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Syracuse (New York, United States) (search for this): chapter 33
of an armed audience. He added:— The men are few, allow me to say,—the men are few, even of those who avow the most earnest sympathy with the great matters touched upon by it, who could stand up and say boldly and without flinching just what they thought in such a presence. I rejoice that in you, sir, the city of Boston, and still more the cause of humanity, had an advocate and an orator so superior to all temporizing motives. In the same spirit Rev. Samuel J. May wrote from Syracuse, N. Y., July 22, expressing gratitude that Sumner, according to report, had improved his opportunity so well; and the hope that he would not be disconcerted by the expressions of displeasure from pseudo-patriots and spurious Christians. Mrs. Eliza Lee Follen,—widow of the German patriot, Charles Follen, herself an American lady, devoted like her husband to the anti-slavery cause,—wrote, July 15, expressing the joy of one who had watched him with a hopeful heart for many years, and now saw
Manchester (New York, United States) (search for this): chapter 33
mphant success of the oration which had been reported from various sources,—its strength and eloquence taking captive the audience, although encountering deep and long-seated prejudices, and delivered before the military; mentioning the eagerness with which the newspaper reports were read in his town, and urging the immediate publication of a large edition, to be circulated in this country and in Europe. Rev. John Pierpont,—preacher, poet, and always an aggressive reformer,—wrote from Niagara Falls, July 17:— Permit me to congratulate you upon your success,—if I hear aright, your great success; to congratulate you upon your opportunity; to congratulate you upon your courage. You will live to regard the Fourth of July, 1845, as the red-letter day in the calendar of your life. Don't be disquieted at the jeers, or discouraged at the dark looks, or pushed out of your high-way by the cold shoulders that you may encounter. Rev. John T. Sargent wrote, July 10, regretting that
Massachusetts (Massachusetts, United States) (search for this): chapter 33
d copies. Would it be possible to print a cheap edition like that of Mr. Mann's noble oration? I beg you to excuse me for writing you this letter, and believe me, &c. John A. Andrew, then a young lawyer of Boston, afterwards Governor of Massachusetts during the Civil War, wrote:– You will allow me to say, I hope, that I have read the oration with a satisfaction only equalled by that with which I heard you on the 4th July. And while I thank you a thousand times for the choice you mae winter of 1860-61, conferred frequently with General Scott to promote plans for the military protection of the national capital and forts. Works, Vol. V. pp. 433-483. When the conflict of arms finally opened, he made a fervid address to Massachusetts soldiers in New York on their way to the scene of action; Works, Vol. V. p. 494. See also, Works, Vol. VI. p. 8. and during the Rebellion cordially sustained all war measures, even those most thorough and radical, for its suppression. H
Wayland (Massachusetts, United States) (search for this): chapter 33
France; how American Slavery, which defied moral efforts, was to perish,—each by the sword. Nor in their endeavors to remove the incentives to war by discontinuing all military preparations, did they fully estimate the exigencies of modern society, which has as yet found no substitute for a trained military body in the support of civil authority when assailed by riots and dangerous combinations. The change of opinion among divines and moralists is well shown by comparing the editions of Wayland's Moral Science. In all but the last there is a chapter earnestly setting forth the moral and religious argument against war, and coming to the conclusion that hence it would seem that all wars are contrary to the revealed will of God, and that the individual has no right to commit to society, nor society to commit to government, the power to declare war. But in the last edition, published in 1865, just after the suppression of the Rebellion, and completed one month preceding his death, t
Worcester (Massachusetts, United States) (search for this): chapter 33
ety, Boston, printed four thousand copies, issuing three editions. The Society's types were also used with the Philadelphia imprint of Henry Long-streth. A year later it issued an abridgment, and in 1869 printed the oration in a small volume. In 1847 another edition was published in Philadelphia, with notes by Charles D. Cleveland. This was stereotyped, and sold at the low rate of two dollars a thousand to secure the widest possible circulation. The League of Universal Brotherhood, at Worcester, also put their imprint on this edition. The newspapers of the country widely copied extracts from the oration, often filling one or two columns. The mercantile and conservative journals treated it with indifference; but those of a religious or anti-slavery type spoke of it with respect, and sometimes with warm approval. The New York Tribune, Aug. 16, introduced liberal extracts from it with these words: The avowal and vindication of such lofty, vital, and long-neglected truths from suc
Norwich (Connecticut, United States) (search for this): chapter 33
Society distributed two thousand, the London Peace Society two thousand, and other Peace Societies the remaining three thousand. The friends of Peace took special pains to send copies to daily and weekly journals, reviews, and other periodicals, and to eminent clergymen and public men,—among whom were the Duke of Wellington, Sir Robert Peel, the Earl of Aberdeen, Lord Palmerston, and Lord John Russell: one copy was sent to the venerable Thomas Clarkson, and another, through the Bishop of Norwich, to the Queen. Mr. William Smith, the Fleet Street publisher, issued in May an edition, in a small volume, of two thousand copies of the entire oration, writing at the time to its author,— I should rejoice to have succeeded in giving it a much more extensive circulation, believing it to be the best appeal to the common sense of rational men, and the religious profession of people who call themselves Christians, that I have yet met with on the subject of war. I sincerely hope it may h
United States (United States) (search for this): chapter 33
nking in numbers as the fourth city in the United States, she was still strongly marked by the indoston, Massachusetts, New England, and the United States? They are infinitely more indicative of tn the two kindred nations, England and the United States. Ante, Vol. II. pp. 71, 81, 82, 87, 141,lors waved over the public buildings. The United States ship Ohio lay in the harbor decked in flaged territory in Oregon claimed both by the United States and England. This reference to pending qus? — What is the use of the Militia of the United States? Then came after the latter inquiry the pe to one nation in particular,—even to the United States. While all other nations are on a war-foof a conquest. No war can arise between the United States and either of these nations except to detece Congress Committee to the people of the United States, recommending these substitutes. Works, and recommended that the mediation of the United States be offered in the impending Crimean War. T
Accomack (Massachusetts, United States) (search for this): chapter 33
ding toils of labor, to meet in gladness and congratulation, mindful of the blessings transmitted from the past, mindful also, I trust, of the duties to the present and the future. May he who now addresses you be enabled so to direct your minds, that you shall not seem to have lost a day! All hearts first turn to the Fathers of the Republic. Their venerable forms rise before us, and we seem to behold them in the procession of successive generations. They come from the frozen rock of Plymouth, from the wasted bands of Raleigh, from the heavenly companionship of William Penn, from the anxious councils of the Revolution, and from all those fields of sacrifice, on which, in obedience to the Spirit of their Age, they sealed their devotion to duty with their blood. They seem to speak to us, their children: Cease to vaunt yourselves of what you do, and of what has been done for you. Learn to walk humbly, and to think meekly of yourselves. Cultivate habits of self-sacrifice and of de
Liverpool (United Kingdom) (search for this): chapter 33
ty orator, Fletcher Webster, expressed sentiments the reverse of those which his predecessor had inculcated. A few copies of the oration reached England about the first of December. One of them fell into the hands of Mr. Richard Rathbone, of Liverpool, at whose instance the Peace Society of that city published, late in the following January, an abridgment prepared by him. Seven thousand copies of this edition were printed; of which this Society distributed two thousand, the London Peace Sociure and strong praise. I see, by the papers this morning, there is a pamphlet against it, and newspapers arrive with articles. I hardly hope for your concurrence, though I think you will agree in much that I have said. To Richard Rathbone, Liverpool. Boston, Feb. 28, 1846. my dear Sir,—I have been touched more than I can tell by your kind appreciation of my oration delivered on the Fourth of July, and feel proud that you and your associates thought it worthy of circulation in England.
Mexico (Mexico, Mexico) (search for this): chapter 33
ions, he at once denounced the recent annexation of Texas as the occasion of a probable war with Mexico, and the assertion, in a warlike tone, of our title to disputed territory in Oregon claimed bothbute which can join with us. Who believes that the national honor will be promoted by a war with Mexico or England? What just man would sacrifice a single human life, to bring under our rule both Texthe life of a single citizen than become master of all the dominions of Mithridates. A war with Mexico would be mean and cowardly; but with England it would be at least bold, though parricidal. . . .he idea as false,—at least in our age, and with reference to our country. What is the feud with Mexico, but a question as to the title to a piece of land? Now, this clearly should be tried, as other The spirit of Slavery dominated in politics, backed by conservatism in society; and a war with Mexico, to be waged for its extension, was at hand. Men who heard the new orator saw in the intrepidit
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