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Cambridge sketches (ed. Estelle M. H. Merrill) 4 0 Browse Search
George Ticknor, Life, letters and journals of George Ticknor (ed. George Hillard) 4 0 Browse Search
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 14. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones) 2 0 Browse Search
Adam Badeau, Grant in peace: from Appomattox to Mount McGregor, a personal memoir 2 0 Browse Search
Edward H. Savage, author of Police Recollections; Or Boston by Daylight and Gas-Light ., Boston events: a brief mention and the date of more than 5,000 events that transpired in Boston from 1630 to 1880, covering a period of 250 years, together with other occurrences of interest, arranged in alphabetical order 2 0 Browse Search
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Jefferson Davis, The Rise and Fall of the Confederate Government 2 0 Browse Search
Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events: Poetry and Incidents., Volume 6. (ed. Frank Moore) 2 0 Browse Search
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Horace Greeley, The American Conflict: A History of the Great Rebellion in the United States of America, 1860-65: its Causes, Incidents, and Results: Intended to exhibit especially its moral and political phases with the drift and progress of American opinion respecting human slavery from 1776 to the close of the War for the Union. Volume I. 2 0 Browse Search
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Official Records of the Union and Confederate Armies, Chapter XXII: Operations in Kentucky, Tennessee, North Mississippi, North Alabama, and Southwest Virginia. March 4-June 10, 1862., Part II: Correspondence, Orders, and Returns. (ed. Lieut. Col. Robert N. Scott), Confederate correspondence, Etc. (search)
oduces their own death — profligate in their embezzlements from the public treasure, received expressly as the wages of their corruption — affect surprise that I should undergo exposure in the mountains, and laugh at the idea of my obtaining a scanty subsistence in this exhausted region. Let them hear from me that no honorable sacrifice is too great for the purchase of liberty. I had rather tread the wilderness a free man than to inhabit the palace a bondman. How much more glorious was William Tell, the Swiss mountaineer, than the pampered slave of Gessler! How much more noble and infinitely more comfortable are the chains that fetter the limbs of Buckner, Hanson, and their brave comrades than those which are worn unconsciously or ingloriously by the Kentuckians who submit to the usurper Lincoln or his generals. I can tell you and these people who amuse themselves at my expense that I look upon the captivity of my son (who languishes in an Ohio prison) as glorious when compared to
Horace Greeley, The American Conflict: A History of the Great Rebellion in the United States of America, 1860-65: its Causes, Incidents, and Results: Intended to exhibit especially its moral and political phases with the drift and progress of American opinion respecting human slavery from 1776 to the close of the War for the Union. Volume I., Xxv. Peace Democracy—peace Conference. (search)
to it. [Applause.] Mr. Thayer proceeded to speak of coercion in terms which go far to elucidate the outcry since made against alleged usurpations and disregard of personal rights in dealing with partisans of the Rebellion. Said he: It is announced that the Republican Administration will enforce the laws against and in all the seceding States. A nice discrimination must be exercised in the performance of this duty: not a hair's breadth outside the mark. You remember the story of William Tell, who, when the condition was imposed upon him to shoot an apple from the head of his own child, after he had performed the task, he let fall an arrow. For what is that? said Gesler. To kill thee, tyrant, had I slain my boy! [Cheers.] Let one arrow winged by the Federal bow strike the heart of an American citizen, and who can number the avenging darts that will cloud the heavens in the conflict that will ensue? [Prolonged applause.] What, then, is the duty of the State of New York? W
Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events: Documents and Narratives, Volume 2. (ed. Frank Moore), chapter 165 (search)
ascades, and cataracts, and waving woodlands, and in the pure and exhilarating airs of her hills and mountains, that unbraces the fetters which man would rivet upon the spirit of his fellow-man. It was at the handles of the plough and amid the breathing odors of its newly-opened furrows that the character of Cincinnatus was formed, expanded, and matured. It was not in the city full, but in the deep gorges and upon the snow-clad summits of the Alps, amid the eagles and the thunders, that William Tell laid the foundations of those altars to human liberty, against which the surging tides of European despotism have beaten for centuries, but, thank God, have beaten in vain. It was amid the primeval forests and mountains, the lakes and leaping streams of our own land; amid fields of waving grain; amid the songs of the reaper and the tinkling of the shepherd's bell that were nurtured those rare virtues which clustered star-like in the character of Washington, and lifted him in moral statur
Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events: Poetry and Incidents., Volume 6. (ed. Frank Moore), chapter 173 (search)
t as those of yore. Where Freemen all victorious stood, Where tyranny did yield; Just here, where your bold fathers' blood Stained red the battle-field. From North to South, from East to West, Let Union shouts arise, From valley deep to eagle's nest, And echo through the skies. Come, bold sons of your pilgrim sires, Sons of the brave and free, Who left to you, their rightful heirs, This glorious legacy. This lovely home of hill and dell, Of river, lake, and sea; Where tyrant ruled, as William Tell Can find sweet liberty. Come, then, from forge, and come from plough, Come from the bank and store; From wave and wood, come, Freemen, now, To fight as those of yore. Come, clear away the gloomy pall Of treason dark and drear; Before your arms 'tis doomed to fall-- Hark! hear the victors cheer. Your country calls! see there's the foe, Rebellion, strike it down; Yes, strike the one decisive blow, Then wear the victor's crown: A more than crown — a laurel wreath, Around each patriot'
Jefferson Davis, The Rise and Fall of the Confederate Government, Chapter 9: (search)
caffolding for coercion—another name for execution—we will reverse the order of the French Revolution, and save the blood of the people by making those who would inaugurate a reign of terror the first victims of a national guillotine! [Enthusiastic applause.] And again: It is announced that the Republican Administration will enforce the laws against and in all the seceding States. A nice discrimination must be exercised in the performance of this duty. You remember the story of William Tell. . . . Let an arrow winged by the Federal bow strike the heart of an American citizen, and who can number the avenging darts that will cloud the heavens in the conflict that will ensue? [Prolonged applause.] What, then, is the duty of the State of New York? What shall we say to our people when we come to meet this state of facts? That the Union must be preserved? But if that can not be, what then? Peaceable separation. [Applause.] Painful and humiliating as it is, let us temper it wi
Cambridge sketches (ed. Estelle M. H. Merrill), Some Cambridge schools in the olden time. (search)
alloyed delight, The joy, as when our side spelled “phthisic” right? My sketch were faulty, with entire omission Of our great crowning glory, Exhibition. Though scarce could you expect one of my age All that was spoke in public on the stage To recollect, yet Shylock's knife, Lochiel, And Young Pretenders haunt the memory still; And one named Norval of his Grampians vaunting, And grinding organs — nor the monkey wanting. One beau worth having I remember well; Shall I confess?--the bow of William Tell. Nor is it soon forgot how once a quarter Sore trembled every mother's son and daughter. The vain, the timid, all felt perturbation Upon the morning of Examination. For there would come that day strange visitors, Part conscript fathers, part inquisitors, Not men susceptible of mirth or pity, Not friends and ministers — but the Committee. How truly awful was the warning hum, And the announcement, “Here they are, they come!” The boys look bold and saucy, and each girl Gives the last f
Cambridge sketches (ed. Estelle M. H. Merrill), The river Charles. (search)
ard curve Ran crinkling sunniness, like Helen's hair Glimpsed in Elysium, insubstantial gold. In how many of Longfellow's poems do we trace this love for the river, which flows ever on past the windows from which he used to exult in its ever-changing, never-wearying beauty! The broad meadows and the steel-blue river remind me of the meadows of Unterseen and the river Aar; and beyond them rise magnificent snow-white clouds, piled up like Alps. Thus the shades of George Washington and William Tell seem to walk together on these Elysian fields. Dearer was the river to the poet for the name, which reminded him of three friends, all true and tried, and how tender is the later good-night to one of these, a friend, who bore thy name, sleeping in sweet Auburn, around which the river still steals with such silent pace. Others have written too of our river, ours and the world's, but the cool wind blows more freshly, reminding us that this is still March. We look across to the Brigh
George Ticknor, Life, letters and journals of George Ticknor (ed. George Hillard), Chapter 5: (search)
uch influence and example as when Herder, Wieland, and Schiller were alive. I asked what had been his relations with those extraordinary men. He replied that, from holding similar views in philosophy, Goethe and Schiller were nearest to each other, and Herder and Wieland; but that after the deaths of Schiller and Herder, Goethe became intimate with Wieland. Schiller, he said, had profited much by his connection with Goethe, and borrowed much from his genius,—among other pieces, in his William Tell, which Goethe had earlier thought to have made the subject of an epic poem; but now they are all dead, and since 1813 Goethe has been alone in the world. He has much on paper which has never been published, and much in his memory which has not been put on paper, for he writes always by an amanuensis, to whom he dictates from memoranda on a card or scrap of paper, as he walks up and down his room. Of his views in physics and comparative anatomy, he has published little, but a programme
George Ticknor, Life, letters and journals of George Ticknor (ed. George Hillard), Chapter 23: (search)
ving dinners, and give them rarely. Their amusements and intercourse all come in the evening. Another day we dined with Mr. Forbes very pleasantly; the dinner between five and six o'clock, quite in French style, but nobody at table except his secretary, Mr. Barnard, and Lady Rancliffe. Two evenings we went to the theatre; once to an opera, Bellini's Romeo and Juliet, which was very well performed, especially the part of Romeo, by Mad. Heinefetter;. . . . and once to see Schiller's William Tell, which I was very glad to find could be played so well here, as I feel sure now that I shall see what I did not see at all in Germany before,—the principal dramas of Schiller and Goethe properly represented. The theatre in both its parts is certainly excellent, and the old King and the Court are almost always there. We have, of course, made a good many acquaintance this week, though I wish to be slow about it. . . . . One person I was quite glad to meet at M. de Zeschau's the other ev
Edward H. Savage, author of Police Recollections; Or Boston by Daylight and Gas-Light ., Boston events: a brief mention and the date of more than 5,000 events that transpired in Boston from 1630 to 1880, covering a period of 250 years, together with other occurrences of interest, arranged in alphabetical order, Boston events. (search)
851 Federal, on Federal street, opened, Feb. 3, 1794 Burned to the ground, Feb. 3, 1798 Rebuilt and re-opened, Oct. 29, 1798 The name changed to The Boston, Nov. 8, 1805 Edmund Kean hissed down, Dec. 17, 1818 Tickets for Kean's play sell at $22 premium, Feb. 24, 1821 Charles Mathews playing, Jan. 1, 1823 Edmund Kean riot, building damaged, Oct. 25, 1825 Charged $1,000 for a license, Jan. 9, 1826 Theatres Federal, on Federal street. Edwin Forrest playing William Tell, Feb. 7, 1827 Clara Fisher playing, Nov. 20, 1827 Name changed to Old Drury, Sep. 3, 1828 Charged for license, $500, 1828 The building called The Odeon, May 18, 1835 Sold to make place for stores, Dec. 29, 1851 Last play performed, May 7, 1852 Haymarket, near the Mall and West street, opened, Dec. 26, 1796 Called a great wooden lanthorn, 1798 Near Temple place, removed, 1829 Howard, on Howard street, opened Oct. 13, 1845 Little Tremont, on Tremont street,
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