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G. T. Curtis (search for this): chapter 10
hink, take a full loco-foco Cabinet, and sail on a sea of glory to the end of his term, when he will disappear, and never be heard of afterwards. In six months it will be matter of historical doubt whether such a man ever existed. . . . . Addio, caro. G. T. To Hon. Hugh S. Legare, Washington. Boston, October 2, 1842. my dear Legare,—You will be curious to know how Webster's speech This speech was to explain Mr. Webster's course in remaining in the Cabinet of President Tyler. See Curtis's Life of Webster, Vol. II. p. 142. has taken with the people here; and as there is no question about it, I write just a line to say that the success is extraordinary. I did not hear it, but all who were there say the effect was prodigious. . . . .The excitement in the afternoon, about town, was obvious in walking through the streets, where knots of men were everywhere discussing it. Next day,—yesterday,—on 'Change, it was plain the effect was produced. Things had taken a new turn. Mr. W<
Maria Edgeworth (search for this): chapter 10
Chapter 10: Arrival at home. letters to Miss Edgeworth, Mr. Legare, Prince John of Saxony, Count Circourt, Mr. Prescott, Mr. Kenyon, and others. death of Mr. Legare. Mr. Ticknor's srom the unfavorable circumstances under which the experiment will be tried. . . . . To Miss Maria Edgeworth, Edgeworthtown. Boston, U. S. A., March 6, 1839. dear Miss Edgeworth,—. . . . We haveMiss Edgeworth,—. . . . We have been at home long enough to feel quite settled; and we are very happy in it. Our family circle is large, and the circle of kind friends much larger. The town, too, is a good town to live in. It is a, on some accounts. We have had our house full a large part of the winter. . . . . To Miss Maria Edgeworth, Edgeworthtown. July 10, 1840. You ask me, dear Miss Edgeworth, to give you some accoMiss Edgeworth, to give you some account of the state of metaphysics in this country, desiring, I think, chiefly to be informed of their practical effect on life and character among us. It is very kind in you thus to give me an opportuni
Demosthenes (search for this): chapter 10
some of our friends who will be coming to taste the cool air on our Point, which is exactly opposite the Elizabeth Islands . . . . We go in three days, and stay till the end of September. Meantime, I shall receive and read your libellus on Demosthenes with great interest, and, I dare say, with the same delight with which I read your account of Demus himself. Articles on Demosthenes and Athenian Democracy, written by Mr. Legare for the New York Review. It will, no doubt, savor of that ingDemosthenes and Athenian Democracy, written by Mr. Legare for the New York Review. It will, no doubt, savor of that ingrained love of political life which will never come out of you except with all the rest that is in you. As the Spanish girl tells her sister about love, in one of the old Ballads,— No saldra del alma Sin salir con ella. So the next thing I shall hear of you, after all your Greek and Spanish, will be a seat in the House of Representatives, or a foreign mission. But first you must come here, and swear, like the knight, that it is all naught, and I will believe nothing of what you say, n
Dryden (search for this): chapter 10
r. All good wishes we send you; and shall expect to have yours in return very soon, to stow away with the rest in our great treasury, upon which you, too, may draw when you like, and find it, perchance, sounder and safer than anything you are likely to make in Washington this year. Addio, caro. G. T. To Hon. Hugh S. Legare, Washington. March 4, 1842. my dear Legare,— They tell us 't is our birthday, and we'll keep it With double pomp of sadness, 'T is what the day deserves, etc. Dryden, All for love, Act I. Sc. 1. The four poor guns at sunrise this morning, instead of the hundred that ushered in the day last year at this time, The inauguration of General Harrison, as President of the United States, occurred March 4, 1841. were an apt commentary on Mark Anthony's drivelling, and much in the same key. Whiggery is over. Tylerism there never was any, Vice-President Tyler had succeeded to the office of President, on the death of General Harrison. at least not in this
Gallio (search for this): chapter 10
ads like romance, and there is a sort of epic completeness about it, which adds greatly to its power and effect. But these are things we will talk about hereafter. . . . . We are all well,. . . . and we have gone on with great quietness and peace since I wrote you last. Mr. Mason and his two daughters spent three days here, last week; but they were up stairs all the forenoons, so that I have been lord of all below. In the afternoon Jeremiah came out with his politics, dark enough. But Gallio careth for none of these things. . . . . We deserve what we get, and shall deserve it if we get worse. . . . . Tyler will, I think, take a full loco-foco Cabinet, and sail on a sea of glory to the end of his term, when he will disappear, and never be heard of afterwards. In six months it will be matter of historical doubt whether such a man ever existed. . . . . Addio, caro. G. T. To Hon. Hugh S. Legare, Washington. Boston, October 2, 1842. my dear Legare,—You will be curious to kno
Andrews Norton (search for this): chapter 10
he education, and for the interest of the rich, who protect their property by this moral police, it is likely to be long sustained, as it is now sustained, by universal consent. But, though I do not foresee the effects, it requires no spirit of prophecy to show that they must be great; and can they be anything but good? The present effect, which I feel every day, is, that Boston is a happy place to live in, because all the people are educated, and because some of them, like Dr. Channing, Mr. Norton, and Mr. Prescott, who have grown out of this state of things, and Mr. Webster, and others, who could have been produced in no other than this state of things, are men who would be valued in any state of society in the world, and contribute materially to render its daily intercourse agreeable. . . . . . . . . Among the books republished here, and of which more copies have been sold in America than were sold of the original edition in England, is Lockhart's Life of Sir Walter, about whi
Robert Southey (search for this): chapter 10
. I am the more anxious to write to you now, because I wish to offer you a book published last year by one of my most intimate friends; the History of Ferdinand and Isabella, by Mr. William H. Prescott, of this city, a work which has obtained great success in England as well as in this country, and which is beginning to be known in France and Germany. Our friend Count Circourt published an elaborate review of it lately in the Bibliotheque Universelle, giving it great praise; and Hallam, Southey, and others of the best judges in England have placed it equally high. I wish to offer it to you, therefore, as a specimen of the progress of letters in this country at the present time, and I think it will give you pleasure to look over it. To Baron Lindenau I send, by the same conveyance, a Commentary on the Mecanique Celeste of La Place, By Dr. Bowditch. which marks the limit of our advancement in the exact sciences. But everything with us makes progress. I am struck with it on a
Charles Sumner (search for this): chapter 10
t, done up whatever disagreeable and dirty work Van Buren would have been unwilling to do, and then he will come in, with renewed strength, upon the sober third thought of the people, and sail upon a sea of glory to the end of his course. Huzza for Demus! The Democrats came in with Mr. Polk. Webster's letter about the Creole, concerning which, See Curtis's Life of Webster, Vol. II. pp. 119-122. of course, you may like to hear a word, excites some talk here, but not a great deal. Sumner is the only person I have met with who is vehement against it. But it is, of course, against the moral sense of our community, and though the legal sense will sustain it, that is not enough. Alla van leyes, Adonde quieren reyes, says the old Spanish proverb; and as the people is King here in New England more than on any other spot of earth since the days of the saurians and ichthyosauria,—who unquestionably made a pure democracy,—the people in the long run will settle the law of this matter
George Harrison (search for this): chapter 10
With double pomp of sadness, 'T is what the day deserves, etc. Dryden, All for love, Act I. Sc. 1. The four poor guns at sunrise this morning, instead of the hundred that ushered in the day last year at this time, The inauguration of General Harrison, as President of the United States, occurred March 4, 1841. were an apt commentary on Mark Anthony's drivelling, and much in the same key. Whiggery is over. Tylerism there never was any, Vice-President Tyler had succeeded to the office of President, on the death of General Harrison. at least not in this part of Christendom. And if there had been symptoms of either, the legislature that adjourned last night, to the great delight of all sensible people, has done what it could to prevent the disease from breaking out. Besides the foolish and useless extra session, which the Whigs ordered by a strictly party vote, three quarters of them, with the governor at their head, went against a State tax; while the other quarter, with about
H. S. Legare (search for this): chapter 10
and the striking scenes, with which the warm and satisfying friendship was ended, that had grown closer between him and Mr. Legare as years went on. Such companionship was, indeed, hard to relinquish, and it was sad to part from the hopes for their cbled thoughts, even I may say I am full of sorrow. An old and much-loved friend has just died in my house, in my arms,—Mr. Legare of South Carolina, our Attorney-General; and, at the moment of his death, filling, ad interim, the place of Secretary o, on the 17th of June, made a grand speech to all the authorities of the country, and 40,000 or 50,000 besides. But poor Legare could not be there. He was taken ill the same morning, with what seemed a simple obstruction of the bowels. Medical aidnce more; so that the quietness of everything gave it a power that makes me shudder when I think of it. The death of Mr. Legare, with its attendant duties and sorrows, caused an entire change in the plans of Mr. Ticknor and his family; and this su
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