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Benjamnin F. Butler, Butler's Book: Autobiography and Personal Reminiscences of Major-General Benjamin Butler, Chapter 2: early political action and military training. (search)
both parties, without regard to location or residence; and many able men, who, on account of the political views of their neighbors, could not be elected by their home towns, were elected sometimes from the town of their birth, and sometimes from the town of their choice, and sometimes from the town itself requesting them to act. I think Governor Boutwell was elected by the town of Berlin, a little town on the edge of Worcester County, and not by Groton, the town where he resided. Mr. Benjamin F. Hallett, a very distinguished Hunker Democrat living in Boston, who had not the slightest hope of being elected in that city, was elected from the town of Wilbraham, and thus with many others; so that it may be fairly said that the ablest men of the State formed that convention. There were four hundred and twenty-one members of the convention. For myself, I had so far outlived newspaper libels and attacks, which by propriety of life and conduct one can always easily do, that I was elected
Benjamnin F. Butler, Butler's Book: Autobiography and Personal Reminiscences of Major-General Benjamin Butler, Index. (search)
report quoted, 627; sends to Butler for troops, 666, 856; reference to, 695, 715, 775; uses influence against Butler, 829, 868, 871; causes Butler's administration of affairs to be examined, 832; untruthful letter from, 871; denounced, 871-872; his perfidious treatment of Grant, 872, 875; of Sherman, 876-877; quarrel with Banks, 877; with Rosecrans, 877; lies about Butler, 877; his motive, 877-878; his position with Lincoln, 879; sent to violate a truce, 909; reference to, 913. Hallett, B. F., delegate to constitutional convention, 118. Half Moon, Porter attempts to silence battery,791. Hamlin, reference to, 634. Hampden, speculation trade carried on, 843. Hampton, Wade, in Lacy's letter, 881; Lee's conversation in regard to Mahone, 884, 886. Hampton Roads, fleet in, 774-775; reference 786; Lincoln meets Confederate commissioners at, 902. Hampton, colored infantry and artillery at, 638. Hamilton, Col. Schuyler, volunteers as aid on Butler's staff, 201; sent to
William Schouler, A history of Massachusetts in the Civil War: Volume 1, Chapter 3: (search)
eech meeting in the Music Hall speech ofWendell Phillips meeting in Chester Park speeches of Edward Everettand Benjamin F. Hallett meeting under the Washington Elm in Cambridge Ex-Governor Banks, George S. Hillard, and others letters receivedo float in honor and triumph be the soil of our own Massachusetts! The gentleman who succeeded Mr. Everett was Benjamin F. Hallett, who, for thirty years, had been a distinguished leader of the Democratic party. He had made its platforms, advocated its principles, and labored for its success. No Democrat in Massachusetts was better known than Mr. Hallett. He had never wavered in his love or faltered in his allegiance to his party. No one doubted his sincerity, no one questioned his abi 1775, which was drawn up in line on the Common in front. On this historic spot, on the same day that Mr. Everett and Mr. Hallett spoke in Chester Square, the people of Cambridge held a meeting. John Sargent, the mayor of the city, presided. Amon
William Schouler, A history of Massachusetts in the Civil War: Volume 1, Chapter 5: (search)
uly 1, Mr. Thaxter further presented to me a communication, in writing, signed by Captain Thomas J. C. Amory, of the Seventh Infantry, U. S.A., and Captain Lewis H. Marshall, of the Tenth Infantry, U. S.A., both of whom had served in the army with Mr. Wyman, and who were, if I remember, the only United States regular army officers then on duty in this city; and signed also by Charles G. Greene, Esq., Franklin Haven, Esq., William Dehon, Esq., William Parkman, Esq., Hon. George Lunt, Hon. Benjamin F. Hallett, Henry L. Hallett, Esq., P. Holmes, Esq., Edward F. Bradley, Esq., Joseph L. Henshaw, Esq., Peter Butler, Esq., Thomas C. Amory, Esq., and J. P. Bradlee, Esq.,—all of these gentlemen of this city, who are doubtless known to you by reputation, and with some of whom I cannot doubt that you are personally acquainted,—in which communication, these gentlemen requested the appointment of Mr. Wyman as a colonel, and certified that they believed in him as a gentleman, a man of worth, an acc
Francis Jackson Garrison, William Lloyd Garrison, 1805-1879; the story of his life told by his children: volume 1, Chapter 14: the Boston mob (first stage).—1835. (search)
ant: All persons who use or traffic in ardent spirits as a drink, all adhering masons, and all slaveholders, or those who are concerned in the buying and selling of slaves, shall be excluded from the communion-table and the pulpit. See the whole story and its sequel in Right and wrong in Boston for 1837. building in which all the great moral questions of the day may be discussed without let or hindrance. Francis Jackson presided, and Mr. Garrison was among the speakers, as was also Benjamin F. Hallett, editor of the Daily Advocate, who, in reporting the proceedings in his paper, said they meant to build a new Cradle of Liberty, where free discussion, and not the caprices of deacons, and committees, and aldermen, shall be the presiding genius; where the Constitution, and not the constable, shall be consulted whether it will do to discuss such and such principles for fear of a mob. Mobs are the fruits of checking free discussion. . . . You can never get up a mob in Boston to repress
Francis Jackson Garrison, William Lloyd Garrison, 1805-1879; the story of his life told by his children: volume 3, Chapter 11: George Thompson, M. P.—1851. (search)
nd armed, that George Thompson visited William and Ellen Craft on Sunday, Nov. 3, 1850 (Lib. 21: 153). that he heard Shadrach pray while on his way to the Canadas, and said amen to the prayer. Why, that, said Mr. Commissioner Hallett, Benjamin F. Hallett. Eheu, quantum mutatus ab illo (ante, 1: 482; 2: 32, 43, 187). See his own account of his pro-slavery backsliding in Lib. 22: 69, 87. of course partly in jest, is aiding and abetting the fugitive. Well, Theodore Parker prayed for him publicly, said James. Oh, that nothing, J. N. Buffum. replied Hallett; the Lord would not answer his prayers! When we told Theodore, he said: Well, then, the Rev. T. Parker. Government is in this category: the prayers which the Lord will endorse and answer are illegal; those he will not answer are legal. The case of Shadrach was one of four which, preeminently, in the year 1851, revealed to the North the real meaning of the Fugitive Slave Law as a precursor of disunion and civil war. The
Francis Jackson Garrison, William Lloyd Garrison, 1805-1879; the story of his life told by his children: volume 3, Chapter 14: the Nebraska Bill.—1854. (search)
, as obstructing the process of the United States. Edmund Quincy wrote to Richard Webb, Oct. 24, 1854 (Ms.): Phillips has just returned to town from his villeggiatura in my neighborhood. Judge Curtis, of the U. S. Supreme Court, and District Attorney Hallett are busy trying to indict him and Theodore Parker and the other speakers at the Faneuil Hall meeting the night the rescue of Burns was attempted. It is not very likely they will succeed, or that, if they do, a petit jury can be found t, 1854, Theodore Parker wrote to Francis Jackson (Ms.): Thank you for the documents—I see where they will fit in. They say I am to be arrested this P. M., as late as possible, so as to preclude bail; the Boston Bens [Benjamin R. Curtis and Benjamin F. Hallett] wishing to shut up the meeting-house one day. Where can I find you this P. M. in case of need? Wendell Phillips to Mrs. Elizabeth Pease Nichol. [Milton, Mass.], August 7, 1854. Ms. I would say something on the Burns case if I
Edward L. Pierce, Memoir and letters of Charles Sumner: volume 1, Chapter 2: Parentage and Family.—the father. (search)
fe the perplexities of his office annoyed him. He was too formal and punctilious, too reserved, and too little pliant to the ways of men to please the general public. His last appointment drew out some opposition, but his sterling worth overcame it. He participated in the controversy concerning Masonry, which was carried on with greater or less zeal during the decade of 1825-35. He co-operated with the leading opponents of the order in the State,—John Quincy Adams, Pliny Merrick, Benjamin F. Hallett, Henry Gassett, and Amasa Walker. He had been himself initiated, about 1799, when quite a young man, and had become a master-mason in 1802. A year later he was the eulogist of the order, in a poem and an address before the Grand Lodge of the State. In 1806, however, he discontinued his attendance on its meetings. In 1829, he renounced his connection with it. The same year, he wrote a paper on Speculative Free-Masonry, in the form of a letter to gentlemen who had solicited his vie
Edward L. Pierce, Memoir and letters of Charles Sumner: volume 1, Chapter 5: year after College.—September, 1830, to September, 1831.—Age, 19-20. (search)
rthy of all commendation. I wish it had exploded in a different way. And again, July 12: He holds to it [Anti-masonry] as to the ark of the nation's safety. I saw him in Boston last month, very well in body, low in spirits. He resented the annoyances and unfriendly criticisms to which his father had been subjected on account of his participation in this controversy. He was a diligent reader of the newspapers and pamphlets on the subject, with which the period abounded, particularly of Mr. Hallett's Free Press, which he frequently posted to his friends. He is supposed to have contributed articles to this newspaper, and even to have had charge of it for a short time, during the editor's absence. He was an admirer of eminent Anti-masons, like Richard Rush and William Wirt, the latter of whom he hoped to see elected President at the next election, of 1832. He pressed the great and good cause of Anti-masonry, as he called it, on his favorite classmates, Browne, Hopkinson, Hopkins