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Frank Preston Stearns, Cambridge Sketches, Francis J. Child (search)
s interesting to listen to him on that subject. He considered Wendell Phillips the perfection of form and delivery, and sometimes very brillihe fact that Webster and Choate both came from Dartmouth; that Wendell Phillips graduated at Harvard, but the university had not seen much of him since. At the mention of Wendell Phillips some of the boys from proslavery families began to sneer. Professor Child raised himself up and said determinedly, Wendell Phillips is as good an orator as either of them! He was chagrined, however, at Phillips's later public course,--Phillips's later public course,--his support of Socialism and General Butler. Neither did he like Phillips's Phi Beta Kappa oration, in which he advocated the dagger and dynaPhillips's Phi Beta Kappa oration, in which he advocated the dagger and dynamite for tyrants. A tyrant, said Professor Child, is what anyone chooses to imagine. My hired man may consider me a tyrant and blow me up according to Mr. Phillips' s principle. The assassins of Garfield and McKinley evidently supposed that they were ridding the earth of two of t
Frank Preston Stearns, Cambridge Sketches, Lowell (search)
e might say; and that then he composed a poem answering her objections in the form of an allegory, and that this finally convinced her. If he had considered material interests he would have married differently. In November, 1857, the firm of Phillips & Sampson issued the first number of the Atlantic Monthly in the cause of high-minded literature, --a cause which ultimately proved to be their ruin. Lowell accepted the position of editor, and such a periodical as it proved to be under his guidance could not have been found in England, and perhaps not in the whole of Europe; but it could not be made to pay, and two years later Phillips & Sampson failed,--partly on that account, and partially the victims of a piratical opposition. Lowell published Emerson's Brahma in spite of the shallow ridicule with which he foresaw it would be greeted; but when Emerson sent him his Song of nature he returned it on account of the single stanza: One in a Judaean manger, And one by Avon stream, One
Frank Preston Stearns, Cambridge Sketches, T. G. Appleton. (search)
escended from one of the oldest and wealthiest families of Boston, and graduated from Harvard in 1831, together with Wendell Phillips and George Lothrop Motley. He was not distinguished in college for his scholarship, but rather as a wit, a bon vivahe Law School, and attempted to practise that profession in Boston. At the end of the first year, happening to meet Wendell Phillips on the sidewalk, the latter inquired if he had any clients. He had not; neither had Phillips, and they both agreed Phillips, and they both agreed that waiting for fortune in the legal profession was wearisome business. They were both well adapted to it, and the only reason for their ill success would seem to have been that they belonged to wealthy and rather aristocratic families, amongst whoe distinction as a legal authority, and Motley was discussing Goethe and Kant with the youthful Bismarck in Berlin. Wendell Phillips soon gave up his profession to become an orator in the antislavery cause; and Tom Appleton went to Rome and took les
Frank Preston Stearns, Cambridge Sketches, Doctor Holmes. (search)
not appear to have attracted his attention. We are indebted to Lowell for all that Doctor Holmes has given us. The Doctor was forty-eight when the Atlantic Monthly appeared before the public, and according to his own confession he had long since given up hope of a literary life. We hardly know another instance like it; but so much the better for him. He had no immature efforts of early life to regret; and when the cask once was tapped, the old wine came forth with a fine bouquet. When Phillips & Sampson consulted Lowell in regard to the editorship of the Atlantic, he said at once: We must get something from Oliver Wendell Holmes. He was Lowell's great discovery and proved to be his best card,--a clear, shining light, and not an ignis fatuus. When the Autocrat of the breakfast table first appeared few were in the secret of its authorship and everybody asked: Who is this new luminary It was exactly what the more intelligent public wanted, and Holmes jumped at once into the pos
Frank Preston Stearns, Cambridge Sketches, Frank W. Bird, and the Bird Club. (search)
e yachting. Fashionable society was also at a low ebb, and as Wendell Phillips remarked in 1866, the only parties were boys' and girls' danci was the one great demon of a democratic government. He liked Wendell Phillips on account of the manly way in which he fought against his aurther advancement in politics, and when in the autumn campaign Wendell Phillips made a series of attacks on the character of the club, and esp plans for the future were easily calculated. It is probable that Phillips supposed he was doing the public a service in this, but the methods he pursued were not much to his credit. Phillips learned that the president of the Hartford and Erie Railroad had recently given Mr. Bird athe respective reputations of General Butler and Mr. Bird made Wendell Phillips appear in rather a ridiculous light. The following year, 18nistration, in 1872, on the San Domingo question accomplished what Phillips and Butler were unable to effect. Frank Bird and Sumner's more in
Frank Preston Stearns, Cambridge Sketches, Sumner. (search)
his performance gave plain indications of the future orator. Wendell Phillips was in the class after him, and they both were excellent speakhe class of 1830; a year after Doctor Holmes and a year before Wendell Phillips. Much more is known concerning his college life than that of es. His college course was not a brilliant one like Everett's and Phillips's, but seems to have been based on a more solid ground-work. Ithey became intimate friends. This is the more significant because Phillips was also in the same class, and the more brilliant scholar of the two; but Judge Story soon discovered that Phillips was studying as a means to an end, while Sumner's interest in the law was like that of a grstatue on its pedestal. His gestures had not the natural grace of Phillips's or the more studied elegance of Everett, but he atoned for theseity of Webster's, and his delivery lacked the ease and elegance of Phillips and Everett. His style was often too florid and his Latin quotati
Frank Preston Stearns, Cambridge Sketches, The War Governor. (search)
's appointment. Another little-known incident was Andrew's action in regard to the meeting in memory of John Brown, which was held on December 2, 1861, by Wendell Phillips, F. B. Sanborn and others, who were mobbed exactly as Garrison was mobbed thirty years earlier. The Mayor would do nothing to protect them, and when WendellWendell Phillips went to seek assistance from Andrew the latter declined to interfere. It would be a serious matter to interfere with the Mayor, and he did not feel that the occasion demanded it. Moreover he considered the celebration at that time to be prejudicial to the harmony of the Union cause. Phillips was already very much irritPhillips was already very much irritated and left the Governor's office in no friendly mood. Andrew might have said to him: You have been mobbed; what more do you want? There is no more desirable honor than to be mobbed in a good cause. Governor Andrew's appointments continued to be so favorable to the Democrats that Martin F. Conway, the member of Congress fro
Frank Preston Stearns, Cambridge Sketches, The colored regiments. (search)
e going to help us organize the colored regiment? You will be glad to know that it is doing well. We have nearly a thousand men. Mr. Stearns made no reply, but bowed and passed on. This is the more surprising, as Mrs. Cheney was president of a society of ladies who had presented the Fifty-fourth Regiment with a flag; but the fault would seem to have been more that of others than her own. At the celebration which took place on the departure of the regiment for South Carolina, however, Wendell Phillips said: We owe it chiefly to a private citizen, to George L. Stearns, of Medford, that these heroic men are mustered into the service, --a statement which astonished a good many. The statement made by Governor Andrew's private secretary concerning the colored regiments in his memoir of the Governor would seem to have been intentionally misleading. The Governors of the Western States had never considered their colored population as of any importance, but now, when it was being drain