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Wendell Phillips, Theodore C. Pease, Speeches, Lectures and Letters of Wendell Phillips: Volume 2, Crispus Attucks (1858). (search)
ing for the rest of the race decent to do but to devote themselves to the breaking of that chain. [Applause.] All literature, all wealth, all patriotism, all religion, should gravitate toward emancipation. I value the triumphs of the literary genius of Dumas solely as an argument thrown into the scale of the great balance, whether the colored man is worthy of liberty. Genius is worth nothing else now with the colored man, except as helping that argument. I would have you, as your friend Dr. Rock suggested, thrifty, eloquent, industrious, successful, rich, able, only as an argument that the colored race has a right to a place side by side and equal with the white. I wish I could impress this truth on every colored man. His race to-day is on trial. The world says it merits only chains. The best thing he can do with his life, with his genius, with his wealth, with his character, is to throw them into the scale of the argument, and make pro-slavery prejudice kick the beam. I want
The writings of John Greenleaf Whittier, Volume 6. (ed. John Greenleaf Whittier), Historical papers (search)
ombine for national independence, until there was an end of unjust political degradation of the great majority and of the unjust political ascendancy of the few. Under his directions the people of Ireland had effectually nullified the tithe system, by refusing, ill common with the Quakers, to pay for the support of a church with whose ministry they had no communion; and when their property was seized, in default of payment, by the tithe-proctor, the odious tithe-proctor, as Moore, in his Captain Rock, calls him, no Irishman, with one spark of national feeling in his bosom, could be found to purchase it. Yet the Whig ministry sustained this religious robbery, and, weary of fruitless expostulation with an English Parliament, O'Connell commenced openly his agitation for a repeal of the Union. Here, too, the spirit of Ireland has been with him. The tithe system, unutterably odious and full of all injustice, had prepared the way for this expression of feeling on the part of the people
The Daily Dispatch: April 29, 1861., [Electronic resource], article 2 (search)
e, it is said, to be quartered in Georgetown, the heights of which are now garrisoned by the Federal authorities. Numerous families, many of whom originally came from the North, are availing themselves of the open facilities of the Long Bridge, to go over into Virginia. Last night a Southern man named Cunningham, was arrested and placed in the watch-house, charged with being a secessionist.--This morning he was tried and ordered to leave the city. A journey man printer, named Mr. Rock, has also been driven from the city. On Wednesday last, 250 muskets which were to be used by the police in cases of emergency, were taken from the watch-house by Captain Powell of the Zouaves, by order of the Government. The enrollment of the District Militia is again going on. The general parade takes place on Monday. Among those who recently resigned at the U. S. Patent Office, rather than subscribe to the obnoxious test oath compelling them to support Lincoln and the Chica
The Daily Dispatch: June 1, 1861., [Electronic resource], article 10 (search)
e two volunteer companies in service. Another company will leave in a day or two for the seat of war. Two more companies are being organized, and will soon be ready for active service. They are composed of the very best material, and each one when the tug of war comes, will prove himself worthy of the palmiest days of the republic. Roanoke may well be proud to entrust her honor and liberty in their hands. One is an Artillery company, Capt Hupp, the other two are Rifle, Captains Dyerle and Rock. We have two companies of Home Guard, one of which the members are to be over fifty years old, or others who are muster free. The members of the other are between the age of twelve and eighteen. The two companies together number about one hundred and thirty. Mr. Wells, the able and efficient professor of Mathematics in Roanoke College, is engineer of our Aridity company now in service. The Hon. H. A. Edmundson, Mr. Wm. Watts, an eminent lawyer, and representative of Roanoke in the St
The Daily Dispatch: July 30, 1863., [Electronic resource], Will the Western Powers of Europe permit the Union to be restored? (search)
me was John Elder, a member of the same cavalry company, now being organized near Camp lee, to which he belonged — that the hat the de words was his, (Martin's) and that on the evening before he had loaned that hat to Wm. Cummings. He further stated that be (Martin) had been at Camp Lee for three days; that he was then direct from the camp, and that be boarded with Alex. Tomlin, on Union Hill. Thinking it probable that Martin knew more of the affair than he had made public, Messrs. Pensley, Rock and Robinson were directed take him into custody, and to arrest Cummings if he could be found. The jury examined the body of the diseased and found that one of the balls had entered the lower part of his head, near the right ear, penetrated the brain, and producing instant. death. They then adjourned to meet again on Friday next. John Elder, aged about twenty years, was released from the Penitentiary of Virginia about five months since where he served out his time for robbery. He