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Archibald H. Grimke, William Lloyd Garrison the Abolitionist, Chapter 2: the man hears a voice: Samuel, Samuel! (search)
, while they perceived its ravages, formed no plans for its overthrow-and it did not occur to any that a paper devoted mainly to its suppression, might be made a direct and successful engine in the great work of reform. Private expostulations and individual confessions were indeed sometimes made; but no systematic efforts were adopted to give precision to the views or a bias to the sentiments of the people. Such was the state of public morals and the state of public sentiment up to the year 1826, when there occurred a change. This change was brought about chiefly through the instrumentality of a Baptist city missionary, the Rev. William Collier. His labors among the poor of Boston had doubtless revealed to him the bestial character of intemperance, and the necessity of doing something to check and put an end to the havoc it was working. With this design he established the National Philanthropist in Boston, March 4, 1826. The editor was one of Garrison's earliest acquaintances in
William Alexander Linn, Horace Greeley Founder and Editor of The New York Tribune, Chapter 1: his early years and first employment as a compositor (search)
ght remuneration of farming and land-clearing, and with a decided literary taste, naturally looked, in those days, to the printer's trade as a congenial occupation. Newspapers Greeley had loved and devoured from the time when he had learned to read, and when he was eleven years old he induced his father to accompany him to a newspaper office in Whitehall, N. Y., where he had heard that there was an opening for an apprentice. But he was rejected as too young for the place. By the spring of 1826 his father had given up the fight for a living in New England, and decided to carry out a project he had long had in mind — a move to Western Pennsylvania. He bought a tract of four acres in Erie County, about three miles from Clymer, N. Y., on which was a log cabin with a leaky roof, in a wilderness, where the woods abounded with wild animals, and the forest growth was so heavy that he and his younger son were a month in clearing an acre. By additional purchases he in time increased his ho
William Alexander Linn, Horace Greeley Founder and Editor of The New York Tribune, Chapter 7: Greeley's part in the antislavery contest (search)
ch to negro equality, was quite as strong in the Northern States as it was below Mason and Dixon's line. The Liberator, in its salutatory, said that a greater revolution was to be effected in the Free States-and particularly in New England-than at the South. I [Garrison] found contempt more bitter, opposition more active, detraction more relentless, prejudice more stubborn and apathy more frozen than among slaveholders themselves. The list of antislavery societies in the United States in 1826 shows that there were none in Maine, New Hampshire, Vermont, Massachusetts, or Connecticut, and only one each in Rhode Island and New York, while there were forty-one in North Carolina, twenty-three in Tennessee, four in Maryland, and two in Virginia. Edward Everett Hale recollects when black boys were not, except on one day, allowed by the bigger white boys to have the freedom of Boston Common; and when he was graduated from Harvard College in 1839, William Francis Channing was the only on
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Margaret Fuller Ossoli, Chapter 2: Hereditary traits. (search)
he warmly opposed the Missouri Compromise, and his speeches on this and other subjects found their way into print. He worked hard in his profession, kept up his classical reading, and was making preparations to write a history of the United States, when he died suddenly of Asiatic cholera, October 1, 1835. I have carefully read some of his published addresses: a Fourth-of-July oration at Watertown in 1809, and one at Lexington in 1814; also an address before the American Peace Society in 1826. In all these there are the characteristics to be found in a thousand similar speeches of that period, together with some not so common. They are fervent, patriotic, florid; but there is also a certain exceptional flavor arising from the fact that, unlike nine tenths of those who made such addresses in New England, the speaker was a Republican--or, as men were beginning to say, a Democrat--and not a Federalist. He does not appear in these addresses as a bitter partisan; he is as ready to p
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Margaret Fuller Ossoli, Chapter 3: Girlhood at Cambridge. (1810-1833.) (search)
uller's standing, being that of a lawyer and congressman, was as good as anybody's. There was a prejudice against him politically, no doubt, he being a Democrat when the ruling classes in Massachusetts were Federalists; but his social position was unimpaired. Neither he nor his wife had the attribute of personal elegance or grace; but he evidently took pains to fill the prominent place to which he was justly entitled; and an entertainment given by him to John Quincy Adams, the President, in 1826, was one of the most elaborate affairs of the kind that had occurred in Cambridge since the ante-revolutionary days of the Lechmeres and Vassalls. He was then residing in a fine old mansion, built by Chief Justice Dana, on what is still called Dana Hill,a house destroyed by fire in 1839,--and his guests were invited from far and near to a dinner and a ball. Few Cambridge hosts would then have attempted so much as this; but had Mr. Fuller's social prominence been far less than it was, he wou
Edward Alfred Pollard, The lost cause; a new Southern history of the War of the Confederates ... Drawn from official sources and approved by the most distinguished Confederate leaders., Chapter 11: (search)
ld horses as soon as they could sit astraddle; and their greatest commander in the latter periods of the war-Ulysses S. Grant-when an infant in arms desired a pistol to be fired by his ear, and exclaimed, rick again I-thus giving a very early indication of his warlike disposition. The following, told of McClellan in a Washington newspaper, during the days of his popularity, is characteristic:-- The infant Napoleon. An incident which occurred in the city of Philadelphia in the winter of 1826-7, is particularly worthy of record in our present crisis, inasmuch as it relates to the early history of one who fills a position commanding the attention and admiration of the world, and particularly of our own country. I will premise by saying I was in Philadelphia in the winter spoken of, attending medical lectures under a distinguished surgeon, then a professor in one of the institutions of the city. A son was born to our professor, and the event scarcely transpired before the father a
The Cambridge of eighteen hundred and ninety-six: a picture of the city and its industries fifty years after its incorporation (ed. Arthur Gilman), Physical Training. (search)
ysical exercise in addition to that which they obtained in performing the ordinary duties of life seems to have been about 1826. In this year Dr. Follen came to Cambridge and established a gymnasium at Harvard College, in one of the unoccupied Commoies of all colleges and seminaries of learning. The only authentic account of the work done at the Harvard gymnasium in 1826, that I have been able to find, is that contained in Dr. Edward Jarvis's work on Physiology and the Laws of Health, publisr study in the afternoon. Again Dr. Jarvis writes: It was supposed several years ago, during the period beginning 1826, that the gymnasium would furnish opportunities and inducements to exercise for all such as were not required by their busthe mode to, and measuring the amount of exertion by, the strength of those who needed it. The students of Cambridge in 1826 complained that they were fatigued and sometimes overcome, rather than invigorated, at the gymnasium, and were unfit for s
The Cambridge of eighteen hundred and ninety-six: a picture of the city and its industries fifty years after its incorporation (ed. Arthur Gilman), Financial and manufacturing. (search)
manufacturing. George Howland Cox. Financial. Cambridge Bank. It was not until the year 1826 that Cambridge had any banking facilities of its own, although it had long been a wealthy town. en connected with the bank since 1860. Mr. Lane served the bank as cashier from its inception, 1826, till March, 1855, when he resigned on account of ill-health. Dr. Paige held the position till Mlater, Charles Folsom, a graduate of the class of 1813, and Librarian of the college from 1823 to 1826, became identified with the Press, and his scholarship did much to increase the high reputation facturing Confectioners. The manufacture of candy in Cambridge was begun by Robert Douglass in 1826, in a small building on Windsor Street. He removed soon after to the building now standing on thethree-seated stages to Boston, passing through Main Street and over the West Boston Bridge. In 1826 Captain Ebenezer Kimball, the then landlord of a tavern on Pearl Street, Cambridgeport, started t
Francis Jackson Garrison, William Lloyd Garrison, 1805-1879; the story of his life told by his children: volume 2, Chapter 2: Germs of contention among brethren.—1836. (search)
egarded as freemen, that the committee would not suffer us to be fully heard in self-defence, and remonstrating afresh against the passage of any law or resolutions in derogation of anti-slavery men or measures. In the Senate, the memorial was laid upon the table. In the House of Representatives, as soon as it was read, Mr. Walley, Samuel Hurd Walley, Jr., afterwards Speaker of the Massachusetts House of Representatives, and Whig Representative in Congress. He was a Harvard graduate (1826), and a member of Park-St. Church. of Boston, (a member of Dr. Beecher's church, I am told, and a hot-headed colonizationist,) rose and moved that it be not received by the House! falsely and furiously declaring that it was insulting in its language, and that it was prejudging the committee, etc., etc. This bold attempt to kick the memorial out of the chamber, and to trample under foot the sacred right of petition and remonstrance, excited the strongest general indignation among the members.
Francis Jackson Garrison, William Lloyd Garrison, 1805-1879; the story of his life told by his children: volume 2, Index to volumes I. And II. (search)
382, accepts defeat, 373. Adams, C., 2.9. Adams, George Washington [d. 1829], 2.224. Adams, Henry, 1.134. Great-grandson of John Adams. Adams, John [1735-1826], 2.189; controversy with T. Pickering, 1.54; G.'s article on his death, 63; motto quoted, 284. Father of Adams, John Quincy [1767-1848], prayer for an anti-slaver. Y. A. S. S. meeting, 2.42, opposed by G. Smith on free produce, 88; opposes amendment of A. S. Constitution, 210; on Third Party, 342. Jefferson, Thomas [1743-1826], G.'s article on his death, 1.63, on his infidelity, 157; Notes on Virginia, 160; on Northern implication in the slave trade, 167; his nephew's cruelty, 306; his 1.398; speaks at Penn. Hall, 2.215. Moore, John [1788-1867], 1.251. Moore, Mark, 2.383. Moral Reform, 2.326, 409. Morgan, William, abducted by Masons in 1826, 1.113. Morpeth, Lord [1802-1864], at Wilberforce's funeral, 1.379, at S. Gurney's place, 2.385, 387, kindness to G., 387. Morrison, Robert [1782-1834], 1.35
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