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President of the United States is under the highest and most solemn obligations to interpose; and if I were to indicate the manner in which he should interpose in Kansas, I would point out the old Common Law process. I would serve a warrant on Sharp's rifles; and if Sharp's rifles did not answer the. summons, and come into court on a day certain, or if they resisted the Sheriff, I would summon the posse comitatits, and I would have Colonel Sumner's regiment to be part of that posse comitatusSharp's rifles did not answer the. summons, and come into court on a day certain, or if they resisted the Sheriff, I would summon the posse comitatits, and I would have Colonel Sumner's regiment to be part of that posse comitatus. Really, Sir, has it come to this? The rifle has ever been the companion of the pioneer, and, under God, his tutelary protector against the red man and the beast of the forest. Never was this efficient weapon more needed in just self-defence than now in Kansas; and at least one article in our National Constitution must be blotted out before the complete right to it can be in any way impeached. And yet such is the madness of the hour, that, in defiance of the solemn guaranty in the Amend
Wendell Phillips, Theodore C. Pease, Speeches, Lectures and Letters of Wendell Phillips: Volume 2, The foundation of the labor movement (1871) (search)
he is aggressive; I know she arms herself with the best weapon that a corrupt civilization furnishes,--all true. Where do we get these ideas? Borrowed them from capital, every one of them; and when you advance to us on the level of peace, unarmed, we'll meet you on the same. While you combine and plot and defend, so will we. But Mr. Johnson says, Come into the world with the white banner of peace. Ay, we will, when you disarm. How foolish it would have been for Grant to send home his Sharp's rifles to Springfield, and garner all his cannon in New York, and put all his monitors in the harbor of Norfolk, and go down to Virginia with eighty thousand unarmed men, to look her in the face! Labor comes up, and says, They have shotted their cannon to the lips; they have rough-ground their swords as in battle; they have adopted every new method; they have invented every dangerous machine,--and it is all planted like a great park of artillery against us. They have incorporated wealth;
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Cheerful Yesterdays, VII. Kansas and John Brown (search)
ver about twenty miles of debatable ground, absolutely alone. It had been swept by the hostile parties of both factions; there was no more law than in the Scottish Highlands; every swell of the rolling prairie offered a possible surprise, and I had some of the stirring sensations of a moss-trooper. Never before in my life had I been, distinctively and unequivocally, outside of the world of human law; it had been ready to protect me, even when I disobeyed it. Here it had ceased to exist; my Sharp's rifle, my revolvers,--or, these failing, my own ingenuity and ready wit,--were all the protection I had. It was a delightful sensation; I could quote to myself from Browning's magnificent soliloquy in Colombe's Birthday: -- When is man strong until he feels alone? and there came to mind some thrilling passages from Mackay's Ballads of the Cavaliers and Roundheads or from the Jacobite Minstrelsy. On this very track a carrier had been waylaid and killed by the Missourians only a few days
Francis Jackson Garrison, William Lloyd Garrison, 1805-1879; the story of his life told by his children: volume 3, Chapter 15: the Personal Liberty Law.—1855. (search)
as men go to California, mainly after money. The siege of Lawrence, and the sight of a free-State man wantonly murdered in this exciting period, caused Mr. Lib. 26.2. Stearns formally to renounce his non-resistance views, and to shoulder his Sharp's rifle against wild beasts (not men). Mr. Garrison still held to the faith. He presided on March 24, 25, at a New England Non-Resistance Convention held Lib. 25.50, 60. in Worcester, By way of record, let us state here that the New England roperty like any other (Lib. 25: 167). In Kansas, the liberty of white men is struck down, and held at the point of the bayonet, and here in Massachusetts we sympathize —in the abstract! But when a brave man comes here to raise money to arm with Sharp's rifles his company of a hundred Kansas farmers, does he find a material aid at all commensurate with his expectations? Doubtless the agent referred to was Major James B. Abbott. See Sanborn's Life of John Brown, p. 212. Alas, no! I have a
rth to the pitch of resistance symbolized by the vote for Fremont. It carried the clergy off their feet, and opened their churches to meetings for the donation of Sharp's rifles for Kansas—Henry Ward Lib. 26.51. Beecher and Theodore Parker being conspicuous in the Lib. 26.51, 54. promotion of this object, and both incurring Mr. e Kansas a slave State. Hence the appeal, in selfdefence, to the people of the free States for men, money, and arms; hence the justification for the employment of Sharp's rifles against the border ruffians. It is said to be a struggle for liberty; and earnest appeals are made to the hearts and the pockets of all who desire to see are not the crushed and bleeding slaves at the South a million times more deserving of pity and succor? Why not, first of all, take measures to furnish them with Sharp's rifles? Their wrongs are beyond description; in comparison with which, those of the people of Kansas are utterly insignificant. Why strain at a gnat, and swall
Edward L. Pierce, Memoir and letters of Charles Sumner: volume 3, Chapter 38: repeal of the Missouri Compromise.—reply to Butler and Mason.—the Republican Party.—address on Granville Sharp.—friendly correspondence.—1853-1854. (search)
The Liberator, November 17; Boston Telegraph, November 14. The lecture, though given in a literary course, had, as usual with him, a moral and political aim,—to stimulate peaceable and lawful resistance to the Fugitive Slave Act in imitation of the British philanthropist, whose antislavery labors, notably in the liberation of Somerset, in connection with the opposition he encountered from merchants and lawyers, suggested parallels in the recent slave cases. It is an interesting monograph on Sharp's life and work and the memorable judicial transaction in which he bore the most conspicuous part. Mrs. Seward wrote, November 24, of the lecture, addressing him, as always, Dear Charles Sumner:— The elevated tone of its moral teaching cannot fail to do good, though this result may not be immediately manifest. You will go soon to Washington. I shall learn something of your external life while you are well and prosperous. This would do well enough. Should the sky grow dark and yo
3 Dec. 1829, d. 21 Mar. 1841; Hannah Ellen, b. 25 May 1833, d. unm. 27 July 1851. Josiah the f. was a merchant, resided near West Boston Bridge, was Selectman from 1828 to 1831, four years, Representative 1832, and d. of consumption 18 Dec. 1840. His w. Hannah B. d. 12 Nov. 1858. 17. James Winthrop, s. of Josiah (12), grad. H. C. 1816, removed to Monroe, La. He was a physician, merchant, and planter. He m. Melinda Tennell of Monroe, and had Elizabeth St. Clair, b. 23 Oct. 1827, m. Judge Sharp of Monroe, and d. leaving an infant; Mary Caroline, b. 7 May 1829, m. James McEnery, and d. in 1854, leaving issue; Melinda Theresa, b. 4 Dec. 1830, m. Oliver Kellam, and——Buckner; Josiah Tennell, b. 2 Nov. 1832, m. Emily De Lery of Monroe; Louisa Jane, b. 9 May 1836, m.——Watson; James Winthrop, b. 5 Ap. 1838, d. about 1859. James Winthrop the f. d. 18 Oct. 1837. 18. Walter Russell, s. of Josiah (12), m. Elizabeth Harrington of Lex. (pub. 22 May 1819), and had Mary Jane, b. 3 Jan. 1
3 Dec. 1829, d. 21 Mar. 1841; Hannah Ellen, b. 25 May 1833, d. unm. 27 July 1851. Josiah the f. was a merchant, resided near West Boston Bridge, was Selectman from 1828 to 1831, four years, Representative 1832, and d. of consumption 18 Dec. 1840. His w. Hannah B. d. 12 Nov. 1858. 17. James Winthrop, s. of Josiah (12), grad. H. C. 1816, removed to Monroe, La. He was a physician, merchant, and planter. He m. Melinda Tennell of Monroe, and had Elizabeth St. Clair, b. 23 Oct. 1827, m. Judge Sharp of Monroe, and d. leaving an infant; Mary Caroline, b. 7 May 1829, m. James McEnery, and d. in 1854, leaving issue; Melinda Theresa, b. 4 Dec. 1830, m. Oliver Kellam, and——Buckner; Josiah Tennell, b. 2 Nov. 1832, m. Emily De Lery of Monroe; Louisa Jane, b. 9 May 1836, m.——Watson; James Winthrop, b. 5 Ap. 1838, d. about 1859. James Winthrop the f. d. 18 Oct. 1837. 18. Walter Russell, s. of Josiah (12), m. Elizabeth Harrington of Lex. (pub. 22 May 1819), and had Mary Jane, b. 3 Jan. 1
ment. He was a gallant soldier and a favorite officer with Blunt, and a flag of truce was sent in asking for his body and permission to bury the Federal dead and remove the wounded. Permission was granted and General Blunt and General Marmaduke and Colonel Shelby met and had a talk on neutral ground. Carroll's brigade was not in the fight. It fled at the first fire, or rather followed its commander in his flight. It not only left the field, but continued its flight after it was far beyond the point of danger, telling of defeat and disaster as it went. The brigade afterward became a fine body of fighting men under General Cabell, and Carroll disappeared from sight as a military figure. Two officers, Lieutenants Huey and Sharp, of a small battery attached to the brigade, remained, however, and after Carroll fled reported to Marmaduke for duty. The day after the battle Marmaduke withdrew without molesta-tion to Dripping Springs, to rest and await orders from General Hindman.
cotton secured, awaiting your orders. The Sharp's shooters I have repaired and turned over to the ordnance officer, who issued them to Captain Hobby's company as they were greatly in need of guns, having 64 men and only 40 guns. The report of Capt. E. E. Hobby was as follows: On the 3d inst., about 2 p. m., I attacked with 28 men of my company three Federal launches, containing about 40 of the enemy, and succeeded in capturing one launch (captain's gig), 5 prisoners, 6 new superior Sharp's rifles, 5 cartridge boxes and 1 ammunition chest. One of the remaining launches, being about 300 yards from the shore, had also surrendered and was pulling toward us. I ordered the fire on it to cease and the men to secure the property belonging to the gig already captured. While busily engaged in this the bark opened fire upon us and the launch began to pull to her. We again fired upon it, doing much execution. We could distinctly see the men in the launch drop their oars and fall over
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