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Medford Historical Society Papers, Volume 16., Volume II of Medford records. (search)
inted to supply the pulpit. On May 8th it was voted to appoint a committee to consult with the president and fellows of Harvard College and ask their advice concerning what proper methods may be most suitable for the town to proceed to obtain a minister, and also advice and direction as to some suitable to preach and settle. On June 18th it was voted to proceed according to advice and keep a day of fasting and prayer for direction in settling a minister and to send to Revs. Mr. Coleman, Fox, Hancock, Brown and Appleton, and desire them to come and help the town in keeping it. Mr. Hancock, who was the grandfather of the revolutionary patriot of the same name, had previously preached in Medford, and Mr. Coleman was minister at the Brattle Street Church in Boston. On July 19th the town voted to build a new meeting house. As frequently the custom when action was taken which did not suit a number, a protest was filed, signed by two of the selectmen and twelve others against such
The Daily Dispatch: November 5, 1860., [Electronic resource], Chinese news. (search)
a man of sterling independence. He asked nobody to give him anything for which he was not willing to work. He asked favors of no man, least of all of the King. He would be silent for a whole evening, if the merest numskull of a peer chanced to be of the company, but he would not consent to be patronized by any peer that ever existed. The peculiar turn of Scott's mind brought him to his knees whenever a nobleman was present. That accounts for his subserviency. But how to account for Fox and Sheridan! There lies the difficulty. Perhaps it was to be found in the personal fascinations of the man; for that he possessed great powers of entertaining his friends, in his younger days, is incontestable, in spite of all Byron and Thackeray have said. Among other talents, Raikes tells us, upon the authority of the Duke of Wellington, that he possessed the power of mimicry in an almost unequaled degree, and though this is a very low, still it is a very entertaining talent. But beside
The Daily Dispatch: November 29, 1860., [Electronic resource], An opinion from Missouri. (search)
most celebrated in the whole history of English law. Its results were of momentous importance to the liberty of the press in Great Britain. It led, eventually, to Fox's bill, brought forward and passed into a law twenty-two years after, viz: in 1791. By this law, in all prosecutions for libel, the jury are made judges of the lawcularly in cases relating to the liberty of the press, and the constitutional power and duties of juries," This resolution produced a furious debate, in which Fox, than in his year, took the side of the Ministry, and Burks that of the people. Singularly enough, Fox was, twenty years after, the very man who settled the wholeFox was, twenty years after, the very man who settled the whole matter on the popular side, by his bill for regulating the law in cases of trial for libel. Mr. Glynn's resolution was voted down. The hearing of the arguments upon the motion in arrest of judgment and the motion to compel the defendant to show cause why the verdict should not be entered up according to the legal import of t
The Daily Dispatch: March 29, 1861., [Electronic resource], Affairs at Fort Sumter--a plan for reinforcements. (search)
Affairs at Fort Sumter--a plan for reinforcements. The Washington correspondent of the New York Tribune gives the result of the visit to Fort Sumter of Capt. Fox, who was sent by the President. The agent has returned to Washington, and the correspondent says: It is very well understood that he had a plan for introducinife, nothing would be gained but the retention of a fortress which has only a local value in protecting Charleston, and is of no national moment whatever. Captain Fox is fully impressed with the courage, integrity and sincerity of Major Anderson, with whom, however, his communication was necessarily limited, as Gov. Pickens sy well until the 15th of April. From all the facts disclosed by this investigation, it is manifest that Fort Sumter must be abandoned, or civil war inaugurated. Capt. Fox is cautious, intelligent, and well-informed, and was brought to the notice of the Government by Mr. Aspinwall, and some of the principal ship-owners of New York
The Daily Dispatch: April 5, 1861., [Electronic resource], Position of San Domingo. (search)
parties that then divided England and Europe still exist. By the one he is still revered as a demigod; the other reduce him to the level of quite an ordinary man. Both, we think, are wrong, and truth, as usual, lies in the middle. The man who, at the age of twenty-four, could triumph in the British Parliament over the most powerful opposition that had ever banded itself within the walls of St. Stephen's to pull down a Ministry --who could, almost single handed, resist the united efforts of Fox, Burke, Sheridan, Enskine, Windham, Grey, and a host of others, and resist it with success --who could retain power almost uninterruptedly for the space of twenty-three years, in the face of such a combination, was surely no ordinary man.--On the other side, we see nothing in his life to entitle him to that lofty praise which his partizans still continue to lavish on him.--That he was a great declaimer, we have no doubt; for O' Connel, who surely was a competent judge, and was certainly not
The Daily Dispatch: April 13, 1861., [Electronic resource], Evening session. (search)
Note.--Intercepted dispatches disclose the fact, that Mr. Fox, who had been allowed to visit Major Anderson on the pledge that his purpose was pacific, employed his opportunity to devise a plan for supplying the Fort by force, and that this plan had been adopted by the Washington Government, and was in progress of execution. Fort Sumter. The fort is five miles from the Charleston Battery. It is thus described by the Charleston Mercury: Fort Sumter is built upon an artificial island, at the entrance of our harbor. The foundation being of stone, it must be of the strongest nature. That portion of the fort above the water line is of brick and concrete of the most solid character. Its plan is a truncated pentagon, with one side parallel to the adjoining shore, thus presenting an angle to the channel. Of the truncated angles the eastern, western and northern are simply formed into Pan-compees, whilst the other two are formed of two small faces, making an angle of a
The Daily Dispatch: April 19, 1861., [Electronic resource], article 5 (search)
oic State of South Carolina--"the home of the brave" --in the possession of a Government foreign to her soil and its interests. The false, pretences and base artifices practiced by Lincoln and his Cabinet in regard to Sumter, availed them but little else than the infliction of fresh disgrace upon an Administration which, while sending over the country the most positive assurances of its intention to evacuate the fort, had in employment a set of hypocritical emissaries, like the pacific Mr. Fox, prowling about Charleston in the guise of officers and gentlemen, but whose real object, it now appears, was to concert a plan for the reinforcement of the fort.--The Administration here, knowing it was the intention of the Black Republicans to reinforce and provision it, could pursue no other course than the one so nobly resolved on.--The Secretary of War, by and with the advice of the President and Cabinet, gave the order to the gallant and brave Beauregard, and immediately the order was
The Daily Dispatch: April 22, 1861., [Electronic resource], article 1 (search)
ave satisfaction. In the afternoon, the First Light Division was on Calvert street, fully armed and equipped. The Battalion of Maryland Guards, Col. Brush, was out in full force. The Battalion of Baltimore City Guards, under Lt. Col. Warner; three companies of Independent Greys; two companies of Law Greys; the Shields Guards; the Jackson Guards; the Wells and McComas Rifles, and the Eagle Artillery. The whole division formed on Calvert street. Gens. Watkins and Egerton, Col. Peters. Majors Fox and Carr, Quartermaster Scott and Adjutant Swinney, were the regimental officers, besides Col. Brush and Lieut. Col. Warner. Correspondence, Etc. The following is the correspondence of the authorities with the railroad officials and President Lincoln, on the subject of stopping the passage of troops: Mayor's office, city Hall, Baltimore, April 19, 1861. John W. Garrett, Esq., Pres't Baltimore and Ohio Railroad: Sir We advise that the troops now here be sent back to the
The Daily Dispatch: may 30, 1861., [Electronic resource], article 1 (search)
York Herald, of Saturday morning last. It will be seen that the event is looked upon as a great calamity in the North, and the manner in which they howl over the just deserts meted out to that king of desperadoes is sublimely ridiculous: Captain Fox has just made an official report of the circumstances attending the killing of Col. Ellsworth to the President. It appears that Ellsworth was marching up the street with a squad of men to take possession of the telegraph office, when, in himself somewhat, the President took his seat, and desired us to approach. "I will take no apology, gentlemen," said the President, "for my weakness; but I knew poor Ellsworth well, and held him in great regard. Just as you entered the room, Capt. Fox left me, after giving me the painful details of Ellsworth's unfortunate death. The event was so unexpected, and the recital so touching, that it quite unmanned me."--The President here made a violent effort to restrain his emotions, and after
The Daily Dispatch: November 15, 1860., [Electronic resource], article 1 (search)
enes of the American Revolution, his book must be a curiosity. We never heard before that Cornwallis retired into Virginia. After the battle of Guildford, (15th March, 1781,) he retired, it is true, to Wilmington, although he claimed the victory, and Greene pursued him, although he wrote home that he had demolished Greene, The victor retiring before the vanquished two hundred miles, and breaking down bridges to prevent or retard pursuit, was looked upon as something of a novelty in war, and Fox said, in the House of Commons, he was afraid another such triumph would land his lordship in Florida, or words to that effect. But nobody ever said before that the British General retired to Virginia. On the contrary, he invaded Virginia, in opposition to the opinions of the majority of his officers, and in spite of the vehement remonstrances of Tarlton, who urged him to return to South Carolina. Nor did we ever hear before that Cornwallis repelled any attack of the Americans at Yorktown.
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