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Giulio, sitting outside, half asleep, woke up as he heard the steady tread of the two strong men go by. "If you do not die to-night, you will never die again!" he said, half aloud, as he rose to go in and clear the room where the guests had been sitting. Vol. =New York= MACMILLAN AND CO. AND LONDON 1895 All rights reserved =Norwood Press= J. S. Cushing & Co. Berwick & Smith Norwood Mass.
He had the temperament of a reformer. Indeed, he was a reformer. He abhorred slavery, he made war upon intemperance, he was an advocate of reform in prison discipline, and he championed the abolition of capital punishment. In neither of these movements did Cushing or Choate take an interest. They thought slavery an evil, but they had no disposition to attack it.
The scene described by Cushing, where, at the summons of the "prayer- message," the Zunis gathered upon the house-tops and swarmed in the Plaza, to hazard their property, amid prayers and incantations, upon a guess under which tube the ball was concealed, is widely different from that depicted by the Jesuit Fathers in Canada, where the swarthy Hurons assembled in the Council House at the call of the medicine man and in the presence of the sick man, wagered their beads and skins, upon the cast of the dice.
Some of the blue jackets who were talking to us looked at him and the vessel with the greatest expression of interest, and said: "Hello! there's the 'Monticello' and Lieutenant Cushing." This, then, was the naval boy hero, with whose exploits the whole country was ringing. Our sailor friends proceeded to tell us of his achievements, of which they were justly proud.
Cushing writes: These orders were engaged in their annual ceremonials, of which little was told or shown me; but, at the end of four days, I heard one morning a deep whirring noise.
If ever man lived who knew not the meaning of fear, he was William Barker Cushing, born in Wisconsin in 1842. He entered the Naval Academy in 1857, remained four years, received his appointment from the State of New York, but claiming Pennsylvania as his residence. He was wild and reckless, and resigned in March, 1861, when even his closest friends saw little hope of his success in life.
If Brooks had been born and brought up in New England, he would no more have done the thing he did than Caleb Cushing would have done it," Cushing always being his type of a pro-slavery Yankee. In 1871 Charles W. Slack, the editor of the Boston Commonwealth, for whom Sumner had obtained a lucrative office, turned against his benefactor in order to save his position.
As I cast my eyes along those seats of honor and of public trust now occupied by you, they seek in vain for one of those honored and honorable persons whose indulgence listened then to my voice. Marshall, Cushing, Chase, Washington, Johnson, Livingston, Todd, where are they?
Caleb Cushing has begun to feel a wholesome dread of this posthumous retribution. I cannot in any other way account for that nightmare of the solitary horseman on the edge of the horizon, in his Hartford Speech. His imagination is infected with the terrible consciousness, that Mr.
Cliff and prejudice her against herself, by stating that she ought to make a will for the benefit of the old friends who had always loved and respected her. Miss Cushing now spoke. She knew what each member of the little company was thinking about, and she felt that it might as well be spoken of.
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