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Hermitage (Missouri, United States) (search for this): chapter 188
ven now. It was once a post for the coronation retirement of a statesman, when he had earned the supreme honors of the state. In times of peace our great public men found their legitimate way to the Home of the Presidents—as Washington wished to have the White House called. Those honors then were always worthily won, and the laurel wreath kept green on the brows of all their wearers,—at least till the last of the primitive chieftains went to his untroubled rest under the shades of the Hermitage. Yes, those men lived to reap the rich rewards of peace after their battles; of repose after their toils. But it was no pillow of down on which Abraham Lincoln was invited to lay his head. He thought he understood something of what had been committed to him; and when he stood on the eastern portico of the Capitol, all blanched before the surging, sea of anxious men and women who were waiting to learn What of the night? would bring from the new sentinel, he uttered words to which th
Liberia (Liberia) (search for this): chapter 188
absurd wickedness, in closing the schools; nor, again, in his other act of turning our camps into hunting-ground for slaves. He repudiates both, positively. In the same letter he also said: Could you, as has been my privilege often, have seen the President, while considering the great questions on which he has already acted, beginning with the invitation to Emancipation in the States, then Emancipation in the District of Columbia, and the acknowledgment of the Independence of Hayti and Liberia, even your zeal would be satisfied; for you would feel the sincerity of his purpose to do what he can to carry forward the principles of the Declaration of Independence. His whole soul is occupied, especially, by the first proposition, so peculiarly his own. In familiar intercourse with him, I remember nothing more touching than the earnestness and completeness with which he embraced the idea. To his mind it was just and beneficent, while it promised the sure end of Slavery. To me, who h
North Carolina (North Carolina, United States) (search for this): chapter 188
Xxxvii. Instead of a matter of surprise that the good Abraham Lincoln sometimes lost his patience, I always wondered that he kept it at all. As soon as Mr. Edward Stanley reached his post as Provisional Governor of North Carolina, he made a striking display of his power by ordering the Colored Schools recently established by Vincent Colyer and others to be shut—they were forbidden by the Laws of the State! Mr. Colyer hurried on to Washington and called on Mr. Sumner, who at once drove wit2, 1862,—Mr. Sumner offered the following: Resolved, That the Secretary of War be requested to communicate to the Senate copies of any commissions or orders from his Department undertaking to appoint Provisional Governors in Tennessee and North Carolina, with the instructions given to the Governors. Unanimous leave being granted, he said: If any person in the name of the United States, has undertaken to close a school for little children, whether white or black, it is important that we s
Tennessee (Tennessee, United States) (search for this): chapter 188
t of the United States, and I come with a case of wrong, in attending to which your predecessor, George Washington, if alive, might add to his renown. In an instant Mr. Lincoln's tone changed, and he heard the case patiently. Returning to the Senate Chamber,—June 2, 1862,—Mr. Sumner offered the following: Resolved, That the Secretary of War be requested to communicate to the Senate copies of any commissions or orders from his Department undertaking to appoint Provisional Governors in Tennessee and North Carolina, with the instructions given to the Governors. Unanimous leave being granted, he said: If any person in the name of the United States, has undertaken to close a school for little children, whether white or black, it is important that we should know the authority under which he assumes to act. Surely nobody here will be willing to take the responsibility for such an act. It is difficult to conceive that one of the first-fruits of national victory, and the re-establish
United States (United States) (search for this): chapter 188
's. After hearing what had been done, Mr. Lincoln excitedly exclaimed, Do you take me for a School-Committee-Man? Not at all; I take you for President of the United States, and I come with a case of wrong, in attending to which your predecessor, George Washington, if alive, might add to his renown. In an instant Mr. Lincoln's toors in Tennessee and North Carolina, with the instructions given to the Governors. Unanimous leave being granted, he said: If any person in the name of the United States, has undertaken to close a school for little children, whether white or black, it is important that we should know the authority under which he assumes to act.erize in any terms of moderation. Sir, in the name of the Constitution, of humanity, and of common-sense, I protest against such impiety under sanction of the United States. In writing to a friend three days later, he said, Your criticism of the President is hasty. I am confident, if you knew him as I do, you would not make it
Southey (search for this): chapter 188
ities in his character have enabled him not only to save the country from ruin, but also to inspire and sustain a most healthy state of the body politic, in the midst of the avalanches and whirlwinds which have struck and shaken our whole system of civic life. His first characteristic is self-control. He very seldom loses his equanimity. This gives room for the constant exercise of his judgment. His second characteristic is his good, plaint, home-made common-sense. This is a quality, Southey said, rarer than genius. So far as all the real business of life is concerned for men or nations, strong common-sense is the surest and safest guide. Through this alembic all the unfriendly and dangerous elements of this terrible conflict have had to pass. Another quality has mingled itself, by the laws of affinity in moral chemistry, with Mr. Lincoln's executive acts,— humor, bonhommie, good nature. Men have complained of him on this ground. They have charged him with levity. But the
Abraham Lincoln (search for this): chapter 188
sident's. After hearing what had been done, Mr. Lincoln excitedly exclaimed, Do you take me for a Sve, might add to his renown. In an instant Mr. Lincoln's tone changed, and he heard the case patierrespondent asked me to give him an idea of Mr. Lincoln's character. I sent the following reply: You ask me about Mr. Lincoln:—what kind of a man—what kind of a President —he is. When Mr. LinMr. Lincoln entered the Presidential mansion, he could not have answered either of these questions himself But it was no pillow of down on which Abraham Lincoln was invited to lay his head. He thought an astounding and unforeseen significance. Lincoln's Presidency has been a heritage of trouble. t. Nor is there any ground to suppose that Mr. Lincoln did. On the contrary, his inaugural addresse laws of affinity in moral chemistry, with Mr. Lincoln's executive acts,— humor, bonhommie, good nes of an empire. It is fully believed that Mr. Lincoln's cheerfulness has dissipated many a cloud
George Washington (search for this): chapter 188
ordering the Colored Schools recently established by Vincent Colyer and others to be shut—they were forbidden by the Laws of the State! Mr. Colyer hurried on to Washington and called on Mr. Sumner, who at once drove with him to the President's. After hearing what had been done, Mr. Lincoln excitedly exclaimed, Do you take me for a School-Committee-Man? Not at all; I take you for President of the United States, and I come with a case of wrong, in attending to which your predecessor, George Washington, if alive, might add to his renown. In an instant Mr. Lincoln's tone changed, and he heard the case patiently. Returning to the Senate Chamber,—June 2, 1862,—Mr. Sumner offered the following: Resolved, That the Secretary of War be requested to communicate to the Senate copies of any commissions or orders from his Department undertaking to appoint Provisional Governors in Tennessee and North Carolina, with the instructions given to the Governors. Unanimous leave being granted,<
Edward Stanley (search for this): chapter 188
Xxxvii. Instead of a matter of surprise that the good Abraham Lincoln sometimes lost his patience, I always wondered that he kept it at all. As soon as Mr. Edward Stanley reached his post as Provisional Governor of North Carolina, he made a striking display of his power by ordering the Colored Schools recently established by Vincent Colyer and others to be shut—they were forbidden by the Laws of the State! Mr. Colyer hurried on to Washington and called on Mr. Sumner, who at once drove witanction of the United States. In writing to a friend three days later, he said, Your criticism of the President is hasty. I am confident, if you knew him as I do, you would not make it. I am happy to let you know that he has no sympathy with Stanley in his absurd wickedness, in closing the schools; nor, again, in his other act of turning our camps into hunting-ground for slaves. He repudiates both, positively. In the same letter he also said: Could you, as has been my privilege often, h
Vincent Colyer (search for this): chapter 188
is patience, I always wondered that he kept it at all. As soon as Mr. Edward Stanley reached his post as Provisional Governor of North Carolina, he made a striking display of his power by ordering the Colored Schools recently established by Vincent Colyer and others to be shut—they were forbidden by the Laws of the State! Mr. Colyer hurried on to Washington and called on Mr. Sumner, who at once drove with him to the President's. After hearing what had been done, Mr. Lincoln excitedly exclaimedMr. Colyer hurried on to Washington and called on Mr. Sumner, who at once drove with him to the President's. After hearing what had been done, Mr. Lincoln excitedly exclaimed, Do you take me for a School-Committee-Man? Not at all; I take you for President of the United States, and I come with a case of wrong, in attending to which your predecessor, George Washington, if alive, might add to his renown. In an instant Mr. Lincoln's tone changed, and he heard the case patiently. Returning to the Senate Chamber,—June 2, 1862,—Mr. Sumner offered the following: Resolved, That the Secretary of War be requested to communicate to the Senate copies of any commissions o<
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