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Varina Davis, Jefferson Davis: Ex-President of the Confederate States of America, A Memoir by his Wife, Volume 1 12 0 Browse Search
Francis Jackson Garrison, William Lloyd Garrison, 1805-1879; the story of his life told by his children: volume 1 2 0 Browse Search
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 25. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones) 2 0 Browse Search
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Varina Davis, Jefferson Davis: Ex-President of the Confederate States of America, A Memoir by his Wife, Volume 1, Chapter 17: Begins his political life, 1843. (search)
An arrangement was made by our respective parties for a debate between Mr. Prentiss and myself on the day of election, each party to be allowed fifteen minutes alternately. Before the day appointed I met Mr. Prentiss, to agree upon the questions to be discussed, eliminating all those with regard to which there was no diffewas bound to make timely provision. To return to the incident spoken of. Mr. Prentiss and I met at the court-house on the day of the election, improvised a stand ussion. There was but one variation from the terms originally agreed upon. Mr. Prentiss having said that he could not always condense his argument so fully as to st was present at a part of this debate told me it was a most striking scene. Mr. Prentiss was small and lame, but his glorious head once seen made one forget that he ran for my brother a block off. When we got back, the Whigs were shouting for Prentiss, and I was dreadfully cut up. It would seem that if ever a man could be stimu
Francis Jackson Garrison, William Lloyd Garrison, 1805-1879; the story of his life told by his children: volume 1, Chapter 14: the Boston mob (first stage).—1835. (search)
n alleged slave insurrection Lib. 5.123, 126, 127, 136; Niles' Register, 48.403; 49.118. in Mississippi, with the hanging of two of its white promoters Described as steam-doctors, i.e., Thomsonians (see Bartlett's Dictionary of Americanisms, s. v.) The plot was said to have embraced the extermination of the whites from Maryland to Louisiana. The abolitionists were not accused (as an association) of having any hand in it, but were of course vaguely connected with it (see Memoirs of S. S. Prentiss, 1.162). The local excitement was greatly intensified by the barbarous lynching of white gamblers at Vicksburg and Natchez (Lib. 5.126). on the Fourth of July! And then, to crown all, the leading citizens of Charleston, on the night of Lib. 5.129. July 29, broke into the post-office and took possession of incendiary matter brought from New York by the U. S. mail packet Columbia, among which were discovered the Emancipator, the Anti-Slavery Record, the Slave's Friend, Human Rights—unm
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 25. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), chapter 1.38 (search)
ell, however, how his vigorous utterances on that occasion brought him prominently into notice in political life, and he was at once elected a member of the Democratic State Central Committee, and afterwards to the House of Representatives of the State, by a large majority. Reverting to the bar in 1850 in Louisiana, Mr. Semmes told many delightful reminiscences. He enjoyed the intimate friendship of such distinguished men as Alfred Hennen, John R. Grymes, Slidell, Christian Roselius, S. S. Prentiss, Judah P. Benjamin, Mr. Bonford, Charles Gayarre, Judge Walker and other typical representatives of the old Louisiana bench and bar. He also knew, intimately, Dr. Warren Stone, Dr. W. Newton Mercer, Dr. Augustas Cenas, and others equally distinguished in scientific, political and commercial fields. And this led him to speak of the life and aristocracy of the old South. It seemed to be a theme upon which he loved to linger, for his face glowed with a softened light, and at times his v