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Massachusetts (Massachusetts, United States) (search for this): chapter 4
was not a graduate of Harvard. A class of Massachusetts people believe that a course at that collemers in Maine, Vermont, New Hampshire, and Massachusetts. No better body of citizens, no purer peoquaintance with the Free-Soil coalition in Massachusetts he learned enough of the great principles rried it out, and seized the government of Massachusetts. This should have been an offence againstork in the manufacturing establishments of Massachusetts; this law was vigorously enforced until a n its justice. At that time the laws of Massachusetts contained no provision which made the town of age was one of the foremost lawyers of Massachusetts, if riot the foremost one,--made what he dhat true citizenship which the soldiers of Massachusetts, many of whom could not read and write, fotholic religion and the Catholic clergy of Massachusetts. They passed the most vindictive laws forcitizen soldiery, known by the name of the Massachusetts volunteer militia, were organized and arme[10 more...]
France (France) (search for this): chapter 4
58, the French and Indian War, the result of which was the taking of Quebec by Wolfe, and the destruction of the power of France on this continent. Zephaniah, my grandfather, was a soldier under Wolfe's command. There hangs before me, in my libraryong years of oppression, growing more exacting and brutal day by day, until the conditions of life became insufferable in France, had crazed the people. They uprose to change their government from a kingly aristocratic despotism to a constitutional t off the head of the first Charles. But the kings and lords of all the countries of Europe supported the aristocracy of France in its bloody attacks and conspiracies to overthrow the government of the people, and the people did rightly in renderingf were made necessary by the efforts of the crowned heads of Europe to restore despotism to its powers and possessions in France, and they were acts well adapted to make that restoration impossible. If it is urged that the people went too far in tha
Puritan (Ohio, United States) (search for this): chapter 4
th the statement: But what do you say of the French Revolution when the people massacred the aristocracy? My answer is: That illustrates my proposition. Long years of oppression, growing more exacting and brutal day by day, until the conditions of life became insufferable in France, had crazed the people. They uprose to change their government from a kingly aristocratic despotism to a constitutional government of the people. At first they went no further. They stopped there, as did our Puritan ancestry in England when they cut off the head of the first Charles. But the kings and lords of all the countries of Europe supported the aristocracy of France in its bloody attacks and conspiracies to overthrow the government of the people, and the people did rightly in rendering powerless, aye, in killing the oppressors and their allies, who were endeavoring to recover power to oppress them. Those acts of the people during the French Revolution which are so much complained of were made
Wilbraham (Massachusetts, United States) (search for this): chapter 4
home towns, were elected sometimes from the town of their birth, and sometimes from the town of their choice, and sometimes from the town itself requesting them to act. I think Governor Boutwell was elected by the town of Berlin, a little town on the edge of Worcester County, and not by Groton, the town where he resided. Mr. Benjamin F. Hallett, a very distinguished Hunker Democrat living in Boston, who had not the slightest hope of being elected in that city, was elected from the town of Wilbraham, and thus with many others; so that it may be fairly said that the ablest men of the State formed that convention. There were four hundred and twenty-one members of the convention. For myself, I had so far outlived newspaper libels and attacks, which by propriety of life and conduct one can always easily do, that I was elected from my home in Lowell, and served as chairman of the committee to which was assigned the revision of chapter six of the old constitution. The debates in that b
Savannah (Georgia, United States) (search for this): chapter 4
he greatest peril of my life; and only when my ship was hourly expected to go to pieces, and when I importunately appealed to her good sense that our children must not be bereft of both parents, did she leave me to seek safety on board a gunboat. But of that more hereafter. She suffered great privations and hardships on the sands of Ship Island while we were awaiting the attack on New Orleans, and was on the first vessel containing troops that went up the river after the surrender of Forts Jackson and St. Philip. She went ashore with me and lodged at the St. Charles Hotel on the night after I took possession of the city of New Orleans. When in 1863 I was assigned to the command of the Department of Virginia and North Carolina, she accompanied me again to Fort Monroe. In 1864 she went with me to the field, and was present with me during most of the campaign of 1864. Thus I had an advantage over most of my brother commanding generals in the department and in the field, in havi
Fort Fisher (North Carolina, United States) (search for this): chapter 4
nce of Fisher Ames Hildreth, the only son of Dr. Israel Hildreth, of Dracut, a town adjoining Lowell on the north side of Merrimack River. That acquaintance ripened into an affectionate friendship which terminated only with his death thirty years afterwards. Dr. Hildreth had a family of seven children, six of them being daughters. The eldest, Rowena, was married in 1836 at a very early age to Mr. Henry Read, a merchant of Lowell. The two youngest children were then merely schoolgirls. Fisher invited me to the family gathering at the Thanksgiving feast of that year, and there I first met Sarah, the second daughter. I was very much impressed with her personal endowments, literary attainments, and brilliancy of mind. Dr. Hildreth was an exceedingly scholarly and literary man. He was a great admirer of the English poets, especially of Byron, Burns, and Shakespeare, and had early taught the great poet's plays to his daughter, who, in consequence, developed a strong desire to go upo
New Orleans (Louisiana, United States) (search for this): chapter 4
hat our children must not be bereft of both parents, did she leave me to seek safety on board a gunboat. But of that more hereafter. She suffered great privations and hardships on the sands of Ship Island while we were awaiting the attack on New Orleans, and was on the first vessel containing troops that went up the river after the surrender of Forts Jackson and St. Philip. She went ashore with me and lodged at the St. Charles Hotel on the night after I took possession of the city of New Orleans. When in 1863 I was assigned to the command of the Department of Virginia and North Carolina, she accompanied me again to Fort Monroe. In 1864 she went with me to the field, and was present with me during most of the campaign of 1864. Thus I had an advantage over most of my brother commanding generals in the department and in the field, in having an adviser, faithful and true, clear-headed, conscientious and conservative, whose conclusions could always be trusted. In the mere milita
Florida (Florida, United States) (search for this): chapter 4
y, a powder-horn, such as was worn by every soldier of that day. On it is engraved with his own knife, Zephaniah Butler his horn April ye 22, 1758. And Captain Zephaniah fought with Stark at Bennington. Then followed the Revolution, from 1775 to 1783, and one of my uncles was at Bunker Hill. The next generation saw the war of 1812 with Great Britain. In this war, my father, John Butler, commanded a company of light dragoons in the regular army. Next, in 1830, were the Spanish wars in Florida and the Gulf States, wherein General Taylor and General Jackson--then captains — so distinguished themselves. Next came the unpleasantness of 1861 to 1865, which, I think, in spite of the euphemism, might well be termed a war of our generation, and with which, it may be seen hereafter, I had somewhat to do. Therefore, believing that there could be no war in which a son of mine especially would not take a part in his generation, I had him educated at West Point, so that his efforts for h
Merrimack (United States) (search for this): chapter 4
public service. Upon reflection, however, it seems best that I should pass over for the present my legal experiences before as well as after my public services. These two periods include that portion of my life for whose pursuits I have had the greatest fondness, and I shall describe them in a continuous narrative later on. In the year 1839 I made the acquaintance of Fisher Ames Hildreth, the only son of Dr. Israel Hildreth, of Dracut, a town adjoining Lowell on the north side of Merrimack River. That acquaintance ripened into an affectionate friendship which terminated only with his death thirty years afterwards. Dr. Hildreth had a family of seven children, six of them being daughters. The eldest, Rowena, was married in 1836 at a very early age to Mr. Henry Read, a merchant of Lowell. The two youngest children were then merely schoolgirls. Fisher invited me to the family gathering at the Thanksgiving feast of that year, and there I first met Sarah, the second daughter.
Middlesex County (Massachusetts, United States) (search for this): chapter 4
oderation, and full control which Bishop Fenwick had of the Catholic citizens of Boston prevented retaliation, the consequences of which might have been awful. The Catholic Church, which owned the property, permitted the blackened ruins to be left standing as they were, refusing all offers of purchase of the site; and it was first encroached upon under the right of eminent domain by taking part of it for a street. All in vain were the efforts of the officers of justice of the county of Middlesex to bring to justice the offenders who committed this monstrous arson. John R. Buzzell, a brickmaker, who led the riot, and who confessed that he had done so, was tried and acquitted. A boy of seventeen, Marvin Marcy Jr., who had been drawn into the affair purely for love of mischief, was alone convicted, and he was set at liberty at the expiration of seven months. Arson in the night-time was then punishable by death. No man doubts that there never was a more outrageous transaction, or o
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