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Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing) 1 1 Browse Search
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Thomas Wentworth Higginson, The new world and the new book 1 1 Browse Search
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Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Kansas, (search)
nstitutional convention; no free-State men voted......June 15, 1857 Free-State convention at Topeka to nominate officers under the Topeka constitution, and a delegate to Congress, appoints James H. Lane to organize citizens of the Territory to protect the ballotboxes at the approaching elections......July 15, 1857 Governor Walker, with several companies of dragoons, encamps before Lawrence, intending to prevent action under the independent municipal charter, but soon withdraws......July 17, 1857 The wagon-trains of the Utah expedition are leaving Fort Leavenworth daily; Gen. Albert Sidney Johnston is in command of the 5,000 troops sent out to subdue the Mormons......Aug. 1, 1857 Under the Topeka constitution, Marcus J. Parrott chosen to Congress; vote on the constitution, 7,257 for, 34 against......Aug. 9, 1857 At a convention at Grasshopper Falls, the free-State men agree to take part in territorial election, Oct. 5......Aug. 26, 1857 At the October election the fr
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Henry Walcott Boynton, Reader's History of American Literature, Chapter 4: the New York period (search)
he expressed toward the end of his life as the sum of his judgment in regard to the prospects of American letters. After spending the greater part of his mature life in Europe, he wrote to Motley as his conclusion: You are properly sensible of the high calling of the American press, that rising tribunal before which the history of all nations is to be revised and rewritten and the judgment of past ages to be corrected or confirmed. Motley's Correspondence, i. 203. This was written on July 17, 1857, before the Civil War, and this was the opinion of a man the greater part of whose working life, like Motley's, had been passed in Europe; and who had thus a right to hazard a guess as to which tribunal was likely to be the tribunal of the future. Some popular novels. As marked in its triumph over European criticism, though as stormy as Irving's was peaceful, was the career of James Fenimore Cooper. He was not, of course, our earliest novelist, inasmuch as Charles Brockden Brown
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, The new world and the new book, The New world and the New book (search)
adopted Spaniard in Spain. He died before the outbreak of the great Civil War, which did so much to convince us, for a time at least, that we were a nation. Yet it was Washington Irving who wrote to John Lothrop Motley, in 1857, two years before his own death:— You are properly sensible of the high calling of the American press, that rising tribunal before which the history of all nations is to be revised and rewritten, and the judgment of past ages to be corrected or confirmed. July 17, 1857. Motley Correspondence, i. 203. The utmost claim of the most impassioned Fourth of July orator has never involved any declaration of literary independence to be compared with this deliberate utterance of the placid and world-experienced Irving. It was the fashion of earlier critics to pity him for having been born into a country without a past. This passage showed him to have rejoiced in being born into a country with a future. His broad and eclectic genius, as Warner well calls