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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., I. Our country. (search)
thousand--more than two-thirds of it American. About fifty thousand churches, with forty thousand clergymen; two hundred and thirty-nine Colleges, having one thousand six hundred and seventy-eight teachers and twenty-seven thousand eight hundred and twenty-one pupils; six thousand and eighty-five Academies and Private Schools, with twelve thousand two hundred and sixty teachers and two hundred and sixty-three thousand and ninety-six pupils; eighty thousand nine hundred and seventy-eight Common Schools, with three millions three hundred and fifty-four thousand and eleven pupils; three hundred and eighty-six Daily Newspapers, circulating in the aggregate one million four hundred and seventy-eight thousand four hundred and thirty-five copies; one hundred and forty-six Tri-Weekly and Semi-Weekly, and three thousand one hundred and fifty-three Weekly journals, circulating seven millions five hundred and sixty-four thousand three hundred and four-teen copies; with nineteen Quarterlies, five
James Parton, The life of Horace Greeley, Chapter 6: apprenticeship. (search)
, it takes considerable learning to be a printer. Have you been to school much? No, said the boy, I hav'nt had much chance at school. I've read some. What have you read? asked Mr. Bliss. Well, I've read some history, and some travels, and a little of most everything. Where do you live? At Westhaven. How did you come over? I came on foot. What's your name? Horace Greeley. Now it happened that Mr. Amos Bliss had been for the last three years an Inspector of Common Schools, and in fulfilling the duties of his office—examining and licensing teachers—he had acquired an uncommon facility in asking questions, and a fondness for that exercise which men generally entertain for any employment in which they suppose themselves to excel. The youth before him was—in the language of medical students—a fresh subject, and the Inspector proceeded to try all his skill upon him, advancing from easy questions to hard ones, up to those knotty problems with which he had bee
James Parton, The life of Horace Greeley, Chapter 11: the firm continues (search)
for some time, the printing of a small tri-weekly paper called the Constitutionalist, which was the organ of the great lottery dealers, and the vehicle of lottery news, a small, dingy, quarto of four pages, of which one page only was devoted to reading matter, the rest being occupied by lottery tables and advertisements. The heading of this interesting periodical was as follows: the Constitutionalist, Wilmington, Delaware. Devoted to the Interests of Literature, Internal Improvement, Common Schools, &c., &c. The last half square of the last column of the Constitutionalist's last page contained a standing advertisement, which read thus:— Greeley and Story, No. 54 Liberty-street, New York, respectfully solicit the patronage of the public to their business of Letter-Press Printing, particularly Lottery Printing, such as schemes, periodicals, &c., which will be executed on favorable terms. Horace Greeley, who had by this time become an inveterate paragraphist, and was scribble
Medford Historical Society Papers, Volume 10., chapter 1 (search)
s. Old Colony Memorial newspaper, October 4, 1845. The Halifax convention voted to adopt a petition to the Legislature which Mr. Brooks drew up, and which the chairman and secretary signed, praying for a teachers' seminary in Plymouth County. Hingham Gazette, February 24, 1837. This petition sets forth at length the arguments Brooks used in his lectures, and it is worth a careful study. Two months later, in April, 1837, the act Acts of 1837, Chap. 241. An Act relating to Common Schools. The secretary shall diffuse information of educational methods to the end that all children in this Commonwealth, who depend upon common schools for instruction, may have the best education which those schools can be made to impart. establishing the Board of Education was signed by Governor Edward Everett, and now Horace Mann comes into the story of the movement, for he was appointed secretary for the board. This appointment was unexpected to him and to others, for Mr. Brooks and othe
The Daily Dispatch: November 26, 1862., [Electronic resource], Investing in bonds. (search)
North Carolina Legislature. Raleigh, Nov. 25. --J. P. Russ was elected Secretary of State, over Rufus H. Page, the present incumbent, by a majority of 36 on joint ballot. A joint committee of four was appointed to wait upon President Davis, to lay before him the unprotected condition of our eastern counties, before the Legislature takes any steps to raise a force of 10,000 men for their defence. It is proposed to raise this force from men of 35 to 45 years of age. Yesterday, Rev. Calvin H. Willey was re-elected Superintendent of Common Schools by a unanimous vote. A motion to go into an election of Superior Court Judge to-day was rejected by the Senate. The subject will be caucused on to-night for the third time. Robert P. Dick and Hon. Robert B. Gilliam are the Conservative aspirants. Dick will get it. No news from below.
The Daily Dispatch: January 13, 1863., [Electronic resource], Further from the North. (search)
here the best nurseries of public and private virtue, enlightened liberty and true patriotism. To this toast the Rev, Dr. Lothrop responded in a humorous speech, pleading that after he was notified that he should be expected to speak to "Common Schools," he was asked to leave that toast to one of the members of Congress, and he consented, and was willing to give Common Schools to members of Congress. (Roars of laughter.) The eighth toast was, The Clergy.--As faithful teachers of Common Schools to members of Congress. (Roars of laughter.) The eighth toast was, The Clergy.--As faithful teachers of divine wisdom their influence is universal; may it ever be exerted in behalf of the eternal sentiments of religion and virtue, freedom and justice. Rev. Dr. Storrs responded in an eloquent speech Mario de Mediate, he said, wanted to have her heart buried under the magnificent cathedral of Colegue — so the hearts and bodies of New England men were to be buried under the magnificent tempts of liberty on this continent. As Hercules to prove his right to divine honors, was called to his great