the fleet.’
He immediately gave orders for having him stowed in the hold of one of
the vessels then under sailing orders, and actually sent him out, thus
confined, with the expedition.”
– Published in The Burlington Weekly Hawk-Eye,
Burlington, Iowa, Saturday, February 1, 1862, p. 1
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