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Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events: Documents and Narratives, Volume 7. (ed. Frank Moore), chapter 203 (search)
to his neck in water, determined rather to drown than be taken prisoner. He was nearly dead from exhaustion. Among the trophies were some cartridges. In place of balls there are twelve large buckshot or pistol-balls wrapped up in cloth. Some of our men were wounded with these. Doctor Gale, of the Adela, took from one of the wounded a home-made lead ball weighing four ounces. The wounded were taken to a Government building near the light-house, on Egmond Key, and left in charge of Doctor Gunning, of the Tahoma. Captain Westcott, commander of the post, (rebel,) and formerly of the United States Army, and representative from Florida, said that as our men who died on shore fought so bravely, they intended to give them the best funeral they could get up. The Adela raised a purse of one hundred and eight dollars and sent it to one of these men — Donoly, who is a prisoner. The Tahoma also sent money to these men to pay their way while travelling in Dixie. Most of the rebels engaged
the Rev. W. Turner , Jun. , MA., Lives of the eminent Unitarians, John Biddle (search)
corded. For about three years Mr. Biddle and his friends appear to have enjoyed the liberty of meeting for worship and mutual improvement in humble obscurity, but unmolested. During this period his little congregation received a visit from Dr. Gunning, afterwards Regius Professor of Divinity at Cambridge, and Bishop of Ely. He came attended by some learned friends, not, however, as presently appeared, for the purpose of witnessing, still less of joining in their worship, but to interrupt, oppose, and contradict. If Mr. Biddle had returned the compliment, the constable would have been sent for to take him into custody as a disturber of the public peace, and, perhaps, not undeservedly. But Gunning seems to have delighted in this kind of skirmishes, and was in the habit, as his biographer tells us, of looking out all sorts of sectaries, to dispute with them openly in their own congregations. On this occasion he immediately commenced a formal disputation, first, on the Deity of t
The writings of John Greenleaf Whittier, Volume 6. (ed. John Greenleaf Whittier), Old portraits and modern Sketches (search)
ce, the Court offered him the bishopric of Hereford. Superior to personal considerations, he declined the honor; but somewhat inconsistently, in his zeal for the interests of his party, he urged the elevation of at least three of his Presbyterian friends to the Episcopal bench, to enforce that very liturgy which they condemned. He was the chief speaker for the Presbyterians at the famous Savoy Conference, summoned to advise and consult upon the Book of Common Prayer. His antagonist was Dr. Gunning, ready, fluent, and impassioned. They spent, as Gilbert Burnet says, several days in logical arguing, to the diversion of the town, who looked upon them as a couple of fencers, engaged in a discussion which could not be brought to an end. In themselves considered, many of the points at issue seem altogether too trivial for the zeal with which Baxter contested them,—the form of a surplice, the wording of a prayer, kneeling at sacrament, the sign of the cross, etc. With him, however, the
George Bancroft, History of the United States from the Discovery of the American Continent, Vol. 8, Chapter 47: (search)
e so rapidly, but at this time he cultivated the greatest intimacy with Panin, whose opinion he professed to follow. The indifference of the king of Prussia on the relation of England to her colonies, extended to the court of Moscow, and the Russian ministers never Chap. XLVII.} 1775. Aug. spoke of the strife but as likely to end in American independence. Yet this coolness was not perceived by the British minister. One day Panin inquired of him the news; remembering his instructions, Gunning seized the moment to answer, that the measures in progress would shortly end the rebellion in America; then, as if hurried by excess of zeal to utter an idle, unauthorized speculation of his own, he asked leave to acquaint his king, that in case the circumstances of affairs should render any foreign forces necessary, he might reckon upon a body of her imperial majesty's infantry. On the morning of the eighth of August, Panin reported the answer of the empress. Nothing was said specificall
George Bancroft, History of the United States from the Discovery of the American Continent, Vol. 8, Chapter 50: (search)
ngland had in contemplation a larger scheme. Gunning's private and confidential despatch from Moscme on this occasion. Armed with this letter, Gunning was ordered to ask an audience of the empressighth, Suffolk despatched a second courier to Gunning, with a project of a treaty for taking a body will not conceal from you, wrote Suffolk to Gunning, Chap. L.} 1775. Sept. that this accession oeft England, when, on the tenth of September, Gunning at court poured out to the empress assurancesce. The empress having returned to Moscow, Gunning, at five in the afternoon of the thirtieth, w had been made, and after much expostulation, Gunning confessed: It is true; in your answer to me nter of George the Third. The next morning, Gunning went to Panin before Oct. he was up, and to ourier, with the project of a treaty, reached Gunning on the fourth of October; he seized the earliress continued to be profuse of courtesies to Gunning; and when in December he took his leave, she [3 more...]
The Daily Dispatch: May 15, 1862., [Electronic resource], Richmond Sharpshooters wounded. (search)
ers, who daily offend the nostrils with their obnoxious and polluting presence, we deem it fitting to remind and request our worthy Marshal, that the public thoroughfares be no longer blockaded by such disreputable characters, who lounge about and sponge upon the community at large.--Gambling dens abound in every direction — their directors are below all polite consideration — placed beyond the pale of all civility, and are only fit to grace the chain- gang, or to work on the common roads.--Gunning in every art of imposition and seduction, they wink at all law and order, swindle the innocent, corrupt morals and manners, at the same time enticing the unwary or youthful into their gas lit gambling dens, with all the temptations which deception and abundance of liquor can invent. If our worthy Marshal and Gen. Winder desire to see peace and order maintained — if they wish to rid the city of a host of profligates from all the South, who live and fatten on the vices or simplicity of the u<