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Lydia Maria Child, Letters of Lydia Maria Child (ed. John Greenleaf Whittier, Wendell Phillips, Harriet Winslow Sewall), To Francis G. Shaw. (search)
rvile to the slave interest as the present one. They have passed the Nebraska Bill in open defiance of the people. . . . These measures have been followed up by the most outrageous insults and aggressions upon the North. Only three days ago another poor slave was hunted in Boston, and though a pretty general indignation was excited, he was given up by the Boston magistrates and triumphantly carried back to bondage, guarded by a strong escort of United States troops. The rendition of Anthony Burns. The court-house was nearly filled with troops and hired ruffians, armed with cutlasses and bowie-knives. No citizen was allowed to enter without a pass, as is the custom with slaves; and these passes were obtained with great difficulty, none being given to any one suspected of being friendly to the slave. The Rev. Samuel May had his pass taken from him, and he was thrust out rudely by the soldiers. Men were even arrested and imprisoned for merely making observations to each other whi
Lydia Maria Child, Letters of Lydia Maria Child (ed. John Greenleaf Whittier, Wendell Phillips, Harriet Winslow Sewall), To Francis G. Shaw. (search)
from the restless yearnings of unsatisfied affections, and the pursuit of an ideal which she could not find, rather than from unbridled sensuality. A woman of impure soul might write elaborate sentences in praise of virtue, but I deem it impossible for such f woman to write books that breathe such pure aspirations as many of hers do. And even her very worst ones, are they not true pictures of life as she has seen it in that false, corrupted France? And is it not the sincerity of her nature, rather than any delight in uncleanness, which makes it impossible for her to gloss over the corruptions which she sees all around her? Some people are so constituted that they must tell the truth, and shame the Devil. Then again, admitting that George Sand has been as licentious as some say, is it quite just to condemn her and her writings as irredeemably bad, while Burns's poems are in every family, and the anniversaries of his birthday are kept as if they were festivals in honor of a saint?
Lydia Maria Child, Letters of Lydia Maria Child (ed. John Greenleaf Whittier, Wendell Phillips, Harriet Winslow Sewall), To John G. Whittier. (search)
To John G. Whittier. Wayland, January 20, 1876. You remember Charles Sprague's description of scenes he witnessed from a window near State Street? First, Garrison dragged through the streets by a mob; second, Burns carried back to slavery by United States troops, through the same street; third, a black regiment marching down the same street to the tune of John Brown, to join the United States army for the emancipation of their race. What a thrilling historical poem might be made of that! I have always thought that no incident in the antislavery conflict, including the war, was at once so sublime and romantic as Robert G. Shaw riding through Washington Street at the head of that black regiment. He, so young, so fair, so graceful in his motions, so delicately nurtured, so high-bred in his manners, waving his sword to friends at the windows, like a brave young knight going forth to deeds of high emprise ; followed by that dark-faced train, so long trampled in the dust, and now aw
Lydia Maria Child, Letters of Lydia Maria Child (ed. John Greenleaf Whittier, Wendell Phillips, Harriet Winslow Sewall), Index. (search)
Governor, v. Brown, John, letter of Mrs. Child to, 118; his reply, 119; martyrdom of, 137. Browning's (Mrs.) Aurora Leigh, 87. Bryant, William C., writes to Mrs. Child, 186. Buckle's History of civilization, 99. Buddha, 257. Burns, Anthony, returned to slavery from Boston, 72. C. Carpenter, E., letters to, 19, 22, 26. Carpenter, Joseph, letters to, 41, 68. Cassimir, a nephew of Kossuth, 162. Chadwick, John W., 242. Channing, William Ellery, discusses the anti-sl; speaks at a mobbed anti-slavery meeting, 149. Emerson and the Sphinx, 247. Eminent women of the age, VI. Equality of the sexes, 243-245. F. Fable for critics, A, by J. R. Lowell, XIV. Faneuil Hall, meeting at, in behalf of Anthony Burns, 73. Fingal's Cave, Mendelssohn's overture of, 223. Foote, Henry S., U. S. Senator, 179. Fortress Monroe, fugitive slaves at, 150, 151. Forten, R. R., 184. Fort Pickens (Florida), fugitive slaves returned from, by U. S. officers, 1
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Cloth, $5.00. Bacon's life. Life and Times of Bacon. Abridged. By James Spedding. 2 vols. crown 8vo, $5.00. Bjornstjerne Bjornson. Norwegian Novels. 16mo, each $1.00. Synnove Solbakken. Arne. The Bridal March. Magnhild. A Happy Boy. The Fisher Maiden. Captain Mansana. British Poets. Riverside Edition. In 68 volumes, crown 8vo, cloth, gilt top, per vol. $1.75; the set, 68 volumes, cloth, $100.00. Akenside and Beattie, I vol. Ballads, 4 vols. Burns, I vol. Butler, I vol. Byron, 5 vols. Campbell and Falconer, i vol. Chatterton, I vol. Chaucer, 3 vols. Churchill, Parnell, and Tickell, 2 vols. Coleridge and Keats, 2 vols. Cowper, 2 vols. Dryden, 2 vols. Gay, I vol Goldsmith and Gray, I vol. Herbert and Vaughan, I vol. Herrick, I vol. Hood, 2 vols. Milton and Marvell, 2 vols. Montgomery, 2 vols. Moore, 3 vols. Pope and Collins, 2 vols. Prior, i vol. Scott, 5 vols. Shakespeare a