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Horace Greeley, The American Conflict: A History of the Great Rebellion in the United States of America, 1860-65: its Causes, Incidents, and Results: Intended to exhibit especially its moral and political phases with the drift and progress of American opinion respecting human slavery from 1776 to the close of the War for the Union. Volume I., Analytical Index. (search)
Slocum, Col. H. W., wounded at Bull Run, 545. Slocum, Col., killed at Bull Run, 545; 552. Smith, Caleb B., of Ind., 194; reports a bill to organize Oregon, 197; a member of the cabinet, 428. Smith, Gen. E. K., wounded at Bull Run, 545. Smith, Gen., makes a feint to Columbus, Ky., 595. Smith, Gerrit, 127; forms an Abolition Society at Peterborough, N. Y., 128. Smith, Wm. N. H.,Smith, Gen., makes a feint to Columbus, Ky., 595. Smith, Gerrit, 127; forms an Abolition Society at Peterborough, N. Y., 128. Smith, Wm. N. H., supported for Speaker, 305. Snead, Thos. L., Jackson to Davis, 577. Soule, Pierre, at the Ostend meeting, etc., 273. South Carolina, concurs in the Declaration of Independence, 35; slave pSmith, Gerrit, 127; forms an Abolition Society at Peterborough, N. Y., 128. Smith, Wm. N. H., supported for Speaker, 305. Snead, Thos. L., Jackson to Davis, 577. Soule, Pierre, at the Ostend meeting, etc., 273. South Carolina, concurs in the Declaration of Independence, 35; slave population in 1790; troops furnished during the Revolution, 36; 37; ratification Convention meets, 1788, 48; the Cotton-Gin, 63-4; Nullification inaugurated, 93; is satisfied with the Compromise TarifSmith, Wm. N. H., supported for Speaker, 305. Snead, Thos. L., Jackson to Davis, 577. Soule, Pierre, at the Ostend meeting, etc., 273. South Carolina, concurs in the Declaration of Independence, 35; slave population in 1790; troops furnished during the Revolution, 36; 37; ratification Convention meets, 1788, 48; the Cotton-Gin, 63-4; Nullification inaugurated, 93; is satisfied with the Compromise Tariff, 101; 108; 123; mails rifled at Charleston, 128-9; votes for Van Buren, etc., 154; 178; treatment of negro seamen, 179; of Mr. Hoar's mission to, 181; 185; votes against unqualified Secession in 18
Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events: Documents and Narratives, Volume 2. (ed. Frank Moore), chapter 160 (search)
t undignified congregation of petty legislators, introduced a bill the other day to suppress those slaveholders' rebellion, containing a provision for the abolition of slavery. Others have uttered sentiments quite as atrocious in relation to the subject. This feeling is exhibiting itself, too, with renewed energy among the old abolition agitators, who but a few years since clamored loudly for disunion, pronouncing the Federal Constitution a league with hell and a covenant with death. Gerrit Smith, the patriarch of them all, says that both abolitionists and anti-abolitionists should petition the executive to proclaim the liberty of the slaves. Wendell Phillips is anxious to proclaim Mr. Lincoln the liberator of four millions of bondsmen, and Boutwell, once governor of the State of Massachusetts, thinks that the present war will not terminate until the Lincoln Government asserts in some way the doctrine that liberty is not the property of any race; that it is not the exclusive righ
The Photographic History of The Civil War: in ten volumes, Thousands of Scenes Photographed 1861-65, with Text by many Special Authorities, Volume 9: Poetry and Eloquence. (ed. Francis Trevelyan Miller), Chapter 13: brotherhood. (search)
Monroe he was indicted in Richmond for treason and liberated on bail. Of the many names attached to the document, the most conspicuous is that of Horace Greeley, editor of the New York Tribune, who had been prominent throughout the war as a molder of Northern sentiment. The passions born of the conflict were still raging, some of them in an intensified form. Greeley displayed unusual courage in subscribing his name to the bond. It appears just above that of Cornelius Vanderbilt, below Gerrit Smith's. Signatures to the Jefferson Davis bail-bond — Horace Greeley's comes third Greeley reading the tribune —now past—I may have been disposed to deny him. In this fiery zeal, and this earnest warfare against the wrong, as he viewed it, there entered no enduring personal animosity toward the men whose lot it was to be born to the system which he denounced. It has been the kindness of the sympathy which in these later years he has displayed toward the impoverished and suffering pe<
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Abolitionists. (search)
rature. A bill forbidding such use was voted on in Congress, but lost, and in its stead the care of abolition documents was left, with final success, to the postmasters and the States. The Garrisonian abolitionists were always radical. They criticised the Church, condemned the Constitution, refused to vote, and woman's rights, free love, community of property, and all sorts of novel social ideas were espoused by them. In 1838 the political abolitionists, including Birney, the Tappans, Gerrit Smith, Whittier. Judge Jay, Edward Beecher, Thomas Morris, and others seceded, and in 1840 organized the American and Foreign Anti-Slavery Society, and under this name prosecuted their work with more success than the original society. In 1839-40 the liberty party (q. v.) was formed, and in the Presidential election of 1844 Birney and Morris received 62,300 votes, most of which would have gone to Clay, and thus made possible the election of Polk, the annexation of Texas. and the addition of
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), New York, State of (search)
Anti-masonic. Ezekiel Williams William L. MarcyDemocrat.1832 Francis GrangerAnti-masonic. 1834 William H. SewardWhig. 1836 Jesse Buel. Isaac S. Smith. William H. SewardWhig1838 William L. MarcyDemocrat. 1840 William C. BouckDemocrat. Gerrit Smith. William C. BouckDemocrat 1842 Luther Bradish. Alvan Stewart. Silas Wright. JrDemocrat 1844 Millard FillmoreWhig. Alvan Stewart. John YoungWhig 1846 Silas Wright, JrDemocrat. Ogden Edwards. Henry Bradley. Hamilton FishWhig1848 John A Tompkins. Myron H. ClarkWhig 1854Horatio SeymourDemocrat. Daniel Ullman. Green C. Bronson. John A. KingRepublican 1856 Amasa J. ParkerDemocrat. Erastus Brooks. Edwin D. MorganRepublican1858Amasa J. ParkerDemocrat. Lorenzo Burrows. Gerrit Smith. 1860William Kelly. James T. Brady. Horatio SeymourDemocrat 1862 James S. WadsworthRepublican Reuben E. FentonRepublican 1864 Horatio SeymourDemocrat. 1866John T. HoffmanDemocrat John T. HoffmanDemocrat. 1868John A. GriswoldRepublican
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), United States of America. (search)
....Nov. 19, 1874 Second session opens......Dec. 7, 1874 President's message received......Dec. 7, 1874 Race riot at Vicksburg, Miss.; seventy-five negroes killed......Dec. 7, 1874 Death of Hon. Ezra Cornell, born 1807, occurs at Ithaca, N. Y.......Dec. 9, 1874 Official reception given King Kalakaua, of the Hawaiian Islands, by Congress......Dec. 18, 1874 President by proclamation orders turbulent and disorderly gatherings in Mississippi to disperse......Dec. 21, 1874 Gerrit Smith, philanthropist, born 1797, dies at New York City......Dec. 28, 1874 Senator Sherman's bill for resumption of specie payment, Jan. 1, 1879, approved, with special message......Jan. 14, 1875 President calls the Senate for March 5......Feb. 17, 1875 Indemnity from the Spanish government for families of men shot in the Virginius massacre fixed at $80,000......Feb. 27, 1875 Civil rights bill, to enforce equal enjoyment of inns, public conveyances, theatres, etc., approved......Mar
Emilio, Luis F., History of the Fifty-Fourth Regiment of Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry , 1863-1865, Chapter 1: recruiting. (search)
strumental in procuring the men of the Fifty-fourth and Fifty-fifth Massachusetts Infantry, the Fifth Massachusetts Cavalry, besides 3,967 other colored men credited to the State. All the gentlemen named were persons of prominence. Most of them had been for years in the van of those advanced thinkers and workers who had striven to help and free the slave wherever found. The first work of this committee was to collect money; and in a very short time five thousand dollars was received, Gerrit Smith, of New York, sending his check for five hundred dollars. Altogether nearly one hundred thousand dollars was collected, which passed through the hands of Richard P. Hallowell, the treasurer, who was a brother of the Hallowells commissioned in the Fifty-fourth. A call for recruits was published in a hundred journals from east to west. Friends whose views were known were communicated with, and their aid solicited; but the response was not for a time encouraging With the need came the m
Emilio, Luis F., History of the Fifty-Fourth Regiment of Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry , 1863-1865, Index. (search)
51, 197, 261, 285, 307, 317. Sickles, Daniel E., 218. Siege of Savannah, Jones, 252. Silliman, William, 212, 254, 257, 258, 259, 260. Silva, Charles, 111. Simington, Thomas H., 160. Simkins, Battery, 108, 129, 141, 206. Simkins, J. C., 88. Simmons, Robert J., 59, 90, 93. Simpkins, William H., 7, 34, 55, 56, 57, 59, 60, 61, 67, 73, 83, 89, 90, 91, 96, 103. Sims, Thomas, 32. Singleton plantation, 296, 298, 299, 300, 306. Slack, Charles W., 23. Smith, Carraway, 159, 171. Smith, Gerrit, 11, 16. Smith, Giles S., 269. Smith, Gustavus W., 240, 242, 244. Smith, J. B., 12. Smith, Orin E., 20, 34, 81, 90, 93, 103, 132, 149,183. Smith, Peter, 16. Smith, Washington, 197. Soldier's remains, 173, 305. Sonoma, gunboat, 237. Soule, Charles C., 251. South Carolina, 267, 272. South Carolina Railroad, 310. South Carolina Troops (Union). Infantry: First (colored), 1, 52. (See also 33d U. S. Colored Troops). Second (colored), 36, 37, 38, 39, 40, 42, 46, 48, 49, 53, 74,
James Redpath, The Public Life of Captain John Brown, Chapter 1: Whetting the sword. (search)
ccupation of the writer, varied with the cleaning of rifles and revolvers, and fired twelve shots, drilled, cleaned guns and loaded, received letters from J. and G. Smith. September 23, the record acknowledges the receipt of letters from Redpath and G. Smith; on the 30th the writer finishes reading G. Smith's speech, and statesG. Smith; on the 30th the writer finishes reading G. Smith's speech, and states that efforts were made to raise a fund to send cannon and arms to Lane, but adds that they proved a failure. On the 1st of October the journalist visits Nebraska City with Mr. Jones and Carpenter. October 3d proves a lucky date to the writer, who records the receipt then of seventy-two dollars from friend Sanborn. The succeeG. Smith's speech, and states that efforts were made to raise a fund to send cannon and arms to Lane, but adds that they proved a failure. On the 1st of October the journalist visits Nebraska City with Mr. Jones and Carpenter. October 3d proves a lucky date to the writer, who records the receipt then of seventy-two dollars from friend Sanborn. The succeeding day (Sunday) our journalist improves his leisure by perusing speech of Judge Curtis, delivered before the students of Union College, New Jersey, and of Dartmouth College, and at the Normal School Convention, Westfield, Mass., and at Brown University, R. I. ; the entry of the same date continues, Read of the awful disaster to
James Redpath, The Public Life of Captain John Brown, Chapter 11: the political inquisitors. (search)
n, and the only thing that prompted me to come here. Bystander. Why did you do it secretly? Capt. B. Because I thought that necessary to success, and for no other reason. Bystander. And you think that honorable, do you? Have you read Gerrit Smith's last letter? Capt. B. What letter do you mean? Bystander. The New York Herald of yesterday, in speaking of this affair, mentions a letter in which he says, that it is folly to attempt to strike the shackles off the slave by the force he direction of negro emancipation will be an insurrection in the South. Capt. B. I have not seen a New York Herald for some days past; but I presume, from your remarks about the gist of the letter, that I should concur with it. I agree with Mr. Smith, that moral suasion is hopeless. I don't think the people of the Slave States will ever consider the subject of slavery in its true light until some other argument is resorted to than moral suasion. Mr. T. Did you expect a general rising of
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