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Francis Jackson Garrison, William Lloyd Garrison, 1805-1879; the story of his life told by his children: volume 3, Chapter 14: the Nebraska Bill.—1854. (search)
by the Compromise of 1850 to rally to the one effectual checkmate—disunion—it secured a greater toleration in that section for the abolitionists, shielding them for the moment with a wounded and passionate sentiment, which demanded that at least speech be free. This was signalized in the case of Mr. Garrison when, on the invitation of the New York City A. S. Society, he went on to deliver a lecture in the Tabernacle, on February 14, 1854. W. L. Garrison to his Wife. New York, February 16, 1854. Ms. I got through to this city on Tuesday afternoon, at 5 o'clock Feb. 14. —therefore in ample season for the evening lecture. I was just as busy as a bee with my pencil, the whole distance, writing the remainder of my address, which I finished just before my arrival, not removing from my seat, but for a moment, from Boston to New York. The jolting of the cars was often so great as to make it exceedingly difficult to write a word, and therefore my labor was very great. Of cou<
Edward L. Pierce, Memoir and letters of Charles Sumner: volume 3, Chapter 38: repeal of the Missouri Compromise.—reply to Butler and Mason.—the Republican Party.—address on Granville Sharp.—friendly correspondence.—1853-1854. (search)
id to inoperative, changed the phrase superseded by to inconsistent with, and further amplified the clause. Benton, in the House, called the repealing provision a little stump speech injected into the belly of the bill. The antislavery newspapers gave the alarm even before the bill was printed by the Senate. New York Tribune, Jan. 6, 9, 10; New York Evening Post, Jan. 6, 7, 17, 24, 25, 26, 28, 1854; Boston Commonwealth, Jan. 9, 11, 16, 21; National Era, Jan. 12, 19, 26, and Feb. 2, 9, 16, 23, 1854. There are brief references to the scheme in the New York Evening Post, Dec. 10, 15, 1853. The National Era, as early as April 14, 1853, in reviewing at length the failure to organize the Territory during the session which had just closed, unfolded the designs of the slaveholding—interest, and called for a positive affirmation of the prohibition in any subsequent bill. The Boston Commonwealth, March 28, 1853, was vigilant at that time in the same direction, and noted that the part
History of the First Universalist Church in Somerville, Mass. Illustrated; a souvenir of the fiftieth anniversary celebrated February 15-21, 1904, Anniversary exercises, Wednesday , February 17 (search)
Tufts, Justice of the Peace. Pursuant to the foregoing warrant, I have notified and warned said applicants to meet at the said place in the mode prescribed and for the purpose mentioned in said warrant. Ira Thorpe. Middlesex, ss., February 16, 1854. Subscribed and sworn to before me. Francis Tufts, Justice of the Peace. Under this warrant, a meeting was duly held in the little schoolhouse which stood at the junction of Shawmut and Medford streets, a constitution was adopted, and the First Universalist Society of Somerville was legally established February 16, 1854, Edwin Munroe, Jr., being the moderator, Charles Williams, clerk, with Edwin Munroe, Jr., Reuben Horton, Erastus E. Cole, standing committee, Edwin Munroe, Jr., treasurer, and Joseph Q. Twombly, collector. At this first meeting Charles Tufts offered the society the lot of land upon which the present building stands, which was accepted. A committee to solicit subscriptions for a church was also appointe
Lucius R. Paige, History of Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1630-1877, with a genealogical register, Chapter 16: ecclesiastical History. (search)
Essex Street. It has a spacious and commodious vestry on the ground floor, the audience room being approached by an easy flight of stairs. The church appears in the Minutes for the first time in 1841, when the first appointment was made. The preachers in charge, according to the Discipline of the Methodist Episcopal Church, were appointed at the Conferences holden in the years hereunder named:— 1841, 1842,Rev. Leonard B. Griffing. 1843, 1844,Rev. Isaac A. Savage, W. U. 1841. Died 16 Feb. 1854. 1845,Rev. Mark Trafton. 1846,Rev. John Clark. Died 19 Oct. 1849. 1847, 1848,Rev. I. J. P. Collyer. Died 7 May, 1872. 1849, 1850,Rev. A. D. Merrill. 1851, 1852,Rev. Charles Adams. 1853, 1854,Rev. I. J. P. Collyer. Died 7 May, 1872. 1855,Rev. C. S. McReading. Died 11 April, 1866. 1856,Rev. Moses A. Howe. Died 27 Jan. 1861. 1857, 1858,Rev. Isaac Smith. Died 16 July, 1860. 1859, 1860,Rev. Gilbert Haven, W. U. 1846. Elected Bishop, 1872. 1861, 1862,Rev. Edward Cooke, W. U
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Chapter 17: resignation of Professorship—to death of Mrs. Longfellow (search)
ered my last lecture—the last I shall ever deliver, here or anywhere. Life, II. 262, 263, 265, 266, 268. The following are the letters explaining this, and hitherto unpublished, but preserved in the Harvard College archives. Cambridge, February 16, 1854. Gentlemen,—In pursuance of conversations held with Dr. Walker, the subject of which he has already communicated to you,—I now beg leave to tender you my resignation of the Smith Professorship of the French and Spanish Languages and Litetion with the College, I have the honor to be, Gentlemen, Your Obt. Servt. Henry W. Longfellow.Harvard College Papers [Ms.], 2d ser. XX. 345. To the President and Corporation of Harvard University. [to President Walker.] Cambridge, Feb. 16, 1854. my dear Sir,—I inclose you my note to the Corporation. Will you be kind enough to look at it, before handing it to them; for if it is not in proper form and phrase, I will write it over again. I also inclose the letters of Schele de