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Varina Davis, Jefferson Davis: Ex-President of the Confederate States of America, A Memoir by his Wife, Volume 2, Chapter 85: the end of a noble life, and a nation's sorrow over its loss. (search)
tenderest sympathy and condolence. Your very obedient servant, Thornton. To Mrs. Jefferson Davis, Beauvoir, Miss. Could there have been a surer testimony to Mr. Davis's generous, just, and Christian spirit than that these negroes have given; certainly none afforded me more comfort. The New York World, published by an Union soldier, uttered a noble eulogium upon him. The New York Sun paid an eloquent tribute to him, and ended with these words: A great soul has passed. Mr. James Redpath, a life-long political opponent, thus eloquently expressed his admiration of him after having been for months domesticated with him. Before I had been with Mr. Davis three days, every preconceived idea of him utterly and forever disappeared. Nobody doubted Mr. Davis's intellectual capacity, but it was not his mental power that most impressed me. It was his goodness, first of all, and then his intellectual integrity. I never saw an old man whose face bore more emphatic evidences
Benson J. Lossing, Pictorial Field Book of the Civil War. Volume 3., Chapter 17: Sherman's March through the Carolinas.--the capture of Fort Fisher. (search)
d by the conquerors, and they were astonished to find that about the only kind of tyranny to which they were to be subjected, was foreshadowed in the following paragraph in Colonel Woodford's first order:-- The people are invited to open their schools and churches, and resume, as far as possible, the avocations of peace. They are required to behave in an orderly manner. No disloyal act or utterance will be tolerated. The National flag must be honored and the National laws obeyed. James Redpath was appointed Superintendent of Education, for the post. and, at the end of a month after the evacuation of the city by the Confederate troops, when Woodford resigned his command into the hands of Colonel Gurney, that which, it was supposed, would remain the most rebellious of all cities, was really the most docile and orderly. The inhabitants accepted the situation, and society, in a large degree, resumed its normal condition. The following extract, from Woodford's General Order No.
James Redpath, The Roving Editor: or, Talks with Slaves in the Southern States., chapter 1 (search)
The Roving editor: or, Talks with slaves in the Southern States. By James Redpath. With the strong arm and giant grasp, 'tis wrong To crush the feeble, unresisting throng. Who pities not the fallen, let him fear, Lest, if he fall, no friendly hand be near: Who sows ill actions and of blessing dreams, Fosters vain phantasies and idly schemes. Unstop thy ears! thy people's wants relieve! If not, a day shall come when all their rights receive. Sadi.
James Redpath, The Roving Editor: or, Talks with Slaves in the Southern States., Dedication. (search)
d to insurrection, and hence do I lay this tribute at your feet. You are unwilling to ignore the rights of the slave for any reason — any constitutional guarantees --any plea of vested rights — any argument of inferiority of race — any sophistry of Providential overrulings, or pitiable appeals for party success. You are willing to recognize the negro as a brother, however inferior in intellectual endowments; as having rights, which, to take away, or withhold, is a crime that should be punished without mercy — surely — promptly — by law, if we can do it ; over it, if more speedily by such action; peacefully if we can, but forcibly and by bloodshed if we must So am I. You went to Kansas, when the troubles broke out there — not to settle or speculate --or from idle curiosity: but for one stern, solitary purpose--to have a shot at the South. So did I. To you, therefore, my senior in years as in services to the slave, I dedicate this work. James Redpath. Malden,
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Redpath, James 1833- (search)
Redpath, James 1833- Abolitionist; born in Scotland, Aug. 24, 1833; was connected with the New York Tribune as editor in 1852; took an active part in the Kansas (q. v.) troubles. After the war he established a lecture bureau which for a time was very successful. The New York Tribune sent him to Ireland in 1881 to investigate the conditions in the famine district, and on his return to the United States he founded a newspaper called Redpath's weekly. Among his works are Hand-book to Kansas33; was connected with the New York Tribune as editor in 1852; took an active part in the Kansas (q. v.) troubles. After the war he established a lecture bureau which for a time was very successful. The New York Tribune sent him to Ireland in 1881 to investigate the conditions in the famine district, and on his return to the United States he founded a newspaper called Redpath's weekly. Among his works are Hand-book to Kansas; Echoes of Harper's Ferry; Life of John Brown; Southern notes, etc.
Elias Nason, The Life and Times of Charles Sumner: His Boyhood, Education and Public Career., Chapter 4: (search)
his discovery of character. It is a just homage to your own merits. Your Old-Bailey speech was capital, and hit by stating sound truths in the right way. During his residence in London, Mr. Sumner formed the acquaintance of Thomas B. Macaulay, whose wonderful conversation, said he, left on the mind an ineffaceable impression of eloquence and fulness, perhaps without a parallel. Of the manner of his introduction to Richard Monckton Milnes, he gave the following account to his friend James Redpath:-- I was at Sydney Smith's breakfast-table one morning, with perhaps a dozen others, when he suddenly asked me how English literary reputations stood in America. We sometimes presume, said Mr. Sumner, to rejudge your judgments; to refuse a reputation where you give one, and to bestow a name where you withhold it. An example! An example! exclaimed Mr. Smith in his caressing style. Here I was, a young Yankee Doodle, to use a phrase of Mr. Carlyle, at the table of the greates
Elias Nason, The Life and Times of Charles Sumner: His Boyhood, Education and Public Career., Chapter 9. (search)
nly through the agency of Henry Wilson in the legislature, 1851, Mr. Sumner was elected, over Robert C. Winthrop, the Whig candidate, to the Senate of the United States. The contest, commencing on the 16th day of January, was long and acrimonious. Mr. Winthrop had much experience in public affairs, and was an intimate friend of Daniel Webster. Mr. Sumner would make no pledges: he had never held, nor did he desire to hold, any political office. Mr. Sumner said in a conversation with James Redpath, written at the time, that committee after committee waited on him during the election, to get even verbal promises relative to tariff, and to ease off on the slave question; but he uniformly declined to satisfy them, saying that the office must seek him, and that he would not walk across the room to secure the election. He was deemed an idealist, and, as such, unsuited to the practical duties of a senatorial career. It was, at any rate, too long a step from his private student-life to
Elias Nason, The Life and Times of Charles Sumner: His Boyhood, Education and Public Career., Chapter 12: (search)
which subscriptions to the amount of one thousand dollars had been made, and said in closing, I express a desire that the contributions intended for the testimonial to me may be applied at once, and without abatement of any kind, to the recovery and security of freedom in Kansas. The testimonial was to have been an elaborate and beautiful silver vase two feet in height, ornamented with the figure of Charles Sumner and appropriate devices. In a subsequent conversation with his friend James Redpath, written down at the time, Mr. Sumner spoke long and strongly against the habit of public men receiving gifts. He related an anecdote of the Russian prince who paid into his master's treasury the value of the present he had received; and remarked that he himself had adopted the same rule. Webster, said he, was injured in consequence of receiving gifts from his constituents. On the 21st of June, he found strength sufficient to write an encouraging letter to the Republican committee
Elias Nason, The Life and Times of Charles Sumner: His Boyhood, Education and Public Career., Chapter 13: (search)
r Presidential election is only another Bunker Hill. In a letter, dated Hancock Street, Jan. 10, 1857, to his friend James Redpath, Esq., who was heroically laboring on behalf of freedom in Kansas, he said, I cannot believe that Massachusetts will t fair territory where the friends and the foes of the freedom of the colored race were in conflict. In a letter to Mr. Redpath, dated on board The Fulton, March 7, 1857, he said, Do any sigh for a Thermopylae? They have it in Kansas; for there to death, and executed. He acted conscientiously, and evinced the heroism of an old martyr. His life was written by James Redpath, 1860. John Brown, as well as Mr. Sumner, was remarkable for his height; and, on being asked by the latter if he evepect to the ends he had in view, but did not agree with him as to the means employed for securing them. I once, says James Redpath, visited Senator Sumner in the company of John Brown. We spoke of the assault of P. S. Brooks, under which Mr. Sumne
Elias Nason, The Life and Times of Charles Sumner: His Boyhood, Education and Public Career., Chapter 18: (search)
fair may be seen in this letter:-- Washington, 9th July, 1871. My dear Redpath,--Your letter must have crossed mine. I send you this French translation of t-advised censure of the State he represented. In this letter to his friend James Redpath, he declares his anxiety for strength to sustain his resolution:-- Washington, 25th Dec., 1872. My dear Redpath,--I wish you a merry Christmas! I regret much that I cannot take advantage of your invitation; but I am under medical tter to the Boston Lyceum Bureau:-- Washington, 13th May, 1873. My dear Redpath,--Nobody is authorized to act as my agent; nor do I remember any communicationo cancel his lyceum engagements. Coolidge House, 3d Oct., 1873. Dear Mr. Redpath,--In announcing me as a lecturer for the present season, and making engagemeanks, and believe me, my dear sir, Faithfully yours, Charles Sumner. James Redpath, Esq. In November Mr. Sumner addressed a letter to a meeting held in New Y
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