Your search returned 9 results in 9 document sections:

William H. Herndon, Jesse William Weik, Herndon's Lincoln: The True Story of a Great Life, Etiam in minimis major, The History and Personal Recollections of Abraham Lincoln by William H. Herndon, for twenty years his friend and Jesse William Weik, Chapter 12. (search)
h I circulated, collecting funds enough to purchase the young man's liberty. The money we sent to Col. A. P. Fields, a friend of ours in New Orleans, who applied it as directed, and it restored the prisoner to his overjoyed mother. The political history of the country, commencing in 1854 and continuing until the outbreak of the Rebellion, furnishes the student a constant succession of stirring and sometimes bloody scenes. No sooner had Lincoln emerged from the Senatorial contest in February, 1855, and absorbed himself in the law, than the outrages on the borders of Missouri and Kansas began to arrest public attention. The stories of raids, election frauds, murders, and other crimes were moving eastward with marked rapidity. These outbursts of frontier lawlessness, led and sanctioned by the avowed pro-slavery element, were not only stirring up the Abolitionists to fever heat, but touching the hearts of humanity in general. In Illinois an association was formed to aid the cause
James Redpath, The Roving Editor: or, Talks with Slaves in the Southern States., My second trip. (search)
hey do not like to employ them, because they cannot be relied upon to finish what they undertake, or to work according to directions; and because, being white men, they cannot drive them. That is to say, their labor is even more inefficient and unmanageable than that of slaves. That I have not formed an exaggerated estimate of the proportion of such a class, will appear to the reader more probable from the testimony of a pious colporteur, given before a public meeting in Charleston, in February, 1855. I quote from a Charleston paper's report. The colporteur had been stationed at----county, N. C. :--The larger portion of the inhabitants seemed to be totally given up to a species of mental hallucination, which carried them captive at its will. They nearly all believed implicitly in witchcraft, and attributed everything that happened, good or bad, to the agency of persons whom they supposed possessed of evil spirits. The majority of what I have termed turpentine-farmers — meaning th
William Tecumseh Sherman, Memoirs of General William T. Sherman ., volume 1, Chapter 4: California. 1855-1857. (search)
United States Circuit Court, Judge McAlister presiding, for a violation of the sub-Treasury Act, but was acquitted. Our bank, having thus passed so well through the crisis, took at once a first rank; but these bank failures had caused so many mercantile losses, and had led to such an utter downfall in the value of real estate, that everybody lost more or less money by bad debts, by depreciation of stocks and collaterals, that became unsalable, if not worthless. About this time (viz., February, 1855) I had exchanged my house on Green Street, with Mr. Sloat, for the half of a fifty-vara lot on Harrison Street, between Fremont and First, on which there was a small cottage, and I had contracted for the building of a new frame-house thereon, at six thousand dollars. This house was finished on the 9th of April, and my family moved into it at once. For some time Mrs. Sherman had been anxious to go home to Lancaster, Ohio, where we had left our daughter Minnie, with her grandparents, an
HISTORY OF THE TOWN OF MEDFORD, Middlesex County, Massachusetts, FROM ITS FIRST SETTLEMENT, IN 1630, TO THE PRESENT TIME, 1855. (ed. Charles Brooks), Chapter 11: currency. (search)
s and Roberts, for iron gates60.00  Due Mr. N. A. Chandler, for work45.00   $380.00      $7,510.60 The place was solemnly consecrated by religious services, performed within the enclosure, Oct. 31, 1853; and then the lots were offered for sale at public auction. Thirty-one lots were sold on the first occasion for $634.50; and the highest price given for choice was $15; and the lowest, $1. The highest price fixed upon the best lots was $20; and the lowest price for a lot, $5. February, 1855: The whole number of lots sold is fifty-one; and their cost was $1,025. Several who bought commenced immediately the preparation of their grounds, and erected fences, and planted flowershrubs and evergreens. Though just opened, there are already indications of good taste and costly expenditure. We trust that the inhabitants will be disposed to build a chapel, of Christian architecture, within twenty years; and surround the land, not with an iron fence, but a granite wall, eight feet
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Kansas, (search)
tion as territorial delegate to Congress of J. W. Whitfield, pro-slavery, by illegal votes......Nov. 29, 1854 Topeka founded......Dec. 5, 1854 A free-State meeting at Lawrence......Dec. 23, 1854 Wyandotte Indians cede to the United States lands purchased by them from the Delawares in Kansas in 1843......Jan. 31, 1855 First census completed: total, 8,501; voters, 2,905; slaves, 192......Feb. 28, 1855 Five sons of old John Brown settle on the Pottawattomie, near Osawatomie......February, 1855 About 1,000 Missourians enter Lawrence with arms, and vote for members of the legislature......March 30, 1855 Manhattan located......April 4, 1855 Cole McCrea, a free-State man, kills Malcom Clark, pro-slavery, at Leavenworth......April 30, 1855 William Phillips, of Leavenworth, protesting against election frauds, is taken to Weston, Mo., tarred and feathered, and ridden on a rail. The outrage approved by the pro-slavery party......May 17, 1855 At a free-State convention
Lucius R. Paige, History of Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1630-1877, with a genealogical register, Chapter 16: ecclesiastical History. (search)
Manchester, N. H., and Worcester. He was installed here Dec. 6, 1868, and resigned Jan. 31, 1873; since which time he has been pastor of the Second Church in Philadelphia. The present pastor of this church is Rev. Oscar F. Safford, a graduate of the Theological School, St. Lawrence University, 1862, who was ordained in 1862, and who was settled at Danvers, Charlestown, Chicago, and Springfield. He was installed here Jan. 1, 1874. Deacons. Elected.Died.Age. Samuel WatsonJuly 12, 1827Feb. 185587 Flavel CoolidgeJuly 12, 1827 Feb. 1, 184873 Isaac KimballJuly 12, 1827Oct. 14, 183174 Simon AmesDec. 28, 1831Oct. 28, 184151 Alvaro Blodgett Deac. Blodgett resigned Sept. 3, 1853, and was reelected May 25, 1860.July 28, 1843May 14, 187458 Joseph P. HowlettJuly 28, 1843 Ebenezer P. HolmanOct. 28, 1847Dec. 17, 185947 Robert WhiteMay 29, 1874 second Universalist.—By an Act of the General Court, Feb. 11, 1823, Calvin Brooks and others Mass. Spec. Laws, VI. 78. were incorpora
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Harvard Memorial Biographies, 1860. (search)
tead of them, to get news that they are dead! What a moment it must have been for those on board just before the vessel went down! Previous to a visit to Paris, to pass Christmas, he writes:— Will you please take particular notice in the streets, and see if chaps (I can't say young men, and boys won't do at all) of my age wear hats or caps? If hats are the fashion, I shall come with a leather hat-box like father's! After going to a fancy ball in female attire, he writes, February, 1855:— It's really true that everybody at the ball thought I was a lady until I spoke in my own voice; then it was very funny to see their astonishment. I was introduced to a great many ladies and gentlemen, and not one has recognized me since. The dress made me look about as tall Aunt M; the powdered, curled hair made my features look finer and my forehead very white; my cheeks were flushed; and all put together made me a very good-looking lady, to judge from the compliments. I neve
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Harvard Memorial Biographies, 1861. (search)
I was sixteen, only the winter term, working on the farm in the summer. In September, 1852, I went to Pierce Academy, Middleborough, Massachusetts, where I stayed three terms, until May, 1853. During the summer I worked on the farm. In September I went back to school, and stayed one term. In the winter 1853-54 I taught school in the southeastern part of my native town. The summer was again spent on the farm; and in September I again went back to school, and remained two terms, until February, 1855. I then went into the office of Dr. M. B. Roche, in New Bedford, Massachusetts. With him I studied medicine a little, but was not very attentive to my studies, as I had no fancy for being a physician, having gone there at the solicitation of my brother rather than from any wish of my own. I was there about seven months. Then I was for a time out of employ, quite undecided what to do next. I had an excellent offer to go into business, if I would wait until the next March, which I
Medford Historical Society Papers, Volume 11., Mystic Hall Seminary. (search)
ched her that there were visitors for certain young ladies. The principal received the visitors with a very gracious manner, and asked of what service she might be. One stammered out, We have come to inspect the institution. Delighted, was the reply. They were taken over the various rooms of the school and studio, and entertained until they showed flagging interest, when, with thanks for the courtesy, they took their departure. Mystic Hall Seminary only existed in West Medford from February, 1855, to June, 1859. In the winter of 1858, Mrs. Smith visited Washington, having influential friends there. This was before the strenuous life in America, and she believed that the time had come in that city for an educational school on the basis of Mystic Hall Seminary. This plan was carried into operation, and in the fall of 1859 she opened her school at the capital. Two or three of her graduate teachers accompanied her. She could not have chosen a more unfavorable time. The John Bro