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Louisville (Kentucky, United States) (search for this): chapter 28
father, she says, promised to free her, and so did Shinoski. If I was able, I would free her without any compensation, but losing $15,000 on the last presidential election has taken very near my all. Mr. Geo. D. Prentice, editor of the Louisville (Ky.) Journal, knows me very well by character, to whom (if you wish to make any inquiries regarding this matter) you are at liberty to refer. If you should make any publication in your paper in relation to this matter, you will please not me work or anything else. If it was not that I intend to emigrate to California, money could not buy her. I have given you a complete and accurate statement concerning this girl, and am willing that she shall be examined, here, or in Louisville, Ky., before the bargain is closed. Very respectfully. [Name in full.] Reply. Mr.——–, I have carried your letter of the 28th ult. in my hat for several days, awaiting an opportunity to answer it. I now seize the first opportune momen<
South Bend (Indiana, United States) (search for this): chapter 28
gave the Tribune its full due of appreciation and praise. Two notices which appeared at the time are worth copying, at least in part. The Newark Mercury gave it this unequaled and deserved commendation:—We never knew a man of illiberal sentiments, one unjust to his workmen, and groveling in his aspirations, who liked the Tribune; and it is rare to find one with liberal views who does not admit its claims upon the public regard. The St. Joseph Valley Register, a paper published at South Bend, Indiana, held the following language: The influence of the Tribune upon public opinion is greater even than its conductors claim for it. Its Isms, with scarce an exception, though the people may reject them at first, yet ripen into strength insensibly. A few years since the Tribune commenced the advocacy of the principle of Free Lands for the Landless. The first bill upon that subject, presented by Mr. Greeley to Congress, was hooted out of that body. But who doubts what the result w
New York State (New York, United States) (search for this): chapter 28
s penny paper—the future Tribune of the English people, which is to expound their duties and defend their rights. In the summer of 1854, Mr. Greeley was frequently spoken of in the papers in connection with the office of Governor of the State of New York. A very little of the usual manoeuvring on his part would have secured his nomination, and if he had been nominated, he would have been elected by a majority that would have surprised politicians by trade. In 1854, his life was written ct in addressing you these lines is this: I own a negro girl named Catharine, a bright mulatto, aged between twenty-eight and thirty years, who is intelligent and beautiful. The girl wishes to obtain her freedom, and reside in either Ohio or New York State; and, to gratify her desire, I am willing to take the sum of $1,000, which the friends of liberty will no doubt make up. Catharine, as she tells me, was born near Savannah, Ga., and was a daughter of a Judge Hopkins, and, at the age of seven
New Castle, Ky. (Kentucky, United States) (search for this): chapter 28
drudgery while quadrupling its efficiency, and crowning with beauty and plenty our bounteous, beneficent Earth. The portion of the broad, still country alluded to in this eloquent passage, is a farm of fifty acres in Westchester county, near Newcastle, close to the Harlem railroad, thirty-four miles from the city of New York. Thither the tired editor repairs every Saturday morning by an early train, and there he remains directing and assitting in the labors of the farm for that single day r sir,—Had you asked me whether I would advise you to desert agriculture for law, I should have answered no! very decidedly. There is already a superabundance of lawyers, coupled with a great scarcity of good farmers. Why carry your coals to Newcastle? As to a collegiate education, my own lack of it probably disqualifies me to appreciate it fully; but I think you might better be learning to fiddle. And if you are without means, I would advise you to hire ten acres of good land, work te
New York (New York, United States) (search for this): chapter 28
plenty our bounteous, beneficent Earth. The portion of the broad, still country alluded to in this eloquent passage, is a farm of fifty acres in Westchester county, near Newcastle, close to the Harlem railroad, thirty-four miles from the city of New York. Thither the tired editor repairs every Saturday morning by an early train, and there he remains directing and assitting in the labors of the farm for that single day only, returning early enough on Sunday to hear the flowing rhetoric of Mrs of Mr. Greeley's ownership. What it was when he bought it may be partly inferred from another passage of the same address: I once went to look at a farm of fifty acres that I thought of buying for a summer home, some forty miles from the city of New York. The owner had been born on it, as I believe had his father before him; but it yielded only a meager subsistence for his family, and he thought of selling and going West. I went over it with him late in June, passing through a well-filled
Baltimore, Md. (Maryland, United States) (search for this): chapter 28
eral Scott. But as a partisan, what other choice had he? To use his own language, he supported Scott and Graham, because, 1. They can be elected, and the others can't. 2. They are openly and thoroughly for Protection to home Industry, while the others, (judged by their supporters,) lean to Free Trade. 3. Scott and Graham are backed by the general support of those who hold with us, that government may and should do much positive good. At the same time he spat upon the (Baltimore compromise, profugitive law) platform, and in its place, gave one of his own. As this private platform is the most condensed and characteristic statement of Horace Greeley's political opinions that I have seen, it may properly be printed here. Our platform. I. As to the Tariff:—Duties on Imports-specific so far as practicable, affording ample protection to undeveloped or peculiarly exposed branches of our National Industry, and adequate revenue for the support of the government a
Savannah (Georgia, United States) (search for this): chapter 28
girl wishes to obtain her freedom, and reside in either Ohio or New York State; and, to gratify her desire, I am willing to take the sum of $1,000, which the friends of liberty will no doubt make up. Catharine, as she tells me, was born near Savannah, Ga., and was a daughter of a Judge Hopkins, and, at the age of seven years, accompanied her young mistress (who was a legitimate daughter of the Judge's) on a visit to New Orleans, where she (the legitimate) died. Catharine was then seized and section, wherein it is hard to tell whether you who lost your money or those who won their president were most unfortunate. I affectionately advise you both never to do so again. And now as to this daughter of the late Judge Hopkins of Savannah, Georgia, whom you propose to sell me: I cannot now remember that I have ever heard Slavery justified on any ground which did not assert or imply that it is the best condition for the negro. The blacks, we are daily told, cannot take care of th
California (California, United States) (search for this): chapter 28
in connection with it, nor the place whence this letter was written. Catharine is honest; and, for the ten years that I have owned her, I never struck her a lick, about her work or anything else. If it was not that I intend to emigrate to California, money could not buy her. I have given you a complete and accurate statement concerning this girl, and am willing that she shall be examined, here, or in Louisville, Ky., before the bargain is closed. Very respectfully. [Name in full.s were her fellow-slaves. If she is liberated and comes North, what is to become of them? How is she to be reconciled to leaving them in slavery? How can we be assured that the masters who own or to whom you will sell them before leaving for California, will prove as humane and liberal as you are? You inform me that the friends of Liberty in New York or hereabout, will no doubt make up the $1,000 you demand, in order to give this daughter of a Georgia Judge her freedom. I think and trus
Westchester (New York, United States) (search for this): chapter 28
though but for a brief and flitting day, the serene joy which shall irradiate the Farmer's vocation, when a fuller and truer Education shall have refined and chastened his animal cravings, and when Science shall have endowed him with her treasures, redeeming Labor from drudgery while quadrupling its efficiency, and crowning with beauty and plenty our bounteous, beneficent Earth. The portion of the broad, still country alluded to in this eloquent passage, is a farm of fifty acres in Westchester county, near Newcastle, close to the Harlem railroad, thirty-four miles from the city of New York. Thither the tired editor repairs every Saturday morning by an early train, and there he remains directing and assitting in the labors of the farm for that single day only, returning early enough on Sunday to hear the flowing rhetoric of Mr. Chapin's morning sermon. From church—to the office and to work. This farm has seen marvellous things done on it during the three years of Mr. Greeley's
Chappaqua (New York, United States) (search for this): chapter 28
go far to complete the farmer's independence of the wayward weather. In all the operations of his little farm, Mr. Greeley takes the liveliest interest, and he means to astonish his neighbors with some wonderful crops, by-and-bye, when he has everything in training. Indeed, he may have done so already; as, in the list of prizes awarded at our last Agricultural State Fair, held in New York, October, 1854, we read, under the head of vegetables, these two items:—Turnips, H. Greeley, Chappaqua, Westchester Co., Two Dollars, (the second prize); Twelve second-best ears of White Seed Corn, H. Greeley, Two Dollars. Looking down over the reclaimed swamp, all bright now with waving flax, he said one day, All else that I have done may be of no avail; but what I have done here is done; it will last. A private letter, written about this time, appeared in the country papers, and still emerges occasionally. A young man wrote to Mr. Greeley, requesting his advice upon a project of going to col
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