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Fitzhugh Lee, General Lee, Chapter 4: War. (search)
uch preferred had the choice fallen upon an abler man. Trusting in Almighty God, an approving conscience, and the aid of my fellow-citizens, I devote myself to the service of my native State, in whose behalf alone will I ever again draw my sword. It was his first and last speech, and under all the circumstances he could safely rest his oratorical reputation upon this, single effort. It is possible, had he selected a public profession after the war, we could have said of him as Pope said of Argyll: The State's thunder born to wield, And shake at once the Senate and the field. He had now entered upon the discharge of new duties and assumed new responsibilities. The bridge over which he had crossed from Colonel Lee, of the United States Army, to Major-General Lee, of the Virginia forces, had been burned behind him. He was enlisted for the war, In the prime of manhood and physical vigor he held what he considered the greatest honor-his State's highest commission. He had sacrifi
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Campbell, William, Lord (search)
Campbell, William, Lord Royal governor; younger brother of the fifth Duke of Argyll; became a captain in the British navy in August, 1762; was in Parliament in 1764; governor of Nova Scotia 1766-73; and was appointed governor of South Carolina, where he had acquired large possessions by his marriage to an American lady, in 1774. He arrived at Charleston in July, 1775; was received with courtesy; and soon summoned a meeting of the Assembly. They came, declined to do business, and adjourned on their own authority. The Committee of Safety proceeded in their preparations for resistance without regard to the presence of the governor. Lord Campbell professed great love for the people. His sincerity was suspected, and the hollowness of his professions was soon proved. Early in September Colonel Moultrie, by order of the Committee of Safety, proceeded to take possession of a small post on Sullivan's Island, in Charleston Harbor. The small garrison fled to the British sloops-of-war
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Single tax, (search)
isher's advertisement to the effect that Mr. Spencer had abandoned the views contained in the old edition. Mr. Spencer in abandoning or withdrawing his original views in this connection neglected, however, to disprove them. Other writers and apologists of the existing order sprang up by scores during the controversial period between 1880 and 1894, and many answers to Progress and Poverty were given to the world. The most notable of these answers was the one prepared by the late Duke of Argyll, entitled The Prophet of San Francisco, and republished in full, with Mr. George's reply thereto, in 1893. Patrick Edward Dove was another forerunner of George. In the Theory of human progression he says: If, then, successive generations of men cannot have their practical share of the actual soil (including mines, etc.), how can the division of the advantages of the natural earth be effected? By the division of its annual value or rent; that is, by making the rent of the soil the common
Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events: Documents and Narratives, Volume 1. (ed. Frank Moore), chapter 278 (search)
o our minister, Mr Abbott Lawrence, and that the Southern commissioners, disheartened by the coolness with which their overtures were received, and also by the fate of the Lopez expedition, returned discomfited to the United States. In 1857 Mr. Mason, of Virginia, announced as a fact on the floor of the Senate that the British Government had changed its opinion on the slavery question; but an early occasion was taken by that government to contradict the assertion of Mr. Mason, the Duke of Argyll declaring that he was instructed by her Majesty's ministers to do so. See a letter dated London, December 10, 1853, published and endorsed by the Commercial Advertiser, January 30, 1861. Blind as we have all been to the catastrophe that awaited us, unconscious as were the people, both at the North and at the South, of this preconcert among a few leaders in the different States, we can now trace step by step the progress of the conspiracy, and read the history of the last thirty years
Francis Jackson Garrison, William Lloyd Garrison, 1805-1879; the story of his life told by his children: volume 2, Chapter 7: the World's Convention.—1840. (search)
a great sensation did we produce as we paraded through the streets of London. The June 29, 1840. dinner was magnificent, and all the arrangements on the most liberal and elegant scale. After the banquet was over, we had several speeches—one from Buxton, another from Birney, another from myself, &c. The Duchess of Sutherland, (who ranks next to the Queen, and Lib. 11.195. is celebrated for her beauty), accompanied by her daughter, an interesting young lady, Afterwards the Duchess of Argyll. and Lord Morpeth, Brother of the Duchess of Sutherland. Of this enlightened nobleman Mr. Garrison afterwards wrote (Lib. 11.195): We were highly pleased with his republican manners, urbanity of spirit, good sense, unostentatious deportment and intelligent mind. An unsolicited and equally unexpected act of personal respect and kindness towards Mr. Garrison was Lord Morpeth's giving him a letter of introduction to a Government official at the Castle in Dublin, on learning of his intentio
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)
Convention, 319, confirmed at Arcade, 341, and Albany, 342, 434; opposition laid to non-resistance, 343; help to Van Buren, 414; daily organ, 418; defeat, 428; pretensions reviewed, 434-438; Massachusetts wing's miscellaneous platform, 435, opposition to N. B. Borden, 436, 437. Anti-Slavery Record, Am. A. S. publication, 1.483, denounced by John Tyler, 486, burnt at Charleston, 485. Anti-Slavery Reporter (N. Y.), 2.386. Anti-Slavery Societies, multiplication of, 2.126, 243. Argyll, Duchess of, 2.387. Arkansas, admission as slave State opposed, 2.79, achieved in Senate, 80, delayed in House, 106. Arthur, Chester A. [b. 1830], 1.342. Ashmun, Jehudi [1794-1828], 1.339. Ashurst, William Henry [b. London, Feb. 11, 1792; d. there Oct. 13, 1855], penny-postage labors, 2.390; favors admission of women to World's Convention, 371, 376; hospitality to G., 377, 390; interest in his peace doctrine, 384; total abstinence, 410.—Letters to G., 2.376, 401. Atherton, Chas.
Francis Jackson Garrison, William Lloyd Garrison, 1805-1879; the story of his life told by his children: volume 4, Chapter 8: to England and the Continent.—1867. (search)
he paid his respects to the Duke and Duchess June 20. of Argyll, at Argyll Lodge, Kensington, desiring to testify his apprr, a young girl in 1840, now greeted him as the Duchess of Argyll. Five of her twelve children were brought into the room t too unwell to leave her room, and the Duke and Duchess of Argyll and Marquis of Lorne entertained her guests at luncheon, aal, social, literary, or scientific standing. The Duke of Argyll headed the list as Chairman, with the Hon. E. Lyulph Stanlith Mr. Garrison on his right, and the Duke and Duchess of Argyll on his left. On the right of Mr. Garrison sat Earl and Coowed Mr. Bright's peroration were renewed when the Duke of Argyll came forward to propose the formal Address of Welcome, whi another sentiment which has been expressed by the Duke of Argyll,—that this may be an occasion which will tend to draw clositted to name one or two for a noble example. The Duke of Argyll, a peer of the realm, who, I think, all will now confess w
Francis Jackson Garrison, William Lloyd Garrison, 1805-1879; the story of his life told by his children: volume 4, Chapter 10: death of Mrs. Garrison.—final visit to England.—1876, 1877. (search)
Suffrage Association; and at a meeting in behalf of the London School of Medicine for Women he listened to June 25. speeches by the Earl of Shaftesbury, Mr. Stansfeld, Mrs. James Stansfeld, Henry Fawcett. Westlake, Prof. Fawcett, Miss Jex Blake, and Dr. Garrett-Anderson. He also heard a liberal discourse by Dean Sophia Jex Blake. Stanley at St. Stephen's. One of his pleasantest mornings June 24. was spent at Argyll Lodge, in Kensington, where he breakfasted with the Duke and Duchess of Argyll and their June 23. daughters,—John Bright, Hon. Charles Howard, and Hon. Lyulph Stanley being the other guests; and he had a cheerful interview also with Lord Houghton, who was just then June 28. confined to his room by a painful accident, but who insisted on seeing him, though other callers were turned away. The British and Foreign Anti-Slavery Society would not consent to Mr. Garrison's leaving London without receiving some mark of attention from them. Among the fifty gentlemen prese
Edward L. Pierce, Memoir and letters of Charles Sumner: volume 1, Chapter 15: the Circuits.—Visits in England and Scotland.—August to October, 1838.—age, 27. (search)
,—I am the guest of the Lord-Advocate, John A. Murray.—a kind, agreeable gentleman, of about sixty-six. We are in the recesses of the Highlands, with mountain peaks about us in every direction; glassy lakes, in which are mirrored the surrounding objects; and far, far away from the madding crowd's ignoble strife. Here is the great Temple of Nature; and none but her devout worshippers enter in. On the opposite shore of the loch is the castle of Inverary,—the celebrated seat of the Duke of Argyll, and the scene of some of the adventures of Captain Dalgetty in the Legend of Montrose. After the ladies left the table at dinner, his Lordship inquired of me as to the extent of Lynch law in America. He said that it was the great stain of our country, and that it tended to create a distrust in the security of life, freedom, and property; Instances of summary popular justice were then somewhat frequent; they were the incidents of slaveholding or frontier communities, imperfectly civiliz<
Edward L. Pierce, Memoir and letters of Charles Sumner: volume 2, Chapter 22: England again, and the voyage home.—March 17 to May 3, 1840. —Age 29. (search)
Sumner's friend. Lord Morpeth, who became the seventh Earl of Carlisle, was married to George Granville, the second Duke of Sutherland, and died in 1868. She became Mistress of the Robes to the Queen. More than any one in the English nobility she gave the influence of her character and position against American slavery. Sumner received many courtesies from the Duchess on his visit to England in 1857, and was invited by her to be her guest at Stafford House. Her daughter, the Duchess of Argyll, was to the end of Sumner's life one of his most faithful friends and correspondents. Sumner met with a welcome from the Argylls, in 1857. I lunched with a day or two ago. She is wonderfully beautiful; I think even more so than Mrs. Norton. But I will tell you of these things when we meet. Strange contrast awaits me! To quit these iris-colored visions for the stern realities of American life! To throw aside the dreamy morning-gown and slippers, and pull on the boots of hard work! Let i
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