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Edward L. Pierce, Memoir and letters of Charles Sumner: volume 3 2 2 Browse Search
William Schouler, A history of Massachusetts in the Civil War: Volume 2 1 1 Browse Search
Wendell Phillips, Theodore C. Pease, Speeches, Lectures and Letters of Wendell Phillips: Volume 1 1 1 Browse Search
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William Schouler, A history of Massachusetts in the Civil War: Volume 2, Chapter 8: Hampden County. (search)
The amount of money raised and expended by the town during the war for the payment of State aid to the families of soldiers, and which was afterwards repaid by the Commonwealth, was as follows: In 1861, $87.94; in 1862, $959.65; in 1863, $1,800.06; in 1864, $1,900.96; in 1865, $855.64. Total amount, $5,604.25. The ladies of Southwick did their full share of patriotic labor in aid of the soldiers all through the war. Springfield Incorporated as a town May 14, 1636; as a city April 12, 1852. Population in 1860, 15,199; in 1865, 22,038. Valuation in 1860, $8,669,806; in 1865, $13,379,212. The mayor in 1861 was Stephen C. Bemis; aldermen, Henry Gray, Ephraim W. Bond, H. N. Case, Nathaniel Howard, Charles Woodman, Amos Call, William Smith, A. J. Plumer. In 1862, Stephen C. Bemis, mayor; Henry Gray, E. W. Bond, H. N. Case, T. W. Wason, Horace Kibbe, Horace Smith, William Smith, H. S. Eveans, aldermen. In 1863, Henry Alexander, Jr., mayor; Justin M. Cooley, William Patton
Wendell Phillips, Theodore C. Pease, Speeches, Lectures and Letters of Wendell Phillips: Volume 1, chapter 7 (search)
Sims anniversary. speech at the Melodeon, on the first anniversary of the rendition of Thomas Sims, April 12, 1852. Mr. Chairman: There is a resolution on your table to this effect: Resolved, Therefore, That we advise all colored persons, liable to these arrests, to leave the United States, unless they are fully resolved to take the life of any officer who shall attempt, under any pretext, to seize them; and we urge the formation in every town of vigilance committees, prepared to secure to every person claimed as a slave the fullest trial possible, and to avail themselves fearlessly, according to their best judgment, of all the means God and Nature have put into their hands, to see that substantial justice be done. To this Mr. Garrison moves as an amendment the following: Resolved, That if resistance to tyrants, by bloody weapons, is obedience to God, and if our Revolutionary fathers were justified in wading through blood to freedom and independence, then every
Edward L. Pierce, Memoir and letters of Charles Sumner: volume 3, Chapter 36: first session in Congress.—welcome to Kossuth.—public lands in the West.—the Fugitive Slave Law.—1851-1852. (search)
ss and general topics, and some of them (as Soule) were very cordial. Soule, when in Boston the next summer, mentioned Sumner with great respect and regard. （Henry Wilson's letter to Sumner, June 23, 1852.) He wrote to his brother George, April 12, 1852: In the debate on intervention, Soule made a brilliant speech. He is the most polished speaker and gentleman of the Senate. Though representing extreme Southern sentiments, he is much my friend. He had from the beginning and always most agr rate being then twenty-four cents for half an ounce, for which he gave his reasons briefly. Works, vol. III. p. 45. He moved, July 20, another resolution on the subject. The Legislature of Massachusetts supported him by a resolve passed April 12, 1852. He renewed the proposition in 1854 and 1860. He offered a resolution for cheap ocean postage, Dec. 7, 1868 (Works, vol. XIII. p. 1), and spoke briefly for it Feb. 12, 1869. He pressed the reform at the next session (March 20 and April 6,