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Wendell Phillips, Theodore C. Pease, Speeches, Lectures and Letters of Wendell Phillips: Volume 1 2 0 Browse Search
Lydia Maria Child, Letters of Lydia Maria Child (ed. John Greenleaf Whittier, Wendell Phillips, Harriet Winslow Sewall) 2 0 Browse Search
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Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Wampum, (search)
from certain parts of sea-shells. The shores of Long Island Sound abounded in these shells, and the Pequods and Narragansets grew rich and potent by their abundance of wampum, which was much in demand, first for ornament, and afterwards as currency among the inte rior tribes. The settlers at Plymouth first learned the use and value of wampum from the Dutch at Manhattan, and found it profitable in trade with the Eastern Indians; for the shells of which it was made were not common north of Cape Cod. It soon became a circulating medium, first in the Indian traffic, and then among the colonists generally. Three of the black beads, or six of the white, passed for a penny. They were strung in known parcels for convenience of reckoning—a penny, threepence, a shilling, and five shillings in white; twopence, sixpence, two-and-sixpence, and ten shillings in black. A fathom of white wampum was worth ten shillings, or two dollars and a half; a fathom of black, twice as much. Wampum was als
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Wrecks. (search)
N. Y.; twenty-five lives lost......July 10, 1887 American ship Alfred D. Snow stranded off coast of Ireland; thirty lives lost......Jan. 4, 1888 Steamer Vizcaya, from New York to Havana, run into by schooner Cornelius Hargraves near Barnegat light, N. J.; both vessels sink within seven minutes; about seventy lives lost......Oct. 29, 1890 Ward line steamer City of Alexandria, from Havana to New York, burned at sea; thirty lives lost......Nov. 2, 1893 Steamer Jason wrecked off Cape Cod, Mass.; twenty lives lost......Dec. 6, 1893 United States corvette Kearsarge wrecked on Roncardo reef, about 200 miles northeast from Bluefield, Nicaragua......Feb. 2, 1894 United States battle-ship Maine blown up in Havana Harbor, Cuba......Feb. 15, 1898 United States torpedo-boat Winslow disabled by shore batteries off Cardenas, Cuba; rescued by other vessels......May 11, 1898 United States blockading fleet destroys Spanish fleet off Santiago, Cuba......July 3, 1898 Spanish b
Knight's Mechanical Encyclopedia (ed. Knight), F. (search)
n area, divided into three compartments capable of separate use. It is made in a level piece of ground excavated to the depth of 6 to 8 feet, and lined on sides and bottom with a wall puddled in the rear, and laid in hydraulic cement. The water filtered amounts to 106,632 cubic feet in twenty-four hours. Natural filters consisting of beds of gravel or sand intervening between a pumping well and a muddy river or sea water, as the case may be, are found in many places; Dayton, Ohio, and Cape Cod may be mentioned, in addition to that at Nottingham, England, just cited. The filter for sirups is charged with bone-black, revived from time to time by reburning to consume the absorbed organic matter. As a mere filter, cloth covered with paper pulp has been used successfully for sirups. See sugar-filter; centrifugal-machine. The filter for separating the mucilaginous matters from vinegar is charged with wood-shavings, straw, spent tan-bark or rapes. The latter consists of stalks
William Schouler, A history of Massachusetts in the Civil War: Volume 1, Chapter 2: (search)
e breathing once more the inspiration of historic American liberty, and standing beneath the folds of the American banner. [Applause.] From the bottom of my heart of hearts, as the official representative of Massachusetts, I pay to you, soldiers, citizens, and heroes, the homage of my most profound gratitude; and the heart of all Massachusetts beats with full sympathy to every word I utter. There is but one pulsation beating through all this beautiful domain of liberty, from the shores of Cape Cod to the hills of Berkshire; and the mountain waves and mountain peaks answer to each other. Soldiers, go forth, bearing that flag; and, as our fathers fought, so, if need be, strike you the blow. Where breathes the foe but falls before us, With freedom's soil beneath our feet, And freedom's banner waving o'er us? We stay behind, to guard the hearthstones you have left; and, whatever may be the future, we will protect the wives and children you may leave, and, as you will be faithful to
William Schouler, A history of Massachusetts in the Civil War: Volume 1, Chapter 6: (search)
ield rifles had been contracted for in England; but the English Government had placed an interdict against the export of arms and munitions of war to this country, which prevented, for a time, the completion of the contract. The Governor also referred, at considerable length, to the coast defences of Massachusetts, and the exertions which he had made to have them placed in proper condition. Next to the harbor defences of Boston in importance was the harbor of Provincetown, at the end of Cape Cod, which was accessible in all weathers without a pilot, with excellent anchorage, in which whole navies might ride in safety. It was best adapted to be the base of naval operations. It was utterly undefended, and could easily be taken from us by the enemy. The Governor, in referring to other matters, not of a military character, speaks of the national cause; and as the result of the war, which is but the revolt of slavery, he regards its ultimate extinction as inevitable. Yet I mean, as
William Schouler, A history of Massachusetts in the Civil War: Volume 2, Chapter 2: Barnstable County. (search)
Chapter 2: Barnstable County. The county of Barnstable includes the whole of Cape Cod which, extending east and north into the Atlantic Ocean, was discovered by Gosnold in 1602. It is bounded north-west by Plymouth County, and west by Buzzard's Bay. Cape Cod lies in the form of an arm, half open: the elbow is at Chatham, twCape Cod lies in the form of an arm, half open: the elbow is at Chatham, twenty miles east of the town of Barnstable, which is the county seat. The whole length of the Cape is sixty-five miles, and the average breadth about five miles. Below the town of Barnstable the soil is composed mostly of sand; and the people in considerable degree depend upon Boston, and other large places, for their meats and brutenant-Colonel Ryder, a citizen of Provincetown, of the Thirty-third Regiment Massachusetts Volunteers. Provincetown, which is situated on the extreme end of Cape Cod, was one of the most exposed places on the coast. During the war, earth-works were erected by the Government, which were garrisoned by a company of volunteers.
William Schouler, A history of Massachusetts in the Civil War: Volume 2, Chapter 11: Nantucket County. (search)
Chapter 11: Nantucket County. This county is an island which lies east from Duke's County, and about thirty miles south of Cape Cod or Barnstable County. It is fifteen miles in length from east to west, and about four miles average breadth: it contains fifty square miles. In 1659 it was bought by Thomas Macy of Thomas Mayhew for thirty pounds, in merchant pay and two beaver hats. It was first settled by whites in that year, when it contained about three thousand Indians; it was formerly well-wooded; the soil is light and sandy. The whale fishery commenced here in 1690, and has continued to the present time; it has a good harbor, on the borders of which the town of Nantucket is located. The history of Nantucket is very interesting, and its war record during the Rebellion, which is all we have now to do with, is highly honorable, and in brief is as follows:— Nantucket Incorporated as the town of Sherburn, June 27, 1687; name changed to Nantucket, June 8, 1795. Populati
Francis Jackson Garrison, William Lloyd Garrison, 1805-1879; the story of his life told by his children: volume 2, Chapter 8: the Chardon-Street Convention.—1840. (search)
Harvard College in the class—the famous abolition class, it might be termed—of 1817 (ante, 1: 213). Mr. Wallcut became a Unitarian clergyman at North Dennis, on Cape Cod. He early took an interest in the anti-slavery cause. Mrs. Chapman tells (Ms. Mar. 9, 1884) of her happening to be with his wife's friends when he came to calS. Osgood. it It [Groton] was the most singular melange I ever encountered, consisting of persons of every degree of talent and culture, from the Come-outers of Cape Cod to the Unitarian Transcendentalists (Ms. Sept. 5, 1840, E. Quincy to H. C. Wright). Dr. Osgood, of Springfield, Phelps, Colver, &c., took the affirmative of the ministry. It was affecting (!) to see what a company he had identified himself with—the wildest of the no-marriage Perfectionists (!!), Transcendentalists, and Cape Cod—all in harmonious effort against the Bible as our standard of faith, and especially in denouncing the ministry, etc. I think the anti-slavery cause will ultimat
Francis Jackson Garrison, William Lloyd Garrison, 1805-1879; the story of his life told by his children: volume 2, Index to volumes I. And II. (search)
Colver, Nathaniel, Rev. [b. Orwell, Vt., May, 1794; d. Chicago, Sept. 25, 1870], joins plot against Lib., 2.263, 266; hates non-resistance, 282; opposes enrolment of women, 297; debate with H. C. Wright, 328; Baptist delegate to World's Convention, 356, lodges with G., 383, opposes admission of women, 370, 382, favors anti-pro-slavery-church resolutions, 380; report on return, 411; at Chardon St. Convention, 421, 425-427; maligns G. abroad, 429-431, characterized by G., 430. Come-outers (Cape Cod), 2.421, 425, 426, 429. Commercial Advertiser (N. Y.), edited by W. L. Stone, 1.387; incites mobbing of G., 384, 387, reports Utica mob, 2.42. Commercial Gazette (Boston), a low paper, 2.35; comments on G.'s libel of Todd, 1.189, on Judge Thacher's libel charge, 310; wants G. indicted, 450, and thrown overboard, 482, and colonizationists proscribed, 450; on anti-abolition sentiment, 521; favors non-intercourse, 2.5; excites mob against Thompson, 6, 7, 10, 12; loses its patronage, 35.
Wendell Phillips, Theodore C. Pease, Speeches, Lectures and Letters of Wendell Phillips: Volume 1, chapter 6 (search)
en, in the directors' room of the Merchants' Bank. Let him discuss them over the bursting ledgers of Milk Street,--that is the place for dollar talks. But there is no room for dollars in Faneuil Hall. The idea of liberty is the great fundamental principle of this spot,--that a man is worth more than a bank-vault. [Loud cheers.] I know Mr. Webster has, on various occasions, intimated that this is not statesmanship in the United States; that the cotton-mills of Lowell, the schooners of Cape Cod, the coasters of Marblehead, the coal and iron mines of Pennsylvania, and the business of Wall Street are the great interests which this government is framed to protect. He intimated, all through the recent discussion, that property is the great element this government is to stand by and protect,--the test by which its success is to be appreciated. Perhaps it is so; perhaps it is so; and if the making of money, if ten per cent a year, if the placing of one dollar on the top of another, be
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