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Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing) 2 2 Browse Search
Elias Nason, The Life and Times of Charles Sumner: His Boyhood, Education and Public Career. 1 1 Browse Search
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Henry Walcott Boynton, Reader's History of American Literature 1 1 Browse Search
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Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Parker, Theodore 1810- (search)
one of its most uncompromising opponents. So marked was his sympathy for Anthony Burns, the seized fugitive slave at Boston (January, 1854), as to cause his indictment and trial for a violation of the fugitive slave law. It was quashed. In 1859 hemorrhage of the lungs terminated his public career. He sailed first to Santa Cruz, thence to Europe, spending the winter Theodore Parker. of 1859-60 in Rome, whence, in April, he set out for home, but only reached Florence, where he died, May 10, 1860. He bequeathed 13,000 valuable books to the Public Library of Boston. The following are extracts from Parker's oration on the dangers of slavery: I. Will there be a separation of the two elements, and a formation of two distinct states—freedom with democracy, and slavery with a tendency to despotism? That may save one-half the nation, and leave the other to voluntary ruin. Certainly, it is better to enter into life halt or maimed rather than having two hands and two feet to be
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), United States of America. (search)
e, and the convention, after fifty-seven ballotings without nominating, adjourns to meet at Baltimore June 18......May 3, 1860 Constitutional Union party holds a national convention in Baltimore......May 9, 1860 [John Bell, of Tennessee, and Samuel Houston, of Texas, were the candidates for nomination; on the second ballot Bell received 138 votes and Houston 69. Edward Everett, of Massachusetts, unanimously nominated for Vice-President.] Morrill tariff bill passes the House......May 10, 1860 [It was protective, the duties being high and specific; it passed the Senate after the Southern members withdrew; approved March 2, 1861.] Japanese embassy, numbering seventy-two, of all grades, arrive at Hampton Roads, and reaches Washington......May 14, 1860 National Republican Convention meets at Chicago......May 16, 1860 [All the free States were strongly represented, besides delegates from Delaware, Maryland, Virginia, Kentucky, Missouri, District of Columbia, and Territ