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Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 4. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), The peace Commission-Hon. R. M. T. Hunter's reply to President Davis' letter. (search)
ferent from what he seems to suppose. When these involuntary Curtii had been devoted to the infernal gods and the massacre of the innocents had been accomplished, the parents of those children would not have characterized his policy as either valiant or patriotic, but would have spoken of it in terms very far from complimentary. It would have been said that, if the country required the sacrifice of a military victim, the President himself, by age and station, would have played the part of Curtius far better and should have himself become the victim, and yet in no history of his flight from Richmond to the woods in Georgia where he was captured have 1 seen it stated that his head was once turned towards the enemy with that purpose. Nor do I blame him. Voluntary self-sacrifice is neither called for nor proper in any case. It would then have been nearly as insensate as the wanton sacrifice of the children under circumstances when they could do no service, but must have perished eithe
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 5. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), Letter from President Davis-reply to Mr. Hunter. (search)
, where he was captured, have I seen it stated that his head was once turned towards the enemy, &c. Perhaps the search after some new chasm into which he could Curtius --like plunge the most prized of his country's possessions-i. e., himself-prevented Mr. Hunter from learning that the President was at Danville exerting himself for the common defence, and that there were gaps in the ranks of Lee's army which a patriot might have filled more usefully than in playing a travesty of Curtius by keeping far from the field, where the defenders of his State were gallantly contending against its invaders. I will not further consider his sophomoric twaddle about Curtius and the murder of the innocents, or his lame effort to show that he meant only — that the phrase, the two countries, embarrassed the commissioners in their progress to Hampton Roads. Indeed, I should not have deemed that his article required my notice, but for the unfounded insinuation that a confidential interview which h
Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events, Diary from December 17, 1860 - April 30, 1864 (ed. Frank Moore), 1861, July (search)
July 24. The Richmond (Va.) Whig of to-day contains the following:--the devoted band. --The shortest path to peace is that which carries havoc and desolation to our invaders. It is believed that there are five or ten thousand men in the South ready and willing to share the fate of Curtius and devote themselves to the salvation of their country. It is proposed that all who are willing to make this sacrifice, shall arm themselves with a sword, two five shooters, and a carbine each, and meet on horseback at some place to be designated, convenient for the great work in hand. Fire and sword must be carried to the houses of those who are visiting those blessings upon their neighbors. Philadelphia, and even New York, is not beyond the reach of a long and brave arm. The moral people of these cities cannot be better taught the virtues of invasion than by the blazing light of their own dwellings. None need apply for admission to the Devoted Band but those who are prepared to take
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), New York, (search)
e night to be fined £ 50, one-half to the informer, and vessels bringing any Quaker into the province to be confiscated.] Village laid out at Esopus (Kingston)......May 31, 1658 French are obliged to abandon their colonizing efforts among the Iroquois after......1658 Massachusetts grants land to English colonists on the Hudson......1659 Purchase of Schenectady Flats......July 27, 1661 Municipal charter granted to Esopus, now to be called Wiltwyck (Indian Village)......1661 Curtius returns to Holland and is succeded by Dominie Algidius Luyck......1661 John Browne arrested for harboring Quakers......1662 Village of Esopus attacked by Indians and partly burned......June, 1663 Browne banished. Goes to Amsterdam and appeals to the West India Company, The directors rebuke Stuyvesant and enjoin moderation......1663 Severe earthquake throughout New Netherland, New England, and Canada......1663 Trouble with England and the English colony; a general provincial ass
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 27. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), A noble life. (search)
after two thousand years, the nameless widow means for us,—All for God. Wheresoever the gospel of faith and love has been and shall be preached, a little deed that a woman did has been and shall be told for a memorial of her; so for faith and devotion the name of Mary of Bethany shall forever stand. Thus stands St. John for love; St. Peter for repentance unto good works; St. Paul for lion-like courage and holy zeal. Aeneas, with old Anchises on his back, stands for filial piety; Curtius for self-sacrifice; Lucretia for purity; Horatius for courage; Cato, noblest Roman of them all, stands for stern integrity. These illustrate that ancient story and tell us why man's memory endures. Here in a newer land and a later age, the name of a great Virginian stands for the qualities that mark a grand character, and by these he will be remembered when men have forgotten the operations on the Delaware that won great Frederick's admiration, and the march from the Hudson to the York
The writings of John Greenleaf Whittier, Volume 3. (ed. John Greenleaf Whittier), Anti-Slavery Poems (search)
at his ass's tail! Such are the men who, with instinctive dread, Whenever Freedom lifts her drooping head, Make prophet-tripods of their office-stools, And scare the nurseries and the village schools With dire presage of ruin grim and great, A broken Union and a foundered State! Such are the patriots, self-bound to the stake Of office, martyrs for their country's sake: Who fill themselves the hungry jaws of Fate, And by their loss of manhood save the State. In the wide gulf themselves like Curtius throw, And test the virtues of cohesive dough; As tropic monkeys, linking heads and tails, Bridge o'er some torrent of Ecuador's vales! Such are the men who in your churches rave To swearing-point, at mention of the slave! When some poor parson, haply unawares, Stammers of freedom in his timid prayers; Who, if some foot-sore negro through the town Steals northward, volunteer to hunt him down. Or, if some neighbor, flying from disease, Courts the mild balsam of the Southern breeze, With h