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William Schouler, A history of Massachusetts in the Civil War: Volume 1, Chapter 5: (search)
This speech was the key-note to the convention. When Mr. Dawes concluded his speech, John A. Andrew was nominated by acclamation, and without opposition, for re-election. A motion was then made to have a ballot for Lieutenant-Governor. Thomas Russell, Esq., of Boston, moved to amend the motion, that a committee of two from each congressional district be appointed to report nominations for the other officers to the convention. He said, We have come here to lock arms with Holt and Dickinsoominate a ticket as men determined to serve the country; we are met here to send throughout the Union, and to the enemies of our institutions abroad, that the pattern Commonwealth is taking the lead in this crisis. A motion was then made by Mr. Russell, of Boston, to substitute the name of Hon. Josiah G. Abbott, of Lowell, for Attorney-General, in place of Mr. Foster's name. This motion was sustained by the mover, and by Mr. Usher, of Medford; and opposed by Mr. A. H. Bullock, of Worcester.
Frank Preston Stearns, Cambridge Sketches, The War Governor. (search)
rance was resolute and intrepid. He had set his foot down, and no power on earth could induce him to withdraw it. A clergyman who had been invited to speak at the meeting had at first accepted, but being informed by some of his parishioners that the thing would not do, declined with the excuse that he had supposed there would be two sides to the question. As if, said Andrew, there could be two sides to the question whether John Brown's wife and daughters should be permitted to starve. Thomas Russell, Judge of the Superior Court, sat close under the platform, clapping his hands like pistol shots. John A. Andrew's testimony before the Harper's Ferry investigating committee has a historical value which Hay and Nicolay, Wilson, and Von Holst would have done well to have taken into consideration; but the definitive history of the war period is yet to be written. There was no reason why Andrew should have been summoned. He had never met John Brown but once — at a lady's house in Bos
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Cheerful Yesterdays, VII. Kansas and John Brown (search)
ve, if intercepted, to shoot down any one who attempted to arrest him; and this advice would have been given by every Abolitionist, unless a non-resistant. There was, of course, an immediate impulse to rescue Brown from prison. I do not know how far this extended, and can only vouch for myself. The primary obstacle to it was that one of Brown's first acts, on meeting a Northern friend in his prison, had been positively to prohibit any such attempt; the message being sent North by Judge Thomas Russell, from whom I received it at the railway station on his arrival. This barred the way effectually, for after Brown had taken that position he would have adhered to it. It occurred to me, however, that his wife's presence would move him, if anything could, and that she might also be a valuable medium of communication, should he finally yield to the wishes of his friends. For this purpose I went to North Elba, New York, the mountain home of the Browns, to fetch her, and wrote, after tha
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Cheerful Yesterdays, Index. (search)
Magin, 22. Ripley, George, 189. Ripley, Mrs., Sophia, 84. Ritchie, Anne Thackeray, 292. Ritter, J. W., 92. Rivers, Prince, 255. Rob Roy, 36, 214. Robinson, Charles, 206, 207, 28, 209. Robinson Rowland, 15. Roelker, Bernard, 55. Rogers, Seth, 265. Rollins, E. W., 60. Roosevelt, Theodore, 345. Rosello, Victoriano, 22. Rossetti, William, 288. Rossetti, Mrs., 289. Rousseau, J. J., 316, 317, 318, 330. Rucekert, Friedrich, 101. Rupert, Prince, 203. Russell, W. E., 353. Russell, Thomas, 226. Russell, William. 21. Russell, Lord, William, 282. Rust, J. D., 261, 262. Saladin, 60, 301. Sales, Francis, 55. Saltoun, Fletcher of, 183. Sanborn, F. B., 173, 215, 217, 218, 221, 222, 224, 225. Sand, George, 77. Savage, James, 224. Saxton, Rufus, 248, 251, 252, 253, 256, 257, 265. Schelling, F. W. J., 102. Schnetzler, August, 89. Scholar in politics, the, no prejudice against, 336. Schramm, Herr von, 120. Schubert, G. H. von, 86. Scott, Sir, Walter, 16, 132
Francis Jackson Garrison, William Lloyd Garrison, 1805-1879; the story of his life told by his children: volume 4, Chapter 7: the National Testimonial.—1866. (search)
offering we present will cheer you and Mrs. Garrison during the remainder of your lives, be they longer or shorter, not merely by the material resources which it brings, but by the precious recollection that it is the gift of a grateful generation of your countrymen and friends. May you long be spared, a living example, to your country and the world. Your friends, Samuel E. Sewall, J. Ingersoll Bowditch, William E. Coffin, William Endicott, Jr., Samuel May, Jr., Edmund Quincy, Thomas Russell, Robert C. Waterston. W. L. Garrison to the Testimonial Committee. Boston, March 12, 1868. respected friends: In replying to your very kind letter of the 10th instant, transferring to my hands the truly generous sum obtained by you as a national testimonial, in recognition of my labors in the anti-slavery cause through a long and perilous struggle, I shall try in vain to find words adequately to express my feelings. I can only tender to you my heartfelt thanks for this signal
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)
to see them off, and preparations had been made to escort them down the harbor with the Revenue Cutter, which Collector Russell offered for the purpose, but a heavy rain Thomas Russell. prevented this. Mr. Waterston, of the Testimonial Rev. RobeThomas Russell. prevented this. Mr. Waterston, of the Testimonial Rev. Robert C. Waterston. Committee, announced to Mr. Garrison that Thirty Thousand Dollars had been collected and placed to his credit, and as the Cuba swung into the stream and began her voyage, the guns of the gaily dressed Revenue Cutter fired a parting sr. Garrison on his right, and the Duke and Duchess of Argyll on his left. On the right of Mr. Garrison sat Earl and Countess Russell and their daughter, and at the same or other tables were John Stuart Mill, Herbert Spencer, Professors Maurice and Hor the West Indies, never could have entertained a sentiment of hostility to the emancipation of the slaves in America. Russell and Reform—the words are synonymous (cheers); and having championed the old Reform through Parliament with great courage
Edward L. Pierce, Memoir and letters of Charles Sumner: volume 1, Chapter 2: Parentage and Family.—the father. (search)
a, were born. Mr. Sumner occupied this house, as a tenant, till 1825, or early in 1826, when, soon after his appointment as sheriff, he hired number sixty-three (then fifty-three) Hancock Street, opposite the site of the Reservoir. In 1830, he purchased number twenty Hancock Street, which was occupied at the time by Rev. Edward Beecher. He removed to this house in November, and resided in it during the rest of his life. The family retained the estate until it was sold, in 1867, to Judge Thomas Russell. Mr. Sumner was a well-read lawyer. His memorandum-books, which are preserved, contain, in his handwriting, copies of the rules of court, forms of pleading, references to authorities on various points of law and practice, and careful digests of law in different branches, showing him to have been faithful and painstaking in his profession. But he did not, for some reason, succeed in it. His mind lacked, perhaps, the vigor and aggressiveness which qualify for forensic controversie
Edward L. Pierce, Memoir and letters of Charles Sumner: volume 3, Chapter 35: Massachusetts and the compromise.—Sumner chosen senator.—1850-1851. (search)
read quickly. The Free Soilers rejoiced with fulness of heart, many saying as long as they lived that it was the happiest moment of their lives. The managers of the Commonwealth displayed the national colors from their office at the northeast corner of Washington and State streets, and in the evening illuminated the building and sent up rockets. A large crowd, counted by thousands. were attracted by the display, and were addressed from the east front of the Old State house by Wilson, Thomas Russell, and Joseph Lyman. Wilson, interrupted by a cheer for Webster, retorted that the victory of the day and the prostration of the Whigs dated from March 7, 1850, when that great man stood up in the Senate and repudiated the long-cherished sentiments of Massachusetts. The event was recognized by a cannon salute in Boston, and by similar demonstrations in other cities and towns. A formal commemoration was arrested by Sumner's earnestly expressed wish, as he was unwilling that the success o
Edward L. Pierce, Memoir and letters of Charles Sumner: volume 4, Chapter 58: the battle-flag resolution.—the censure by the Massachusetts Legislature.—the return of the angina pectoris. —absence from the senate.—proofs of popular favor.— last meetings with friends and constituents.—the Virginius case.—European friends recalled.—1872-1873. (search)
James Freeman Clarke, and T. W. Higginson, he listened to John Weiss's paper on Portia. He was twice on the platform at the Music Hall when Mr. Bradlaugh, M. P., was the lecturer (Wendell Phillips in the chair on one occasion), and declined the call of the audience at the close of the lecture. He was one of J. B. Smith's guests in Bulfinch Street at a dinner for Mr. Bradlaugh, where also at the table were H. L. Pierce, Mr. Hooper, Ex-Governor Emory Washburn, William Lloyd Garrison, and Thomas Russell. He took the chair at a lecture by Edward Jenkins, the English writer, and was warmly applauded when he rose to introduce one whom he commended as an author who by his remarkable pen has drawn attention to the poor and lowly, awakened for then a widespread sympathy, and helped the reign of justice on earth. Many of his fellow-citizens then saw him for the last time. An incident of the autumn was his election as a member of the Massachusetts historical Society, of which Mr. Winthrop
Lucius R. Paige, History of Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1630-1877, with a genealogical register, Chapter 22: statistics. (search)
homas Hall1 Capt. Ephraim Frost2 Joseph Wellington1 William Bowman1 James Perry1 Ebenezer Prentice1 Ebenezer Prentice, Jr.1 Stephen Robbins3 Thomas Williams2 Philip Bemis1 Aaron Williams1 Benjamin Locke1 Samuel Locke1 Francis Locke1 Gregory Hill1 Gershom Cutter1 Ger shorn Cutter, Jr.2 Aaron Swan1 Nathaniel Swan 1 Solomon Bowman1 Samuel Russell2 William Cutler1 Nehemiah Cutter 2 William Winship2 Israel Blackington1 Deac. Joseph Adams1 John Cutter2 Ammi Cutter2 Thomas Russell 1 Ebenezer Swan2 Capt. William Adams1 Lieut. Daniel Brown1 William Whittemore1 Samuel Cutter2 Capt. Thomas Adams1 Edward Wilson2 John Winship1 Samuel Russ1 Samuel Hill1 Jason Belknap1 Seth Russell2 Joseph Belknap1 Aaron Cooke2 Zechariah Hill2 Capt. Saml. Whittemore1 Thomas Whittemore2 Samuel Whittemore, Jr.2 Thomas Robbins1 William Butterfield1 Thomas Cutter1 John Wilson1 Timothy Swan1 Samuel Frost2 Joseph Frost2 Edward Fillebrown1 Ephraim Frost, Jr.1 Abrah
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