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Cambridge History of American Literature: volume 1, Colonial and Revolutionary Literature: Early National Literature: Part I (ed. Trent, William Peterfield, 1862-1939., Erskine, John, 1879-1951., Sherman, Stuart Pratt, 1881-1926., Van Doren, Carl, 1885-1950.) 2 0 Browse Search
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The picturesque pocket companion, and visitor's guide, through Mount Auburn 2 0 Browse Search
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Lydia Maria Child, Letters of Lydia Maria Child (ed. John Greenleaf Whittier, Wendell Phillips, Harriet Winslow Sewall), To Miss Lucy Osgood. (search)
after writing Philothea. That was a pleasant ramble into classic lands; but this Progress of Religious Ideas was a real pilgrimage of penance, with peas in my shoes, walking over rubble-stones most of the way. You have no idea of the labor! It was greatly increased by my distance from libraries, nearly all the time, which rendered copious extracts necessary. How absurdly the Old Testament is treated by Christians! used for all convenient purposes, neglected whenever it is inconvenient! Moses is good authority for holding slaves, but not for the healthy practice of abstaining from the use of pork. . . . Most devoutly do I believe in the pervasive and ever-guiding Spirit of God ; but I do not believe it was ever shut up within the covers of any book, or that it ever can be. Portions of it, or rather breathing of it, are in many books. The words of Christ seem to me full of it, as no other words are. But if we want truth, we must listen to the voice of God in the silence of our ow
Lydia Maria Child, Letters of Lydia Maria Child (ed. John Greenleaf Whittier, Wendell Phillips, Harriet Winslow Sewall), To Mrs. S. M. Parsons. (search)
by dying for them. It was very touching to hear them sing appropriate Methodist hymns so plaintively. Some of their prayers were uncouth, of course, because the pride and prejudice of white men have prevented their having a chance for mental culture; but many of them were eloquent, from the simple effect of earnestness. One old black man who informed the Lord that he had been a slave, and knew how bitter it was, ejaculated with great fervor, and since it has pleased thee to take away our Moses, oh! Lord God! raise us up a Joshua. To which all the congregation responded with a loud Amen! The 16th of December was more painful to me than the 2d. Those other victims were young, and wanted to live; and they had not so many manifestations of sympathy to sustain them as their grand old leader had. If Brown had not taken the arsenal, but had simply taken off such slaves as wanted to go, as he did in Missouri, and had died for that, I should be more completely satisfied with his martyr
Lydia Maria Child, Letters of Lydia Maria Child (ed. John Greenleaf Whittier, Wendell Phillips, Harriet Winslow Sewall), To the same. (search)
it is in the providence of God to allow us to be an example to the nations, or whether he intends to use us as a warning. If we are saved, it will be better than we deserve. I would sacrifice everything in life, and life itself, to preserve our free institutions; but if we must have the noble structure pulled down about our ears by the blind giant Slavery, I hope the poor negroes will have a rollicking good time over its ruins. You have doubtless heard of Harriet Tubman, whom they call Moses, on account of the multitude she has brought out of bondage by her courage and ingenuity. She talks politics sometimes, and her uncouth utterance is wiser than the plans of politicians. She said the other day: Dey may send de flower ob dair young men down South, to die ob de fever in de summer, and de agoo in de winter. (Fur 't is cold down dar, dough 'tis down South.) Dey may send dem one year, two year, tree year, till dey tired ob sendina, or till dey use up all de young men. Al
Lydia Maria Child, Letters of Lydia Maria Child (ed. John Greenleaf Whittier, Wendell Phillips, Harriet Winslow Sewall), To the same. (search)
ay of him that I have constantly gone on liking him better and better. His recent reply to some people who serenaded him charmed me exceedingly. A most beautiful spirit pervaded it. As for Andy Johnson, he has completely taken me captive by his speech at Nashville. To think of that colored procession going through the streets of Nashville, greeted from the windows with hurrahs, and waving of hats and handkerchiefs! To think of the Vice President of the United States promising to be their Moses, to lead them out of bondage, telling them, Remember they who would be free, themselves must strike the blow! And all this in Nashville where Amos Dresser, thirty years ago, was publicly flogged for having an abolition tract in his carpet-bag! Then to think of Maryland wheeling into the circle of free States, with ringing of bells and waving of banners! To think of the triumphal arch in the streets of Baltimore, whereon, with many honored historical names, were inscribed the names of Benj
Lydia Maria Child, Letters of Lydia Maria Child (ed. John Greenleaf Whittier, Wendell Phillips, Harriet Winslow Sewall), Index. (search)
The world that I am passing through, by Mrs. Child, x. Thirteenth Amendment to U. S. Constitution, passage of, 188. Thome, James A., denounces slavery, 131. Thompson, George, threatened with abduction from New York, 15; speaks in the hall of the U. S. House of Representatives, 180; contrast between his first and last visits to the United States, 181; his explanation of England's attitude during the war, 181; lines to, 206; reminiscences of, 248. Tubinan, Harriet, alias Moses, 161. Tucker, St. George, testimony of, against slavery, 132, U. uncle Tom's Cabin, success of, 69; read in Siam, 216. Underwood, John C., expelled from Virginia, 108. Unitarianism a mere half-way house, 189. Unitarians, the, and R. W. Emerson, 34; convocation of, at New York, 189. V. Venus of Milo, the, 172, 218. Victor Hugo's tragedy of John Brown, 173. W. Wallcut, Robert F., 284. War anecdotes, 158, 161, 180, 204. Wasson, David A.. 80, 91. Wayland, Ma
Caroline E. Whitcomb, History of the Second Massachusetts Battery of Light Artillery (Nims' Battery): 1861-1865, compiled from records of the Rebellion, official reports, diaries and rosters, Life of Col. Ormand F. Nims (search)
arch 12, 1704, or 5, the presumption being that he had died there just previously. Ebenezer and John were the two surviving sons of Godfrey. John has many descendants in Michigan and other parts of the West. Ebenezer was carried to Canada as was also another captive, Sarah Hoyt. These two were married in Canada and had there one son also named Ebenezer. They were redeemed by Stoddard and Williams with difficulty in 1814 and returned to Deerfield, where four more sons were born, David, Moses, Elisha, Amasa. David, son of Ebenezer, was born at Deerfield, March 30, 1716 and died in Keene, July 21, 1803. He came to Keene while a boy and was appointed scribe by the proprietors July 25, 1737. At the first town meeting after the town was chartered by New Hampshire which was held May 2, 1753, he was elected first town clerk and after that held some town office nearly every year till 1776. In 1740, he was granted 10 acres of upland in Keene, for hazarding his life and estate by livi
Caroline E. Whitcomb, History of the Second Massachusetts Battery of Light Artillery (Nims' Battery): 1861-1865, compiled from records of the Rebellion, official reports, diaries and rosters, Roster of Second Massachusetts Battery (search)
field, Ma.Jan. 4, 1864Aug. 11, 1865, expiration of service. Whitmore, Benjamin F., Corp.,26Boston, Ma.Feb. 16, 1864Aug. 11, 1865, expiration of service. Wilkins, Robert J., Corp.,25Boston, Ma.July 31, 1861Feb. 15, 1864, re-enlistment. Hodgdon, Moses, Bugler,19Boston, Ma.July 31, 1861Aug. 16, 1864, expiration of service. Hughes, John, Bugler,22Barnstable, Ma.Jan. 25, 1864Died July 23, 1865, Vicksburg, Miss. O'Grady, Joseph, Bugler,24Quincy, Ma.July 31, 1861Aug. 16, 1864, expiration of serviW.,34Taunton, Ma.Sept. 2, 1864June 11, 1865, expiration of service. Tate, James C.,36Charlestown, Ma.July 31, 1861Aug. 11, 1864, expiration of service. Tate, John M.,19Charlestown, Ma.July 31, 1861Aug. 16, 1864, expiration of service. Tate, Moses F.,47Charlestown, Ma.July 31, 1861Died Aug. 10, 1862, New Orleans, La. Taylor, John,33Quincy, Ma.July 31, 1861May 20, 1863, disability. Thayer, Frederick L.,28Taunton, Ma.Sept. 2, 1864June 11, 1765, expiration of service. Thomas, David,38Abing
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Letters and Journals of Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Chapter 2: the Worcester period (search)
iding many more in other ways to escape. Her tales of adventure are beyond anything in fiction and her ingenuity and generalship are extraordinary. I have known her for some time and mentioned her in speeches once or twice — the slaves call her Moses. She has had a reward of twelve thousand dollars offered for her in Maryland and will probably be burned alive whenever she is caught, which she probably will be, first or last, as she is going again. She has been in the habit of working in hotels all summer and laying up money for this crusade in the winter. She is jet black and cannot read or write, only talk, besides acting. This modern Moses, however, managed to escape capture and made nineteen perilous expeditions, leading to freedom more than three hundred slaves. A reward of forty thousand dollars was offered by the South for her capture. During the Civil War one of her services was acting as a spy for the Government. She finally died a peaceful death a few years ago.
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Letters and Journals of Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Chapter 7: Cambridge in later life (search)
s, while he has too much simplicity and good sense to commit any special gaucherie. Colonel Higginson was easily moved by any tale of distress; and when ex-Governor Moses, of South Carolina, lately released from Sing Sing, called on him, sending in the card of a prominent Southerner, his unsuspecting host readily responded to the appeal for a loan of money, and when Moses was arrested and confined in the East Cambridge jail, kept him supplied with reading matter. January 31, 1885 To see Moses in jail at East Cambridge by his request. He a good deal broken down and unnerved; said I could not abhor his crime more than he did; that he was not all bad,Moses in jail at East Cambridge by his request. He a good deal broken down and unnerved; said I could not abhor his crime more than he did; that he was not all bad, but easily influenced; that he had done good to many, but had had no helping hand. Said the first time for years that he had a chance was in getting a position at Chicago . .. and this my complaint of him had overthrown. Since then he had lived the life of a fugitive, worse than prison. Even when at liberty, his days were agony
Francis Jackson Garrison, William Lloyd Garrison, 1805-1879; the story of his life told by his children: volume 1, Chapter 5: Bennington and the Journal of the Times—1828-29. (search)
ian Devotion. thirty years conflict, besides being included in some church hymnals, in which the following stinging verses must have made it especially serviceable and effective: Hearest thou, O God, those chains, Clanking on Freedom's plains, By Christians wrought! Them who those chains have worn, Christians from home have torn, Christians have hither borne, Christians have bought! Cast down, great God, the fanes That, to unhallowed gains, Round us have risen— Temples whose priesthood pore Moses and Jesus o'er, Then bolt the black man's door, The poor man's prison! Mr. Garrison's Address, which must have occupied considerably more than an hour in delivery, was subsequently printed in the National Philanthropist and Investigator of July 22 and 29, and has thus been preserved to show the fulness and maturity of the orator's powers in this, his twenty-fourth year, and his thorough moral and intellectual equipment for the warfare upon which he now deliberately entered. Its importan
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