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George Bancroft, History of the United States from the Discovery of the American Continent, Vol. 7, 4th edition., Chapter 14: (search)
act through parliament, is gratefully embalmed in Canadian history. And yet the clergy were conscious that the concession of the great privileges which they now obtained, was but an act of worldly policy, mainly due to the disturbed state of the Protestant colonies. Their joy at relief was sincere, but still, for the cause of Great Britain, Catholic Canada could not uplift the banner of the King of Heaven, or seek the perils of martyrdom. The tendency to revolution on the part of its Roman Catholic hierarchy was restrained, but England never acquired the impassioned support of its religious zeal. Such was the frame of mind of the French Canadians when the American congress sent among them its appeal. The time was come for applying the new principle of the power of the people to the old divisions in Christendom between the Catholic and the Protestant world. Protestantism, in the sphere of politics, had hitherto been the representative of that increase of popular liberty which h
George Bancroft, History of the United States from the Discovery of the American Continent, Vol. 10, The American revolution. (search)
absolute; yet the teachings of Montesquieu and the example of England raised in men of generous natures an uncontrollable desire for free institutions; while speculative fault-finders, knowing nothing of the self-restraint which is taught by responsibility in the exercise of office, indulged in ideal anticipations, which were colored by an exasperating remembrance of griefs and wrongs. France was the eldest daughter of the Roman church, with a king who was a sincere though not a bigoted Roman Catholic: and the philosophers carried their impassioned war against the church to the utmost verge of skepticism and unbelief; while a suspicion that forms of religion were used as a mere instrument of government began to find its way into the minds of the discontented laboring classes in the cities. But, apart from all inferior influences, the power of generalization, in which the French nation excels all others, imparts from time to time an idealistic character to its policy. The Parisians f
Medford Historical Society Papers, Volume 10., Some letters of Miss Lucy Osgood. (search)
lying at the bottom of everything that was objectionable in her, conjoined with many noble traits of character. The eclat of her death, I make no doubt, would have gone far to reconcile her to it, had she known of it beforehand. She was returning to her friends in utter poverty, and what she would have been able to do with her husband in this prosaic country it is not easy to conjecture,—much younger than herself, uneducated, but very handsome and extremely amiable and pious; a devout Roman Catholic; at the very last when he should have dashed into the surge to save their lives, praying fervently for the salvation of his wife's heretical soul, and paralyzed for all physical exertion because a witch bade him, when a boy, in telling his fortune, to beware of the sea, and accordingly he had never before been on board of a vessel. Had Miss Fuller been less gifted, and less confident in her own judgment, she would hardly have run the risk of such a disproportionate match; and had she cu
Medford Historical Society Papers, Volume 14., Trinity Methodist Episcopal Church. (search)
s before the application of Galen James and sixteen others of Trinitarian views, for dismission from the First Church, which had become Unitarian, there assembled for worship the first congregation of a Medford Methodist Episcopal Church. During the half century that followed were also organized (and in the order named) the Second Congregational (later called First Trinitarian Congregational), Universalist, Baptist, Mystic (Congregational), Grace (Protestant Episcopal) and St. Mary's (Roman Catholic) Churches. A new element and order had obtained; the old conformity was gone. Each had rights the others must respect, and the better service each rendered to the common weal, the more secure its position. Because the historian of the First Methodist Episcopal Church did not allude to its honorable lineage, the present writer has felt moved thus to do. Just here, before beginning the more local part of his work, it may be well to consider the geographical and other conditions.
Medford Historical Society Papers, Volume 25., At Medford's old civic Center. (search)
Mrs. Wallace, who were cousins of Mrs. William R. Gray of Boston. (Register, Vol. XXI, p. 28.) The old meeting-house next had for its neighbor one whose religious tenets were quite unlike those of the people who worshipped within its walls. A French Canadian, a music teacher whose name was Noreau, had a child born to whom the name was given of Jean Baptiste Napoleon Noreau. What a thrill must have run through the frame of the Puritan building when it became aware that the child had been christened by a Roman Catholic priest! In 1825 Abner Bartlett and his family were the next tenants, and lived here many years. The history of this family is too well known for us to make further mention of it, and we only wish to add that Sarah Bartlett, widow of Abner, during the period of our Civil War, knit for the soldier boys three hundred and seven pairs of woolen socks, a feat not surpassed by the busy knitters of recent days. Mrs. Bartlett was then several years beyond four score.
Medford Historical Society Papers, Volume 30., Editor's comment—the old and New. (search)
n club house. And now, after his passing on, we are thus preserving his interesting work. We commend its careful reading, and also the Bradbury Ancestry in Vol. IX, Nos. 3 and 4, by Miss Eliza M. Gill, which especially mentions the old house (now standing), the Blanchard-Bradbury-Wellington house, the oldest house in Medford of which we have authentic history. Our views are the result of the work of photographer Thode, procured to illustrate Miss Gill's paper of 1906. We regret that our present makeup forbids the presentation of a more detailed account of Bethany church (Methodist Episcopal), organized forty years ago, and of the Protestant Episcopal Sunday school and mission work in other years. We hope later to do so, respecting the old. As to the new, the closing article and view of St. James' church (Roman Catholic) just completed and opened for Christmas worship, is certainly interesting, timely and up-to-date, and is prepared and procured especially for the Register.
The Daily Dispatch: November 5, 1860., [Electronic resource], article 41 (search)
o Messrs. T. I. Grymes and Charles Berry, for $9,000. Sixty-two workmen were discharged from the Gosport Navy Yard on Wednesday last mostly from the ship-building department and the bolt-driving and laboring gangs. Oliver I. Taylor, editor of the Burlington (Iowa) Journal, died on the 26th ult. He was from Wheeling, Va. A census is shortly to be taken of the inhabitants of Cuba, by order of the Queen of Spain. The last census was taken in 1836. Rev. David Clattery, a Roman Catholic priest, died at Sacramento, Cal., on the 8th ultimo. The small-pox is making sad ravages at Puerto Principe, Cuba. Entire families have been swept away by this loathsome disease. Mrs. Margaret Burns died in Baltimore, on the 2d inst., from an over-dose of opium, taken to relieve pain. The New York Tribune states that Gerrit Smith has withdrawn his libel suit against the New York Vigilance Committee for $3,000. The toilette, says Balzac, is the expression of society.
The Daily Dispatch: March 4, 1861., [Electronic resource], Narrow Escape. (search)
Narrow Escape. --Yesterday afternoon, as the Rev. Mr. Andrews (Roman Catholic) was returning from religious services at St. Patrick's Church, Church Hill, through Broad street, his horse ran away near Bellevue Hospital, and dashed down the hill at a fearful rate. A negro man who boldly attempted to stop the horse, was knocked down and run over by the carriage, but singular to say, not injured. The horse turned down 20th street, towards Franklin, when Mr. Andrews managed to give him a dexterous jerk, throwing him down and stopping him. The vehicle was somewhat broken, and the spectators apprehended a more serious result, but Mr. A. escaped unharmed.
The Daily Dispatch: March 21, 1861., [Electronic resource], Commencement of camp Meetings in America. (search)
Sudden death of a priest. --Rev. Edward McGean, an eminent Roman Catholic priest, died at his house, in Sing Sing, N. Y., Monday, suddenly, while sitting in his chair.
The Daily Dispatch: March 28, 1861., [Electronic resource], article 1 (search)
when he returned. He had never seen her since he visited her at her sister's house, in 1852. He immediately began to pay her the greatest attention, professing the most unbounded attachment, and expressing an earnest desire to marry her. She assented, and agreed to leave the occupation in which she was engaged, in order to become his wife. But she would by no means consent to his proposition of a secret marriage by a Greek priest, and declared that she would be married by nobody but a Roman Catholic priest. About this time, an armistice having taken place in the Crimea, Miss Longworth was invited by the wife of Gen.Von Straubensee, a Major General in the British army, to her home. This invitation was of itself a proof that the character of Miss L. was untainted, for Mrs. Von Straubensee held the highest social position. In this family she lived five or six weeks, during which time, with the sanction of the General and his wife, who supposed that his attentions to their ward w
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