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The Daily Dispatch: August 13, 1863., [Electronic resource] 6 0 Browse Search
Laura E. Richards, Maud Howe, Florence Howe Hall, Julia Ward Howe, 1819-1910, in two volumes, with portraits and other illustrations: volume 1 4 0 Browse Search
L. P. Brockett, Women's work in the civil war: a record of heroism, patriotism and patience 2 0 Browse Search
Lydia Maria Child, Letters of Lydia Maria Child (ed. John Greenleaf Whittier, Wendell Phillips, Harriet Winslow Sewall) 2 0 Browse Search
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 11. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones) 2 0 Browse Search
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L. P. Brockett, Women's work in the civil war: a record of heroism, patriotism and patience, Introductory Chapter. (search)
garian war of 1848, the brave but unfortunate Countess Teleki, as examples of these female patriots. In rare instances, this sense of the nation's sufferings from a tyrant's oppression, have so wrought upon the sensitive spirit, as to stimulate it to the determination to achieve the country's freedom by the assassination of the oppressor. It was thus that Jael brought deliverance to her country by the murder of Sisera; Judith, by the assassination of Holofernes; and in modern times, Charlotte Corday sought the rescue of France from the grasp of the murderous despot, Marat, by plunging the poniard to his heart. A far nobler, though less demonstrative manifestation of patriotic devotion than either of these, is that which has prompted women in all ages to become ministering angels to the sick, the suffering, and the wounded among their countrymen who have periled life and health in the nation's cause. Occasionally, even in the earliest recorded wars of antiquity, we find high-
Lydia Maria Child, Letters of Lydia Maria Child (ed. John Greenleaf Whittier, Wendell Phillips, Harriet Winslow Sewall), To Samuel E. Sewall. (search)
To Samuel E. Sewall. Wayland, September 20, 1860. I expect to be in Boston in a few days, and should like to look at Rantoul's speech, if you have the volume at your office .... It seems as if slavery would be the death of me. If all I suffer on the subject counts as vicarious atonement for the slave-holders, they are in a hopeful way. My indignation rises higher than it used to in my younger days. According to the general rule, I ought to grow calmer, but I do not. If the monster had one head, assuredly I should be a Charlotte Corday.
Laura E. Richards, Maud Howe, Florence Howe Hall, Julia Ward Howe, 1819-1910, in two volumes, with portraits and other illustrations: volume 1, Chapter 1: Ancestral (search)
I give her my family Bible — that she may live above the ill-tempers and sorrows of life. I give my son Peter a hornbook — for I am afraid he will always be a dunce. General Horry goes on to say that Peter was so stunned by this squib that he instantly quit his raccoon hunting by night and betook himself to reading, and soon became a very sensible and charming young man. Gabriel Marion, the eldest son of Benjamin, married a young woman, also of Huguenot blood, Charlotte Cordes or Corday, said to have been a relative of the other Charlotte Corday, the heroine of the French Revolution. To this couple were born six children, the eldest being Esther, our mother's great-grandmother, the youngest, Francis, who was to become the Swamp fox of Revolutionary days. Esther Marion has been called the Queen Bee of the Marion hive; she had fifteen children, and her descendants have multiplied and spread in every direction. She was twice married, first to John Allston, of Georgetown,
Laura E. Richards, Maud Howe, Florence Howe Hall, Julia Ward Howe, 1819-1910, in two volumes, with portraits and other illustrations: volume 1, Index (search)
e, I, 95. Commonwealth, I, 141, 142. Concord, Mass., I, 152, 177; I, 57, 61, 77, 128, 194. Concord, N. H., I, 254. Concord Prison, II, 252. Concord School of Philosophy, II, 118, 119, 120, 128. Constantinople, I, 345; II, 35, 42. Continental Congress, I, 4. Conway, M. D., I, 306. Cook's agency, II, 34, 41. Cookson, Mr., II, 170. Coolidge, Joseph, II, 313. Copperheads, I, 239. Coquelin, B. C., II, 288, 289. Coquerel, Athanase, I, 286; I, 315. Corday, Charlotte, I, 12. Cordes, Charlotte, I, 12. Corea, II, 91. Corfs, I, 272. Corne, Father, I, 53, 54. Corot, J. B. C., II, 172. Corse, Gen., II, 380. Cotta, J. F., I, 202. Council of Italian Women, II, 254, 255. Cowell, Mary, I, 13. Crabbe, George, I, 13. Cram, R. A., II, 156. Cramer, J. B., I, 43. Crawford, Annie, see Rabe. Crawford, Eleanor, II, 389. Crawford, F. Marion, I, 130, 254, 255, 362; II, 28, 31, 65, 69-71, 80, 81, 84, 240, 362, 376, 389.
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 11. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), Unveiling of Valentine's Recumbent figure of Lee at Lexington, Va., June 28th, 1883. (search)
rctic wastes, dying alone inch by inch of cold and starvation, yet intent on his work, and writing lines for the benefit of others, deserved, as well as the Marshal of France, who received it, the name of bravest of the brave. The artless little Alabama girl, who was guiding General Forrest along a dangerous path when the enemy fired a volley upon him, and who instinctly spread her skirts and cried: Get behind me! had a spirit as high as that which filled the bosom of Joan of Arc, or Charlotte Corday. The little Holland boy, who, seeing the water oozing through the dyke, and the town near by about to be deluged and destroyed, neither cried nor ran, but stopped, and all alone, stifled the opening gap with earth, in instant peril of being swept to death unhonored and unknown, showed a finer and nobler fibre than that of Cambronne when he shouted to the conquering British: The Guard dies, but never surrenders. The soldier of Pompeii, buried at his post standing there, and flying no
The Daily Dispatch: January 15, 1861., [Electronic resource], The National crisis. (search)
llotine cut no great figure as a political engine. At length, on the 7th of April, 1793, it was removed from the Place de la Revolution to the Carrousel, and there commenced that series of murders, which have no parallel in the history of mankind. On the 8th of May it was moved back to the Place de la Revolution, where it continued until the 9th June, 1794, during which time 1,235 persons were executed for political offences. Among these were Marie Antoinette, the Princess Elizabeth, Charlotte Corday, Madame Roland, and Danton, the best of that infernal triumvirate which ruled France at that time. At last the people in the neighborhood began to grow tired of these spectacles. They complained that after these wholesale executions, the blood of the criminals remained in pools, that the dogs came and drank it up, and that crowds of men fed their eyes on the spectacle, which, naturally, had a tendency to harden their hearts, and instigate them to ferocity and bloodshed. On one oc
The Daily Dispatch: August 12, 1863., [Electronic resource], Morgan Certainly Shaved. (search)
Morgan Certainly Shaved. When Charlotte Corday was brought to the scaffold for staying that execrable monster, Marat, she turned calmly to the rabble who were venting their rage for the death of their deminged in the most unmanly taunts and execrations, and repeating the sublime sentiment of the French dramatist.-- "C'est la crima qui fail la houte et non pa l'echaffisad." [Guilt brings shame, not the scaffold.] quietly laid herself down to die. She believed that she had been guilty of no crime. She had slain a wretch who had saturated the soil of her country with the blood of its noblest children — whose thirst for human gore was insatiable and unappeasable — who had proclaimed the horrible determination that 300,000 more heads should fall — who was an enemy alike to God his country, and the human race — and who, she but too well knew, had unbounded power to execute his terrible threat. A brutal populace — degraded to the last degree by the libations of human
The Daily Dispatch: August 13, 1863., [Electronic resource], Charge to Corday. (search)
Charge to Corday. We find that in our article respecting John Morgan yesterday, we did not state the circumstances attending the death of Charlotte Corday with historical exactness. Our only object was to impress the public as strongly as we could with the distinction between guilt and punishment — to show that the most subCharlotte Corday with historical exactness. Our only object was to impress the public as strongly as we could with the distinction between guilt and punishment — to show that the most sublime patriot, if thrown by misfortune into the hands of a malignant enemy, might be made to suffer the penalty of a common felony — that, therefore, the only proper rule in such cases — and that a rule which had been adopted by the instinctive discretion of ages — was to affix to guilt itself the brand of disgrace, and to leave tonctness. We, therefore,--in obedience to what we consider a maxim that never should be departed from — give a succinct history of the trial and execution of Charlotte Corday. It is one of the most affecting incidents in all history. Charlotte was a native of St. Saturnine in the department of the Orme. She had receive