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Wendell Phillips, Theodore C. Pease, Speeches, Lectures and Letters of Wendell Phillips: Volume 2, Welcome to George Thompson (1840). (search)
ugitives from his own party that hardly enough were left to count them. [Cheers.] Now, at least, the question is settled where Massachusetts stands; so unequivocally, that even the Daily Advertiser, which never announced the nomination of Horace Mann until after he was elected [cheers and laughter], even that late riser may be considered posted on this point. I remember Mr. Webster once said, in reply to some taunt of Hayne's, There is Massachusetts! Behold her, and judge for yourselves!he United States Senate doubts our position, let us cry, There is Massachusetts! Behold her, and judge for yourselves! There is George Thompson, welcomed by the heart, if he could not be by the pocket of the Commonwealth. [Cheers.] There is Horace Mann in, and Charles W. Upham out, and there they will remain forever. [Cheers.] There is George S. Boutwell in, and George N. Briggs out, and there may they remain forever. [Enthusiastic cheers.] I cannot however quite consent to say that our
Lydia Maria Child, Letters of Lydia Maria Child (ed. John Greenleaf Whittier, Wendell Phillips, Harriet Winslow Sewall), To Mrs. S. B. Shaw. (search)
large bits of marble; but she did not venture to have him go within several inches of the surface she intended to work. Miss Hosmer is going to Rome in October, accompanied by her father, a plain, sensible man, of competent property. She expects to remain in Italy three years, with the view of becoming a sculptor by profession. Mrs. Stowe's truly great work, Uncle Tom's Cabin, has also done much to command respect for the faculties of woman. Whittier has poured forth verses upon it; Horace Mann has eulogized it in Congress; Lord Morpeth is carried away with it; the music stores are full of pieces of music suggested by its different scenes; somebody is going to dramatize it; and 100,000 copies sold in little more than six months! Never did any American work have such success! The passage of the Fugitive Slave Law roused her up to write it. Behold how God makes the wrath of man to praise him! Charles Sumner has made a magnificent speech in Congress against the Fugitive Slave Law
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Cheerful Yesterdays, V. The fugitive slave epoch (search)
ouse, but imprisoned there, because the state jail was not opened to him; he not having been arrested under any state law, and the United States having no jail in Boston. In the previous case, an effort had been made to obtain permission to confine the fugitive slave at the Navy Yard, but Commodore Downes had refused. Sims, therefore, like Shadrach, was kept at the Court-House. Was it possible to get him out? There was on Tuesday evening a crowded meeting at Tremont Temple, at which Horace Mann presided. I hoped strongly that some result might come from this meeting, and made a vehement speech there myself, which, as Dr. Samuel Gridley Howe honored me by saying, was bringing the community to the verge of revolution, when a lawyer named Charles Mayo Ellis protested against its tone, and threw cold water upon all action. It was evident that if anything was done, it must be done by a very few. I looked round, during the meeting, for a band of twenty-five men from Marlborough, wh
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Cheerful Yesterdays, Index. (search)
270. Lovering, Joseph, 53, 54. Lowell, Charles, 103. Lowell, J. R., 24, 28, 37, 42, 53, 55, 67, 700, 75, 76, 77, 93, 94, 95, 96, 97, 103, 110, 118, 126, 128, 168, 1700 171, 173, 174, 176, 178, 179, 180, 182, 184, 186, 295. Lowell, John, 5. Lowell, Maria (White), 67, 75, 76, 77, 101. Lynch, John, 235, 236. Lyttelton, Lord, 289. Macaulay, T. B., 170. Macbeth, 265. Mackay, Mr., 202. Mackintosh, Sir, James, 272. Malot, Hector, 313. Man of Ross, The, 5. Mangual, Pedro, 22. Mann, Horace, 142. Marcou M., 321. Marshall, John, 15. Martin, John, 210. Martineau, Harriet, 126. Mary, Queen, 35. Mason, Charles, 54. Maternus, a Roman poet, 361. Mather, Cotton, 4. Mather, Increase, 53. May, S. J., 327. May, Samuel 146, 147. Meikeljohn, J. M. D., 015. Melusina, 42. Mercutio, in Romeo and Juliet, quoted, 263. Mill, J. S., 101, 121, 122. Millais, J. E. t 332. Miller, Joaquin, 289. Mills, Harriet, 19. Minot, Francis, 62. Montaigne, Michael de, 181. M
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Women and Men, chapter 26 (search)
her Studies for stories, seriously blames an ambitious young woman with not being content with her modest lot as teacher, but indulging dreams of rising to the career of a milliner. Indeed, so far are European countries from yet accepting this finer force that American educators who have stayed in Europe a little too long are apt to come back regretting our extensive employment of women, and assuming that because Germany does not pursue this practice it is not the best thing for us. But Horace Mann, who knew the German schools thoroughly, was the man through whom this change in America was chiefly made ; he found but little more than half the Massachusetts teachers women, and left them five-sixths of that sex. This he urged, not primarily on the ground of economy-though there is no doubt that it is the extensive employment of women which alone males possible the vast spread of our common-school system-but for the sake of what he called the more congenial influences of female teachin
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Women and Men, chapter 48 (search)
ung women, as in this country. To all this I should demur. No man in America ever studied the German systems of common-school instruction more faithfully than Horace Mann; and it was chiefly to him that we owe, as a result, the general substitution of women for men as teachers. Tie greater economy of employing women has no doubtn this country, to obtain the services of a sufficient number of men to give to our public-school system anything like the vast spread it has now obtained. Yet Horace Mann urged the change, not on the ground of economy alone, but because he regarded women as the natural teachers of all children. His views have prevailed. When he now 8610 women to 1060 men-more than eight to one. The objections usually made against these young women lie, first, as to their sex, which is, however, if Horace Mann's theory be correct, rather an advantage than a disadvantage. Then it is objected that they only teach temporarily, on their way to something else, while men w
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Women and Men, Index. (search)
Literary centre unimportant, 225. literary style, women's influence on, 85. Livermore, Mary A., 20. Lochinvar, the young, 55. Longfellow, H. W., 19, 203, 308. Lotze, Hermann, quoted, 90. Louis XIV., 179. Lowell, J. R., quoted, 171, 212, 291. Also 95, 97, 99. Lucas, Mrs., John, 287. Lyon, Mary, 21. Lytton, Lord, 193. M. Maiden aunts, 38. Maiden ladies, dignity of, 31. Maine, Sir Henry, cited, 10. Maitland, Major, 137. Manugin, Arthur, quoted, 214. Mann, Horace, quoted, 134. Also 243, 244. Manners, American, 101, 169, 224; English, 139; Italian and Spanish, 25. manners, the Empire of, 75. Mariotti. See Gallenga. Marketable accomplishments, 60. Marriage, chances of, 65. Marshall, Emily, 177. Martincan, Harriet, quoted, 7, 228. Also 13, 263. martyrdom, Mice and, 141. Matchin, Maud, 103, 104. Mather, Cotton, quoted, 252. Matthews, Brander, 171. Mazare, Prince, 160. Mazzili, Giuseppe, 129, 309. Mellin's Food, 265.
Francis Jackson Garrison, William Lloyd Garrison, 1805-1879; the story of his life told by his children: volume 1, Chapter 13: Marriage.—shall the Liberator die?—George Thompson.—1834. (search)
ad said or done aught amiss. My mind was very tranquil. The meeting was finally held in the lower hall of the Lib. 4.123. Masonic Temple, in spite of direct incitement to violence by the press and by means of placards. In his debate with George Thompson in Glasgow, in June, 1836, Mr. Breckinridge accused Mr. Garrison of having concocted and printed a mobbing placard (Lib. 6.135). Mr. Garrison was present, and, during the slight interruptions which ensued, besought the chairman, Horace Mann, to do Lib. 4.127. his duty by the disturbers; though for his own part he regarded the Rev. John Breckinridge's speech as ferocious and diabolical. On August 11 he wrote to G. W. Benson: You will have seen by the Liberator, that a grand attack by Ms. all the combined forces of colonization and slavery has lately been made upon Boston, in relation to the Maryland scheme of expatriation. They have met with a Waterloo defeat, and yet they fought pugnis et calcibus—with tooth a
Mary Thacher Higginson, Thomas Wentworth Higginson: the story of his life, VI: in and out of the pulpit (search)
very window closed; and plans that involved risking one's life and reputation solitary against law, state and nation. From an account of the attempted rescue, written by Mr. Higginson in 1890, these extracts are taken: All projects for the rescue of fugitive slaves were embarrassed in those days by the fact that the most trusted abolitionist leaders were largely nonresist-ants in principle, and were unwilling to take part in any actual outbreak, while other well-wishers, such as Horace Mann, were utterly opposed to any violation of the law. . . . A plan was hastily formed by four or five abolitionists for the rescue of Sims. The plan was to communicate with the prisoner through a colored clergyman, and get him to consent to jump from his window in the third story upon a pile of mattresses to be placed below, a carriage being placed in readiness to take him away. . . . We were not sure that Sims would have the courage to do this, rather than go back to certain slavery. . .
Cambridge History of American Literature: volume 2 (ed. Trent, William Peterfield, 1862-1939., Erskine, John, 1879-1951., Sherman, Stuart Pratt, 1881-1926., Van Doren, Carl, 1885-1950.), Chapter 4: the New South: Lanier (search)
hose who read speeches the Eulogy of Sumner will live as the noble expression of a patriot and a seer, whose gentleness and devotion will win him a bright and quiet niche in the dark and troublous vestibule of Reconstruction. Another disciple of Calhoun, Jabez Lamar Monroe Curry (1825-1903), born in Georgia but reared in Alabama, learned at the University of Georgia to regard the Arch-Secessionist as second only to Aristotle. Going to Harvard in 1843 to study law, he was soon fired by Horace Mann with a passion for universal education. It was therefore natural, although he became a United States Congressman and a member of the Confederate Congress, that after the war he should enter educational work, in order that the youth of his section might be fitted to build worthily and helpfully in the tumble-down world that surrounded them. As agent of the Peabody and Slater Funds, he aided more than any other one man to develop an irresistible public opinion for the education of the who
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