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Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events: Poetry and Incidents., Volume 4. (ed. Frank Moore), chapter 54 (search)
A fighting Clergyman.--Rev. B. C. Ward, pastor of a Congregational church in the village of Geneseo, Ill., conceives it to be his duty to forsake the pulpit for the field. He has received authority to raise a company of infantry, but proposes to enlist clergymen only. An appeal to his clerical brethren, published over his own signature, calls upon the fighting stock of the Church militant to prove to the world their willingness to seal with their blood what they have talked in their pulpits, and closes with this extraordinary passage. Much as we have said and done to prove our loyalty, we have not yet resisted unto blood striving against sin. Shall we now, at the call of Christ, come out from behind our velvet-cushioned barracks, whence we have so often hurled bold, indignant words at the giant iniquity of the age, and meet it face to face with the hot shot of rifled artillery, with the gleaming bayonet, or with clashing sabres in hand to hand encounter?
Charles A. Nelson , A. M., Waltham, past, present and its industries, with an historical sketch of Watertown from its settlement in 1630 to the incorporation of Waltham, January 15, 1739., January 15, 1738. (search)
he factory and still in use, stands thus:— 1816, Feb. 2. 31 pieces:—912.2 yards, 4-4, or 36 inch goods. It seems hardly credible now that only sixty-four years ago there was but one shop in Boston, and that on Cornhill, where domestic goods were sold. This shop was kept by one Mrs. Isaac Bowers. Samples of the new goods were offered for sale by her; the people praised them and made no objection to the price asked, but would not buy. Mr. Appleton, however, then a partner in the firm of B. C. Ward & Co., found an auctioneer, a Mr. Forsaith, who disposed of them at once at over thirty cents per yard, and continued to sell them at auction at about that price. Mr. Appleton received a commission of one per cent for attending to the sales, and this became the established rate for a long period. The factory at Waltham was the first where all the processes for the manufacture of cotton into cloth were arranged within the walls of the same building. But few changes have been made from th