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Finland (Finland) (search for this): chapter 12
I have read your speech, and its many interjections and your felicitous responses, and have been happy that you are there, so ready and able. I wish that I were with you. You are the best debater on the floor of the Senate, and you must make them all confess it. We shall be proud of you. To Whittier, December 20:— Your letter charmed and soothed me. Every day I thought of it, and chided myself for letting it go unanswered. Then came your beautiful poem of Peace, The Conquest of Finland. depicting a true conquest, which made my pulse beat quick and my eyes moisten with tears. Truly do I thank you for that generous sympathy which you give to me and also to mankind. At last we may see the beginning of the end of our great struggle. The North seems to have assumed an attitude which it cannot abandon. Meanwhile our duty is clear, to scatter everywhere the seeds of truth. Never was the poet needed more than now; and the orator, too, for the audiences are now larger and mor
Orangeburg (South Carolina, United States) (search for this): chapter 12
nlier spirit. This spot was visited March 26, 1890. by the writer,—perhaps the only, or at least the first, Northern man who has ever stood there. Francis W. Pickens. who was governor of South Carolina at the time of the assault on Fort Sumter, is buried in the same cemetery. A fuller account of the visit was printed in the New York Christian Union, July 24, 1890. Keitt, Brooks's confederate and eulogist, lies buried in an unmarked grave at Old Tabernacle, near St. Matthews, Orangeburgh County, S. C. Edmundson is still living (1892) in Virginia. There was talk current at the time of Brooks's death, which found its way to the newspapers, that as soon as the flush of excitement was over he felt oppressed by his situation. New York Independent, Feb. 5, 1857; New York Herald, Jan. 31, 1857. He did not enjoy his honors as the representative of bullies, and, according to a statement of his colleague Orr to Wilson, so confessed. Rise and Fall of the Slave Power, vol. II. p.
Louisville (Kentucky, United States) (search for this): chapter 12
roved the assault, they were compelled to leave. This was the case with Rev. George Dana Boardman, then having a parish at Barnwell Court House in South Carolina, since an eminent clergyman in Philadelphia. There were a few exceptions to the prevailing approval,—the Louisville Journal, May 24 (edited by a man of Northern birth), reprinted in the New York Times, May 28; the Minden (,La.) Herald quoted in the New York Evening Post, July 9; and the Baltimore American. In border cities like Louisville and St. Louis there was more or less open condemnation of the assault. Southern feeling ran towards violence at this time. Horace (Greeley was assaulted in Washington by a Texas member, and Granger, a member from New York, by McMullin of Virginia, both assaults growing out of slavery. It made no attempt at apology or extenuation, and did not seek to confine the responsibility for the act to Brooks, but audaciously sanctioned the act. It everywhere extolled him as a hero and the vindicato
Calhoun, Ky. (Kentucky, United States) (search for this): chapter 12
iformly applied to his opponents. Wilson, resenting his insolence, described him and his coadjutors as mere lieutenants of Atchison, the chieftain of the border ruffian Democracy. Similar scenes occurred from time to time in the debate. Clay of Alabama imputed to Hale the practice of seeking the society of Southern senators and fawning upon them, May 2. The threat of social ostracism came frequently during the session from slaveholding members. The idea was in the Southern mind in Calhoun's time, and was approved by him. (John Allison's speech in the House, July 11. 1856.) Sumner first personally encountered it in Badger's reply to him, Aug. 26, 1852. Ante, p. 300. and signified in the coarsest language that he should inflict personal chastisement on him, as he (Hale) was not subject to the code of the duellist. He said Hale was ambitious of a kicking, and that his imagination sported over suits, costs. and damages as compensation: and that he skulked behind petticoats o
Concord (Massachusetts, United States) (search for this): chapter 12
, at a dinner on the day after hearing of the assault, proposed as a toast, The re-election of Charles Sumner. （Longfellow's Journal and Letters, vol. II. p. 280.) In his speech he stated his opposition to Sumner at the time of his election, and said that now if he had live hundred votes, every one should be given to send him back again. Longfellow, Beck, and Worcester, scholars; Buckingham, the veteran editor; and R. H. Dana, Jr., equally distinguished at the bar and in literature. At Concord, E. Rockwood Hoar read the resolutions, and Ralph Waldo Emerson spoke. Nothing finer ever came from that earnest and philosophic mind. He applied to Sumner the language which Bishop Burnet applied to Sir Isaac Newton, and said, Charles Sumner has the whitest soul I ever knew. This passage was repeated by Judge Hoar to Sumner a few moments before the latter's death. He said:— Well, sir, this noble head, so comely and so wise, must be the target for a pair of bullies to beat with c
Massachusetts (Massachusetts, United States) (search for this): chapter 12
n of that here in reply to any allusion to Massachusetts; but Gardner's message is the beginning ofrt had made on the Emigrant Aid Company of Massachusetts,—declaring that in assisting emigration toing the first day:— God he praised! Massachusetts, honored Commonwealth, that gives me the pe who travel far to persecute her. Such is Massachusetts; and I am proud to believe that you may ase Republican members, among them Comins of Massachusetts. Once he paired with Murray of New Yorkl fabricator, charlatan, degenerate son of Massachusetts; compared him to Thersites, deserving what brutal, ruffianly, cowardly an outrage on Massachusetts. It was recognized, in view of the approBacon, and F. H. Hedge, bore a part. In Massachusetts the public indignation rose to its highestork, nor do I know when I can venture into Massachusetts. With kind regards to your confreses, oldf Ohio, Letcher of Virginia, and DeWitt of Massachusetts. There was no contest on its adoption, the[41 more...]<
New Hampshire (New Hampshire, United States) (search for this): chapter 12
the Secretary of War. The Senate refrained from any full discussion of affairs in Kansas until February 18, when various documents with a message were received from the President in answer to a call of the Senate. Wilson then reviewed recent events in the territory in a very effective speech lasting two days, in which he detailed the incursions from Missouri and commented on the complicity of the Administration with the violence of the proslavery invaders. A few days later, Hale of New Hampshire supported him. Jones Jones, February 25. called Hale the devil's own. Congressional Globe, App. 101. See further remarks of Jones on the same day. Congressional Globe, p 497. of Tennessee, Toombs of Georgia, Butler of South Carolina, and Toucey of Connecticut defended the Administration,—the last named as well as Jones dealing, in offensive personalities, which drew spirited retorts from Wilson and Hale. Butler came thus early (February 25 and March 5) into the controversy. He re
Nebraska (Nebraska, United States) (search for this): chapter 12
gracefully sought the privilege of conducting Banks to the chair. The passage of the Kansas-Nebraska bill in 1854 opened the new territories to settlement; and the struggle in Congress between frethe first to instigate the repeal of the Missouri Compromise prohibition, making no contest for Nebraska, where an effort would have been hopeless, at once pushed into Kansas and took possession of th would not be allowed in it. The free States were equally awake to the issue. While the Kansas-Nebraska bill was pending, the plan of assisted emigration to the territory had taken form in Massachuseansas has begun, and will drag along for weeks and months,—perhaps throughout the session. The Nebraska bill was pressed with whip and spur, in order to carry forward the plot; but I do not see any sagainst admitting Kansas under the Topeka Constitution. There were few absentees, and the anti-Nebraska members kept together better than in any vote during the session. Those naturally infirm of pu
Europe (search for this): chapter 12
e steamer just before it parted from the pilot. Works, vol. IV. pp. 398-401. That very morning (just seven years from Webster's speech) the newspapers announced the decision in the case of Dred Scott given by the Supreme Court of the United States the day before,—a decision which denied to the negro national citizenship, and to Congress its immemorial power to prohibit slavery in the national territory. Twenty years before, Sumner sailed from New York on a sailing vessel on his first European journey,—then a youth of twenty-six, now a man of forty-six. Then he went to observe countries and institutions, and to see mankind; now he was to make a weary search for health, constantly receding as he seemed about to grasp it. Behind him, however, was a faithful people, who, through years of waiting, never for a moment thought of placing another in his vacant seat. Von Holst has written— Massachusetts, in which the spirit of ‘76 manifested itself more powerfully every day, was
Providence, R. I. (Rhode Island, United States) (search for this): chapter 12
l war,—with an accumulated wickedness beyond that of any war in human annals, justly provoking the avenging judgment of Providence and the avenging pen of history, and constituting a strife such as was pictured by the Roman historian,—more than foreiMassachusetts now vowed irrevocably to this work. What belongs to the faithful servant she will do in all things, and Providence shall determine the result. In the early part of the speech, before entering on the main argument, he referred to te it brutal, murderous, and cowardly. Among similar demonstrations were meetings in Brooklyn, Philadelphia, New Haven, Providence, Rochester, Buffalo, Canandaigua, and Chicago. In some of these, eminent divines, like Francis Wayland, Leonard Bacon,or his fate. What a name to leave behind him! The religious community will regard his sudden death as a visitation of Providence. Again, January 29:— My thoughts amid all the scenes of to-day (the day of Brooks's funeral) were of you and <
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