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Colonel William Preston Johnston, The Life of General Albert Sidney Johnston : His Service in the Armies of the United States, the Republic of Texas, and the Confederate States. 1 1 Browse Search
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing) 1 1 Browse Search
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Olde Cambridge 1 1 Browse Search
Cambridge History of American Literature: volume 2 (ed. Trent, William Peterfield, 1862-1939., Erskine, John, 1879-1951., Sherman, Stuart Pratt, 1881-1926., Van Doren, Carl, 1885-1950.) 1 1 Browse Search
Edward L. Pierce, Memoir and letters of Charles Sumner: volume 2 1 1 Browse Search
Lucius R. Paige, History of Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1630-1877, with a genealogical register 1 1 Browse Search
Edward H. Savage, author of Police Recollections; Or Boston by Daylight and Gas-Light ., Boston events: a brief mention and the date of more than 5,000 events that transpired in Boston from 1630 to 1880, covering a period of 250 years, together with other occurrences of interest, arranged in alphabetical order 1 1 Browse Search
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow 1 1 Browse Search
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Colonel William Preston Johnston, The Life of General Albert Sidney Johnston : His Service in the Armies of the United States, the Republic of Texas, and the Confederate States., Chapter 13: the Mormon rebellion. (search)
f tongues, or talking gibberish to be translated by another. The habit of command and long practice at length made him a strong though rude speaker. Such was the successor of Joseph. Prophecy required the completion of the temple at Nauvoo; and Brigham finished it after a fashion. In the mean time, foreseeing the conflict impending with the Gentiles, he cautiously paved the way to a removal of his people to the Rocky Mountains, and at last declared a revelation to that effect. In February, 1846, the advance-guard crossed the Mississippi, Nauvoo was abandoned, and that toilsome pilgrimage began, which ended in the valley of Salt Lake. Nauvoo was said to contain 15,000 inhabitants, and it was entirely deserted. The sudden exodus of such a population from the midst of enraged neighbors was marked by every form of hardship, privation, and affliction, and their migration across the Plains was at a heavy cost in human life. The United States Government, in order to relieve the di
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Mormons, (search)
jail, and the Prophet and his brother were shot dead. Rigdon now aspired to be the leader of the Mormons, but Brigham Young had himself appointed president of the Church, and Rigdon, becoming contumacious, was cast out to be buffeted for 1,000 years. Public sentiment in Illinois soon set strongly against the Mormons. Armed mobs attacked the smaller settlements, and also Nauvoo, their city. At length a special revelation commanded their departure for the Western wilderness; and in February, 1846, 1,600 men, women, and children crossed the Mississippi River on the ice, and, travelling with ox-teams and on foot, penetrated the Indian country and rested at Council Bluffs, on the Missouri River. Other bands continued to emigrate; and finally, in September, 1846, the last lingering Mormons at Nauvoo were driven out at the point of the bayonet by 1,600 troops. At their resting-place they were met by a requisition for 500 men for the army in Mexico, which was complied with. The rema
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Olde Cambridge, Chapter 4: Longfellow (search)
are rather savage. This referred to an edition published by Hart in Philadelphia, November, 1845, and the omission was due, his brother thinks, to a too goodnatured concession to the expressed wish of the publishers. Several other instances of this good nature had occurred on the part of others, and the abolitionists could not easily ignore it. It is to be remembered, on the other hand, that these poems were all included in the cheap edition published by Harper but a few months later (February, 1846), and that Longfellow might justly regard this as the one destined to reach the people. It is also to be recognized that these poems had been written when entirely alone, on a homeward voyage from Europe; that he did not personally know any of the abolitionists, and perhaps did not quite realize how important these productions were or how valuable was his example to the struggling band who were fighting slavery. Since Hart undertook at his own risk what was then regarded as an Edition
Cambridge History of American Literature: volume 2 (ed. Trent, William Peterfield, 1862-1939., Erskine, John, 1879-1951., Sherman, Stuart Pratt, 1881-1926., Van Doren, Carl, 1885-1950.), Chapter 1: Whitman (search)
ind-Foot, and a few poems were similarly twice published by Whitman, in the lax fashion of the day. See Bibliography. addressed, in the cause of temperance, not to the critics but to the people, and evidently written to order. In this period Whitman was connected with some of the best city magazines and newspapers as contributor, compositor, or editor. The most important position that he held was that of editor of The daily [and Weekly] Brooklyn Eagle, a connection which extended from February, 1846, to January, 1848, when a row with the boss, on account of Whitman's unreliability, and with the party, on account of his progressive Barnburner politics, made it necessary for him to shift for a new position. This was readily found on The daily Crescent, a paper about to be launched in New Orleans. The trip which, with his favourite brother Jeff, Whitman made in the spring of 1848 by rail, stage, and Mississippi steamboat to New Orleans, his residence in that city for three months,
Edward L. Pierce, Memoir and letters of Charles Sumner: volume 2, Chapter 25: service for Crawford.—The Somers Mutiny.—The nation's duty as to slavery.—1843.—Age, 32. (search)
Hampshire; May, 1844; Vol. VII. p. 48-51. Perkins's Edition of Brown's Chancery Reports; May, 1844; Vol. VII. p. 51, 52. American Law Journals; June, 1844; Vol. VII. pp. 65-77. Diversions in Philology. July, 1844; Vol. VII. pp. 155-157. And, at a later period, the following: Wedgewood's Revised Statutes of the United States; June, 1845; Vol. VIII. p. 88. Mackeldey's Compendium of Modern Civil Law; January, 1846; Vol. VIII. pp. 427, 428. Punishments and Prisons; February, 1846; Vol. VIII. pp. 477—--479 and O'Brien on Military Law. April, 1846; Vol. VIII. pp. 529-532. His topics, it will be seen, like those of his early contributions to the American Jurist, Ante, Vol. I. p. 152. were books, authors, and jurists, instead of questions of law which were then vexing the profession. A few extracts will illustrate his style and tone of thought at this period. Of Chancellor Kent's eightieth birthday he wrote: Ten years of happy life have been all
Lucius R. Paige, History of Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1630-1877, with a genealogical register, Chapter 16: ecclesiastical History. (search)
34, D. D. 1851, was a stated supply from Jan., 1864, to May, 1864. Rev. Stephen G. Bulfinch, Columbian, Wash. 1827, D. D. 1864, was pastor from Sept., 1865, to July, 1869, and died in 1870. He was succeeded by Rev. Samuel W. McDaniel, in Nov., 1869, who resigned, July, 1874. The parish is now destitute of a pastor. Deacons. Elected.Held office until Cornelius ClarkJan. 27, 1830ResignedJan. 3, 1833 Abraham P. ShermanApril 3, 1831ResignedDec. 2, 1851 Robert VinalJan. 3, 1833ResignedFeb. 1846 George NewhallDec. 3, 1851DiedMay 24, 1869 John PalmerMay 6, 1855 Second Baptist.—As early as 1824, several persons residing in East Cambridge, being members of Baptist churches in Boston and elsewhere, established a Sabbath-school, and subsequently made arrangements to have preaching one evening in a week, and to this end permission was asked to occupy one of the rooms in the Putnam School-house. In 1827 a meeting-house was erected on the northeasterly corner of Cambridge and Four
Edward H. Savage, author of Police Recollections; Or Boston by Daylight and Gas-Light ., Boston events: a brief mention and the date of more than 5,000 events that transpired in Boston from 1630 to 1880, covering a period of 250 years, together with other occurrences of interest, arranged in alphabetical order, Boston events. (search)
, Oct. 25, 1780 English Emancipation Anniversary, July 15, 1813 Excitement in Boston harbor (slave-catchers), Aug. 1, 1836 Catchers, Hughes and Knights in limbo, Oct. 16, 1850 Shadrac, a fugitive, arrested and escaped, Feb. 5, 1851 Thomas Semmes arrested, a nine days sensation, Apr. 3, 1851 Anthony Burns arrested, a nine days sensation, May 26, 1854 Emancipation throughout the United States proclaimed, Jan. 1, 1863 Sleighs carrying sixty-two persons, come in use, Feb., 1846 Smokers in the streets on Sundays, arrested and fined, April, 1822 In the streets on week-days, arrested and fined, Oct., 1829 In the streets, vigorously prosecuted, June, 1848 Smokers' Retreat with seats prepared on the Common, June, 1851 Snodgrass, Emma A girl about the streets in men's clothes, Nov., 1852 Small-pox prevalent in town, Nov., 1633 Forty persons died during the year , 1666 Very fatal in town and country, Nov., 1698 Carried off many i
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Chapter 14: anti-slavery poems and second marriage (search)
te justly treated by the critics, or even by his latest biographer, Professor Carpenter, Beacon Biographies (Longfellow ), p. 17. for consenting to the omission of the anti-slavery poems from his works, published by Carey and Hart in Philadelphia in November, 1845. This was an illustrated edition which had been for some time in preparation and did not apparently, like the nearly simultaneous edition of Harper, assume to contain his complete works. The Harper edition was published in February, 1846, in cheaper form and double columns, and was the really collective edition, containing the anti-slavery poems and all. As we do not know the circumstances of the case, it cannot positively be asserted why this variation occurred, but inasmuch as the Harpers were at that period, and for many years after, thoroughly conservative on the slavery question and extremely opposed to referring to it in any way, it is pretty certain that it must have been because of the positive demand of Longfell