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The writings of John Greenleaf Whittier, Volume 6. (ed. John Greenleaf Whittier), Old portraits and modern Sketches (search)
nor had I anything to satisfy them for diet and entertainment. He accepted an offer to live in the Governor's house at Coventry, and preach to the soldiers of the garrison. Here his skill in polemics was called into requisition, in an encounter wiwork of the laity, the sturdy yeomanry and God-fearing commoners of England. The news of the fight of Naseby reaching Coventry, Baxter, who had friends in the Parliamentary forces, wishing, as he says, to be assured of their safety, passed over toan the pikes of Jacob Astley, or the daggers of the roysterers who followed the mad charge of Rupert. Hastening back to Coventry, he called together his clerical brethren, and told them the sad news of the corruption of the army. After much painfulrved. But no one volunteered to assist him, and the plot of revolution went on. After Worcester fight he returned to Coventry, to make his report to the ministers assembled there. He told them of his labors and trials, of the growth of heresy an
The writings of John Greenleaf Whittier, Volume 7. (ed. John Greenleaf Whittier), Zzz Missing head (search)
he dignified courtesy of the old school, declined our proposition in civil terms, and bowed us out with a cool politeness equalled only by that of the senior Winkle towards the unlucky deputation of Pickwick and his unprepossessing companions. As we left their doors we could not refrain from smiling in each other's faces at the thought of the small inducement our proffer of the presidency held out to men of their class. Evidently our company was not one for respectability to march through Coventry with. On the following morning we repaired to the Adelphi Building, on Fifth Street, below Walnut, which had been secured for our use. Sixty-two delegates were found to be in attendance. Beriah Green, of the Oneida (New York) Institute, was chosen president, a fresh-faced, sandy-haired, rather common-looking man, but who had the reputation of an able and eloquent speaker. He had already made himself known to us as a resolute and self-sacrificing abolitionist. Lewis Tappan and myself t
The Daily Dispatch: May 30, 1862., [Electronic resource], The dearth of cotton in England. (search)
last the kind purse that was still open. It is natural to look to the wealth and property on the spot in the neighborhood, it has been produced there and taken flight elsewhere. But it is difficult to enforce this sort of delay. Already an immense amount of charity has been done on the spot. The whole of the manufacturing districts share the distress more or less Leeds suffers; Sh suffers; even Birmingham suffers. There are 3,000 more paupers there than last year at this time. At Coventry there are only three times as many; such Unions as have struggled to keep open are threatened; and Ecclesal Blerly are suffering considerably. Enterprise is flagging at many other places, too people do not know how soon disasters may reach them, be they ever so much cut of the cotton districts. But the other day 200 persons were starved to death, or more mercifully suffocated to a coal pit. With their wives and children here were about 600 persons thrown on the public benevolence. T
The Daily Dispatch: June 11, 1862., [Electronic resource], The 28th Georgia regiment. (search)
Distress if England. --In the last number of Once a Week, there is a curious article entitled "Where the Flag, there the Family," which begins by portraying the miseries in England resulting from the war in this country, and concludes by an appeal for the poor women of England. Here are a few of the writer's facts: He says that many of the Lancashire mills are closed for the want of cotton, and while there is an abundance of silk at Coventry there is no demands for ribbons. The workhouses are filled with young women and girls. Out of three millions of English women, of fitting years for work, two millions are at work for their living; and the number of marriageable women, who have no prospect of obtaining husbands at home, is six hundred thousand. Those who enjoy the privilege of sewing for a living usually receive only about fifty dollars per annum; and the writer states that out of one hundred and eighty-four ladies whom he knew to be thus supported, one hundred and twenty-
The Daily Dispatch: December 5, 1863., [Electronic resource], East Tennessee. (search)
an found it possible to do with 150,000 men — more harm than Grant has just done us at Chattanooga — more harm than all Yankeedom, with all its malignity, has been, or ever will be, able to do us. Let no such man be trusted; for he is one who would ruin his country to astonish his constituents. Cough him down, hiss him out, put the previous question upon him; make his seat too hot to hold him, do anything to get rid of his everlasting gabble. Above all, pass a law allowing no man to speak more than once on the same question, and limiting every speech to ten minutes. A man who cannot tell what he has to say in ten minutes is not fit to speak at all. He can instruct nobody, and can give no reason for his own vote, which is fit for a man of sense to hear. For Heaven's sake put into Coventry all who would turn Congress into a debating club. Cut them dead — let the finger of scorn be fixed upon them, for they are men who would betray their country to promote their own ambitious vi
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