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Oliver Otis Howard, Autobiography of Oliver Otis Howard, major general , United States army : volume 2, Chapter 47: freedmen's aid societies and an act of congress creating a Bureau of refugees, freedmen and abandoned lands (search)
ly made chairman of committees which had under consideration freedmen's matters. He was an able, eloquent, and persevering friend of the emancipated. The field societies looked to him for sympathy and help in the House, as they always did to Henry Wilson and Charles Sumner in the Senate. Eliot and Wilson were never extremists. They were wisely progressive; if they could not take two steps forward, they would take one, and bide their time for further advance. Mr. Eliot, the latter part of Wilson were never extremists. They were wisely progressive; if they could not take two steps forward, they would take one, and bide their time for further advance. Mr. Eliot, the latter part of January, 1863, began his open work by a House bill to try to establish a Bureau of emancipation. As this was smothered in the committee room and produced no fruit, he introduced another bill in December, 1863, which was referred to a select committee of which he was chairman. It came back from the committee to the House with a majority and minority report. It was first debated on the floor February 10, 1864. The provisions of this interesting bill were substantially: 1. The creation of a
Oliver Otis Howard, Autobiography of Oliver Otis Howard, major general , United States army : volume 2, Chapter 54: public addresses concerning the freedmen in 1866, advocating education (search)
ust deprive us white men of the same right. Equality before the law belongs to you from this time henceforth, and, by the blessing of God, I trust forever. Henry Wilson followed Mr. Trumbull with a strong voice and effective utterance: As I have gazed to-day upon this mighty throng in the capital of my country, as I have lookeatform gave way and sank enough to frighten the people on and near it; but fortunately nobody was seriously hurt. As soon as it was again properly propped up Senator Wilson resumed: Ladies and gentlemen, I have come back again. We sometimes during the last thirty years have had falls, but we always rose again. The friendsd for a time, sometimes checked, sometimes even temporarily defeated, always rose stronger and marched forward with a bolder front. My own speech came after Mr. Wilson finished. It showed pretty clearly my feeling at that time toward the emancipated. Fellow-citizens and fellow-soldiers: It gives me more than ordinary pl
Oliver Otis Howard, Autobiography of Oliver Otis Howard, major general , United States army : volume 2, Chapter 56: famine reliefs; paying soldiers' bounties, and summary of work accomplished (search)
at there were on foot extensive frauds of the kind described, brought the matter to the attention of Congress. The Hon. Henry Wilson introduced a joint resolution in the Senate, March 12, 1867, entitled: A Resolution in reference to the collectiion. It provided that all checks for the object named should be made payable to me as commissioner, or to my order. Senator Wilson showed abundant evidence of the frauds against the soldiers and marines that had been already committed, and averred that the second comptroller and the second auditor urged the passage of the resolution. Mr. Wilson was asked if General Howard should not be required to give bonds, and replied: I have no objection to his giving bond, but this is imposing upon him a both Houses and became a law (March 29, 1867). All references to the help of the branches of the Freedmen's Bank which Mr. Wilson proposed and embodied in his bill, an institution chartered by Congress to do a banking business in the South, but with
Oliver Otis Howard, Autobiography of Oliver Otis Howard, major general , United States army : volume 2, Chapter 57: the Ku-Klux Klan (search)
her sent thither was never heard from again, probably drowned in the bayou. Lieutenant Butts, of the army, who was murdered by the same masked band about election time, had been buried near where he fell. McCleery could get no aid to move his body eight months after the event, so cowed were the citizens, white and black, by the terror that the Ku-Klux had inspired. July 11, 1870, is the date memorable at Cross Plains, Ala., for a later specimen of Ku-Klux raid. It is the one that Senator Wilson recorded in his Rise and fall of the slave power, Tony Cliff, Berry Harris, Caesar Frederick, and William Hall, colored men, and the white schoolmaster, William C. Luke, all for some insignificant charge, raised against them, were in the hands of civil authorities; they were taken from them by force and murdered by a detachment of the Ku-Klux Klan. Though nobody was indicted by the grand jury in this case, yet the stir and opprobrium of this dastardly crime, like that in the case of th
Oliver Otis Howard, Autobiography of Oliver Otis Howard, major general , United States army : volume 2, Chapter 58: beginning of Howard University (search)
fice at the capital, and was a benevolent and scholarly man, came together at the house of Mr. A. Brewster, on K Street, Washington. There had been two or three of such informal meetings, consisting mainly of residents of Washington, when Senators Wilson and Pomeroy, B. O. Cook, Member of the House, and myself were invited to this respectable self-constituted council, November 20, 1866. Nearly all of the dozen or more gentlemen who were present, and among them Rev. Dr. C. B. Boynton, the pon the preliminary board, the project of an institution which should have many separate departments acting together under one board of trustees. At this January sitting, an important committee was named to obtain a charter. It consisted of Senators Wilson and Pomeroy and Hon. B. C. Cook; and in anticipation of funds, General George W. Balloch was elected treasurer of the university. The institution had already stepped up into the dignity of another name, to wit: Howard University. I had, du
Oliver Otis Howard, Autobiography of Oliver Otis Howard, major general , United States army : volume 2, Index (search)
49, 154, 280, 303, 304, 311, 312, 338, 344, 345. Willerod, Captain, II, 560. Williams, A. S., 1, 172, 199, 294, 432, 515, 577, 616-618; II, 51, 113. Williams, Daniel and Mrs., 11, 469. Williams, George, II, 543. Williams, Miss, 11, 511. Williams, Robert, 1, 281. Williams, Seth, I, 46, 51, 69, 311, 450, 583. Williams, Thomas, II, 167. Williamsburgh, Battle of, I, 213-226. Williamson, Captain, II, 91. Williamson, James A., 11, 81, 82. Willich, August, 1, 518. Wilson, Henry, I, 175, 446; II, 198, 322, 323, 353, 354, 386, 395, 397. Wilson, James H., II, 158. Wisser, John P., II, 539, 543. Wood, Fernando, II, 436, 437, 442. Wood, H. Clay, II, 463. Wood, James, I, 615. Wood, T. J., I, 478, 479, 500, 504, 511, 513, 514, 521, 537, 551-555, 568, 569, 582, 591, 604, 606-609; II, 288, 301, 340. Woodbury, Daniel P., I, 319, 323. Woodford, Stewart L., I, 126; 11, 587. Woodman, E. W., II, 45. Woods, Charles R., II, 13, 14, 19, 21, 24, 66,