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Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Letters and Journals of Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Chapter army life and camp drill (search)
of Congress emancipating slaves used in rebellion and the consequent instructions of Cameron to Butler — the greatest step in advance taken by our Government since its formation, and all the more valhis regiment, if I could have gone. Cameron, Lincoln's first Secretary of War, directed General Butler to employ fugitive slaves in any way that seemed desirable. It was perhaps in consequence of these orders that Butler, while in command at For tress Monroe, adroitly applied the term contraband-of-war to captured slaves. Devens was United States Marshal at the time of the Sims case, ando me fortunate or otherwise in proportion as they tend this way. September 6 Yesterday General Butler made a speech here unexpectedly on his way to Lowell; I did not hear it, but it was said to ll the burning on my men, as was to be expected, that I am willing to be thought as bad as Brute Butler for a time, if that will buy justice for them. But I expressed the hope in Jacksonville that
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ce. For a man so set in his opinions, I think this quite remarkable. We who are complaining of the aftermath of war, so soon after it has actually ceased, may read with surprise this remark of Charles Francis Adams, nearly twenty years after the close of the Civil War: August 6, 1883 C. F. Adams, Jr., spent the morning here. He thinks the country not yet recovered from the tremendous excitement of war and demands quiet more than anything; hence the greatest weakness of [Governor] Butler's position. Thinks there must be a class of professional politicians, but that there is never a time of excitement when a man of character and energy cannot ride over them. His grandfather, P. C. Brooks, was at time of death the richest man in New England (over two millions), this thirty-five years ago. But his annual expenses for city and country house, greenhouse, etc., were but six thousand dollars a year. November 28, 1883 This morning I spent in taking Matthew Arnold to school
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' Club, 233. Bowens, the, of Baltimore, 165. Bradford, George P., 259, 260. Brook Farm, 14. Brown, Brownlee, 49. Brown, John, 77; family of, 84-88. Brown, Theophilus, 223. Brownings, the, in Venice, 30, 31, 315, 316; sketch of, 65, 66. Brownlow, Parson, 168, 169. Brush, George De Forest, 330. Bryce, James, at Newport, 229; at Oxford, 291, 2921. at Cambridge, 322. Buchanan, James, 77 Bull, Ole, 2, 11. Burleigh, Charles, 60-63. Burns, Anthony, case of, 68, 81. Butler, Gen. B. F., 156-58, 260. Butman affair, 66, 68, 69. C Cambridge, Mass., early society in; 1-3; two hundred and fiftieth anniversary of, 321. Canada, descriptions of, 94-98. Carlyle, Thomas, 322. Channing, Barbara, sketch of, 64, 65. Channing, Ellery, quoted, 7; on Emerson, 42; on Thoreau, 42, 43. Channing, Mrs., Susan, 255. Channing, William Henry, at Rochester, 66, 67. Chapman, Mrs. Maria W., described by Whittier, 9-11; letter to, 68, 69. Child, Mrs., Lydia Maria, 82.