British Lions Tour

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    “We know no spectacle so ridiculous as the British public in one of its periodical fits of morality.”
    —Thomas Babington Macaulay (1800–1859)

    “King Richard. Lions make leopards tame.
    Mowbray. Yea, but not change his spots.”
    —William Shakespeare (1564–1616)

    “Left Washington, September 6, on a tour through Ohio, Kentucky, Tennessee, Georgia, and Virginia.... Absent nineteen days. Received every where heartily. The country is again one and united! I am very happy to be able to feel that the course taken has turned out so well.”
    —Rutherford Birchard Hayes (1822–1893)