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Benjamnin F. Butler, Butler's Book: Autobiography and Personal Reminiscences of Major-General Benjamin Butler, Chapter 20: Congressman and Governor. (search)
my taking up time or space in giving the details of the case. They were all printed and can be found in the congressional reports in any respectable library. Upon the close of our case, the opening argument for the defence was presented by Judge Curtis, and it is due to the truth of history to say, as I once before remarked, that after he had presented the case of his client, in my judgment nothing more was said in his behalf, although in the five or six closing speeches presented by his othence for the defence. As to the method of its production, I objected to much of it as I would in any other court, and the report will show that most of my objections were sustained by the Senate. Then all the counsel for the defendant, except Mr. Curtis, made closing arguments in defence of their client; each of the managers on the part of the House, save myself, made an argument in closing the prosecution, and the question was submitted to the Senate. After some deliberation by the Senate
Benjamnin F. Butler, Butler's Book: Autobiography and Personal Reminiscences of Major-General Benjamin Butler, Index. (search)
history of war, 868. Crispin, Captain, Commandant of U. S. Arsenal, 761. Crosby, Lieutenant, at Fort Hatteras, 284. Currituck, Union Gunboat, 617. Curtis, General, given reinforcements by Halleck, 457-459; proposed junction with Grant, 463; command drawn from Pittsburg trenches, 841. Curtis, Hon. B. R., 97; Counsel fher, 774; reference to, 792; reports to Butler, 794. Grant, Gen. U. S., manner of taking Vicksburg, 455; disobeys Halleck's orders, 459; proposed junction with Curtis, 463; declared by Davis responsible for non-exchange of prisoners at Port Hudson and Vicksburg, 584; proposes to Butler to cease exchanging prisoners, 592, 595; fements of forces around, 639, 694. Jefferson, Thos., 85-86. Jeffers, reference to, 806; quoted upon Porter's report, 808. Johnson, Andrew, defence of by Judge Curtis, 97. Johnson, Maj.-Gen., Edward, reported capture of, 651. Johnson, President, objects to the convention between Sherman and Johnston, 876; Butler confer
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Senate, United States (search)
Mr. Pomeroy, chairman of the committee heretofore appointed for that purpose. The chief-justice.— The sergeant-at-arms will open the court by proclamation. The sergeant-at-arms.— Hear ye! hear ye! hear ye! All persons are commanded to keep silence while the Senate of the United States is sitting for the trial of the articles of impeachment exhibited by the House of Representatives against Andrew Johnson, President of the United States. The President's counsel, Messrs. Stanbery, Curtis, Evarts, and Groesbeck, entered the chamber and took the seats assigned to them. At twelve o'clock and thirty-five minutes, P. M., the sergeant-at-arms announced the presence of the managers of the impeachment on the part of the House of Representatives, and they were conducted to the seats assigned to them. Immediately afterwards the presence of the members of the House of Representatives was announced, and the members of the committee of the whole House, headed by Mr. E. B. Washburn,
William Schouler, A history of Massachusetts in the Civil War: Volume 1, Chapter 1: (search)
rge and respectable meeting of the citizens of Boston was held in Faneuil Hall, on the 5th of February, to indorse the resolutions of Mr. Crittenden, of Kentucky, in favor of a compromise with the South. J. Thomas Stevenson, Esq., presided, and made a strong and able speech in favor of compromise, in the course of which he said he would almost pray for a foreign war, that it might bind us again as one, and prevent the shedding of fraternal blood. He would give up every thing but honor. B. R. Curtis, Esq., ex-judge of the United-States Supreme Court, made the leading speech, which was received with great favor. The resolutions were read by Colonel Jonas French. Speeches were made by Mr. Wightman, mayor of the city, Mr. Saltonstall, Mr. G. S. Hillard, and others, some of whom afterwards distinguished themselves as officers in the war. This meeting spoke the sentiments of the conservative citizens, who regarded war and disunion as evils greater than the existence of slavery, or ev
Ernest Crosby, Garrison the non-resistant, Chapter 4: Constitution and conscience (search)
once fled from the miscalled free States across the border into Canada and found freedom on British soil. When Wendell Phillips and Theodore Parker addressed a mass-meeting at Faneuil Hall to protest against the return of a captured slave, Judge B. R. Curtis, who hoped to obtain the post of chief justice from the slave power, and was in fact one of the greatest of living jurists, urged the grand jury to indict them as obstructing the process of the United States; and that honorable body compliw, and setting fire to it, burned it to ashes. And let all people say, Amen, he cried; and a shout of Amen went up from the vast crowd. Then he burned the decision of the commissioner ordering the surrender of a slave, and also the charge of Judge Curtis to the grand jury. And let all the people say, Amen. Then he held up the Constitution of the United States, and declaring it to be the source and parent of the other atrocities, he committed it too to the flames. So perish all compromises
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)
168, witness in libel suit, 169, card from G., 179. Thompson, John W., 1.167. Thomsonian doctors hung, 1.485; G.'s Thomsonianism made a charge against him, 2.281. Thorneley, Thomas, 1.349. Thoughts on Colonization, 1.290-297; effect, 298-302; cost imperils Lib., 311. Thurston, David, Rev., delegate to Nat. A. S. Convention, 1.395, committeeman, 399, first signer of Declaration, 408. Ticknor, George [1791-1871], coldness to E. G. Loring, 2.55.—Letters to Prescott, 1.439; from B. R. Curtis, 1.501. Tillson, Joseph, 2.46. Times (London), letter from G., 1.354, 366, 367. Todd, Francis, owner of Francis, 1.165, denounced by G., 166, brings libel suit against him and Lundy, 167, 178, offers withdrawal, 197, secures conviction, 195, 196; card from G., 180, final censure from G., 196; influence against G.'s lecturing in Newburyport, 208. Torrey, Charles Turner, Rev. [b. Scituate, Mass., Nov. 21, 1813; d. Baltimore, Md., May 9, 1846], cor. sec. Andover A. S. S., 2.220, of
Wendell Phillips, Theodore C. Pease, Speeches, Lectures and Letters of Wendell Phillips: Volume 2, Welcome to George Thompson (1840). (search)
s it will be found to be the case with laws. Add that to our trophies. Mr. B. R. Curtis--the only one of the speakers entitled to much influence or consideration the great Roman, It is necessary to go; it is not necessary to live! Perhaps Mr. Curtis may yet find this to be one of those occasions. One thing we know, the greatnd when they had to look out for the consequences. [Laughter and cheers.] Mr. Curtis defended the right of Massachusetts to surrender the fugitive slave, on the g a whole age longer, if it skulk Behind the shield of some fair-seeming name. Mr. Curtis forgot to finish his argument, and show us how, in present circumstances, it the surrender clause the only clause in our Constitution relating to slaves, Mr. Curtis's argument would have some shadow of claim to plausibility. But Massachusettbut for Massachusetts' justice and consistency. But, granting the whole of Mr. Curtis's argument, he did not touch, or even glance at, the popular objection to the
Francis Jackson Garrison, William Lloyd Garrison, 1805-1879; the story of his life told by his children: volume 1, Chapter 14: the Boston mob (first stage).—1835. (search)
on Street In May, they had removed from Freedom's Cottage to a boardinghouse on Guild Row (now Washington Street), near Dudley Street. In the course of a few weeks, to oblige Mr. Thompson, they had taken off his hands the lease of the house on Brighton Street—in convenient proximity to the city jail. See the map in the first chapter of the next volume. for Friendship's Valley. The Liberator, appearing on the same day, gave this preliminary notice of the occasion which Mr. Lib. 5.135. Curtis rejoiced was so well over: Yesterday afternoon this building [Faneuil Hall] was turned into a worse than Augean stable, by the pollutions of a proslavery meeting held for the first time within its venerable walls. . . . Call it no longer the Cradle of liberty, but the refuge of slavery. This meeting, it said later, proves the guilt of New England Lib. 5.139. to be equal to that of the South, and answers conclusively the senseless inquiry, Why don't you go to the South? Abolitionists wou
Edward L. Pierce, Memoir and letters of Charles Sumner: volume 3, Chapter 33: the national election of 1848.—the Free Soil Party.— 1848-1849. (search)
he would put his foot on Congressional action against slavery in the territories. His selection, as all admitted, was due to the popular favor he had won by victories obtained in a war growing out of the annexation of Texas and a plot for the extension of slavery. Webster wrote, Jan. 30, 1848: There are hundreds and thousands of Whigs, who are sober-minded and religious, who will not vote for a candidate brought forward only because of his successful fighting in this war against Mexico. Curtis's Life of Webster, vol. II. p. 336. With the associations and interests of a slaveholder, with a candidacy thus promoted and a popularity thus obtained, whatever might be his attractive personal qualities, he necessarily repelled the support of antislavery men who were pledged by their convictions and declarations to accept no candidate whose position on the extension of slavery was either hostile or ambiguous. General Taylor's candidacy found quite early some support at the North,—chief
Edward L. Pierce, Memoir and letters of Charles Sumner: volume 3, Chapter 34: the compromise of 1850.—Mr. Webster. (search)
their obligations finally determined, by the supreme moral law. Webster's Works, vol. II. p. 582; vol. VI. p. 578. He said at Capon Springs, Va., June, 1850 (Curtis's Life of Webster, vol. II. p. 516): And when nothing else will answer, they invoke religion and speak of a higher law. Gentlemen, this North Mountain is high; tct if the North deliberately disregarded the obligation to surrender fugitive slaves, using language not unlike that of the secession orators of 1860 and 1861. Curtis's Life of Webster, vol. II. pp. 517-520. Everett omitted this speech from his edition of Webster's Works. On the death of President Taylor, he did not conceal frde. He wrote, two days after Taylor's death, There is no doubt that recent events have increased the probability of the passage of that measure [the Compromise]. Curtis's Life, vol. II. p. 464, note. His personal feelings carried him so far, that, as Secretary of State under Fillmore, he withdrew the patronage of his department—
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