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Francis B. Carpenter, Six Months at the White House, Lxxvii. (search)
whole. It seemed to me as beautiful as that emerald pool, and as pure. I have never forgotten that glimpse. When the strange revocation came of the most rational and reasonable proclamation of Fremont,-- The slaves of Rebels shall be set free, --I remembered that hearty Amen, and stifled my rising apprehensions. I remembered it in those dark days when McClellan, Nero-like, was fiddling on James River, and Pope was being routed before Washington, and the report came that a prominent Cabinet Minister had boasted that he had succeeded in preventing the issue of the Emancipation Proclamation; I said: Abraham Lincoln will prove true yet. And he has! God bless him! he has. Slow, if you please, but true. Unimpassioned, if you please, but true. Jocose, trifling, if you please, but true. Reluctant to part with unworthy official advisers, but true himself--true as steel! I could wish him less a man of facts, and more a man of ideas. I could wish him more stern and more vigorous: but eve
Benson J. Lossing, Pictorial Field Book of the Civil War. Volume 1., Chapter 7: Secession Conventions in six States. (search)
on at Milledgeville, the State capital, announced to the world that that Commonwealth was no longer a part of the great American Republic. We have already observed the preliminary secession movements in that State, Pages 51 to 58, inclusive. under the manipulations of Toombs, Cobb, Iverson, and some less notable conspirators, and the reluctance of the greater portion of the more intelligent citizens to follow the lead of these selfish and ambitious men. Their exalted positions (one a Cabinet Minister, and the other two named, National Senators) enabled them to work powerfully, through subservient politicians, in deceiving, misleading, exciting, and coercing the people. Toombs, in particular, whose thirst for power and personal aggrandizement, and contempt for common folks, made him impatient of the popular will, and consequently inimical to republican institutions, was unceasing in his efforts to destroy the confidence of the people in their free Government. He employed falsehood
Laura E. Richards, Maud Howe, Florence Howe Hall, Julia Ward Howe, 1819-1910, in two volumes, with portraits and other illustrations: volume 1, Chapter 12: Stepping westward 1901-1902; aet. 82-83 (search)
ed to Cuba Where the fight was raging, Rough and ready Riders led he, Valorous warfare waging. Here's to Teddy! Safe and steady, Loved by every section! South and North Will hurry forth To hasten his election. 1904. On September 12, a notice of the death of William Allen Butler is pasted in the Diary. Below it she writes:-- A pleasant man. I met him at the Hazeltines' in Rome in 1898 and 1899. His poem [Nothing to wear] was claimed by one or two people. I met his father [a Cabinet Minister] at a dinner at the Bancrofts' in New York, at which ex-President Van Buren was also present, and W. M. Thackeray, who said to me across the table that Browning's How they brought the good news was a good jingle. On the 29th she spoke at a meeting of the New England Woman's Club in memory of Dr. Zakrzewska, and records her final words:-- I pray God earnestly that we women may never go back from the ground which has been gained for us by our noble pioneers and leaders. I pray
George Ticknor, Life, letters and journals of George Ticknor (ed. George Hillard), Chapter 16: (search)
those who had formerly been kind to them, in the warm and earnest welcome given to the whole party at Tetschen, where they stopped a few hours to see Count Thun and his daughters. See Vol. I. p. 505 et seq. Old memories were recalled,—some sadly and tenderly, for the Countess had died,—and their kindness was, if possible, greater than ever. Additional instances of it occurred in Vienna, where Count Thun followed them, and where his sons, Count Franz and Count Leo,—the latter then a Cabinet Minister,—renewed all their former faithful and attractive courtesy; and in Italy, where Count Frederic, whom Mr. Ticknor had not before known, received him at Verona as an old friend of the family. During his second short visit in Berlin Mr. Ticknor wrote as follows to Mrs. Ticknor:— Berlin, Friday, September 19. I cannot get back before Sunday evening, 6 o'clock. It is impossible. I have worked till twelve o'clock every night, and, though I am sixty-five years old, I have accompl
The Daily Dispatch: April 2, 1861., [Electronic resource], Removals and appointments of postmasters. (search)
Look to the Senate. New England has the Vice President of the Senate, and eleven chairmen of committees in that body. She has also a Cabinet Minister, the Minister to Austria, the Minister to Italy, the Minister to Belgium, and the Consul to London. What has Virginia?
The Daily Dispatch: may 10, 1861., [Electronic resource], From Washington. (search)
The rumors which are prevalent in Alexandria, concerning an invasion and possession of that city by the Lincoln Administration, are not credited by any one in this city. In fact, it is doubtful whether enough of the troops now here could be induced to go to Virginia. The Northern papers contain voluminous dispatches from Washington, some of which we copy: Washington, May 7. --There has been a long and tedious meeting of the Cabinet to-day.--The President and each Cabinet Minister came out of it looking very much jaded. Among the subjects discussed was the present attitude of some of the great Powers of Europe relative to the contemplated oligarchy of the South. The Secretary of War has granted a furlough to Major Anderson, who will soon visit Kentucky, his native State, where many of his relatives still reside. The Secretary has the subject of the promotion of Major Anderson under consideration, and has not yet determined what rank above his present to as
The Daily Dispatch: August 27, 1861., [Electronic resource], Jenny Lind in London. (search)
promise that I will never again write or publish articles against the North, or in favor of secession." What a triumph of reason and free institutions! What a glorious record for history! What a seductive appeal to our benighted Southern brethren, to re- unite themselves with the freedom and civilization, from which bad men have persuaded them, in an evil-hour, to tear themselves away! How it reminds one of the joyous days of Massachusetts Colony, described with so much unction by the reverend Minister of Ipswich, when they "did burn and slay" the Pequot and Narragansett in their wigwams, "by the goodness of God!" How it smacks of the blessed times when old women were forced to sign a confession that they were witches, and then were drowned or hanged for their pains; when Quakers were whipped and branded, and had their ears cut off, as a merciful preparation for the scaffold! How naturally "pernicious" editors assume the place of "Devil-ridden" hags and "notorious heretics!" How
The Daily Dispatch: August 2, 1862., [Electronic resource], From the North. (search)
and treason. This policy must come from the Executive. Better from him, upon whom the people a true patriot than from a the Commander-in-Chief of the Army, as a legitimate exercise of war power, than from the agitators in Congress or elsewhere. When this policy is laid down by the Executive it must be enforced. There should be no faltering in its execution, and no more paltering in a double sense between ourselves or with the foe. Rigid obedience should be everywhere exacted. If a Cabinet Minister is hostile he must be removed. If a General is contumacious he must be deprived of his command.--The crisis demands not only a severe policy and vigorous action, but unfaltering obedience and hearty co-operation in all departments and arms of the Government. And the people — all the people — must see the vital necessity of giving a cordial and unanimous support to the execution of such a policy, if we would have the war brought promptly to a close. The New York Tribune fully agr
The Daily Dispatch: November 11, 1862., [Electronic resource], Progress of the war. (search)
ison, while the elder, 70 years old, was turned loose. Messrs. Kidwell, of Georgetown; Peale, of Alexandria; and Milburn, of Washington city, druggists, were on Thursday arrested and sent to the old Capitol prison for selling these parties the contraband medicines, knowing, as is alleged where they were to be carried. They were formidably armed with protections and passes from Major- Generals and Provost Marshals and with a certificate of loyalty as strong as words could make it from a Cabinet Minister. As a specimen of the correspondence which these F. F. V.'s carried on their persons, we extract the following memorandum of a visit to "Southern friends" in New York, from a letter to Mrs. Peyton, of Gordonsville: "--Sister, who returned from New York last week found that our cause has more friends there than she had imagined. The feeling against this Government is very strong, so much so that they expect to have bloodshed in their streets before Christmas." Suicide of an
The Daily Dispatch: November 27, 1862., [Electronic resource], article 8 (search)
to England for a gratuitous outrage upon the property and persons of British subjects. We are, of course, only concerned for the latter. The Spanish Government will doubtless know how to vindicate its own honor, and to uphold the authority of its officials. Our Government must also see that it is time to interpose to protect those who use the great highway of the Atlantic for the purpose of legitimate trade from acts of lawless violence in the prosecution of that trade. Another Cabinet Minister on the war. At a very influential county meeting recently held at Exeter, to consider means of relieving the distress in the factory districts, Mr. D ise, of Somerset, the First Judge of the Admiralty said: Every Englishman felt that they should be delighted to see the war brought to a conclusion — that war which was most sanguinary, and which had been conducted in the most savage manner in the destruction of both life and property. An offer of mediation might be received only
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