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Wendell Phillips, Theodore C. Pease, Speeches, Lectures and Letters of Wendell Phillips: Volume 2, Theodore Parker (1860). (search)
cy, for our weapons, the man who could give to the cause of the slave that weapon was indeed one of its ablest and foremost champions. Lord Bacon said in his will, I leave my name and memory to foreign lands, and to my countrymen, after some time be passed. No more fitting words could be chosen, if the modesty of the friend who has just gone before us would have permitted him to adopt them for himself. To-day, even within twenty-four hours, I have seen symptoms of that repentance which Johnson describes--When nations, slowly wise and meanly just, To buried merit raise the tardy bust. The men who held their garments aside, and desired to have no contact with Music Hall, are beginning to show symptoms that they will be glad, when the world doubts whether they have any life left, to say, Did not Theodore Parker spring from our bosom? Ye; be takes his place-his serene place — among those few to whom Americans point as & proof that the national heart is still healthy and alive.
Wendell Phillips, Theodore C. Pease, Speeches, Lectures and Letters of Wendell Phillips: Volume 2, Abraham Lincoln (1865). (search)
Said Jackson, in 1833, Slavery will be the next pretext for rebellion. Pretext! That pretext and weapon we wrench from the rebel hands the moment we pass the Antislavery amendment to the Constitution. Now kill caste, the foe who wields it. Andy Johnson id our natural leader for this. His life has been pledged to it. He put on his spurs with this vow of knighthood. He sees that confiscation, land placed in the hands of the masses, is the means to kill this foe. Land and the ballot are thrsal suffrage for me; that was the Revolutionary model. Every freeman voted, black or white, whether he could read or not. My rule is, any citizen liable to be hanged for crime is entitled to vote for rulers, The ballot insures the school. Mr. Johnson has not yet uttered a word which shows that he sees the need of negro suffrage to guarantee the Union. The best thing he has said on this points showing a mind open to light, is thus reported by one of the most intelligent men in the country
Lydia Maria Child, Letters of Lydia Maria Child (ed. John Greenleaf Whittier, Wendell Phillips, Harriet Winslow Sewall), To the same. (search)
g the long, long drag upon their patience and their resources which this war has produced. I call this the triumph of free schools; for it was the intelligence and reason of the people that reflected Abraham Lincoln. He has his faults, and I have sometimes been out of patience with him; but I will say of him that I have constantly gone on liking him better and better. His recent reply to some people who serenaded him charmed me exceedingly. A most beautiful spirit pervaded it. As for Andy Johnson, he has completely taken me captive by his speech at Nashville. To think of that colored procession going through the streets of Nashville, greeted from the windows with hurrahs, and waving of hats and handkerchiefs! To think of the Vice President of the United States promising to be their Moses, to lead them out of bondage, telling them, Remember they who would be free, themselves must strike the blow! And all this in Nashville where Amos Dresser, thirty years ago, was publicly flogge
Laura E. Richards, Maud Howe, Florence Howe Hall, Julia Ward Howe, 1819-1910, in two volumes, with portraits and other illustrations: volume 1, Chapter 17: the woman's cause 1868-1910 (search)
and-much confusion about cars — regained mine, started, and found that I had left my trunk at Cleveland, unchecked. Flew to conductor, who immediately took measures to have it forwarded. Must wait all day at Shelby, in the most forlorn hole I ever saw called a hotel. No parlor, a dark bedroom for me to stay in, a cold hell without the fire, and a very hot one with it. Dirty bed not made up, a sinister likeness of Schuyler Colfax hanging high on the wall, and a print of the managers of Andy Johnson's impeachment. I — in distress about my trunk -have telegraphed to Mansfield for the title of my lecture and learn that it is Polite Society. Must give it without the manuscript, and must borrow a gown to give it in. Minnesota in winter The twistings and turnings of a lecture trip have brought me twice, in the present season, to Minnesota. ... To an Easterner, a daily walk or two is the first condition of health. Here, the frost seemed to enter one's very bones, and to make lo
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 12. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), Diary of Rev. J. G. Law. (search)
nd farce. But the drum beats and the guard must obey. August 14.—Another day of intense suffering. Marched thirteen miles. Left camp at 3 o'clock this morning and crossed Clinch river at Clinton at 8 o'clock. The country through which we have passed to-day is thoroughly Union in sentiment, it being a rare exception to meet a good Southern man. The inhabitants are very poor and illiterate and it is not surprising that they have imbibed the principles of that precious pair of traitors, Andy Johnson and Horace Maynard. August 15.—The troops have suffered terribly to-day. A heavy shower of rain fell last night, and blankets and knapsacks were thoroughly soaked. My tremendous load worried me considerably and it was hard to keep up with the regiment. We marched through the little village of Jacksboro this morning, where only two families of Southern principles reside. Here we heard the first cheer for Jeff. Davis, and saw the first white handkerchief waved since we left Knoxville
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 28. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), Thomas R. R. Cobb. (search)
er their heads and the papers will no doubt make much ado about the President being under fire. May 30.—For two days and nights my men have been ready awaiting an order to march. Stovall has resigned and Delony becomes Major and Young, Lieutenant-Colonel; Williams and Ritch will be Captains in Delony's Old Squadron; John Rutherford remains Adjutant of the Legion. June 5.—Since Johnston was wounded Lee is in command, and he is as reticent as Johnston. June 10.—The papers say that Andy Johnson has been killed. Righteous death! And that Butler has been assassinated. Glorious if true! Would that it were by the hand of a woman. Did you think I could ever rejoice in an assassination? Yet it is true and I think I can meet my Maker with my justification. Nine Mile Road, near Richmond, June 13, 1862.—Seven generals have visited this point to-day and each brought his train and stayed from one to three hours. They were Lee, Hill, Magruder, McLaws, Jones, Toombs and Semmes. I
The Daily Dispatch: January 24, 1861., [Electronic resource], Horrible Affair (search)
he sun. This being the state of feeling in a strongly conservative county, you can judge of that in other portions of the State where conservation has never equalled that of the counties lying immediately on the Mississippi river. Coercion is looked upon here as a measure received in the brain of insanity, and brought forward by short-sighted, knavish politicians to secure the influence of fanatical fools, whose Idiocy is in keeping with this atrocious and brutish doctrine. Andy Johnson's course is execrated by every one who pretends to call himself a white man. Applauded by Black Republicans, he stands despised by all the rest. "Oh for a whip in every Southern hand, to lash the scoundrel naked through the world." The Legislature of this State has passed a bill calling a Convention. It was time, for upon the action, or rather non-action, of the Legislature, not "muttered curses" were beginning to fall. Arkansas will follow in the lead of her elder sisters of the
The Daily Dispatch: April 22, 1861., [Electronic resource], article 8 (search)
Andy Johnson saluted in Lynchburg.his narrow escape. Lynchburg,Va., April 21 --Andy Johnson, late U. S. Senator from Tennessee, passed through here to-day on his way from Washington to Tennessee. A large crowd assembled and groaned him and offered every indignity he deserved, including pulling his nose. Every effort waAndy Johnson, late U. S. Senator from Tennessee, passed through here to-day on his way from Washington to Tennessee. A large crowd assembled and groaned him and offered every indignity he deserved, including pulling his nose. Every effort was made to take him off the cars. The demonstrations were first suggested by Tennesseeans. Great difficulty was experienced in restraining the populace. Johnson was protected by the Conductor and others, who begged that he might be permitted to proceed home and let his own people deal with him. He denied sending a messauggested by Tennesseeans. Great difficulty was experienced in restraining the populace. Johnson was protected by the Conductor and others, who begged that he might be permitted to proceed home and let his own people deal with him. He denied sending a message asserting that Tennessee should furnish her quota of men. B.
The Daily Dispatch: may 3, 1861., [Electronic resource], article 37 (search)
his own county. Five hundred Rough and Ready Rangers, from Texas, have arrived in New Orleans, to tender their services to the Confederate Government. The Lynchburg Virginian thinks it would be a good plan to suspend or totally abolish the Board of Public Works. Col. Wade Hampton is organizing an Independent Legion in Charleston, for immediate service. C Matheson, Esq. a prominent and highly esteemed citizen of Camden, S. C., died recently near Gainesville, Fla. It is reported that Andy Johnson, since returning to his home in Greenville, Tenn., has expressed a desire to die. Hon. John E. Ward, late U. S. Minister to China, arrived at his home in Savannah on Tuesday last. A company called the "Letcher Guanis," in compliment to the Governor of Virginia, has been organized in Augusta, Ga. The ladies of Savannah have made 7,000 ball cartridges within a few days past. Rice flour makes the best of bread. In Savannah the mills are furnishing it.
The Daily Dispatch: may 17, 1861., [Electronic resource], article 12 (search)
me acts of violence, such as placing obstructions on the railroad track, cutting the telegraph wires, house burning, &c., Judge Lynch did not preside; but those arrested were permitted to remain boarders at the "County Hotel" for a while. Andy Johnson and a Mr. Nelson were there, but remained in "close quarters." A Reverend gentleman addressed a few remarks to the assemblage, after which the vote was taken to ascertain whether it was the wish of the audience to hear Johnson and Nelson speakJohnson and Nelson speak, which resulted in an almost unanimous refusal, only three or four in favor of hearing them. Politics are virtually dead. The wheat crop, not withstanding so much wet weather during the winter and spring, looks fine, oats ditto. Farmers are generally done planting corn. Many of them, both old and young, spend a large portion of their time in drilling. The South is invincible, and ere a certain Scott executes his reputed designs, he will have to eat many a "hasty plate of soup," or bec
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