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Colonel William Preston Johnston, The Life of General Albert Sidney Johnston : His Service in the Armies of the United States, the Republic of Texas, and the Confederate States., Chapter 13: the Mormon rebellion. (search)
unish the crimes of certain violent men, who in the name of religion had instituted a reign of terror over the Mormons themselves. The Danites, or Destroying Angels, were a secret organization, said to have originated with one Dr. Avard, in the Missouri troubles of 1838. They had their grips and passwords; and blind obedience to the Prophet was the sole article of their creed. They have had their prototypes under every aspect of despotism, such as the Kruptoi of Sparta, the stabbers of Dr. Francia, and the assassins of the Old Man of the Mountain. This secret police executed the bloody decrees of the church and the will of its president with merciless rigor, and hunted down Gentiles and apostate Saints under the combined influence of fanaticism, greed, and private vengeance. Elder Stenhouse, in the thirty-sixth chapter of his Rocky Mountain Saints, gives a terrible picture of the outburst of fanaticism in the Reformation of 1856. This was a revival begun by Jedediah M. Grant,
Francis Jackson Garrison, William Lloyd Garrison, 1805-1879; the story of his life told by his children: volume 3, Chapter 4: no union with slaveholders!—1844. (search)
the track, and sometimes mistakes a molehill for a mountain. He now avows unmitigated hostility to every organized society, and regards a president or chairman as an embryo Caligula or Nero (Ms. Oct. 1, 1844, W. L. G. to H. C. Wright). Honest Francis Jackson, presiding over an anti-slavery meeting, is transformed in his eyes into a truculent slaveholder, with a scourge in one hand and a branding-iron in the other. The Mass. A. S. Society looks to him like the despotism of Nicholas or Dr. Francia. The church and clergy even are allowed to rest in comparative quietness while he follows his crusade against chairmen, business committees, and societies (Ms. Sept. 22, 1844, E. Quincy to R. D. Webb). Meantime, his prospective son-in-law, John R. French, had set up a baseless claim to the ownership of the Herald, which Rogers espoused, and, pending the Society's endeavors to assert its rights and recover control of its organ, at about the date of Miss Kelley's private letter Rogers
James Russell Lowell, Among my books, Dante. (search)
ys Aretino parenthetically. Like Alexander Gill, he is now remembered only as the schoolmaster of a great poet, and that he did his duty well may be inferred from Dante's speaking of him gratefully as one who by times taught him how man eternizes himself. This, and what Villani says of his refining the Tuscan idiom (for so we understand his farli scorti in bene parlare Though he himself preferred French, and wrote his Tresor in that language for two reasons, la una perche noi siano in Francia, e la altra perched la parlatura francesca é piu dilettevolee piu comune che tutti LI altri linguaggi. （Proemio, sul fine.)), are to be noted as of probable influence on the career of his pupil. Of the order of Dante's studies nothing can be certainly affirmed. His biographers send him to Bologna, Padua, Paris, Naples, and even Oxford. All are doubtful, Paris and Oxford most of all, and the dates utterly undeterminable. Yet all are possible, nay, perhaps probable. Bologna and Padua we
James Buchanan, Buchanan's administration on the eve of the rebellion, Chapter 13: (search)
er Witch, and with other matters referred to in the annual message. Ibid., p. 819. They also made an appropriation to defray the expenses of a commissioner to Paraguay, should he deem it proper to appoint one, for the adjustment of difficulties with that Republic. Paraguay is situated far in the interior of South America, and its capital, the city of Asuncion, on the left bank of the river Paraguay, is more than a thousand miles from the mouth of the La Plata. The stern policy of Dr. Francia, formerly the Dictator of Paraguay, had been to exclude all the rest of the world from his dominions, and in this he had succeeded by the most severe and arbitrary measures. His successor, President Lopez, found it necessary, in some degree, to relax this jealous policy; but, animated by the same spirit, he imposed harsh restrictions in his intercourse with foreigners. Protected by his remote and secluded position, he but little apprehended that a navy from our far distant country coul
The Daily Dispatch: July 9, 1863., [Electronic resource], Vice President Stephens. (search)
Stealing jewelry. --Robert Ryan and Jas. Logan, arrested on charge of stealing $200 worth of jewelry from Moss V. A. Tyler; were heard before the Mayor yesterday, and sent on to answer at the Hustings Court. The jewelry was found in the possession of Francia. Houston, now in jail, and who says she received it of the prisoners.