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James Parton, The life of Horace Greeley, Chapter 1: the Scotch-Irish of New Hampshire. (search)
of New Hampshire. Londonderry in Ireland the siege emigration to New England settlement of Londonderry, New Hampshire the Scotch-Irish introduce the cuhen, therefore, in 1617, a son of one of the leading clergyman returned from New England with glowing accounts of that plantation, a furor of emigration arose in theess to His Excellency, the Right Honorable Colonel Samuel Smith, Governor of New England, which assured his Excellency of our sincere and hearty inclination to transthat the potato was first cultivated, and there that linen was first made in New England. The English colonists at that day appear to have been unacquainted with thor and pathos of the Irish, and then grown wild in the woods among their own New England mountains. There never existed a people at once so jovial and so religiountributed more money to the cause, than any other town of equal resources in New England. Here are a few of the town-meeting votes of the first months of the war: V
James Parton, The life of Horace Greeley, Chapter 2: Ancestors.—parentage.—birth. (search)
The name of Greeley is an old and not uncommon one in New England. It is spelt Greeley, Greely, Greale, and Greele, but a. The tradition is, that very early in the history of New England— probably as early as 1650—three brothers, named GreeleyIsland, the third in Massachusetts. All the Greeleys in New England have descended from these three brothers, and the branchnd. He is spoken of with that sincere respect which, in New England, seems never to be denied to a very smart man, who succed, not ill to do in the world, but not what is called in New England fore-handed. He is remembered in the neighborhood where a ship containing a company of Irish emigrants bound to New England was captured by pirates, and while the ship was in theirl household portion from hers. Zaccheus, as the sons of New England farmers usually do, or did in those days, went out to w however, did not often regale the maternal ear; for, in New England, where the name of the courtly satirist is frequently gi
James Parton, The life of Horace Greeley, Chapter 3: early childhood. (search)
nt whistle of a locomotive, which in those remote regions seems to make the silence audible. The utter silence and the deserted aspect of the older villages in New England are remarkable. In the morning and evening there is some appearance of life in Amherst; but in the hours of the day when the men are at work, the women busy wilished by the same person, and adheres to the same party. The township of Amherst contains about eight square miles of some-what better land than the land of New England generally is. Wheat cannot be grown on it to advantage, but it yields fair returns of rye, oats, potatoes, Indian corn, and young men: the last-named of which coint which he had once clearly understood, but would stand to his opinion, and defend it against anybody and everybody—teacher, pastor, or public opinion. In New England, the sons of farmers begin to make themselves useful almost as soon as they can walk. They feed the chickens, they drive the cows, they bring in wood and water
James Parton, The life of Horace Greeley, Chapter 5: at Westhaven, Vermont. (search)
arrived at a decided opinion, was Religion. And this was the more remarkable from the fact, that his education at home was not of a nature to direct his attention strongly to the subject. Both of his parents assented to the Orthodox creed of New England; his father inherited a preference for the Baptist denomination; his mother a leaning to the Presbyterian. But neither were members of a church, and neither were particularly devout. The father, however, was somewhat strict in certain observ husband's strictness. It was merely that she was the mother, he the father, of the family. The religious education of Horace was, in short, of a nature to leave his mind, not unbiased in favor of orthodoxy—that had been almost impossible in New England thirty years ago—but as nearly in equilibrium on the subject, in a state as favorable to original inquiry, as the place and circumstances of his early life rendered possible. There was not in Westhaven one individual who was known to be a
James Parton, The life of Horace Greeley, Chapter 6: apprenticeship. (search)
ewise the most remarkably shabby and dilapidated schoolhouse in all the country round. There is a store or two; but business is not brisk, and when a customer arrives in town, perhaps, his first difficulty will be to find the storekeeper, who has locked up his store and gone to hoe in his garden or talk to the blacksmith. A tavern, a furnace, a saw-mill, and forty dwelling houses, nearly complete the inventory of the village. The place has a neglected and seedy aspect which is rare in New England. In that remote and sequestered spot, it seems to have been forgotten, and left behind in the march of progress; and the people, giving up the hope and the endeavor to catch up, have settled down to the tranquil enjoyment of Things as they Are. The village cemetery, near by,—more populous far than the village, for the village is an old one—is upon the side of a steep ascent, and whole ranks of gravestones bow, submissive to the law of gravitation, and no man sets them upright. A quiet,
James Parton, The life of Horace Greeley, Chapter 27: recently. (search)
e in its provisions now practicable. A strange, but not inexplicable, fondness existed in the bosom of Horace Greeley for the aspiring chieftain of the Whig party. Very masculine men, men of complete physical development, the gallant, the graceful, the daring, often enjoy the sincere homage of souls superior to their own; because such are apt to place an extravagant value upon the shining qualities which they do not possess. From Webster, the great over-Praised, the false god of cold New England, Horace Greeley seems ever to have shrunk with an instinctive aversion. As he lost his interest in party politics, his mind reverted to the soil. He yearned for the repose and the calm delights of country life. As for me, he said, at the conclusion of an address before the Indiana State Agricultural Society, delivered in October, 1853, as for me, long-tossed on the stormiest waves of doubtful conflict and arduous endeavor, I have begun to feel, since the shades of forty years fell
James Parton, The life of Horace Greeley, Chapter 31: conclusions (search)
reed; 2, from his breeding; 3, from his country; 4, from his time. Horace Greeley's poetry, his humanity, his tenderness, all that makes him lovable and pleasing, his mother gave him, as her ancestors had given them her, with her Scottish blood. His nice sense of honor, his perseverance, his anxious honesty, his tenacity, all that renders him effective and reliable, he derived from his father, to whose English blood such qualities belong. He passed his childhood in republican. puritan New England, in a secluded rural region. Thence came his habits of reflection, his readiness, his independence, his rustic toughness and roughness. He is of this generation, and therefore he shares in the humanitary spirit which yearns in the bosom of every trust Saxon man that lives. He escaped the schools, and so passed through childhood uncorrupt, his own man, not formed upon a pattern. He was not trained up—he grew up. Like a tree, he was left to seek the nourishment he needed and could appr