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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.) 14 0 Browse Search
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Francis B. Carpenter, Six Months at the White House, Xlvii. (search)
an unusual pressure of office-seekers, in addition to his other cares, literally worn out. Pushing everything aside: he said to one of the party: Have you seen the Nasby papers? No, I have not, was the answer; who is Nasby? There is a chap out in Ohio, returned the President, who has been writing a series of letters in the newsNasby? There is a chap out in Ohio, returned the President, who has been writing a series of letters in the newspapers over the signature of Petroleum V. Nasby. Some one sent me a pamphlet collection of them the other day. I am going to write to Petroleum to come down here, and I intend to tell him if he will communicate his talent to me, I will swap places with him. Thereupon he arose, went to a drawer in his desk, and, taking out the LetPetroleum V. Nasby. Some one sent me a pamphlet collection of them the other day. I am going to write to Petroleum to come down here, and I intend to tell him if he will communicate his talent to me, I will swap places with him. Thereupon he arose, went to a drawer in his desk, and, taking out the Letters, sat down and read one to the company, finding in their enjoyment of it the temporary excitement and relief which another man would have found in a glass of wine. The instant he ceased, the book was thrown aside, his countenance relapsed into its habitual serious expression, and the business before him was entered upon with
Francis B. Carpenter, Six Months at the White House, Index. (search)
Secretary Cameron's retirement, 138; interview with P. M. Wetmore, (N. Y.,) 140; sensitiveness. 144, 145; thin skinned, 145; willingness to receive advice, 146; canvassed hams, 148; indifference to personal appearance, 148; Nicolay and Hay, 149; Nasby letters, 151; relief found in storytell-ing, 152; Greeley, 152, 153; newspaper reading, 154; newspaper gas, 155; newspaper reliable, 156; Chicago Times, 156; ingenious nonsense, 158; husked out 158; letter to Lovejoy Monument Association, 160; Ma85. McKaye, Colonel, 208. McVeagh, 242. Memory, 52. Miller, Hon. S. F., 174. Mills, Judge J. T., ( Wis.,) 305. Mix, Captain, 261. Moody, Colonel, 102. Morgan, John, 259. Morgan, Senator, 74. Murtagh, Mr., (Washington,) 321. N. Nasby papers, 151. Newspapers, 154. Nicolay, 149. Norfolk, (capture,) 104, 240. Novels, 115. O. Odell, Hon. M. F., 170, 178. Oh why should the spirit of mortal be proud? (Poem,) 60. Owen, Robert Dale, 98. P. Pardon applica
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), United States of America. (search)
, opens......Dec. 5, 1887 President Cleveland's third annual message......Dec. 6, 1887 Anarchist Most sentenced to one year's imprisonment......Dec. 8, 1887 Ferdinand Vandeveer Hayden, geologist, born 1829, dies at Philadelphia......Dec. 22, 1887 Ex-Secretary of the Treasury Manning, born 1831, dies at Albany, N. Y.......Dec. 24, 1887 Secretary Lamar resigns......Jan. 7, 1888 Asa Gray, botanist, born 1810, dies at Cambridge, Mass.......Jan. 30, 1888 David R. Locke, Petroleum V. Nasby, Confederate X Roads, born 1833, dies at Toledo, O.......Feb. 15, 1888 W. W. Corcoran, philanthropist, born 1798, dies at Washington, D. C.......Feb. 24, 1888 A. Bronson Alcott, born 1799, dies at Boston, Mass., March 4, and Louise M. Alcott, his daughter, novelist, born 1832, dies at Boston......March 6, 1888 Blizzard on the Atlantic coast; thirty lives lost; $10,000,000 worth of property destroyed; about 4 feet of snow falls in New York City, and drifts in the streets 10 to
Oliver Otis Howard, Autobiography of Oliver Otis Howard, major general , United States army : volume 2, Chapter 60: opposition to Bureau and reconstruction work became personal; the Congregational Church of Washington (search)
Congregational Church and united with a Presbyterian Church, of which he became the pastor. He resigned, too, from the presidency of Howard University, and from that time on my official intercourse with him ceased. But the woes that follow such divisions continued. As I was returning from an International Conference of the Young Men's Christian Association, held in Detroit, Mich., in June, 1869, and passing through Ohio, I had been conversing with Mr. Locke, whose nom de plume was Petroleum V. Nasby. As he was glancing over a paper, sitting just behind me, he spoke up with evident surprise: How is this, General? He then showed me one of General Boynton's Washington communications of about a column in length, which attacked me severely. It was one of a series of articles which accused me in my Government administration of every sort of delinquency. As it appeared in the Cincinnati Gazette, and as I was near at hand, I wrote to the editor and asked the privilege of replying to t
Oliver Otis Howard, Autobiography of Oliver Otis Howard, major general , United States army : volume 2, Index (search)
I, 266. Morris, F. B., II, 395, 396. Morris, W. W., I, 77, 78. Morris, Mrs. W. W., I, 77, 78. Morrow, Henry A., I, 350. Mortie, Louise de, II, 261. Morton, Levi P., II, 496, 542. Mosby, John S., I, 391. Mower, Joseph A., II, 107-110, 134, 149, 150, 342. Moy-Yu-Ling, II, 478, 479. Mulliken, Charles H., I, 69. Munroe, John, I, 78, 79. Murray, Ben, I, 10. Murray,EllenandTwoSisters, 11,98. Naglee, H. M., I, 229, 232. Napoleon, Prince, Jerome, I, 169. Nasby, Petroleum V. (Mr. Locke), II, 435. Natto, Joe, I, 84, 86. Negro Conditions in Civil War, II, 163-193. Nettleton, F. E., II, 587. Nevins, Rev., II, 517. Newton, John, I, 281,430,500,504-506, 513, 518, 520-522, 546, 568, 582, 583, 591, 602, 604-606, 609, 611, 613-617, 619. New Hope Church, Battle of, I, 542-562. New York City, II, 547-557. Nichols, H. D., II, 396. Niles, Flora, II, 46. Nodine, Richard H., I, 569, 570. Norwich University, II, 66. Officials o
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 18: Prescott and Motley (search)
, in the person of Jack Downing, confidant of Jackson, David Ross Locke's Petroleum V. Nasby, confidant of Andrew Johnson. He was the first in America, as Finley Petark Twain: Henry Wheeler Shaw, Josh Billings (1818-85); David Ross Locke, Petroleum V. Nasby (1833-88); and Charles Farrar Browne, Artemus Ward (834-67). The firstng. In 1861 he began a series of letters in his paper over the signature Petroleum V. Nasby. These letters were supposed to come from a pastor of the New Dispensation with Copperhead sympathies. Shortly afterwards Nasby settled in Confedrit X Roads, Kentucky, where he drank whiskey, and preached to negro-hating Democrats of tham. After the war he received a commission as postmaster from Andrew Johnson. Nasby is a type of the backwoods preacher, reformer, workingman, postmaster, and chroexpected as news of the battles, and universally read by the Federal soldiers. Nasby was not only a humorist but he was a great force in carrying on the reconstruct
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)
Pearl, the, 369 Peaslee, Mary, 42 Pencillings by the way, 187 Pennsylvania Gazette, the, 178 Pennsylvania journal, the, 178 Pennsylvania Packet, the, 178 Pentucket, 48 Percival, James Gates, 167 Percy, Bishop, 3 Perils of Pearl Street, the, 152 Perry, Bliss, 263 n. Persius, 10 Peterkin papers, 408 Peter Parley. See Goodrich, S. G. Peter Rugg, the Missing man, 369 n. Peterson, Charles J., 168 Peterson, Henry, 281 Peter the Great, 136 Petroleum V. Nasby. See Locke, D. R. Pfaff's restaurant, 268 Phelps, Austen, 208 Phelps, Elizabeth Stuart. See Ward, Elizabeth S. P. Philanthropist, the, 45 Philip II, 129, 136, 139, 146 Philo Judaeus, 211 Philosophy of history, the, 4 Philosophy of the short story, the, 388 Phoenixiana, 156 Physiology of verse, the, 229 Picayune, 184 Picket-Guard, The, 280 Pierce, Franklin, 19, 21 Pierce, Miss, 215 Pike, Albert, 290, 292, 298, 303 Pindar, 2, 3, 238 Pinkney
Bliss Perry, The American spirit in lierature: a chronicle of great interpreters, Chapter 10: a New nation (search)
s written his life in three great volumes, and there is a twenty-five volume edition of his Works. All the evidence seems to be in. Yet the verdict of the public seems not quite made up. It is clear that Mark Twain the writer of romance is gaining upon Mark Twain the humorist. The inexhaustible American appetite for frontier types of humor seizes upon each new variety, crunches it with huge satisfaction, and then tosses it away. John Phoenix, Josh Billings, Jack Downing, Bill Arp, Petroleum V. Nasby, Artemus Ward, Bill Nye-these are already obsolescent names. If Clemens lacked something of Artemus Ward's whimsical delicacy and of Josh Billings's tested human wisdom, he surpassed all of his competitors in a certain rude, healthy masculinity, the humor of river and mining-camp and printing-office, where men speak without censorship. His country-men liked exaggeration, and he exaggerated; they liked irreverence, and he had turned iconoclast in Innocents abroad. As a professional h
Edward L. Pierce, Memoir and letters of Charles Sumner: volume 4, Chapter 50: last months of the Civil War.—Chase and Taney, chief-justices.—the first colored attorney in the supreme court —reciprocity with Canada.—the New Jersey monopoly.— retaliation in war.—reconstruction.—debate on Louisiana.—Lincoln and Sumner.—visit to Richmond.—the president's death by assassination.—Sumner's eulogy upon him. —President Johnson; his method of reconstruction.—Sumner's protests against race distinctions.—death of friends. —French visitors and correspondents.—1864-1865. (search)
reater gains proves that they did not, with guilty or fraudulent intent, strike at all. The judgment and sentence are disapproved and declared null, and the accused ordered to be discharged. A. Lincoln. March 18, 1865. Then followed an incident as original as anything in the life of Henry IV. of France, or of a Lacedaemonian king. As Mr. Sumner was making an abstract of the indorsement for communication by telegraph to the anxious parties, the President broke into quotation from Petroleum V. Nasby; and seeing that his visitor was less at home than himself in this patriotic literature, he said, I must initiate you, and then repeated with enthusiasm the message he had sent to the author: For the genius to write these things I would gladly give up my office! Then rising and turning to a standing-desk behind, he opened it, and took out a pamphlet collection of the letters already published, which he proceeded to read aloud, evidently enjoying it much. For the time he seemed to for
Edward L. Pierce, Memoir and letters of Charles Sumner: volume 4, Chapter 57: attempts to reconcile the President and the senator.—ineligibility of the President for a second term.—the Civil-rights Bill.—sale of arms to France.—the liberal Republican party: Horace Greeley its candidate adopted by the Democrats.—Sumner's reserve.—his relations with Republican friends and his colleague.—speech against the President.—support of Greeley.—last journey to Europe.—a meeting with Motley.—a night with John Bright.—the President's re-election.—1871-1872. (search)
osed on the country,—introducing a bill for the purpose, Dec. 11, 1871, March 21, 26, and June 4, 1872 (Globe, pp. 45, 46, 1856, 1857, 1977, 4217). This effort was approved by the New York Herald, Dec. 11, 1871, and the New York World, December 12. He pushed his measure at his two remaining sessions. Dec. 12, 1872 (Globe, pp. 144, 145), Dec. 17, 1873, Jan. 6, 1874 (Globe, pp. 249, 390). He wrote at this time, at the request of the publishers and the author, an introduction to an edition of Nasby's letters, April 1, 1872; Works, vol. XV. pp. 65-67. Sumner made at this session an earnest and determined effort to carry his civil-rights bill,—a measure securing equality of civil rights to the colored people, and prohibiting discriminations against them by common carriers of passengers, by proprietors of theatres and inns, managers of schools, of cemeteries, and of churches, or as to service as jurors in any courts, State or national. His association with the Democrats in opposing