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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., chapter 20 (search)
ideon, records a man who betrayed him, had manifestly a great influence on his actions. He believed in human brotherhood and in the God of Battles; he admired Nat Turner, the negro patriot, equally with George Washington, the white American deliverer. He could not see that it was heroic to fight against a petty tax on tea, and unmolested in their houses, prepared to use them. Soon after daybreak, as Brown's guards were bringing two citizens to a halt, they were fired on by a man named Turner, and, directly afterward, by a grocer named Boerly, who was instantly killed by the return fire. Several Virginians soon obtained possession of a room overlookin face — he was but twenty-two--and shattered his head into fragments. By this time, all the houses around the Armory buildings were held by the Virginians. Capt. Turner, who had fired the first shot in the morning, was killed by the sentinel at the Arsenal gate, as he was raising his rifle to fire. Here Dangerfield Newby, a V
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 9. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), Notes and Queries. (search)
has challenged anew the spirit of criticism upon the Southern political leaders which was set at rest for a time by the general disposition to cultivate good fellowship with our erring sisters whom we loved too well to suffer them to depart in peace. Among the rejoinders to Davis's work one appears in the Atlantic for September and one in the North American Review. In the latter, the writer, Rossiter Johnson, refers to the fact that in the case of every insurrection against slavery — like Nat Turner's and John Brown's — the insurgents suffered the extreme penalty of the law, while in all others, like Shay's rebellion, Fries's, and the whiskey war, they were either pardoned outright or only very mildly punished. He also says sarcastically: The atrocities of Andersonville were explained into nothingness long ago. The boys in blue lay on flowery beds of ease within that spacious and airy stockade, listening dreamily to the purl of the crystal brook that babbled at their feet, whil
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Confederate prisons. (search)
sometimes part of their clothing were taken from them when they went in. For a long time they were not allowed a seat of any kind to sit upon. The board floors, on which they slept, were washed every afternoon, and were damp at night, causing many to become consumptive and die. The glasses in the numerous windows were mostly broken, and they suffered intensely from cold in winter, for they were allowed only one blanket each, and these in time became ragged, filthy, and filled with vermin. Turner, a lieutenant of General Winder, the commissary of prisoners, seemed to make cruelty his study. He ordered that no one should go within 3 feet of a window. A violation of the rule gave license to the guard to shoot the offender. The prisoners were also deliberately starved. The process of slow starvation began in the fall of 1863, and was so general and uniform in all the prisons that, according to a report of a committee of the United States Sanitary Commission, there can be no doubt of
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Garrison, William Lloyd 1804-1879 (search)
nded our own struggle. The last was the memorable one in Southampton, Va., headed by a black patriot, nicknamed, in the contemptuous nomenclature of slavery, Nat Turner. The name does not strike the ear so harmoniously as that of Washington, or Lafayette, or Hancock, or Warren; but the name is nothing. It is not in the power ofder odious the memory of that sable chieftain. Resistance to tyrants is obedience to God was our Revolutionary motto. We acted upon that motto—what more did Nat Turner? Says George McDuffie: A people who deliberately submit to oppression, with a full knowledge that they are oppressed, are fit only to be slaves. No tyrant eveet had a master. It does not belong to men to count the costs and calculate the hazards of vindicating their rights and defending their liberties. So reasoned Nat Turner, and acted accordingly. Was he a patriot, or a monster? Do we mean to say to the oppressed of all nations, in the sixty-third year of our independence, and on
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Kearny, Stephen Watts 1794-1847 (search)
dent's directions it was at Colonel Fremont's option whether he would remain in California or not, an option, however, which was denied him by General Kearny. Early in March, and after taking the supreme command in California, General Kearny addressed Colonel Fremont the following letter: General Kearny to Colonel Fremont. headquarters, 10th Military Deptartment., Monterey, U. Cal., March 1, 1847. Sir,—By Department orders, No. 2, of this date (which will be handed to you by Captain Turner, 1st Dragoons, A. A.A. G., for my command), you will see that certain duties are there required of you as commander of the battalion of California volunteers. In addition to the duties above referred to, I have now to direct that you will bring with you, and with as little delay as possible, all the archives and public documents and papers which may be subject to your control, and which appertain to the government of California, that 1 may receive them from your hands at this place, t
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Marquand, Henry Gurdon 1819- (search)
Marquand, Henry Gurdon 1819- Capitalist; born in New York, April 11, 1819; was educated at Pittsfield, Mass.: engaged in the real estate, banking, and railroad business. He has been greatly interested in the work of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, of which he has been president for many years, and to which he has made many costly gifts, including a collection of bronzes valued at $50,000; bonds representing a value of $50,000; and a priceless collection of paintings by Van Dyke, Rubens, Gainsborough, Velazquez, Turner, Franz Hals, Hogarth, Van der Meer, and other old masters. He also built a chapel and (with Robert Bonner) a gymnasium (cost $20,000) for Princeton University, and with his brother presented a pavilion to Bellevue Hospital, New York City.
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Turner, Nat (search)
Turner, Nat Insurgent; born of negro slave parents in Virginia about 1800. In 1831 he confided to six men his belief that God had chosen him to lead the slaves to liberty, and laid out a plan to kill every white person and incite the whole slave population to insurrection. His party started out from Turner's own house, whereTurner's own house, where his master was killed, and then a movement was made against neighboring plantations, where other slaves joined the party. In forty-eight hours the party numbered sixty and had killed fifty-five white persons. The insurgents then made their way towards Jerusalem, Va., where they expected to increase their number and be supplied with fire-arms, but they divided and were attacked by two bodies of white men. Turner escaped to the woods, where, after living for two months, he was captured, tried, and hanged in Jerusalem, Va., Nov. 11, 1831. About the same time fifty-three other negroes were tried, seventeen of whom were hanged, while many others who were
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), United States of America. (search)
in......Jan. 10, 1831 First locomotive built in the United States, The best friend, at the West Point foundry shops in New York City; first trip on the South Carolina Railroad......Jan. 15, 1831 Twenty-first Congress adjourns......March 3, 1831 John H. Eaton, Secretary of War, resigns......April 7, 1831 Martin Van Buren, Secretary of State, resigns......April 7, 1831 Ex-President James Monroe dies in New York, aged seventy-three......July 4, 1831 Negro insurrection led by Nat Turner, in Southampton county......August, 1831 President Jackson reforms his cabinet......1831 Anti-Masonic party hold a national convention at Baltimore, Md., and nominate William Wirt, of Virginia, for President, and Amos Ellmaker, of Pennsylvania, for Vice-President; number of delegates, 112......Sept. 26, 1831 Free trade convention held at Philadelphia......Oct. 5, 1831 High tariff convention held at New York......Oct. 26, 1831 Copyright law radically amended, making the ter
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), State of Virginia, (search)
es of the Virginia plan, as it was called. It was referred to a committee, together with a sketch of a plan by Charles Cotesworth P i n c kney, which, in its form and arrangement, furnished the outline of the constitution as adopted. For many years the State of Virginia maintained a predominating influence in the affairs of the nation. During the War of 1812-15 its coasts were ravished by British marauders. In 1831 an insurrection occurred in Southampton county, led by a negro named Nat Turner, which alarmed the whole State, but it was speedily subdued. In 1859 an attempt was made by John Brown (q. v.) to free the slaves of Virginia. Early in 1861 the question of secession divided the people. The Confederate leaders of Virginia found it hard work to carry out the State, for there was a strong Union sentiment among the people, especially in the western or mountain districts. They finally procured the authorization of a convention, which assembled in Richmond, Feb. 13, 1861, w
James Redpath, The Public Life of Captain John Brown, Book 1: he keepeth the sheep. (search)
s usual course night and morning,) and would most always say, Read one of David's Psalms. His favorite hymns (Watts's) were these-- I give the first lines only: Blow ye the trumpet, blow. Sweet is Thy work, my God, my King. I'll praise my Maker with my breath. O, happy is the man who hears. Why should we start, and fear to die. With songs and honors sounding loud. Ah, lovely appearance of death. He was a great admirer of Oliver Cromwell. Of colored heroes, Nat Turner and Cinques stood first in his esteem. How often, writes a daughter, have I heard him speak in admiration of Cinques' character and management in carrying his points with so little bloodshed! Of American writings, he chiefly admired the sayings of Franklin, and the Farewell Address of Washington. I do not see how any one could draw the character of John Brown better than by referring the reader to his favorite books. The Bible, first and above all other volumes, inspired every action
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