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Showing posts with label Ralph Waldo Emerson. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Ralph Waldo Emerson. Show all posts
Tuesday, September 22, 2026

Speech by Ralph Waldo Emerson Delivered at the Brown Relief Meeting, held at Salem, Mass., January 6, 1860

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MR. CHAIRMAN: I have been struck with one fact, that the best orators who have added their praise to his fame and I need not go out of this ...
Saturday, August 29, 2026

Congressman Horace Mann, July 16, 1852

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JULY 16. Miss Beecher prays, if I want any more comfort in this life, that I will not try to build up a college at the West, and says Mr. ...
Tuesday, March 25, 2025

Theodore Parker, December 24, 1859

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ROME, December 24, 1839. What a stormy time you are having in America! Your cradle was rocked in the Revolution, and now in your old age y...
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...
Sunday, May 5, 2024

Senator Charles Sumner to Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, May 8, 1851

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I cannot repress my delight in what I hear of Emerson's utterance at Concord. For an hour and a half he laid bare our evils and their au...
Wednesday, January 31, 2024

Services for John Brown at Concord, Massachusetts, December 2, 1859

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The martyrdom of John Brown was most worthily celebrated at Concord, Massachusetts. The town which inaugurated the first American "Insu...