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Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 26. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), A Memorial. (search)
his deplorable state. Immediately after graduation he was chosen to teach in the college. During the earlier years of his ministry, under the force of circumstances, he conducted in his own house a seminary for young ladies which gained high repute and at which many of the finest women of the land were trained. He was for years a valued trustee of Union Theological Seminary, and had much to do with the founding and success of The Home and School at Fredericksburg and of Hoge Academy, at Blackstone. He was always in thorough sympathy with the young. He understood their possibilities and was anxious to see them make the most of themselves, and in order to do this, to afford them the best opportunities for improvement. His sincerity in the cause of education was abundantly shown by his generosity in bestowing his time, his efforts, and his money in its behalf. He was not only a benevolent but a beneficent man, and gave of his means freely and to nothing more liberally than to the C
The writings of John Greenleaf Whittier, Volume 7. (ed. John Greenleaf Whittier), The conflict with slavery (search)
e If a man be found stealing any of his brethren, and maketh merchandise of him, or selling him, that thief shall die. Of a truth, I perceive that God is no respecter of persons. And he that stealeth a man and selleth him, or if he be found in his hands, he shall surely be put to death. 2. Because it is an open violation of all human equality, of the laws of Nature and of nations. The fundamental principle of all equal and just law is contained in the following extract from Blackstone's Commentaries, Introduction, sec. 2. The rights which God and Nature have established, and which are therefore called natural rights, such as life and liberty, need not the aid of human laws to be more effectually vested in every man than they are; neither do they receive any additional strength when declared by municipal laws to be inviolable: on the contrary, no human legislation has power to abridge or destroy them, unless the owner shall himself commit some act that amounts to a f
George Bancroft, History of the United States from the Discovery of the American Continent, Vol. 2, 17th edition., Colonial history. (search)
sed to be subject to the laws of parliament, and had remonstrated against such subjection, as the loss of English liberty. The Long Parliament had conceded the justice of the remonstrance. The judges, on the restoration, decreed otherwise, and asserted the legislative supremacy of parliament over the colonies without restriction. Such was the established common law of England. Freeman's Reports, 175; Modern Reports, III. 159, 160; Vaughan's Reports, 170. 400; Modern Reports, IV. 225; Blackstone's Commentaries, i. 106—109. Immediately on the restoration of Charles II., the 1660 convention parliament 12 Charles II. c. IV. granted to the monarch a subsidy of twelve pence in the pound, that is, of five per cent., on all merchandise exported from, or imported into, the kingdom of England, or any of his majesty's dominions thereto belonging. Same expression in 2 Anne, c. IX.; 3 Anne, c. v.; and in 21 George II. c. II. The expression does not include the colonies. Doubts ari
George Bancroft, History of the United States from the Discovery of the American Continent, Vol. 4, 15th edition., The American Revolution. (search)
as held by the colonists, had never been precisely ascertained. Of all the forms of civil government of which they had ever chap. I.} 1748. heard or read, no one appeared to them so well calculated to preserve liberty, and to secure all the most valuable advantages of civil society as the English; Writings of Samuel Adams in 1748. and of this happy constitution of the mother country, which it was usual to represent, and almost to adore, as designed to approach perfection, Compare Blackstone's Commentaries, book i. c. i. § v. Note 12. they held their own to be a copy, or rather an improvement, with additional privileges not enjoyed by the common people there. Writings of Samuel Adams in 1748. The elective franchise was more equally diffused; there were no decayed boroughs, or unrepresented towns; representation, which was universal, conformed more nearly to population; in colonies which contained more than half the inhabitants, the legislative assembly was chosen annually a
George Bancroft, History of the United States from the Discovery of the American Continent, Vol. 5, 13th edition., Chapter 20: (search)
t the perfection of carrying out the genuine principles of liberty, by securing a free and unbiased vote to every member of the community, however poor; but time and a loose state of national morals had tended to produce corruption. The incurvations of practice, whether in England or the colonies, were becoming more notorious by a comparison with the rectitude of the rule. To elucidate the clearness of the spring conveyed the strongest satire on those who had polluted or disturbed it. Blackstone's Commentaries, b. i., c. II America divided English sympathies by appealing with steadfast confidence to the principles of English liberty in their ideal purity. It is the glory of England, that the rightfulness of the Stamp Act was in England itself a subject of dispute. It could have been so nowhere else. The king of France taxed the French colonies as a matter of course; the king of Spain collected a revenue by his own will in Mexico and Peru, in Cuba and Porto Rico, and wherever
Medford Historical Society Papers, Volume 14., A Rill from an ancient spring. (search)
ent well has continued to be used. Dug in a lot less crowded with buildings and fed perhaps by a living spring, it has still been allowed to furnish rills to slake human thirst. One of these wells was in an estate owned by Peter C. Brooks. ... Mr. Brooks was known by report at least to some of our citizens . . . His former [city] residence was at 89 Mt. Vernon street and was sold last week. The lot contained about a quarter of an acre, and has on it a well which has always been known as Blackstone's well. Its water is uncontaminated and has continued to be used till the present day. The brown stone house just sold, stands on the site of the house which Blackstone occupied over two centuries and a half ago .... There were sweet and pleasant springs which promised a more healthful beverage to the early settlers who came from Salem to Charlestown and were not satisfied with the supply of water there to be had and so went over to Trimountain where Blaxton had already located. Only
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