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Wendell Phillips, Theodore C. Pease, Speeches, Lectures and Letters of Wendell Phillips: Volume 1, chapter 18 (search)
Power, he said, to think slavery a blessing, and do anything to save it. So utter did he consider this demoralization, that he despaired of native Americans, and trusted to the hunted patriots and the refuse of Europe, which the emigrant-trains bore by his house, for the salvation of the valley of the Mississippi. To-day, they see that very man kneeling to that Slave Power, and begging her to take all, but only consent to grant him such a Union, -Union with such a power! How, then, shall Kossuth answer, when Austria laughs him to scorn? Shall Europe see the slaveholder kick the reluctant and kneeling North out of such a Union? How, then, shall Garibaldi dare look in the face of Napoleon? If, therefore, it were only to honor self-government, to prove that it educates men, not pedlers and cowards, let us proclaim our faith that honest labor can stand alone; its own right hand amply able to earn its bread and defend its rights [applause]; and, if it were not so, our readiness at an
Wendell Phillips, Theodore C. Pease, Speeches, Lectures and Letters of Wendell Phillips: Volume 1, chapter 19 (search)
ves merciful. Witness Switzerland, St. Domingo, Hungary, Italy. Tyranny sours more than suffering. The Conservative hates the Abolitionist more than we do him. The South hates the North. The master speaks ten bitter words of the slave, where the slave speaks five of the master. Refuse, then, all compromise,--send the Slave States out to face the danger of which they are fully aware,--announce frankly that we welcome the black race to liberty, won in battle, as cordially as we have done Kossuth and Garibaldi, and probably there will never be an insurrection. Prudent and masterly statesmanship will avert it by just concession. Thus Disunion is Peace, as well as Liberty and Justice. But I was speaking of compromise. Compromise degrades us, and puts back freedom in Europe. If the North manfully accepts the Potomac for her barrier, avows her gladness to get rid of tyrants, her willingness and her ability to stand alone, she can borrow as much money in Europe as before, and will
Lydia Maria Child, Letters of Lydia Maria Child (ed. John Greenleaf Whittier, Wendell Phillips, Harriet Winslow Sewall), To the same. (search)
bite; but snake he rolled up dar, and while doctor dwine it, he bite you agin. De doctor cut out dat bite; but while he dwine it, de snake he spring up and bite you agin, and so he keep dwine, till you kill him. Dat's what Massa Linkum orter know. This winter I have for the first time been knitting for the army; but I do it only for Kansas troops. I can trust them, for they have vowed a vow unto the Lord that no fugitive shall ever be surrendered in their camps. There is a nephew of Kossuth in Colonel Montgomery's regiment. A few weeks ago when he was on scout duty a mulatto woman implored him to take her to the Yankee camp where her husband was. The mistress rushed out in hot pursuit. The young Hungarian reined in his horse, and called to the slave, Jump up, and hold on by me! She sprang on the horse, and they galloped away, under a shower of wrathful words from the mistress. When they rode into the Kansas camp, all the soldiers threw up their caps and hurrahed, and Colo
Lydia Maria Child, Letters of Lydia Maria Child (ed. John Greenleaf Whittier, Wendell Phillips, Harriet Winslow Sewall), Index. (search)
d Emerson, 66. Brisbane, Mr., 51. Broken Lights, by Miss Cobbe, 184. Brooks, Governor, v. Brown, John, letter of Mrs. Child to, 118; his reply, 119; martyrdom of, 137. Browning's (Mrs.) Aurora Leigh, 87. Bryant, William C., writes to Mrs. Child, 186. Buckle's History of civilization, 99. Buddha, 257. Burns, Anthony, returned to slavery from Boston, 72. C. Carpenter, E., letters to, 19, 22, 26. Carpenter, Joseph, letters to, 41, 68. Cassimir, a nephew of Kossuth, 162. Chadwick, John W., 242. Channing, William Ellery, discusses the anti-slavery movement with Mrs. Child, 24; letters of, to Mrs. Child, 44, 45; Mrs. Child's reminiscences of, 48; influenced by Mrs. Child's Appeal, 77; her imagination of him in the spiritual world, 144. Channing, William H., 188, 257. Chicago Tribune has biographical sketch of Mrs. Child, 201. Chapman, Maria Weston, 19, 147. Child, letter to a, 36. Child, David Lee, biographical sketch of, VIII.; first
Mary Thacher Higginson, Thomas Wentworth Higginson: the story of his life, VI: in and out of the pulpit (search)
-looking Quakerish body, with the sweetest, modest manners and yet as unshrinking and self-possessed as a loaded cannon. At Plymouth I heard some pretty things. One is about Laura Bridgman—that a lady whom she visited in Duxbury read her the whole of Evangeline on her fingers! Laura enjoyed it excessively and has talked about it a great deal. She wants to be as good as the heroine and wonders whether Evangeline would have kicked a cat—that animal being her aversion. After hearing Kossuth, he wrote:— No such series of speeches was ever delivered in so short a space by one man, since the world began; and when you add the fact of the foreign language, it becomes so astonishing that you cannot remember how astonishing it is. There seems absolutely no limit to the resources of his eloquence, his mastery over language, or his power of meeting the occasion; his career from the moment he landed has been one long intellectual triumph. It seems more like the Chronicle of the <
Mary Thacher Higginson, Thomas Wentworth Higginson: the story of his life, Index (search)
85; Higginson's friendship, for, 72, 125-27; portrayed in Malbone, 280. Huxley, T. H., 335, 34o; Higginson meets, 324. Jackson, Rev. A. W., on Higginson and his black regiment, 216-18, 223. Jackson, Helen Hunt, literary success, 258, 259. Johnson, Rev., Samuel, 50, 101; and Higginson, 78, 82; letter to, about resignation, 104, 105. Kansas, troubles in, 166, 167, 180, 181; Higginson in, 169-80; people of, 174-77. Kidner, Rev., Reuben, and Higginson, 358, T 359, 375, 376. Kossuth, described, 97, 98. La Farge, John, described, 259. Lane, Gen., Jim, 172, 174. Larger History of the United States, 417, 427: Higginson at work on, 301. Le Barnes, J. W., on kidnapping project, 106. Leigh ton, Caroline Andrews, letter to, 154. Leighton, Celia, account of, 109. See also Thaxter, Celia. Lind, Jenny, account of, 09, 100. Littlefield, Col., on colored troops, 229. Livermore, Mrs. Mary A., in London, 340. Livingstone, David, 341, 342. Long, Governor
Francis Jackson Garrison, William Lloyd Garrison, 1805-1879; the story of his life told by his children: volume 4, Chapter 12: Inner traits. (search)
found him to tally with a friend's description of him as a young man with a very black beard, which he shaved very close, giving the lower part of his face a bluish appearance. When let grow, however, his beard, with a parental reminiscence, was of Ante, 1.13. a sandy or light brown color; and I think my father liked it none the better for that. A man of singularly few prejudices, he never freed himself from the public opinion in which he grew up as regards beards, which were, even till Kossuth came over and broke the fashion, associated with men of no reputation—just as the conventional stage villain was bearded. He fostered independence in his children, If I give my children no other precept, he wrote in the Liberator (16: 18), if I leave them no other example, it shall be a fearless, impartial, thorough investigation of every subject to which their attention may be called, whether those principles agree or conflict with my own, or with those of any other person. but almost ra
Edward L. Pierce, Memoir and letters of Charles Sumner: volume 3, chapter 1 (search)
ll Frondeurs, from the faction in the days of the Reqence. These people were naturally ill-affected toward the progress of republicanism in Europe, and were quite unanimous in their want of sympathy with the uprisings of 1848. They were as much perplexed with fear of change as kings or any privileged orders. Life of Ticknor, vol. II. pp. 230, 234, 236. Sumner wrote to his brother in 1852: You must not confound the opinion of Boston with that of Massachusetts. The Commonwealth is for Kossuth; the city is against him. The line is broadly drawn. The same line is run between my political supporters and opponents. The city is bigoted, narrow, provincial, and selfish; the country has more the spirit of the American Revolution. One cannot but note a certain type in the portraits of the Boston men of this period as they hang in private houses, libraries, and museums, where they appear like strong-featured, and, as Mr. Webster called them, solid men. Their heads, as cut by artist
Edward L. Pierce, Memoir and letters of Charles Sumner: volume 3, Chapter 36: first session in Congress.—welcome to Kossuth.—public lands in the West.—the Fugitive Slave Law.—1851-1852. (search)
ter 36: first session in Congress.—welcome to Kossuth.—public lands in the West.—the Fugitive Slave the session, on the resolution of welcome to Kossuth. When the Hungarian patriot, after the subjury. This also was opposed on the ground that Kossuth had done nothing to deserve an extraordinary ol. III. pp. 3-9. he began with a tribute to Kossuth and his cause, and advocated his reception bySumner's friends. The popular enthusiasm for Kossuth seemed likely to affect national politics, an wrote to John Bigelow, Dec. 13, 1851:— Kossuth errs, all err, who ask any intervention by gowithout mincing or reserve. . . . I have seen Kossuth several times. He said to me that the next mrtant points. I pleaded at the same time for Kossuth and for what I know to be the true policy of e, 6 What a magnificent speech Wilson made to Kossuth! I have read nothing for months which took sepresentative of freedom. The country is for Kossuth; the city is against him. The line is clearly[6 more.
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)
ebrated in Boston the last time, June 4, 1768 Commissions arrive in Boston to regulate the Government, 1662 Their orders disregarded, 1665 They suffer great indignities, and go home, 1667 Kalakuana, of Sandwich Islands, visited Boston, Jan., 1875 Kine-pox inoculation introduced by Dr. Boylston, May 21, 1721 Kissing a fineable offence in Boston (if caught), 1698 A merry pastime in New England, 1880 Knapp, Elder sensational preacher, at Boston, Jan., 1842 Kossuth, Louis lecturing and selling Hungarian Bonds, at Faueuil Hall, Apr. 29, 1852 Kneeland, Abner sent to jail as a Free-thinker, June 13, 1838 Knights Templars of Virginia, visited Boston, June 17, 1858 Of Boston, visited Richmond, Va., May 13, 1859 Knox, Gen. Henry Likeness placed in Faneuil Hall, May 3, 1831 Kremlin A building on Sudbury street, being removed, May, 1847 L. Lafayette, Marquis visited Boston, Apr. 28, 1780 Again visited Boston, Oct. 18,
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