The Rock Beside The Sea

Illustration of woman seated on rock by the seahttps://scholarsjunction.msstate.edu/cht-sheet-music/13608/thumbnail.jp

My Lovely Susey Saul / words by Charlie C. Converse

Cover: As Sung at Christys American Opera House; Publisher: Horas Waters (New York)https://egrove.olemiss.edu/sharris_a/1007/thumbnail.jp

My Lovely Susey Saul / composed by Charlie C. Converse

Lyrics: First verse When I was young, not long ago In Maryland I did dwell; \u27Twas there I lov\u27d a yellow girl Oh! was\u27nt she a belle; Her form was round, not very tall, And curly was her hair; The darkies said my Susy, was the fairest of the fair. Chorus Then if you see my Susy dear, Speak kindly to her all, Oh! tell her the last words that I spoke were, My poor Susy Saul. Second verse I took my love to a ball one night, \u27Twas early in the fall, And \u27fore three weeks had passd away, I married Susy Saul; In a cot we lived together, Down by the river side, How happy was this darky then, With my lovely yellow bride. (Chorus) Third Verse While working in the field one day, Near the tree that grows so tall, Old massa said he was going to sell, My lovely Susy Saul; In vain I pleaded for my wife, That we might never part, But cruelly he said: no, no! It almost broke my heart. (Chorus) Fourth Verse I\u27ve nothing left to live for now, My wife I\u27ll see no more, For she will ne\u27er return again, To old Virginia shore; And when I\u27m dead and buried, Beneath the old stone wall, Upon a slab these words you\u27ll see: He died for Susy Saul. (Chorus)https://egrove.olemiss.edu/ciwar_manuscr/1033/thumbnail.jp

Thinking of Thee

[Verse 1] I miss thee each lone hour, Star of my heart! No other voice has power lay to impart, I listen for thy step Thy kind sweet tone; But silence whispers me Thou art alone! I listen for thy step, Thy kind sweet tone, But silence whispers me Thou art alone! [Verse 2] Darkness is on the hearth Naught do I say; Book’s are but little worth Thou art away! Voices the true and kind, Strange are to me, I have lost heart and mind, Thinking of thee, Voices the true and kind, Strange are to me, I have lost heart and mind, Thinking of thee

The quality of political information

The article conceptualizes the quality of political information and shows how the concept can be used for empirical research. I distinguish three aspects of quality (intelligibility, relevance, validity) and use them to judge the constituent foundations of political information, that is component claims (statements of alleged facts) and connection claims (argumentative statements created by causally linking two component claims). The resulting conceptual map thus entails six manifestations of information quality (component claimintelligibility, connection claim intelligibility, component claimrelevance, connection claim relevance, component claim validity, and connection claim validity). I explain how the conceptual map can be used to make sense of the eclectic variety of existing research, and how it can advance new empirical research, as a guide for determining variation in information quality, as a conceptual template for the analysis of different types of political messages and their common quality deficiencies, and as a generator of new research questions and theoretical expectations