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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 15 (search)
er to the Free Soil party: It would only be a change of name; the principles would still be the same. But there would be one change which, I admit, would be monstrous — it would make Mr. Van Buren the head of the Whig party. [Laughter.] claimed Free soil as a distinctive Whig doctrine, and declared that, were the Whigs to join the peculiar Free soil organization, they would only make that the Whig party with Martin Van Buren at its head. Gov. Seward In his speech at Cleveland, Ohio, October 26, 1848, Gov. Seward said: A sixth principle is, that Slavery must be abolished. I think these are the principles of the Whigs of the Western Reserve of Ohio. <*> am not now to say for the first time that they are mine. * * * There are two antagonistic elements of society in America, Freedom and Slavery. Freedom is in harmony with our system of government, and with the spirit of the age, and is therefore passive and quiescent. Slavery is in conflict with that system, with justice, a
Elias Nason, The Life and Times of Charles Sumner: His Boyhood, Education and Public Career., Chapter 8: (search)
improvement, for knowledge, for freedom, for virtue, that all the great causes which dignify human history, which save it from being a mere protracted war-bulletin, a common sewer, a Cloaca Maxima, flooded with perpetual uncleanliness, have been pronounced Utopian; while, in spite of distrust, of prejudice, of enmity, all these causes have gradually found acceptance as they gradually became understood; and the Utopias of one age have become the realities of the next. In a letter dated Oct. 26, 1848, in which he most reluctantly accepts the nomination as the congressional candidate of the Free-soil party, Mr. Sumner says, I have never held political office of any kind, nor have I ever been a candidate for any such office. It has been my desire and determination to labor in such fields of usefulness as are open to every private citizen, without the honors, the emoluments, or the constraints of office. I would show by my example (might I so aspire!) that something may be done for th
Lucius R. Paige, History of Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1630-1877, with a genealogical register, Genealogical Register (search)
eeds of Dorchester (pub. 25 Sept. 1779), and had Nancy, bap. 12 Feb. 1786, and perhaps others. 6. Walter, s. of Walter (2), m. Susanna Smith, 11 Dec. 1796, and had Susanna, b. 28 Mar. 1797; Sarah, b. 28 Oct. 1799; Walter, b. 5 Nov. 1801. Walter, the f. d. 27 Ap. 1807; his w. Susanna survived. 7. Samuel, prob. s. of Samuel (3), m. Fanny, dau. of Daniel Watson, and had Samuel, b. 9 Nov. 1793; Leonard, b. 3 Mar. 1796; Fanny, b. 7 July 1800; Elbridge, b. 4 May 1806. Samuel the f. d. 26 Oct. 1848, a. 82; his w. Fanny d. 27 April 1855, a. 88. Crackbone, Gilbert (otherwise written Crackbon, Cragbone, Crakeborne), was an early inhabitant of Camb. and freeman in 1636. He bought an estate on the westerly side of Garden Street of Joseph Isaac about 1638, which he sold in 1646 to Philip Cook; and he seems afterwards to have resided on North Avenue. His w. having deceased, he m. Elizabeth Coolidge 17 June 1656. He d. 2 Jan. 1671-2, and devised his estate to his w. and to Joseph and
Lucius R. Paige, History of Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1630-1877, with a genealogical register, C. (search)
eeds of Dorchester (pub. 25 Sept. 1779), and had Nancy, bap. 12 Feb. 1786, and perhaps others. 6. Walter, s. of Walter (2), m. Susanna Smith, 11 Dec. 1796, and had Susanna, b. 28 Mar. 1797; Sarah, b. 28 Oct. 1799; Walter, b. 5 Nov. 1801. Walter, the f. d. 27 Ap. 1807; his w. Susanna survived. 7. Samuel, prob. s. of Samuel (3), m. Fanny, dau. of Daniel Watson, and had Samuel, b. 9 Nov. 1793; Leonard, b. 3 Mar. 1796; Fanny, b. 7 July 1800; Elbridge, b. 4 May 1806. Samuel the f. d. 26 Oct. 1848, a. 82; his w. Fanny d. 27 April 1855, a. 88. Crackbone, Gilbert (otherwise written Crackbon, Cragbone, Crakeborne), was an early inhabitant of Camb. and freeman in 1636. He bought an estate on the westerly side of Garden Street of Joseph Isaac about 1638, which he sold in 1646 to Philip Cook; and he seems afterwards to have resided on North Avenue. His w. having deceased, he m. Elizabeth Coolidge 17 June 1656. He d. 2 Jan. 1671-2, and devised his estate to his w. and to Joseph and
Brigadier-General Ellison Capers, Confederate Military History, a library of Confederate States Military History: Volume 5, South Carolina (ed. Clement Anselm Evans), Additional Sketches Illustrating the services of officers and Privates and patriotic citizens of South Carolina. (search)
has three children: M. L., James R. and William P. Mr. Smith had two brothers in the Confederate war: John I. Smith, now a merchant at Clover; and Robert P. Smith, now a resident of Texas, both of whom served in his company and were so fortunate as not to receive a wound. After the death of his first wife in 1875, Mr. Smith married Elizabeth P. Brigham, her sister, in 1877. Ellison A. Smyth, president and treasurer of the Pelzer manufacturing company, was born in Charleston, S. C., October 26, 1848, being the son of the Rev. Thomas Smyth, D. D., pastor of the Second Presbyterian church of Charleston for forty-four years, and grandson of James Adger, a prominent merchant of Charleston. At the age of sixteen, in November, 1864, he volunteered in Company B, Third South Carolina militia, as third sergeant, Col. A. D. Goodwyn. In June, 1865, by order of Governor Magrath, he was transferred to the South Carolina military academy, and upon reporting to the arsenal was appointed by Col.