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Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Maine, (search)
to 1879 Alonzo Garcelon1879 to 1880 Daniel F. Davis1880 to 1881 Harris M. Plaisted1881 to 1882 Frederick Robie1883 to 1887 Joseph R. Bodwell1887 Sebastian S. Marble1887 to 1888 Edwin C. Burleigh1889 to 1892 Henry B. Cleaves1893 to 1897 Llewellyn Powers1897 to 1901 John F. Hill1901 to — United States Senators. Name.No. of Congress.Term. John Chandler16th to 20th1820 to 1829 John Holmes16th to 19th1820 to 1827 Albion K. Parris20th1828 John Holmes20th to 22d 1829 to 1833 Peleg Sprague21st to 23d1830 to 1835 John Ruggles23d to 26th 1835 to 1841 Ether Shepley23d to 24th1835 to 1836 Judah Dana24th1836 to 1837 Reuel Williams25th to 28th1837 to 1843 George Evans27th 29th1841 to 1847 John Fairfield28th to 30th 1843 to 1847 Wyman B. S. Moor30th1848 Hannibal Hamlin30th1848 to 1857 James W. Bradbury30th to 33d1847 to 1853 William Pitt Fessenden33d to 41st1854 to 1869 Amos Nourse34th1857 Hannibal Hamlin35th to 36th1857 to 1861 Lot M. Morrill36th to 44th1861 to 1876
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Parker, Theodore 1810- (search)
inst that bill of abominations. Nay, how greedy they are to get victims under it! No wolf loves better to rend a lamb into fragments than these judges to kidnap a fugitive slave, and punish any man who dares to speak against it. You know what has happened in fugitive slave bill courts. You remember the miraculous rescue of Shadrach: the peaceable snatching of a man from the hands of a cowardly kidnapper was high treason ; it was levying war. You remember the trial of the rescuers! Judge Sprague's charge to the grand jury that, if they thought the question was which they ought to obey, the law of man or the law of God, then they must obey both! serve God and mammon, Christ and the devil, in the same act! You remember the trial, the ruling of the bench, the swearing on the stand, the witness coming back to alter and enlarge his testimony and have another gird at the prisoner! You have not forgotten the trials before Judge Kane at Philadelphia, and Judge Grier at Christiana and
John Jay Chapman, William Lloyd Garrison, Chapter 4: pictures of the struggle (search)
rican Anti-slavery. Thompson was marked for assassination and kidnapping; and a gibbet was erected for him in Boston. It was Thompson whom the mob were in search of when they caught Garrison at the meeting of the Female Antislavery Society, soon to be described. The impertinence of Thompson consisted in his being a foreigner, and this fact played upon the peculiar American weakness — our sensitiveness to foreign opinion. He comes here from the dark corrupt institutions of Europe, said Mr. Sprague in Faneuil Hall, to enlighten us upon the rights of man and the moral duties of our own condition. Received by our hospitality, he stands here upon our soil, protected by our laws, and hurls firebrands, arrows and death into the habitations of our neighbors, and friends, and brothers; and when he shall have kindled a conflagration which is sweeping in desolation over the land, he has only to embark for his own country, and there look serenely back with indifference or exultation upon t
John Jay Chapman, William Lloyd Garrison, Chapter 5: the crisis (search)
continuous panic. This had shredded them into spectres. It is quite true that there was a spiritual reign of terror at this epoch, a terror which intimately affected all classes, and the Abolitionists' phrase is thus truer than it seemed. Peleg Sprague, one of Massachusetts' most distinguished men, a United States Senator and former Congressman, and a thoroughly representative mouthpiece of the Conservative classes at the North, spoke as follows at the memorable Pro-slavery meeting in Faneuwishes of members from the South. There is something about this language so far removed from good sense that it gives us pause. That something is the influence of terror. Mr. Harrison Gray Otis, who moved on a still higher social plane than Sprague, nay, who stood very near the gods in the imagination of Bostonians, spoke as follows: I deny that any body of men can lawfully associate for the purpose of undermining, more than for overthrowing, the government of our sister States. The
John Jay Chapman, William Lloyd Garrison, Index (search)
, 253 if.; influence of, North and South, 254. And see Colonization Society, Crandall, P., Lane Seminary, Lovejoy, E. P. Slavery in West Indies, abolition of, 244. Smith, Goldwin, 251. South Carolina, 23, 137. Spencer, Herbert, 251. Sprague, Peleg, quoted, 95, 96; at Faneuil Hall, IiO, III. Storrs, George, 107, 108. Stowe, Harriet Beecher, Uncle Tom's Cabin, 120, 187, 188. Sturgis, William, 132. Sumner, Charles, 123, 140. Sumter, Fort, fired on, 259. Taney, Roger B., 140. Tappan, Arthur, 47, 67, 72,106, 107. Taylor, Zachary, 200, 209, 210, 21I. Texas, Annexation of, 138, 139, 155, 174, 238, 256. Thatcher, Judge, 50. Thompson, George, in U. S., 92 ff.; S. J. May and Sprague quoted on, 93-96; what he stood for, 96; plot to tar and feather, 113; 107, 118, 227, 245,247, 251. Ticknor, George, 199. Tocsin of Liberty, the, quoted, 178. Todd, Francis, libeled by G., 46, 47. Tuckerman, Bayard, Life of Wm. Jay, quoted, 151. Turner, Nat, heads Slave Reb
Archibald H. Grimke, William Lloyd Garrison the Abolitionist, Chapter 11: Mischief let loose. (search)
s. One of their hearers, a young attorney of twenty-four, who listened to Peleg Sprague and Harrison Gray Otis that day, described sixteen years afterward the lattke spirit of the city got from the orators. It is taken from the speech of Peleg Sprague. The orator is paying his respects to George Thompson, an avowed emissary,g was soon a thing of the past but not so its effects. The echoes of Otis and Sprague did did not cease at its close. They thrilled in the air, they thrilled long stress Mischief, and her als. Garrison's answer to the speeches of Otis and Sprague was in his sternest vein. He is sure after reading them that, there is more gthe slave States. At least he is ready to affirm upon the authority of Orator Sprague, that New England is as really a slaveholding section of the republic as Georgia or South Carolina. Sprague, he finds, in amicable companionship and popular repute with thieves and adulterers; with slaveholders, slavedealers, and slavedestroy
Archibald H. Grimke, William Lloyd Garrison the Abolitionist, Index. (search)
Purvis, Robert, 144, 162, 178. Quincy, Edmund, 299, 310, 316, 323, 324, 325, 326, 327-329. Quincy, Josiah, 347. Rankin, John, 177. Remond, Charles Lenox, 293, 295, 304. Rhett, Barnwell, 338. Rogers, Nathaniel P., 149, 293, 295, 301. Rynders, Isaiah, 341-344. Scoble, Rev. John, 294. Sewall, Samuel E., 900, 91, 134, 135, 136, 137, 138, 175, 236, 367. Seward, William H., 338, 372. Shaw, Chief-Justice, 312. Slavery, Rise and Progress of, 95-107. Smith, Gerritt, 147, 236, 297, 320. Sprague, Peleg, 213, 214. Stanton, Edwin M., 382. Stanton, Henry B., 253, 288. Stearns, Charles, 359. Stevens, Thaddeus, 338. Stuart, Charles, 201, 202, 264. Sumner, Charles, 234, 317, 339, 346, 359, Tappan, Arthur, 83, 84, 164, 171, 184, 209, 210. Tappan, Lewis, 149. 177, 201, 209, 283, 285. Texas Agitation, 314-318. Thompson, George, 204-206, 210, 212, 213, 216, 217, 218, 238, 294, 295, 351, 383, 385. Thurston, David, 18o. Tilton, Theodore, 382. Todd, Francis, 75, 76, 77, 81, 82, 87.
Francis Jackson Garrison, William Lloyd Garrison, 1805-1879; the story of his life told by his children: volume 2, Chapter 1: the Boston mob (second stage).—1835. (search)
n in one united and overwhelming remonstrance against the unmatched wickedness of American slavery. On this side, meantime, Mr. Thompson was leaving behind him an imposing number of anti-slavery societies almost called into being by his eloquence, Of the 328 societies reported as formed during the year 1835-36 (Lib. 6.78), a significant number must have been the immediate product of Mr. Thompson's exertions. an increased zeal among those already existing, and the reputation (teste Peleg Sprague) of having given their greatest Ante, 1.497. prevalence and intensity to the anti-slavery doctrines he had been invited to propagate. Mr. Thompson had delivered no less than 220 addresses (Lib. 6.49). Nowhere was the impression made by his year's labors more profound than at the South. From them Jefferson Davis dates the Rise and Fall of the Confederacy, 1.33. public agitation for abolition, and the deliberate attempt to dissolve the Union; and the author of a notable secession wor
Francis Jackson Garrison, William Lloyd Garrison, 1805-1879; the story of his life told by his children: volume 2, Chapter 3: the Clerical appeal.—1837. (search)
o know anything, will not be in accordance with the sentiments entertained by a majority of our fellowcitizens. The comparison between the events of 1835 and of 1837 did not end here. On the one hand, Richard Fletcher, then the colleague of Sprague and Otis, now offered to bear one-third of the cost of reestablishing the Lib. 7.191. Alton Observer. On the other hand, the respectable daily, the Advertiser, true to its traditions and its class, Lib. 7.198. justified the authorities in their refusal of Faneuil Hall. So, Attorney-General Austin, excusing the Alton riot by Lib. 7.202. the Boston tea-riot, recalled Peleg Sprague's pointing to that slaveholder, and drew the hot and crushing retort from Wendell Phillips, who followed him,— Sir, when I heard the gentleman lay down principles which Lib. 7.202. place the rioters, incendiaries, and murderers of Mt. Benedict The eminence in Charlestown, Mass., on which the Ursuline Convent had been established. and Alton side by
Francis Jackson Garrison, William Lloyd Garrison, 1805-1879; the story of his life told by his children: volume 2, Chapter 4: Pennsylvania Hall.—the non-resistance society.—1838. (search)
on Mob, p. 56. orders directly to the militia until the year 1840. Thanks to his prompt action on May 24, the New England Anti-Slavery Convention met without disturbance at the Marlboroa Chapel on May 30, with the venerable Seth Lib. 8.90, 91. Sprague, of Duxbury (the father of Peleg Sprague), in the chair, and a remarkable attendance on the part of the clergy. We must pass over its doings, except the unanimous adoption of a resolution, moved at the beginning by Oliver Johnson, that women asPeleg Sprague), in the chair, and a remarkable attendance on the part of the clergy. We must pass over its doings, except the unanimous adoption of a resolution, moved at the beginning by Oliver Johnson, that women as well as men be invited to become members and participate in the proceedings. Amos A. Phelps, who had restrained himself so long in the case of the Grimkes, could endure no longer. He moved the rescinding of this resolution, and, failing in that, together with five other Orthodox clergymen and one Orthodox layman (including the Rev. Charles Fitch, the Rev. Charles T. Torrey, of Salem, He was made Corresponding Secretary of the Andover A. S. Society on its formation in 1835 (Lib. 5.43). and
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