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Wendell Phillips, Theodore C. Pease, Speeches, Lectures and Letters of Wendell Phillips: Volume 2 36 0 Browse Search
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Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Hammond, William Alexander 1828- (search)
, 1862, was commissioned surgeongeneral. In August, 1864, he was tried before a court-martial on a charge of official irregularities, and was dismissed from the army. This ban rested on him till 1878, when Congress passed a special bill directing the President to review the proceedings of the court-martial. As a result of this examination, he was honorably restored to his former rank in the army, and then placed on the retired list. Later, he became Professor of the Nervous System and Diseases of the Mind in the New York and Baltimore medical colleges. His professional writings include Military hygiene; Physiological essays; Sleep and its Derangements; Lectures on Venereal diseases; Insanity in its Medico-legal relations; Physics and Physiology of spiritualism; Neurological contributions, etc. He also published the novels Robert Severne; Lal; Dr. Grattan; Mr. Oldmixon; A strong-minded woman; On the Susquehanna; A son of perdition, etc. He died in Washington, D. C., Jan. 5, 1900.
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Ireland. (search)
America. This left Ireland almost defenceless. Its Parliament offered to organize a national militia, which Lord North refused to accept, and, instead of a militia, organized and controlled by the British government, selfformed bands of volunteers sprang up all over Ireland. North saw his blunder, and had a militia bill enacted. But it was too late; the Irish Parliament preferred the volunteers, supported by the Irish themselves. Meanwhile the eloquent, patriotic, and incorruptible Henry Grattan had become a member of the Irish Parliament, and he was principally the agent that kindled the fire of patriotic zeal in Ireland that was burning so brightly in America. In 1779, though only thirty-three years of age, he led the Irish Parliament in demanding reforms. He moved an amendment to the address to the King that the nation could be saved only by free-trade, and it was adopted by unanimous vote. New taxes were refused. The ordinary supplies usually granted for two years were g
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Revolutionary War, (search)
e same in all places. There was a violent struggle for relief from thralls everywhere. America responded to calls for help from England, as well as calls for help in America had been responded to in England. In December, 1769, South Carolina sent £ 10,500 currency to London for the society for supporting the Bill of Rights, that the liberties of Great Britain and America might alike be protected, wrote members of the South Carolina Assembly. In Ireland, the dispute with America aroused Grattan, and he began his splendid career at about this time. The English toilers in the manufacturing districts longed to enjoy the abundance and freedom which they heard of in America; and 1769 is marked by the establishment, in England, of the system of public meetings to discuss subjects of importance to free-born Englishmen. The press, too, spoke out boldly at that time. Can you conceive, wrote the yet mysterious Junius to the King, that the people of this country will long submit to be gov
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Wyoming, (search)
y acquired by the United States from Mexico by the treaty of Guadalupe-Hidalgo......Feb. 2, 1848 Fort Laramie transferred to the United States......1849 Fort Bridger sold for $8,000 to the Mormons......1853 Sioux Indian war begins; Lieutenant Grattan and twenty-eight men sent from Fort Laramie to arrest an Indian who had shot a cow of a Mormon emigrant. The Indians refusing to give up the culprit, Grattan fires, and the whole party are killed......summer of 1854 Sir George Gore, of Grattan fires, and the whole party are killed......summer of 1854 Sir George Gore, of Sligo, Ireland, with his private hunting expedition, winters at Fort Laramie, 1854, and with James Bridger as guide travels north to Powder River......1855 Oil is collected from a spring near Poison Spider Creek, and sold along the Mormon trail for axle-grease......1863 Bill introduced in Congress by James M. Ashley, of Ohio, to provide a temporary government for the Territory of Wyoming ......1865 Massacre of United States troops by the Indians in a sortie, under Colonel Fetterman,
Wendell Phillips, Theodore C. Pease, Speeches, Lectures and Letters of Wendell Phillips: Volume 2, Irish sympathy with the abolition movement. (search)
devoted earnestness, with what unfaltering zeal, Ireland has carried on so many years the struggle for her own freedom. It is from such men, whose hearts lost no jot of their faith in the grave of Emmett; over whose zeal the loss of Curran and Grattan could throw no damp; who are now turning the trophies of one field into weapons for new conquest; whom a hireling press and prejudiced public could never sever a moment from O'Connell's side,--it is from the sympathy of such men that we have a ry. Shall his countrymen trust that hand with political power which O'Connell deemed it pollution to touch? [Cheers.] We remember, Mr. Chairman, that when a jealous disposition tore from the walls of the city hall of Dublin the picture of Henry Grattan, the act did but endear him the more to Ireland. The slavocracy of our land thinks to expel that old man eloquent, with the dignity of seventy winters on his brow [pointing to the picture of John Quincy Adams], from the halls of Congress. T
Wendell Phillips, Theodore C. Pease, Speeches, Lectures and Letters of Wendell Phillips: Volume 2, Daniel O'Connell (1875.) (search)
til they came to hate him as a conqueror. As Grattan said of Kirwan, The curse of Swift was upon h her independence put beyond doubt or peril. Grattan and his predecessors could get no guaranties o won in that field are rooted in ideas which Grattan and O'Connell urged on reluctant hearers for ning of Molyneux, and the eloquence of Bushe, Grattan, and Burke, had been wasted. English leadersrough the streets of Dublin, as O'Connell and Grattan did more than once, hooted and mobbed becauseotestants had touched their Ultima Thule with Grattan, and seemed settling down in despair. Englisheir adviser, I should constantly repeat what Grattan said in 1810, The best advice, gentlemen, I ceckless, headlong enthusiasm. But, in truth, Grattan was the soberest leader of his day, holding sd and too great to be transplanted at fifty. Grattan's own success there was but moderate. The po every rising had ended at the scaffold; even Grattan brought them to 1798. O'Connell said, Follow[6 more...]
George Bancroft, History of the United States from the Discovery of the American Continent, Vol. 10, Chapter 21: (search)
1778, it appeared how much the commissioners sent to America had been willing to concede to insurgents for the sake of reconciliation, the patriots of Ireland awoke to a sense of what they might demand. The man who had obtained the lead was Henry Grattan, who, in a venal age and in a venal house of commons, was incorruptible. No one heard the eloquence of Chatham with more delight; and no one has sketched in more vivid words the character of the greatest Englishman of that day. At the opening of the session of October, 1779, Grattan, then but thirty-three years of age, and for hardly four years a member of the house, moved an amendment to the address, that the nation could be saved only by free export and free import, or, according to the terser words that were finally chosen, by free trade. The friends of government dared not resist the amendment, and it was carried unanimously. New taxes were refused. The ordinary supplies, usually granted for two years, were granted for six
The Daily Dispatch: April 13, 1864., [Electronic resource], The Prince Albert statue — Mob in Ireland. (search)
sword. It is alleged that some of the combatants were the American uniform. The Manchester Guardian publishes the following account of the affair: The rotunda at Dublin was crowded on Monday night in response to an advertisement which appeared in some of the local papers, calling upon "Irish patriots" to assemble and protest against "the recent vote of the corporation of Dublin, by which College green has been assigned away to King William III and Prince Albert, and the statue of Henry Grattan excluded therefrom forever." The following report of the proceedings is taken from the Freeman's Journal: Mr. Peter Gill, having got on the table, endeavored to address the meeting, and, in the midst of the greatest noise and confusion, he was understood to say: We are assembling here to resent the deadly insult, and to resent the outrage on the feltings of the inhabitants of a beggared nation.--[Loud cheers] I beg to propose that Mr. James Crotty do take the chair. [Cheers]