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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 1,765 1 Browse Search
Abraham Lincoln, Stephen A. Douglas, Debates of Lincoln and Douglas: Carefully Prepared by the Reporters of Each Party at the times of their Delivery. 1,301 9 Browse Search
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing) 947 3 Browse Search
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Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events, Diary from December 17, 1860 - April 30, 1864 (ed. Frank Moore) 495 1 Browse Search
Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events: Documents and Narratives, Volume 1. (ed. Frank Moore) 485 1 Browse Search
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 27. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones) 456 0 Browse Search
Hon. J. L. M. Curry , LL.D., William Robertson Garrett , A. M. , Ph.D., Confederate Military History, a library of Confederate States Military History: Volume 1.1, Legal Justification of the South in secession, The South as a factor in the territorial expansion of the United States (ed. Clement Anselm Evans) 410 0 Browse Search
Horace Greeley, The American Conflict: A History of the Great Rebellion in the United States of America, 1860-65: its Causes, Incidents, and Results: Intended to exhibit especially its moral and political phases with the drift and progress of American opinion respecting human slavery from 1776 to the close of the War for the Union. Volume I. 405 1 Browse Search
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Frank Preston Stearns, Cambridge Sketches, The close of the War (search)
twinkled. Did you not, said he, write the letters d-a-m-n? No, said the boy, laughing; it must have been somebody else. Sophocles laughed and said he would report the case back to the college faculty. A few days later he stopped the youth in the college yard and, merely saying I have had your private admonition revoked, passed on. Professor Sophocles was right. If the Freshman had tried to deceive him he would not have laughed but looked grave. The morning in April, 1861, after President Lincoln had issued his call for 75,000 troops, a Harvard Senior mentioned it to Sophocles, who said to him: What can the government accomplish with 75,000 soldiers? It is going to take half a million of men to suppress this rebellion. He was a good instructor in his way, but dry and methodical. Professor Goodwin's recitations were much more interesting. Sophocles did not credit the tradition of Homer's wandering about blind and poor to recite his two great epics. He believed that Homer
Frank Preston Stearns, Cambridge Sketches, Francis J. Child (search)
unt of hazing, and to endure a kind of social ostracism throughout the course. For many years before the election of Lincoln, Professors Child, Lowell, and Jennison were the only pronounced anti-slavery members of the faculty; and this left Franpted it again. Moreover, as we all see now, he had the right on his side. He was proud of having voted twice for Abraham Lincoln. What he thought of John Brown, at the time of the Harper's Ferry raid, is uncertain; but many years later, when one of his friends published a small book in vindication of Brown against the attack of Lincoln's two secretaries, he wrote to him: I congratulate you on the success of your statement, which I have read with very great interest. John Brown was e important than anything that would be written about him in the future. He did not trouble himself much in regard to Lincoln's second election, for he saw that it was a foregone conclusion; but after Andrew Johnson's treachery in 1866, he felt t
Frank Preston Stearns, Cambridge Sketches, Longfellow (search)
aternions to appreciate Longfellow's art, or any art pure and simple. Evangeline, which is perhaps the finest of Longfellow's poems, is not a favorite with youthful readers. He was greater as a man, perhaps, than as a poet. Future ages will have to determine this; but he was certainly one of the best poets of his time. Professor Hedge, one of our foremost literary critics, spoke of him as the one American poet whose verses sing themselves; and with the exception of Bryant's Robert of Lincoln, and Poe's Raven, and a few other pieces, this may be taken as a judicious statement. Longfellow's unconsciousness is charming, even when it seems childlike. As a master of verse he has no English rival since Spenser. The trochaic meter in which Hiawatha is written would seem to have been his own invention; At least I can remember no other long poem composed in it. and is a very agreeable change from the perpetual iambics of Byron and Wordsworth. Evangeline is perhaps the most suc
Frank Preston Stearns, Cambridge Sketches, Doctor Holmes. (search)
not an ignis fatuus. When the Autocrat of the breakfast table first appeared few were in the secret of its authorship and everybody asked: Who is this new luminary It was exactly what the more intelligent public wanted, and Holmes jumped at once into the position in literature which he has held ever since. Readers were delighted with his wit, surprised at his originality and impressed by his proverbial wisdom. It was the advent of a sound, healthy intelligence, not unlike that of President Lincoln, which could deal with common-place subjects in a significant and characteristic manner. The landlady's daughter, the schoolmistress, little Boston, and the young man called John, are as real and tangible as the dramatis personae in one of Moliere's plays. They seem more real to us than many of the distinguished men and women whom we read of in the newspapers. Doctor Holmes is the American Sterne. He did not seek a vehicle for his wit in the oddities and mishaps of English middle
Frank Preston Stearns, Cambridge Sketches, Frank W. Bird, and the Bird Club. (search)
ts to, and I find it out, I will discharge him to-morrow. One can imagine Abraham Lincoln making a speech like this, on a similar occasion. Frank W. Bird, like Jago Convention of 1860, where he voted at first for Seward, and afterwards for Lincoln. From that time forward, until 1880, he was always to be found at the State H bring them round to his own opinion. He was as single-minded as Emerson or Lincoln. In November, 1862, Emerson said to me: I came from Springfield the other days also worth a passing notice, for the strange resemblance of his life to President Lincoln's, if for no other reason. His name was originally Colbath, and he was rfamily would seem to have been of the same roving Bedouin-like sort as that of Lincoln's ancestors. He began life as a shoemaker, was wholly selfeducated, and changse to reply to him, and the contrast between the two men was like that between Lincoln and Douglas; Sanborn six feet four inches in height, and Butler much shorter,
Frank Preston Stearns, Cambridge Sketches, Sumner. (search)
. Sumner's early life was not like that of Lincoln, neither was he obliged to split rails for a nder the Constitution or not at all. Like Abraham Lincoln he waited for his time to come. Charleng danger was that war would break out before Lincoln could be inaugurated. Such secrecy was obser measure without consulting his colleague. Lincoln evidently desired to enjoy the sole honor of y Hamilton in 1780,--and no one can read President Lincoln's Message to Congress in December, 1864,orted by Seward, and, as was alleged, also by Lincoln. It was thrust upon Congress at the last moms. Lincoln. If Don Piatt is to be trusted, Mrs. Lincoln came to Washington with a strong feeling ofGeneral McClellan's removal, October, 1862, Mrs. Lincoln was at the Parker House in Boston. Sumner bull, Andrew Johnson, Hamilton Fish, and even Lincoln, on the extradition of Mason and Slidell. Heeate great antagonisms. The antagonism which Lincoln excited was concentrated in Booth's pistol sh[8 more...]
Frank Preston Stearns, Cambridge Sketches, Chevalier Howe. (search)
Fugitive Slave law. He stood shoulder to shoulder with George L. Stearns in organizing resistance to the invasions of Kansas by the Missourians; and again in 1862 when Harvard University made its last desperate political effort in opposition to Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation; but when his friends and his party came into power Howe neither asked nor hinted at any reward for his brilliant services. Edward L. Pierce, the biographer of Sumner, was not above exhibiting his prejudices as to ing the intervention of the United States in behalf of the insurgent Cubans. This reminds one of Boswell's treatment of Doctor Johnson's friends. Like John Adams and Hampden, Doctor Howe was a revolutionary character,--and so were Sumner and Lincoln,--but he was a man in all matters prudent, discreet and practical. He was as much opposed to inflammatory harangues and French socialistic notions as he was to the hide-bound conservatism against which he had battled all his life. Like Hampden
Frank Preston Stearns, Cambridge Sketches, The War Governor. (search)
stimable qualities which we all admire in Abraham Lincoln. He had not the wit of Lincoln, nor his Lincoln, nor his immense fund of anecdote, which helped so much to make him popular, but the cordial manners and manas directly instrumental in the nomination of Lincoln. It is said to have been at his suggestion tencies; and with one accord they all answered Lincoln. Thus Lincoln's nomination was practically aLincoln's nomination was practically assured before the voting began. It has been repeatedly asserted that the nomination of Andrew fortment. Governor Andrew then appealed to President Lincoln, who referred the case to Attorney-Genereches, as we read them now, is his tribute to Lincoln's character in his address to the Legislature, following upon Lincoln's assassination. After describing him as the man who had added martyrdom so appreciative in the various biographies of Lincoln? The instances of his kindness and helpfultter, as it is at present. Andrew considered Lincoln's attempts at reconstruction as premature, an[1 more...]
Frank Preston Stearns, Cambridge Sketches, The colored regiments. (search)
to the slow routine of the Department that I sometimes almost despair of the task and want to abandon it. No private business could succeed if carried on after the manner of the National Government at that time, and this was not the fault of Lincoln's administration at all, but of the whole course of Jackson democracy from 1829 to 1861. The clerks in the various departments did not hold their positions from the heads of those departments, but from outside politicians who had no connection on the left; but when the charge had once begun their officers were unable to keep them in check — the feint was changed into a real attack and contributed largely to the most decisive victory of the whole war. In his last annual Message President Lincoln congratulated Congress on the success of the Government's policy in raising negro regiments, and on the efficiency of the troops organized in this way. It seems very doubtful if the war could have been brought to a successful termination wi
Frank Preston Stearns, Cambridge Sketches, Elizur Wright (search)
Elizur Wright The influence of Ohio in the United States of America during the past half century may be compared to that of Virginia during the first forty years of the Republic. All of our Presidents, elected as such since 1860, have come from Ohio, or adjacent territory. Cleveland came from beyond the Alleghenies, and Lincoln was born on the southern side of the Ohio River. General Grant and General Sherman came from Ohio; and so did Salmon P. Chase, and John Brown, of Harper's Ferry celebrity. Chase gave the country the inestimable blessing of a national currency; and even the Virginians admitted that John Brown was a very remarkable person. The fathers of these men conquered the wilderness and brought up their sons to a sturdy, vigorous manliness, which resembles the colonial culture of Franklin, Adams, and Washington. Sitting in the same school-house with John Brown, in 1816, was a boy named Elizur Wright who, like Brown, came from Connecticut, and to whom the peop