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Wendell Phillips, Theodore C. Pease, Speeches, Lectures and Letters of Wendell Phillips: Volume 1, chapter 24 (search)
whites, twenty or thirty thousand mulattoes, and five hundred thousand slaves. The slave-trade was active. About twenty-five thousand slaves were imported annually; and this only sufficed to fill the gap which the murderous culture of sugar annually produced. The mulattoes, as with us, were children of the slaveholders, but, unlike us, the French slaveholder never forgot his child by a bondwoman. He gave him everything but his name,--wealth, rich plantations, gangs of slaves; sent him to Paris for his education, summoned the best culture of France for the instruction of his daughters, so that in 1790 the mulatto race held one third of the real estate and one quarter of the personal estate of the island. But though educated and rich, he bowed under the same yoke as with us. Subjected to special taxes, he could hold no public office, and, if convicted of any crime, was punished with double severity. His son might not sit on the same seat at school with a white boy; he might not en
Wendell Phillips, Theodore C. Pease, Speeches, Lectures and Letters of Wendell Phillips: Volume 2, Theodore Parker (1860). (search)
thed through those manly lips! But if he deserved any single word, it was generous. Vir generosus is the description that leaps to the lips of every scholar. He was generous of money. Born on a New England farm, in those days when small incomings made every dollar a matter of importance, he no sooner had command of wealth than he lived with open hands. Not even the darling ambition of a great library ever tempted him to close his ear to need. Go to Venice or Vienna, to Frankfort or to Paris, and ask the refugees who have gone back,--when here friendless exiles but for him,--under whose roof they felt most at home! One of our oldest and best teachers writes me that, telling him once in the cars of a young lad of rare mathematical genius who could read Laplace, but whom narrow means debarred from the university, Let him enter, said Theodore Parker; I will pay his bills. No sect, no special study, no one idea bounded his sympathy; but he was generous in judgment where a common
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Cheerful Yesterdays, Index. (search)
ment, 248; transfer to South Carolina, 252; first military expedition, 259; Army life in a black regiment, 266; Harvard memorial biographies, 270; Epictetus, 270; Malbone and Oldport days, 270; residence in Newport, 270; visits to London, 271; to Paris, 298; public speaking, 326; public office, Higginson, Waldo, 73. Hill, Thomas, 53, 105, 175. Hillard, G. S., 53, 175. Hinton, R. H., 215, 231. Hoar, E. R., 170, 175. Hoar, G. F., 162. Hoffman, Wickham, 62. Holmes, Abiel, 13. Holmes, Jomas, 87. Leighton, Caroline (Andrews), 129. Leland, C. G., 312, 314. Leroux, Pierre, 86. Lewes, Mrs. (George Eliot), 219. Lincoln, Abraham, 239, 261. Linnaeus, Charles von, 89, 92. literary London twenty years ago, 271-297. literary Paris twenty years ago, 298-325. Literature and Oratory compared, 360. Locke, John, 700. Lodge, H. C., 352. Long, J. D., 337, 354. Longfellow, H. W., 12, 13, 33, 54, 55, 67, 95, 101, 1002, 103, 1168, 171, 176, 178, 179, 180, 189, 313, 314, 331
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Letters and Journals of Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Chapter 1: Cambridge and Newburyport (search)
y and humility than a week in Philadelphia society or a day in Washington — so let fears be laid aside. [He] told us, as usual, many interesting things. He saw a good deal of the Hunt family, of Brattleboroa--Mrs. H. described to him her house-painting experiences. He thought highly of William Hunt [the artist] and told us something worth repeating. W. H. came to Florence in wretched health, dispirited, indolent and self-indulgent, in danger of sinking into a mere dilettante, though in Paris he had been something more. Hurlbut had an interleaved copy of Jameson's Italian painters, with notes by Margaret Fuller. ... In this volume there was an account of Correggio, describing his earnestness of purpose in becoming not merely a self-indulgent dabbler in art, but a regenerator of it, and the author added a complaint of the rarity of such characters, opposite which M. F. had written a note--And yet all might be such. This book Hurlbut lent to Hunt. Shortly after a new life seeme
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Letters and Journals of Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Chapter 2: the Worcester period (search)
had been reading. She was very modest and humble about it, and only felt as if it were a sort of cheat to take $105 for a story. She said she never thought about its attracting any attention, or she should have been more anxious about details; she supposed, if it got in, that it would pass quietly and nothing more be said about it. Her young friends got her to a meeting of their Reading Club, and read it aloud in her presence. When they got to that wonderful description of the old shop in Paris, her next neighbor murmured, astounded at its local details, Why, Harriet, where did you get all that? --Made it all up, every word of it, was the rapid reply of the young authoress, over her crochet-needle. After the reading, the folding doors were opened and there was an elegant little collation. Stately old Squire Porter conducted Miss Prescott to the seat of honor, and proposed her health in wine, with a little speech, to which she replied; and at the close all the girls escorted her h
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Letters and Journals of Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Chapter 3: Journeys (search)
and beard; Darley is larger, of English frame and substance, with sandy hair and moustache; face pockmarked and rather coarsely colored; cool, semi-military air. It was pleasant to be seated in the woods and have Darley's sketches passed about: some fine figures of guides and Indians at Moosehead. . . . Kensett came for a day with Tom Appleton, the renowned, Mrs. Longfellow's brother; Curtis, Mot Natelpha, a famous wit and connoisseur; he it was who said, Good Americans, when they die, go to Paris. August, 1860 The [boarding] house was further enlivened last night by the presence of Mr. Longfellow's son and heir . . . who with a companion sailed round from Nahant. Late in the evening — that is, probably so near the small hours as half-past 9--he was heard in the entry, rousing the echoes with the unwonted cry of Landlord! and when at last Mary Moody or some similar infant appeared, it appeared that they desired pen, ink, paper, and postage stamps. Mary thinks they had run awa
Mary Thacher Higginson, Thomas Wentworth Higginson: the story of his life, Bibliography (search)
Army Life in a Black Regiment. Def. III. Same. Tr. into French under the title Vie militaire dans un regiment noir. Paris, 1884. Decoration Day Address, Mount Auburn, May 30. Broadside. Same. (In Reed and others, eds. Modern Eloquence, Parliament of Religions, vol. I, Chicago, 1893; tr. under the title, L'affinite des religions, by Mrs. Maria E. MacKaye, Paris, 1898. Plutarch's Morals. (In Radical, March.) Unpublished Letters from Theodore Parker. (In Radical, May.) Bu) Edited the 3 other volumes in this series. Young Folks' History of the United States. Tr. into French (2 editions), Paris, 1875; into German, Stuttgart, 1876; into Italian, 1888. Questions on Higginson's Young Folks' History of the United Sncle Tom's Cabin. New ed.) [Sketches of] Brown, Cooper, and Thoreau. (In Carpenter, ed. American Prose.) Literary Paris Twenty Years Ago. (In Atlantic Monthly, Jan.） On the Outskirts of Public Life. (In Atlantic Monthly, Feb.） The Fir
Bliss Perry, The American spirit in lierature: a chronicle of great interpreters, Chapter 7: romance, poetry, and history (search)
child of his own age without the additional gift of rhetoric and eloquence which is to be seen in his patriotic poems and his hymns. For Holmes possessed, in spite of all his limitations in poetic range, true devotion, patriotism, humor, and pathos. His poetry was in the best sense of the word occasional, and his prose was only an incidental or accidental harvest of a long career in which his chief duty was that of a professor of anatomy in the Harvard Medical School. He had studied in Paris under sound teachers, and after some years of private practice won the appointment which he held, as active and emeritus professor, for forty-seven years. He was a faithful, clear, and amusing lecturer, and printed two or three notable medical essays, but his chief Boston reputation, in the eighteen-fifties, was that of a wit and diner-out and writer of verses for occasions. Then came his great hour of good luck in 1857, when Lowell, the editor of the newly-established Atlantic monthly, per
Francis Jackson Garrison, William Lloyd Garrison, 1805-1879; the story of his life told by his children: volume 3, Chapter 12: Kossuth.—1852. (search)
. Mark this! If you will break loose from these associates, if you will close your mouth on the slave question, you may reckon on our undivided support on Irish matters. Whenever your country's claims come up, you shall be sure of fifty votes on your side. No, said O'Connell, let God care for Ireland; I will never shut my mouth on the slave question to save her! (Wendell Phillips, speech at the National A. S. Bazaar, Dec. 27, 1851. Lib. 22: 2.) Victor Hugo, Letter to Mrs. Chapman, Paris, July 6, 1851: Slavery in such a country! Can there be an incongruity more monstrous? Barbarism installed in the very heart of a country which is itself the affirmation of civilization; liberty wearing a chain; blasphemy echoing from the altar; the collar of the negro chained to the pedestal of Washington! . . . What! when slavery is departing from Turkey, shall it rest in America? What! Drive it from the hearth of Omar, and adopt it at the hearth of Franklin? . . . The United States mus
Francis Jackson Garrison, William Lloyd Garrison, 1805-1879; the story of his life told by his children: volume 3, Chapter 13: the Bible Convention.—1853. (search)
marks towards one topic—the public estimation of the abolitionists as infidels. On this head the following correspondence will be found instructive. Mrs. Stowe had returned in September from Sept. 18, 1853; Lib. 23.151. her foreign tour, during which, if she had been taken under the wing of the Glasgow female sectarian abolitionists, engaged at the very moment in advertising Mr. Lib. 23.73. Garrison's infidelity, she had on the other hand been the guest Lib. 23.155. of Mrs. Chapman in Paris. Harriet Beecher Stowe to W. L. Garrison. [Andover, Mass., November, 1853.] Ms., no date. Cf. Dear Sir: The letter you were so kind as to address to me Lib. 23.202. on my departure for Europe, I was unable to read for some time, owing to ill health. When I could read, I had not strength to reply to it. In Switzerland, I projected the plan of a letter which I meant to have addressed to you publicly through the columns of the Liberator. That was never finished, but I think I sh
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