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Colonel William Preston Johnston, The Life of General Albert Sidney Johnston : His Service in the Armies of the United States, the Republic of Texas, and the Confederate States., Chapter 11: Paymaster in United States Army. (search)
ing more, without authority or command. On the frontier of Texas, to which he was assigned, his duties were arduous and dangerous; and, as has been suggested, General Johnston accepted the office because he regarded it as a stepping-stone to service in the line. More than once he seemed on the point of attaining this end by exchange with a major of the line, but each time he was disappointed. So much had his health been impaired by the malaria of the Brazos bottom, that, on the 8th of April, 1850, while waiting orders at Galveston, he was obliged, at the suggestion of his superior officers, to ask a little indulgence before reporting for duty. He availed himself of this to take his family to Kentucky. The pay district assigned to him included the military posts from the river Trinity to the Colorado. He selected Austin as his home on account of its healthfulness, natural beauty, pleasant society, and proximity to his district. Some of his old friends had settled there, whic
HISTORY OF THE TOWN OF MEDFORD, Middlesex County, Massachusetts, FROM ITS FIRST SETTLEMENT, IN 1630, TO THE PRESENT TIME, 1855. (ed. Charles Brooks), Chapter 7: ecclesiastical history (continued). (search)
ten persons, not legal voters, who considered themselves as belonging to the parish, subscribed; and four of those who voted in the negative. After anxious and patient weighing of the whole matter, with the assistance of friends, Mr. Pierpont accepted the invitation, July 5, 1849. July 9, seven gentlemen were appointed a committee to communicate with Mr. Pierpont on the subject of his settlement, and for conducting and making arrangements for his installation. This committee report, April 8, 1850, as follows:-- At a meeting of the special committee of the first parish of Medford, appointed, July 9, 1849, to make arrangements with the Rev. John Pierpont for the commencement of his pastoral labors in its pulpit, on conference with the pastor and with his concurrence,-- Voted to dispense with the ceremony of an ecclesiastical council for the installation of our pastor. Voted that the committee hereby ordain the Rev. John Pierpont to become the pastor of the first parish of
Edward L. Pierce, Memoir and letters of Charles Sumner: volume 3, Chapter 35: Massachusetts and the compromise.—Sumner chosen senator.—1850-1851. (search)
ner, beginning his final letter as before, My dear Corny, arraigned him as the defender of slave-catching, and ended: I break off no friendship. In anguish I mourn your altered regard for me; but more than my personal loss, I mourn the present unhappy condition of your mind and character. Howe thought that Sumner should be more considerate of Felton, and bear in mind his facility of nature, and his exposure to external pressure which he could not resist. Longfellow wrote in his diary, April 8, 1850: Felton is quite irritated with Sumner about politics. I hope it will not end in an open rupture, but I much fear it will. Friendship, such as was that of these two men, ordinarily bears the strain of political differences; but Sumner's nature, which was profoundly earnest, underwent a revulsion when he saw one with whom he had so long held sweet counsel taking his place among the defenders of the Fugitive Slave law. He might, as we may now think, have been more tolerant; but it must b