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Showing posts with label John Brown. Show all posts
Showing posts with label John Brown. Show all posts
Wednesday, November 6, 2024

Diary of George Templeton Strong: January 7, 1860

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Walked uptown with George Anthon, who entertained me with the biography of his runaway cousin. Miss "Unadilla” Elmendorf, and incidents...
Tuesday, October 22, 2024

Theodore Parker to Francis Jackson, November 24, 1859

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Rome, November 24, 1859. MY DEAR FRIEND: I see by a recent telegraph which the steamer of November 2d brought from Boston, that the Court ...
Thursday, August 29, 2024

Old John Brown

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Not any spot six feet by two      Will hold a man like thee; John Brown will tramp the shaking earth,      From Blue Ridge to the sea, Till ...
Tuesday, July 16, 2024

Julia Gardiner Tyler to Julianna MacLachlan Gardiner, May 7, 1861

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SHERWOOD FOREST, VA., May 7, 1861. MY DEAR MAMMA: Mr. Clopton goes to Richmond in the morning (by land), and it is a good opportunity to w...
Saturday, May 25, 2024

Speech of Ralph Waldo Emerson,* Saturday Evening, November 18, 1859

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MR. CHAIRMAN AND FELLOW-CITIZENS: I share the sympathy and sorrow which have brought us together. Gentlemen who have preceded me have well s...
Wednesday, March 20, 2024

Lecture of Wendell Phillips: “The Lesson of the Hour,” Delivered at Brooklyn, New York, Tuesday Evening, November 1, 1859

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LADIES AND GENTLEMEN: Of course I do not expect—speaking from this platform, and to you— to say any thing on the vital question of the hour,...