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Browsing named entities in a specific section of Lydia Maria Child, Letters of Lydia Maria Child (ed. John Greenleaf Whittier, Wendell Phillips, Harriet Winslow Sewall). Search the whole document.
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Noah Webster (search for this): chapter 128
Charles Devens (search for this): chapter 128
To Mrs. S. B. Shaw. 1865.
You were curious to know who it was that offered to pay $1,800 for the redemption of Thomas Sims.
It was Major-General Devens, who was United States marshal at the time of the rendition of Sims.
He made the offer unasked; and when Sims found his way North again he sent him, through me, $100 to assist him till he could get into business.
It seems to me a singularly noble proceeding.
I suppose that his idea of the necessity of sustaining law, and his great admiration of Daniel Webster, led him to do what pained his heart at the time and troubled his conscience afterward.
But you would rarely find a man who would atone so nobly for an error.
Now that the war is over, and slavery is abolished, I think his reason for enjoining secresy no longer exists.
When I urged upon him that the moral influence of the action might do good, he did not renew his prohibition.
In a recent letter to me he expresses great satisfaction that he has been enabled to take an
S. B. Shaw (search for this): chapter 128
To Mrs. S. B. Shaw. 1865.
You were curious to know who it was that offered to pay $1,800 for the redemption of Thomas Sims.
It was Major-General Devens, who was United States marshal at the time of the rendition of Sims.
He made the offer unasked; and when Sims found his way North again he sent him, through me, $100 to assist him till he could get into business.
It seems to me a singularly noble proceeding.
I suppose that his idea of the necessity of sustaining law, and his great admiration of Daniel Webster, led him to do what pained his heart at the time and troubled his conscience afterward.
But you would rarely find a man who would atone so nobly for an error.
Now that the war is over, and slavery is abolished, I think his reason for enjoining secresy no longer exists.
When I urged upon him that the moral influence of the action might do good, he did not renew his prohibition.
In a recent letter to me he expresses great satisfaction that he has been enabled to take a
Thomas Sims (search for this): chapter 128
To Mrs. S. B. Shaw. 1865.
You were curious to know who it was that offered to pay $1,800 for the redemption of Thomas Sims.
It was Major-General Devens, who was United States marshal at the time of the rendition of Sims.
He made the offer unasked; and when Sims found his way North again he sent him, through me, $100 to assisSims.
He made the offer unasked; and when Sims found his way North again he sent him, through me, $100 to assist him till he could get into business.
It seems to me a singularly noble proceeding.
I suppose that his idea of the necessity of sustaining law, and his great admiration of Daniel Webster, led him to do what pained his heart at the time and troubled his conscience afterward.
But you would rarely find a man who would atone so noSims found his way North again he sent him, through me, $100 to assist him till he could get into business.
It seems to me a singularly noble proceeding.
I suppose that his idea of the necessity of sustaining law, and his great admiration of Daniel Webster, led him to do what pained his heart at the time and troubled his conscience afterward.
But you would rarely find a man who would atone so nobly for an error.
Now that the war is over, and slavery is abolished, I think his reason for enjoining secresy no longer exists.
When I urged upon him that the moral influence of the action might do good, he did not renew his prohibition.
In a recent letter to me he expresses great satisfaction that he has been enabled to take
Robert (search for this): chapter 128
1865 AD (search for this): chapter 128
To Mrs. S. B. Shaw. 1865.
You were curious to know who it was that offered to pay $1,800 for the redemption of Thomas Sims.
It was Major-General Devens, who was United States marshal at the time of the rendition of Sims.
He made the offer unasked; and when Sims found his way North again he sent him, through me, $100 to assist him till he could get into business.
It seems to me a singularly noble proceeding.
I suppose that his idea of the necessity of sustaining law, and his great admiration of Daniel Webster, led him to do what pained his heart at the time and troubled his conscience afterward.
But you would rarely find a man who would atone so nobly for an error.
Now that the war is over, and slavery is abolished, I think his reason for enjoining secresy no longer exists.
When I urged upon him that the moral influence of the action might do good, he did not renew his prohibition.
In a recent letter to me he expresses great satisfaction that he has been enabled to take an