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Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Hancock, John 1737- (search)
us to defeat our enemies. I cannot here forbear noticing the signal manner in which the designs of those who wish not well to us have been discovered. The dark deeds of a treacherous cabal have been brought to public view. You now know the serpents who, while cherished in your bosoms, were darting their envenomed stings into the vitals of the constitution. But the representatives of the people have fixed a mark on these ungrateful monsters, which, though it may not make them so secure as Cain of old, yet renders them at least as; infamous. Indeed, it would be affrontive to the tutelar deity of this country even to despair of saving it from all the snares which human policy can lay. True it is that the British ministry have annexed a salary to the office of the governor of this province, to be paid out of a revenue, raised in America without our consent. They have attempted to render our courts of justice the instruments of extending the authority of acts of the British Parli
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Moran, Thomas 1837- (search)
Moran, Thomas 1837- Artist; born in Bolton, Lancashire, England, Jan. 12, 1837; came to the United States when seven years old, and was educated in the public schools of Philadelphia, Pa. Subsequently he studied art under James Hamilton and afterwards in Paris and Italy. He became distinguished as a landscape painter and illustrator. In 1871 he went with the United States Exploring Expedition to the region of the Yellowstone, and in 1873 made a second journey thither, his sketches resulting in the famous paintings The Mountain of the Holy cross; Grand Cañon of the Yellowstone; and Chasm of the Colorado. The two last paintings were purchased by Congress and placed in the Capitol. His other paintings include The last arrow; The ripening of the leaf; Dreamland; The groves were God's first temples; The Pictured rocks of Lake Superior; The flight into Egypt; The remorse of Cain; The track of the storm, etc
Elias Nason, The Life and Times of Charles Sumner: His Boyhood, Education and Public Career., Chapter 15: (search)
o this country. England considered it a casus belli; and popular opinion here indorsed the course of Capt. Wilkes. Mr. Sumner, unmoved by public sentiment, discussed the question on the broad grounds of international law and maritime rights, and thus came to the conclusion that the seizure of the rebel emissaries on board a neutral ship cannot be justified. Let the rebels go, said he. Two wicked men, ungrateful to their country, with two younger confederates, are set loose with the brand of Cain upon their foreheads; prisondoors are opened: but principles are established which will help to free other men, and to open the gates of the sea. Although many public journals criticized this calm and dispassionate review of the case, The New-York Tribune said, It is already ranked in Washington as a State paper upon the question of seizure and search, worthy to be placed side by side with the despatches of Madison and Jefferson; and this is now the decision of the country. Messrs. J. M.
Emilio, Luis F., History of the Fifty-Fourth Regiment of Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry , 1863-1865, Roster of the Fifty-Fourth Massachusetts Infantry. (search)
0, sin.; farmer; Peachbottom, Pa. 12 Apl 63; 20 Aug 65. $50. Cambridge, Md. Battles, Robert Henry 38, mar.; hostler; Dedham. 28 Nov 63; 20 Aug 65. $325. body, Charles 28, mar.; farmer; Lancaster Co. Pa. 12 Apl 63; missing 18 Jly 63 Ft. Wagner. $50. Bouldon, John A. Corpl. 27, sin.; saddler; Cleveland, O. 14 Apl 63; 3 Je 65 ——; dis. Wounded 18 Jly 63 Ft. Wagner. $50. Cleveland, O. Brown, Fielding C. 1st Sergt. 23, sin.; barber; Lebanon, O. 14 Apl 63; 20 Aug 65. $50. Findlay, O. Cain, William 18, sin.; farmer; Xenia, O. 12 May 63; 20 Aug 65. $50. Carter, Henry J. Sergt. 29, mar.; stonecutter; Lenox. 11 Apl 63; 29 May 65 ——; dis. Wounded 30 Nov 64 Honey Hill, S. C. $50. Dead. Clark, Charles 1st 18, sin.; teamster; So Framingham. 11 Apl 63; died of wounds 21 Jly 63 Gen. Hos. Beaufort, S. C. Wounded 18 Jly 63 Ft. Wagner. $50. Clark, Thomas 27, mar.; cook; Frankfort, Ky. 9 Apl 63; 20 Aug 65. $50. Cleveland, James 18, sin.; farmer; Cincinnati, O. 14 Apl, 63; 20
L. P. Brockett, The camp, the battlefield, and the hospital: or, lights and shadows of the great rebellion, Part 2: daring enterprises of officers and men. (search)
egraph wires as they proceeded, they should gain at least three or four hours start of any pursuit which could be made. This was a legitimate and reasonable conclusion, and but for the energy and quick judgment of Mr. Fuller, the conductor, and Mr. Cain, the engineer of the stolen train, and of Mr. Anthony Murphy, foreman of the Wood Department of the State road, who accidentally happened on the train that morning, the plans of Mr. Andrews and his party would have resulted as originally contempugh lost in amazement at the unexpected and daring act, could not repress their merriment at seeing three men starting on foot after a train which had just whirled away from before their eyes, under the highest power of steam. But Messrs. Fuller, Cain, and Murphy, nowise daunted by the disparity of motive power, put on all their speed and ran along the track for three miles, until they came up with some track raisers who had a small truck car, which is shoved along by men so employed on railroa
L. P. Brockett, The camp, the battlefield, and the hospital: or, lights and shadows of the great rebellion, The great railroad chase. (search)
egraph wires as they proceeded, they should gain at least three or four hours start of any pursuit which could be made. This was a legitimate and reasonable conclusion, and but for the energy and quick judgment of Mr. Fuller, the conductor, and Mr. Cain, the engineer of the stolen train, and of Mr. Anthony Murphy, foreman of the Wood Department of the State road, who accidentally happened on the train that morning, the plans of Mr. Andrews and his party would have resulted as originally contempugh lost in amazement at the unexpected and daring act, could not repress their merriment at seeing three men starting on foot after a train which had just whirled away from before their eyes, under the highest power of steam. But Messrs. Fuller, Cain, and Murphy, nowise daunted by the disparity of motive power, put on all their speed and ran along the track for three miles, until they came up with some track raisers who had a small truck car, which is shoved along by men so employed on railroa
C. Edwards Lester, Life and public services of Charles Sumner: Born Jan. 6, 1811. Died March 11, 1874., Section Fifth: Senatorial career. (search)
nounce it in the name of humanity. I denounce it in the name of civilization, which it outraged. I denounce it in the name of that fair play which bullies and prize-fighters respect. The Senator from Massachusetts sat in the silence of the Senate Chamber, engaged in the employments appertaining to his office, when a member from the House, who had taken an oath to sustain the Constitution, stole into the Senate, a place which had hitherto been held sacred against violence, and smote him, as Cain smote his brother. Keitt exclaimed: That is false. Burlingame replied: I will not bandy epithets with the gentleman. I am responsible for my own language; doubtless he is responsible for his. I am, said Keitt. I shall stand by mine, replied Burlingame. Mr. Comins, the other Representative from Boston, said the murderous blow that smote down Mr. Sumner was the representative of a power that, having failed to sustain itself in intellectual conflict, resolves itself into brute force, sta
C. Edwards Lester, Life and public services of Charles Sumner: Born Jan. 6, 1811. Died March 11, 1874., LVII. (search)
nounce it in the name of humanity. I denounce it in the name of civilization, which it outraged. I denounce it in the name of that fair play which bullies and prize-fighters respect. The Senator from Massachusetts sat in the silence of the Senate Chamber, engaged in the employments appertaining to his office, when a member from the House, who had taken an oath to sustain the Constitution, stole into the Senate, a place which had hitherto been held sacred against violence, and smote him, as Cain smote his brother. Keitt exclaimed: That is false. Burlingame replied: I will not bandy epithets with the gentleman. I am responsible for my own language; doubtless he is responsible for his. I am, said Keitt. I shall stand by mine, replied Burlingame. Mr. Comins, the other Representative from Boston, said the murderous blow that smote down Mr. Sumner was the representative of a power that, having failed to sustain itself in intellectual conflict, resolves itself into brute force, sta
Wendell Phillips, Theodore C. Pease, Speeches, Lectures and Letters of Wendell Phillips: Volume 1, Mobs and education. (search)
Union, amid the plaudits of Mr. Fay and his friends. What day was it? The anniversary of the martyrdom of the only man whose name stirs the pulses of Europe in this generation. [Derisive laughter.] English statesmen confess never to have read a line of Webster. You may name Seward in Munich and Vienna, in Pesth or in Naples, and vacant eyes will ask you, Who is he? But all Europe, the leaders and the masses, spoke by the lips of Victor Hugo, when he said, The death of Brown is more than Cain killing Abel; it is Washington slaying Spartacus. [Laughter from some parts of the hall, and from others applause.] What was the time of this meeting? An hour when our Senators and Representatives were vindicating the free speech of Massachusetts in Washington, in the face of armed men. Are we to surrender it in the streets at home, to the hucksters and fops of the Exchange? This day on which I speak, a year ago, those brave young hearts which held up John Brown's hands faced death wit
Lydia Maria Child, Letters of Lydia Maria Child (ed. John Greenleaf Whittier, Wendell Phillips, Harriet Winslow Sewall), To the same. (search)
To the same. 1865. I agree with Garrison in thinking the Anti-Slavery Society had better dissolve when the States have ratified the amendment to the Constitution. But I think they ought to form themselves into a society for the protection of the freedmen. Those old slaveholders will act like Cain as long as they live. They will try to discourage, misrepresent, and harass the emancipated slave in every way, in order to prevent the new system of things from working well, just as the Jamaica planters did. It will not do to trust the interests of the emancipated to compromising politicians; their out-and-out radical friends must mount guard over them.
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