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Maine (Maine, United States) (search for this): chapter 3
philosophy. They were heroic in endurance. Panics like the one we have described might bow and sway them like reeds in the wind; but they stood up like the oaks of their own forests beneath the thunder and the hail of actual calamity. It was certainly lucky for the good people of Essex County that no wicked wag of a Tory undertook to immortalize in rhyme their ridiculous hegira, as Judge Hopkinson did the famous Battle of the Kegs in Philadelphia. Like the more recent Madawaska war in Maine, the great Chepatchet demonstration in Rhode Island, and the Sauk fuss of Wisconsin, it remains to this day unsyllabled, unsung; and the fast-fading memory of age alone preserves the unwritten history of the great Ipswich fright. Lay up the fagots neat and trim; Pile 'em up higher; Set 'em afire! The Pope roasts us, and we'll roast him! Old song. The recent attempt of the Romish Church to reestablish its hierarchy in Great Britain, with the new cardinal, Dr. Wiseman, at its head, se
Waterford (Irish Republic) (search for this): chapter 3
dence before Hon. E. G. Stanley. In the southern and middle counties, almost entirely inhabited by the Catholic peasantry, everything they possess is subject to the tithe: the cow is seized in the hovel, the potato in the barrel, the coat even on the poor man's back. Speech of T. Reynolds, Esq., at an anti-tithe meeting. The revenues of five of the dignitaries of the Irish Church Establishment are as follows: the Primacy £ 140,000; Derry £ 120,000; Kilmore £ 100,000; Clogher £ 100,000; Waterford £ 70,000. Compare these enormous sums with that paid by Scotland for the maintenance of the Church, namely: £ 270,000. Yet that Church has 2,000,000 souls under its care, while that of Ireland has not above 500,000. Nor are these princely livings expended in Ireland by their possessors. The bishoprics of Cloyne and Meath have been long held by absentees,—by men who know no more of their flocks than the non-resident owner of a West India plantation did of the miserable negroes, the fruit
Plum Island (New Jersey, United States) (search for this): chapter 3
ing everywhere the same results. At midnight a horseman, clad only in shirt and breeches, dashed by our grandfather's door, in Haverhill, twenty miles up the river. Turn out! Get a musket! Turn out! he shouted; the regulars are landing on Plum Island! I'm glad of it, responded the old gentleman from his chamber window; I wish they were all there, and obliged to stay there. When it is understood that Plum Island is little more than a naked sand-ridge, the benevolence of this wish can be rPlum Island is little more than a naked sand-ridge, the benevolence of this wish can be readily appreciated. All the boats on the river were constantly employed for several hours in conveying across the terrified fugitives. Through the dead waste and middle of the night they fled over the border into New Hampshire. Some feared to take the frequented roads, and wandered over wooded hills and through swamps where the snows of the late winter had scarcely melted. They heard the tramp and outcry of those behind them, and fancied that the sounds were made by pursuing enemies. Fa
Maryland (Maryland, United States) (search for this): chapter 3
ill say it has succeeded? Who feels contempt for O'Connell? Surely not the slaveholder? From Henry Clay, surrounded by his slave-gang at Ashland, to the most miserable and squalid slave-driver and small breeder of human cattle in Virginia and Maryland who can spell the name of O'Connell in his newspaper, these republican brokers in blood fear and hate the eloquent Irishman. But their contempt, forsooth! Talk of the sheep-stealer's contempt for the officer of justice who nails his ears to thanother. In our own country, it would be well for us to remember that at the very time when in New England the Catholic, the Quaker, and the Baptist were banished on pain of death, and where some even suffered that dreadful penalty, in Catholic Maryland, under the Catholic Lord Baltimore, perfect liberty of conscience was established, and Papist and Protestant went quietly through the same streets to their respective altars. At the commencement of O'Connell's labors for emancipation he found
Court (Switzerland) (search for this): chapter 3
aughters of the Puritans. An air of comfort and quiet broods over the whole town. Yellow moss clings to the seaward sides of the roofs; one's eyes are not endangered by the intense glare of painted shingles and clapboards. The smoke of hospitable kitchens curls up through the overshadowing elms from huge-throated chimneys, whose hearth-stones have been worn by the feet of many generations. The tavern was once renowned throughout New England, and it is still a creditable hostelry. During court time it is crowded with jocose lawyers, anxious clients, sleepy jurors, and miscellaneous hangers on; disinterested gentlemen, who have no particular business of their own in court, but who regularly attend its sessions, weighing evidence, deciding upon the merits of a lawyer's plea or a judge's charge, getting up extempore trials upon the piazza or in the bar-room of cases still involved in the glorious uncertainty of the law in the court-house, proffering gratuitous legal advice to irasci
Lake Winnipesaukee (New Hampshire, United States) (search for this): chapter 3
w of the apartments. Strange as it may seem, they never offered any injury or insult to the inmates. In 1695 the township was many times molested by Indians, and several persons were killed and wounded. Early in the fall a small party made their appearance in the northerly part of the town, where, finding two boys at work in an open field, they managed to surprise and capture them, and, without committing further violence, retreated through the woods to their homes on the shore of Lake Winnipesaukee. Isaac Bradley, aged fifteen, was a small but active and vigorous boy; his companion in captivity, Joseph Whittaker, was only eleven, yet quite as large in size, and heavier in his movements. After a hard and painful journey they arrived at the lake, and were placed in an Indian family, consisting of a man and squaw and two or three children. Here they soon acquired a sufficient knowledge of the Indian tongue to enable them to learn from the conversation carried on in their presenc
Orange, N. J. (New Jersey, United States) (search for this): chapter 3
to the slanderous and false imputations of such a man as Burnet, who has never been regarded as an authentic chronicler. Gilbert Burnet, in liberality as a politician and tolerance as a Churchman, was far in advance of his order and time. It is true that he shut out the Catholics from the pale of his charity and barely tolerated the Dissenters. The idea of entire religious liberty and equality shocked even his moderate degree of sensitiveness. He met Penn at the court of the Prince of Orange, and, after a long and fruitless effort to convince the Dissenter that the penal laws against the Catholics should be enforced, and allegiance to the Established Church continue the condition of qualification for offices of trust and honor, and that he and his friends should rest contented with simple toleration, he became irritated by the inflexible adherence of Penn to the principle of entire religious freedom. One of the most worthy sons of the Episcopal Church, Thomas Clarkson, alluding
New England (United States) (search for this): chapter 3
be well for us to remember that at the very time when in New England the Catholic, the Quaker, and the Baptist were banished conservative villages, of which a few are still left in New England, wherein a contemporary of Cotton Mather and Governor Enny generations. The tavern was once renowned throughout New England, and it is still a creditable hostelry. During court tig narrative derogatory to the character of the people of New England at that day, on the score of courage, would be essentialParliament House—was celebrated by the early settlers of New England, and doubtless afforded a good deal of relief to the youolution the powder plot was duly commemorated throughout New England. At that period the celebration of it was discountenanciests and bloody Indians, was the especial terror of the New England settlers, and the anathema maranatha of Puritan pulpits.te, and with the octogenarian few who still linger among us will perish the unwritten history of border life in New England
Scotia (search for this): chapter 3
l union was the Roman Catholic Association of Ireland, and the true founder and father of politicaled the foot of one tenth of the population of Ireland upon the necks of the remainder. A Catholit which shone for a moment in the darkness of Ireland's century of wrong burned upwards clearly andeaty, bursting at once from the full heart of Ireland, were caught up by England and echoed back fr eloquence nursed in the fervid atmosphere of Ireland suddenly transplanted to the cold and commonprished nationality, and dragged, like his own Ireland, bleeding and violated, to the deadly embracell justice the measure of reform meted out to Ireland was fully justified by the facts of the case.that it was impossible to bring the people of Ireland to combine for national independence, until tiage altar with England: If the Parliament of Ireland had been left to itself, untempted and unawedals on the staff, without a foot of ground in Ireland, and completely dependent on government. Let[17 more...]
Cornwall (United Kingdom) (search for this): chapter 3
Independent preacher or Anabaptist interpreter of prophecies was brought out from the jail where heresy expiated its offences, the rabble followed it with scoffing and derision, encouraged thereto by magistrates and clergy. The temper of the time was hard and cruel. Macaulay has two or three pages crowded with terrible facts touching this point. The gospel of humanity seems neither to have been preached nor felt. The natural resources of the island were undeveloped. The tin mines of Cornwall, which two thousand years before attracted the ships of the merchant princes of Tyre beyond the Pillars of Hercules, were indeed worked to a considerable extent; but the copper mines, which now yield annually fifteen thousand tons, were entirely neglected. Rock salt was known to exist, but was not used to any considerable extent; and only a partial supply of salt by evaporation was obtained. The coal and iron of England are at this time the stable foundations of her industrial and commerc
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