Named Entity Results, New England (United States)

and yet I undertake to say, that in this very niggardly New England, there have been, and are, not only the most generous efese. I believe it would be found, that if we compared New England, I will not say with the rest of the Union,--for she may science. We have a broader interest. The young men of New England, as a general thing, are tossed into life before twenty. She can make the tide set that way constantly, and turn New England into a dependency on her great central power. But it lionly second to hers. The blood of the Puritans, the old New England peculiarities, can never compete with the Parisian life eplace, giving to the geological and natural history of New England contributions which, if once lost, cannot be regained; tnd epochs of the past history of the continent, and make New England the centre, as that one collection would make it, of thixical as it may seem. Every age that has preceded us in New England has set its ingenuity to work to find out some wider, de

iety was, no doubt, to some extent, a protest against the sombre theology of New England, where, a hundred years ago, the atmosphere was black with sermons, and wher, except now and then a respectable mediocrity. One such journal nightmares New England annals, emptied into history by respectable middle-aged gentlemen who fancy ventions that enable France to double the world's sunshine, and make Old and New England the workshops of the world, did not come from colleges or from minds trainede half truly, and the other half as their prejudices blur and distort it. New England learned more of the principles of toleration from a lyceum committee doubtink unless a negro could buy his way into their halls as freely as any other,--New England has learned more from these lessons than she has or could have done from allat called itself education. That unrivalled scholar, the first and greatest New England ever lent to Congress, signalled his advent by quoting the original Greek of

Theodore Parker (1860). I. From the Proceedings of the New England Antislavery Convention at the Melodeon, Boston, May 31, 1860. ustry, whose learning, the broadest, most thorough, and profound New England knows, whose masterly intellect, melted into a brave and ferventt comes from a wisdom without them and above them. The fault of New England scholarship is that it knows not its own use; that, as Bacon sayould utter, but bent low before the most thorough scholarship of New England, and was glad to win its way to the confidence of the West by bebut he brought us, as no one else could, the loftiest stature of New England culture. He brought us a disciplined intellect, whose statementought, I used it to enter other paths. Mine is the old faith of New England. On those points he and I rarely talked. What he thought, I hathe lips of every scholar. He was generous of money. Born on a New England farm, in those days when small incomings made every dollar a mat

Francis Jackson (1861). At the funeral services at Mr. Jackson's late residence, Hollis Street, Boston, November 18, 1861. Here lies the body of one of whom it may be justly said, he was the best fruit of New England institutions. If we had been set to choose a specimen of what the best New England ideas and training could do, there are few men we should have selected before him. Broad views, long foresight, tireless industry, great force, serene faith in principles, parent of constanNew England ideas and training could do, there are few men we should have selected before him. Broad views, long foresight, tireless industry, great force, serene faith in principles, parent of constant effort to reduce them to practice; contempt of mere wealth, that led him in middle life to give up getting, and devote his whole strength to ideas and the welfare of the race; entirely unselfish, perfectly just; thrifty, that he might have to give; fearing not the face of man; tolerant of other men's doubts and fears; tender and loving,--are not these the traits that have given us the inheritance we value? None will deny they were eminently his. My only hesitation in describing him is les

ness that would take no denial, that consumed opposition in the intensity of its convictions, that knew nothing but right. As friend after friend gathered slowly, one by one, to his side, in that very meeting of a dozen heroic men to form the New England Antislavery Society, it was his compelling hand, his resolute unwillingness to temper or qualify the utterance, that finally dedicated that first organized movement to the doctrine of immediate emancipation. He seems to have understood,--thisht name to the truth-haters of to-day, for even such men the stream of time bears onward. I do not fear that if my words are remembered by the next generation they will be thought unsupported or extravagant. When history seeks the sources of New England character, when men begin to open up and examine the hidden springs and note the convulsions and the throes of American life within the last half century, they will remember Parker, that Jupiter of the pulpit; they will remember the long unhee

the reason why I think we should indorse this memorial of the city to Harriet Martineau, because her service transcends nationality. There would be nothing inappropriate if we raised a memorial to Wickliffe, or if the common-school system of New England raised a memorial to Calvin; for they rendered the greatest of services. So with Harriet Martineau, we might fairly render a monument to the grandest woman of her day, we, the heirs of the same language, and one in the same civilization; for hat one with God makes a majority. This was Harriet Martineau. She was surrounded by doctors of divinity, who were hedging-her about with their theories and beliefs. What do some of these later travellers who have been here know of the real New England, when they have been seated in ceiled houses, and gorged with the glittering banquets of social societies? Harriet Martineau, instead of lingering in the camps of the Philistines, could, with courage, declare, I will go among the Abolitionist