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C. Edwards Lester, Life and public services of Charles Sumner: Born Jan. 6, 1811. Died March 11, 1874., Iii. (search)
n to influence and urgency on my part. Of the influence I know nothing; but I deny positively any urgency. I spoke with the President on this subject once casually, on the stairs of the Executive mansion, and then again in a formal interview. And here, since the effort of the Secretary, I shall frankly state what I said and how it was introduced. I began by remarking that, with the permission of the President, I should venture to suggest the expediency of continuing Mr. Marsh in Italy, Mr. Morris at Constantinople, and Mr. Bancroft at Berlin, as all these exerted a peculiar influence and did honor to our country. To this list I proposed to add Dr. Howe of Greece, believing that he, too, would do honor to our country, and also Mr. Motley in London, who, I suggested, would have an influence there beyond his official position. The President said that nobody should be sent to London who was not right on the claims question, and he kindly explained to me what he meant by right. From
Wendell Phillips, Theodore C. Pease, Speeches, Lectures and Letters of Wendell Phillips: Volume 1, chapter 26 (search)
New York for his counting-house. And it was as much a part of the deed as if it had been so written. Now, if South Carolina can show that Illinois and New York have broken the deed, she has a right of revolution; that is, she has a right to reject it. But until she can show that they have broken the deed, she is a swindler. Illinois owns New Orleans as much as Chicago, in a national sense. So the negro who sat down and waited when Samuel Adams, who thought slavery a crime, and your Gouverneur Morris, who thought it a disgrace and a sin, said, Wait, the time will come when the constant waves of civilization or the armed right hand of the war power will strike off your fetters, and the slave sat down and waited. In 1819,--the Missouri Compromise,--when the time had come, as John Randolph said the time would come, when the master would run away from his slave, the slave arose and said, Fulfil the pledge; I have invested a generation of submission. We begged him still to wait, and
Cambridge History of American Literature: volume 2 (ed. Trent, William Peterfield, 1862-1939., Erskine, John, 1879-1951., Sherman, Stuart Pratt, 1881-1926., Van Doren, Carl, 1885-1950.), Chapter 17: writers on American history, 1783-1850 (search)
e work be continued through the period of the Continental Congress. Van Buren agreed, and Congress passed the necessary act, but at the last moment the new secretary of state, Edward Livingston, made the contract with Frank P. Blair. Livingston blandly admitted that Sparks should have had the appointment but said that Blair's selection was demanded by the politicians. The writings of Washington now occupied Sparks's time, but before they began to appear he brought out The life of Gouverneur Morris (1832), in three volumes. In 1834 appeared Volume II of The life and writings of George Washington, and the rest of the twelve volumes followed regularly until the series was complete in 1837. The last to appear was the biography, the first volume in the set. The general verdict of the day was that it was a work worthy of the exalted subject. From 1836 to 1840 was published The works of Benjamin Franklin, in ten volumes, and between 1834 and 1838 came the first series, and between 1
Cambridge History of American Literature: volume 2 (ed. Trent, William Peterfield, 1862-1939., Erskine, John, 1879-1951., Sherman, Stuart Pratt, 1881-1926., Van Doren, Carl, 1885-1950.), Index (search)
American biography, the, 117 Library of Southern literature, the, 304 Life and correspondence of Joseph Reed, 118 Life and Adventures of Dr. Didimus Duckworth, A. N. Q. to which is added the History of a Steam Doctor, The, 152 Life and Adventures, Songs, services and speeches of private Miles O'Reilly, 155 Life and Sayings of Mrs. Partington, 155 Life and Writings of George Washington, The, 117 Life in the Iron Mills, 372, 392 Life of Bret Harte, 362 n. Life of Gouverneur Morris, the, 117 Life of James Otis, 105 Life of Jesus the Christ, 217 Life of Kennedy, 58 n. Life of Lowell, 250 n., 251 n. Life of Patrick Henry, 105 Life of Thomas Jefferson, 110 Life of Washington, 105 Light of Stars, the, 35 Light'ood fire, the, 330 Lily, the, 175 Lily of the Valley, the, 175 Lincoln, Abraham, 90, 111, 142, 151, 154, 156, 224, 238, 252, 257, 267, 270, 278, 281, 283, 284, 286, 304 Link, S. A., 304 Lionizing, 67 Lippincott's magazine, 337
Bliss Perry, The American spirit in lierature: a chronicle of great interpreters, Chapter 7: romance, poetry, and history (search)
wealth nor leisure. He was a furious, unwearied toiler in the field of our national history. Born in 1789, by profession a Unitarian minister, he began collecting the papers of George Washington by 1825. John Marshall, the great jurist, had published his five-volume life of his fellow Virginian a score of years earlier. But Sparks proceeded to write another biography of Washington and to edit his writings. He also edited a Library of American biography, wrote lives of Franklin and Gouverneur Morris, was professor of history and President of Harvard, and lived to be seventy-seven. As editor of the writings of Franklin and Washington, he took what we now consider unpardonable liberties in altering the text, and this error of judgment has somewhat clouded his just reputation as a pioneer in historical research. George Bancroft, who was born in 1800, and died, a horseback-riding sage, at ninety-one, inherited from his clergyman father a taste for history. He studied in Germany a
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)
eral interest. One day the Colonel tells of a dinner party where he met Vergniaud and other prominent revolutionists. He was surprised to find them such plain men; yet were they exceeding warm. On December 29, 1792, he notes: Dined with Gouverneur Morris. Served upon plate — good wines — his Kitchen neither french or English, but between both. Servants french, apartments good.... I have visited the halls of painting and sculpture at the Louvre. The peices [sic] are all called chef d'ceuvis will cause a great degree of astonishment in America.... January 21st. Went to the Pont Royal to pass it at nine o'clock. Guards prevented me from going over. I had engaged to pass this day, which is one of horror, at Versailles, with Mr. Morris. The King was beheaded at eleven o'clock. Guards, at an early hour, took possession of the Place Louis XV, and were posted in each avenue. The most profound peace prevailed. Those who had feeling lamented in secret in their houses, or had le
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)
Molloy, J. F., II, 171. Moltke, Count, Hellmuth, II, 20. Momery, Dr., II, 184. Money, trade in, I, 16. Monroe, Harriet, II, 251. Monson, I, 250. Mont Isabel, I, 322. Montagu, Basil, I, 81, 85. Montagu, Mrs., Basil, I, 85. Montgomery, Richard, I, 6. Montpelier, II, 68. Montreal, I, 38. Montreux, II, 176. Moore, Prof., II, 154. Moore, Rebecca, II, 170. Moore, Thomas, I, 87. Mormon Tabernacle, II, 137. Morpeth, see Carlisle, Earl of. Morris, Gouverneur, I, 7, 8. Morse, E. S., II, 169. Morse, William, II, 108. Mosby, John, II, 253. Mothers' Peace Day, I, 318, 319, 345. Mott, Lucretia, I, 285, 304; I, 108. Moulton, Louise C., II, 161, 169, 171, 273. Verse by, 335. Mounet-Sully, Jean, II, 195. Mt. Auburn, I, 183; II, 290, 294. Mt. Holyoke, I, 251. Mozart, W. A., I, 45; II, 351. Mozier, Joseph, I, 271. Mozumdar, II, 87. Munich, I, 278. Murray, Gilbert, II, 361. Murray, Lady, Mary, II, 361.
George Ticknor, Life, letters and journals of George Ticknor (ed. George Hillard), Chapter 13: (search)
xious victim. The dreadful thing to Mad. de Pastoret was that, being unable to get any information whatever concerning her husband, the axe never fell but she asked herself whether it might not have been for him. On one occasion she obtained special permission to go out, under surveillance, and she employed it to visit the foreign ministers, —some of whom she knew,—and obtain their intercession for her husband. The person who received her with the most kindness was the American Minister, Mr. Morris. Mons. Pastoret afterwards escaped from France, and was for some time in exile. He has since been Chancellor of France, and has published law-books of great merit. The Countess de Ste. Aulaire's salon was the place of meeting for the Doctrinaires, Decazes' party, which triumphed while I was in Paris, and to whose triumph Mad. de Ste. Aulaire contributed not a little. She is a beautiful woman, with an elegant mind, and much practical talent; and her husband, a relation of Decazes, is o
George Ticknor, Life, letters and journals of George Ticknor (ed. George Hillard), chapter 26 (search)
Montgomery, James, 440, 441. Montgomery, Mrs., 386. Monticello, 30; visits, 34-38. Montijo. See Teba. Montmorency, Duc Mathieu de, 304 and note. Montmorency-Laval. See Laval. Moore's Charity School, Elisha Ticknor head of, 1; connected with Dartmouth College, 2. Moore, Thomas, 420, 422, 425. Moratin, L. F., 252. Moreau, General, 488. Morehead, Rev Dr., 280, 414. Morgan, Lady, 425. Morley, First Earl and Countess of, 407. Mornington, Countess of, 295, 296. Morris, Gouverneur, 256. Morrow, Governor, 372. Mos, Marquesa de, 207. Muhlenberg, Dr , 111. Mulgrave, Earl of, 420, 421, 422, 423, 424, 435, 437, 438. Muller, Johann, 115. Munchhausen, Baron, 501. Munster, Count, 77, 78. Murchison, Sir, Roderick, 419, 421. Murray, J. A., 277, 408. Murray, John, 58, 60, 62, 68, 294. Musgrave, Mr., 246, 247, 248. N Nahant, 339, 385. Naples, visits, 174-176. Nasse, Dr., 454. Naumann, Professor, 454. Navarrete, M. F. de, 197. Neander, J. W. A.
George Ticknor, Life, letters and journals of George Ticknor (ed. George Hillard), Chapter 19: (search)
, which in two hours brought me nineteen miles to Sir John Acton's, at Aldenham Park. I arrived about four o'clock, was most heartily received, and came to my room, . . . . and went down to dinner at half past 7. . . . . Sir John's establishment, of which I have yet seen very little, is perfectly appointed, and in admirable order. The house is as large as Trevelyan's, and not unlike it; and he, a young bachelor, can occupy only a small part of it. Nobody was at table except his chaplain, Mr. Morris, one of the Oxford convertites, and known for one of the first English scholars in Oriental and Sanscrit literature. We were in the midst of the first course when your letters came; and I instantly read enough of them to give a new zest to the other courses. Sir John was full of talk, and knowledge of books and things, and by the help of a cigar,—which the chaplain and I took, but not Sir John,—we went on till near midnight. He is certainly a most remarkable young man, and much advanced
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