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Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 25. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), chapter 1.20 (search)
s sketch is but a passing glance at a long, laborious and brilliant career. Mr. Calhoun, Mr. Clay and Mr. Webster all left the Senate, or died in the Senate, about 1851 or 1852. When this grand triumvirate had departed, there were yet many strong men who served in that body with Mr. Hunter from 1850 to 1861 who have made a great impress upon our history. I need hardly mention such great names as Senators Mason, Toombs, Jefferson Davis, Benjamin, Stephen A. Douglas, Seward, Sumner, Chase, Trumbull, Bayard, Slidell and Crittenden. Yet I can truthfully assert that of this list of very able men, not one was superior in general, all-'round ability to Mr. Hunter; not one was his equal in legislative force and influence; not one was so universally confided in and trusted. Since the passing away of Jefferson, Madison, Marshall and Monroe, hardly any Virginian has borne so influential a part in political affairs as R. M. T. Hunter, and certainly no Virginian has done so in the Federal Cong
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 26. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), The dismemberment of Virginia. (search)
fication of his opposition to the bill, and closed by declaring it to be his sincere belief that if the disposition to interfere with the rights of the States exhibited by that Congress was persisted in, the Constitutional Union formed by the fathers would be lost forever. Mr. Wilkinson, of Minnesota, said that if Mr. Carlile's argument had been addressed to the Committee on Territories, of which they were both members, he would never have assented to the admission of West Virginia. Mr. Trumbull, of Illinois, thought it in every point of view inopportune to attempt to force Western Virginia at that time as a separate State into the Union, and trusted that the bill might not pass. Mr. Willey, Mr. Carlile's colleague under the restored government of Virginia at Wheeling, while advocating the bill, stated that he did not believe, much as he regretted to have to say it, that a single county east of the Blue Ridge would acknowledge the authority of the Wheeling government if the U
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 26. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), Index. (search)
395. Varnell's Station, Those who fell at, 224. Virginia and Kentucky Resolutions, 189. Virginia, Secession of, 40; munificense of, 53; despondent of; 61. Virginia or Merrimac, The, 216. Wade, Col. W. B., 222. Walker, Maj., John, 157. Walshe, Capt. B. T., 377. Washington, Gen., entertained at White Hall, S. C , in 1791, 78. Wells, Capt. E. L., 235. West Virginia meeting at Clarksburg in 1861, Constitution of the Wheeling Convention adopted, 40; U. S Senators Williams, Trumbull, Willey and Powell, on admission of, 42, 43; Representatives Conway, Colfax, Crittenden, Dawes, Segar and Stevens, on, 44, 45; vote on, 48; government at Alexandria, 50; U. S. Supreme Court on validity of government of, 51. Wheeler, Gen., Joseph, 185, 219; visit of, to Richmond, 291; his tribute to Pelham, 296; physique of, 302. Whitfield, Surgeon, George, 5. Whiting, General W. H C., Address on by C. B. Denson, 129; his heroic death, 174. Whittle, William C., 315. Wickham, Gener
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 27. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), chapter 1.27 (search)
enior private secretary throughout his administration, which states that Lincoln's attitude towards religion did not change after his entrance on the presidency. Want of space forbids further details, but it would be as easy to prove from precisely the same sort of evidence that Lincoln's character and conduct provoked the bitterest censure from a very great number of the most distinguished of his co-workers in his great achievements, among whom may be named Greely, Thad. Stevens, Sumner, Trumbull, Zach. Chandler, Cameron, Fred. Douglas, Beacher, Fremont, Ben. Wade, Winter Davis and Wendell Phillips, while the most bitter and contemptuous and persistent of all Lincoln's critics were Chase, his Secretary of the Treasury and Chief Justice, and Stanton, known ever since as his great War Secretary. The testimony submitted above seems to show that Lincoln was habitually indecent in his conversation—that he was guilty of grossly indecent, and yet more grossly immoral, conduct in connec
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 27. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), A noble life. (search)
t censure from a very great number of the most distinguished of his co-workers in his great achievements, among whom may be named Greeley, Thad. Stevens, Sumner, Trumbull, Zach. Chandler, Fred. Douglas, Beecher, Fremont, Ben. Wade, Winter Davis and Wendell Phillips, while the most bitter and contemptuous and persistent of all Lins (page 54): Outside of the cabinet the leaders were equally discordant, and quite as distrustful of the ability of Lincoln to fill his great office. Sumner, Trumbull, Chandler, Wade, Winter Davis, and the men to whom the nation then turned as the great representative men of the new political power, did not conceal their distr* * were actively opposed to Lincoln, and mentions Greeley as their chief. McClure's Lincoln, etc. (page 54, et seq.), shows the hostility to Lincoln of Sumner, Trumbull and Chandler, and of his Vice-President, Hamlin. Fremont, who, eight years before, had received every Republican vote for President, charged Lincoln (Holland'
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 27. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), chapter 1.52 (search)
t censure from a very great number of the most distinguished of his co-workers in his great achievements, among whom may be named Greeley, Thad. Stevens, Sumner, Trumbull, Zach. Chandler, Fred. Douglas, Beecher, Fremont, Ben. Wade, Winter Davis and Wendell Phillips, while the most bitter and contemptuous and persistent of all Lins (page 54): Outside of the cabinet the leaders were equally discordant, and quite as distrustful of the ability of Lincoln to fill his great office. Sumner, Trumbull, Chandler, Wade, Winter Davis, and the men to whom the nation then turned as the great representative men of the new political power, did not conceal their distr* * were actively opposed to Lincoln, and mentions Greeley as their chief. McClure's Lincoln, etc. (page 54, et seq.), shows the hostility to Lincoln of Sumner, Trumbull and Chandler, and of his Vice-President, Hamlin. Fremont, who, eight years before, had received every Republican vote for President, charged Lincoln (Holland'
The writings of John Greenleaf Whittier, Volume 7. (ed. John Greenleaf Whittier), Zzz Missing head (search)
itionists were everywhere spoken against, their persons threatened, and in some instances a price set on their heads by Southern legislators. Pennsylvania was on the borders of slavery, and it needed small effort of imagination to picture to one's self the breaking up of the Convention and maltreatment of its members. This latter consideration I do not think weighed much with me, although I was better prepared for serious danger than for anything like personal indignity. I had read Governor Trumbull's description of the tarring and feathering of his hero MacFingal, when, after the application of the melted tar, the feather-bed was ripped open and shaken over him, until Not Maia's son, with wings for ears, Such plumes about his visage wears, Nor Milton's six-winged angel gathers Such superfluity of feathers, and I confess I was quite unwilling to undergo a martyrdom which my best friends could scarcely refrain from laughing at. But a summons like that of Garrison's bugle-blast
Benjamin Cutter, William R. Cutter, History of the town of Arlington, Massachusetts, ormerly the second precinct in Cambridge, or District of Menotomy, afterward the town of West Cambridge. 1635-1879 with a genealogical register of the inhabitants of the precinct., I. General History. (search)
the Spy-Pond Brook into the Mystic River. The Mystic River, of which the ancient Menotomy River is a branch, has its source in Mystic Pond, which was shown on Wood's Map of Massachusetts in 1633. It almost has its beginning, continuance and end within the limits of Medford, and hence is often called the Medford River. The names of the Mystic and Menotomy Rivers are apparently aboriginal designations, and like all Indian names probably describe the locality to which they were affixed. Trumbull gives the origin of the name Mystic, anciently written Mistick, as applied to the Medford River, thus: Tuk in Indian denotes a river whose waters are driven in waves by the tides or winds. With the adjectival misi, great, it forms misi-tuk—now written Mystic—the name of the great river of Boston Bay. The origin of the name Menotomy yet awaits explanation. The spellings of the word have been various. On Feb. 27, 1807, an act was passed to divide the town of Cambridge, and to incorpora
Benjamin Cutter, William R. Cutter, History of the town of Arlington, Massachusetts, ormerly the second precinct in Cambridge, or District of Menotomy, afterward the town of West Cambridge. 1635-1879 with a genealogical register of the inhabitants of the precinct., Index of names. (search)
219, 264, 309 Thompson, 111, 112, 129, 131, 169, 178,202,251, 264, 266, 272, 309, 310, 335, 349 Thorndike, 184, 194,252, 310 Thornton, 43, 44, 252, 310 Thorp and Thorpe, 140, 143, 154, 157, 225, 250, 310, 340, 341, 346 Thurston, 341 Tidd, 58 Tierney, 345 Timney, 345 Tingley, 171, 176 Tisdale, 193, 310 Tobey, 343 Todd, 276, 310 Torrey, 224 Towne, 5 Townsend, 71, 72 Trask, 58, 166, 219, 286, 310, 346, 350 Trowbridge, 161, 173 Trull, 18 Trumbull, 3 Tufts, 17,18, 19,110,112, 116, 120, 121,122, 128, 130, 131, 133, 136, 137, 139, 170, 171, 176, 183-85, 187, 196, 199, 200, 204, 205, 211-13, 217, 218, 223, 233, 234, 238, 244, 246, 248,250, 254, 262, 264, 265, 270, 272, 277, 281, 282, 286,288, 295-97, 302-04, 307, 310-12, 320, 321, 349 Tukey, 343 Turell, 24, 25, 30, 33 Turner, 145, 189,312, 339 Tuttle, 301, 307, 312 Twaddle, 249, 312 Tynan, 345 Underwood, 172,299,312, 328 Usher, 296 Vaughan, 14 Verry, 220
Charles A. Nelson , A. M., Waltham, past, present and its industries, with an historical sketch of Watertown from its settlement in 1630 to the incorporation of Waltham, January 15, 1739., March 19, 1627-8. (search)
e Pummakummin, Sachem of Qunnubbagge, dwelling amongst or neer to the Narragansets, who desired that some English be sent to plant his River.—Adams' Life of Eliot, p. 87. The river may, therefore, have had another name, in the middle or upper part of its course. as he was bound to do, but put us ashore and our goods on Nantasket Point, and left us to shift for ourselves in a forlorn place in this wilderness, like a merciless man. He was afterwards obliged to pay damages for this conduct.—Trumbull. Nine or ten of these unfortunates were the men who first visited the place afterwards called Watertown, which visit Mr. Clap proceeds to relate as follows: But as it pleased God, we got a boat of some old planters, and loaded her with goods; and some able men, well armed, went in her unto Charlestown, where we found some wigwarms and one house, and in the house there was a man which had a boiled bass, but no bread that we see: but we did eat of his bass, and then went up Charles River,
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