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Title: Index of The Project Gutenberg Works of H. B. Stowe
Author: Stowe, Harriet Beecher
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WORKS OF HARRIET BEECHER STOWE
CONTENTS
## UNCLE TOM'S CABIN
UNCLE TOM'S CABIN, YOUNG FOLKS' EDITION
PICTURES AND STORIES FROM UNCLE TOM'S CABIN
## QUEER LITTLE FOLKS
THE AMERICAN WOMAN'S HOME
## LIFE OF HARRIET BEECHER STOWE
DEACON PITKIN'S FARM; AND THE FIRST CHRISTMAS OF NEW ENGLAND
## PINK AND WHITE TYRANNY
## SUNNY MEMORIES OF FOREIGN LANDS, VOLUME 1 (OF 2)
## OLDTOWN FIRESIDE STORIES
## HOUSEHOLD PAPERS AND STORIES
## THE PEARL OF ORR'S ISLAND
## PALMETTO-LEAVES
## THE SALEM WITCHCRAFT
## MEN OF OUR TIMES
THE MINISTER'S WOOING
## WOMAN IN SACRED HISTORY
TABLES OF CONTENTS OF VOLUMES
UNCLE TOM\x92S CABIN
or
Life among the Lowly
By Harriet Beecher Stowe
CONTENTS
VOLUME I
CHAPTER I -- In Which the Reader Is Introduced to a Man of Humanity
CHAPTER II -- The Mother
CHAPTER III --The Husband and Father
CHAPTER IV -- An Evening in Uncle Tom’s Cabin
CHAPTER V -- Showing the Feelings of Living Property on Changing Owners
CHAPTER VI -- Discovery
CHAPTER VII -- The Mother’s Struggle
CHAPTER VIII -- Eliza’s Escape
CHAPTER -- In Which It Appears That a Senator Is But a Man IX
CHAPTER X -- The Property Is Carried Off
CHAPTER XI -- In Which Property Gets into an Improper State of Mind
CHAPTER XII -- Select Incident of Lawful Trade
CHAPTER XIII -- The Quaker Settlement
CHAPTER XIV -- Evangeline
CHAPTER XV -- Of Tom’s New Master, and Various Other Matters
CHAPTER XVI -- Tom’s Mistress and Her Opinions
CHAPTER XVII -- The Freeman’s Defence
CHAPTER XVIII -- Miss Ophelia’s Experiences and Opinions
VOLUME II
CHAPTER -- Miss Ophelia’s Experiences and Opinions Continued XIX
CHAPTER XX -- Topsy
CHAPTER XXI -- Kentuck
CHAPTER XXII -- “The Grass Withereth—the Flower Fadeth”
CHAPTER XXIII -- Henrique
CHAPTER XXIV -- Foreshadowings
CHAPTER XXV -- The Little Evangelist
CHAPTER XXVI -- Death
CHAPTER XXVII -- “This Is the Last of Earth”
CHAPTER XXVIII -- Reunion
CHAPTER XXIX -- The Unprotected
CHAPTER XXX -- The Slave Warehouse
CHAPTER XXXI -- The Middle Passage
CHAPTER XXXII -- Dark Places
CHAPTER XXXIII -- Cassy
CHAPTER XXXIV -- The Quadroon’s Story
CHAPTER XXXV -- The Tokens
CHAPTER XXXVI -- Emmeline and Cassy
CHAPTER XXXVII -- Liberty
CHAPTER XXXVIII -- The Victory
CHAPTER XXXIX -- The Stratagem
CHAPTER XL -- The Martyr
CHAPTER XLI -- The Young Master
CHAPTER XLII -- An Authentic Ghost Story
CHAPTER XLIII -- Results
CHAPTER XLIV -- The Liberator
CHAPTER XLV -- Concluding Remarks
QUEER LITTLE FOLKS
By Harriet Beecher Stowe
CONTENTS
Hen that Hatched Ducks
11
The Nutcrackers of Nutcracker Lodge
29
The History of Tip-Top
43
Miss Katy-Did and Miss Cricket
61
Mother Magpie\x92s Mischief
70
The Squirrels that live in a House
80
Hum, the Son of Buz
93
Our Country Neighbours
106
The Diverting History of Little Whiskey
117
List of Illustrations.
The Brood Hatched
19
Feeding the Fame Robin
59
Erecting the Hen-House
15
The Hen that Hatched Ducks
25
Enemies in Waiting
39
The Nest in the Apple-Tree
47
Tip-Top in bad Company
57
Venturous Squirrels
89
LIFE OF HARRIET BEECHER STOWE
Compiled From Her Letters And Journals By Her Son Charles Edward Stowe
1890
CONTENTS
CHAPTER I.
CHILDHOOD 1811-1824.
Death of her Mother.\x97First Journey from Home.\x97Life at Nut Plains.\x97School Days and Hours with Favorite Authors.\x97The New Mother.\x97Litchfield Academy and its Influence.\x97First Literary Efforts.\x97A Remarkable Composition.\x97Goes to Hartford
1
CHAPTER II.
SCHOOL DAYS IN HARTFORD, 1824-1832.
Miss Catherine Beecher.\x97Professor Fisher.\x97The Wreck of the Albion and Death of Professor Fisher.\x97"The Minister's Wooing."\x97Miss Catherine Beecher's Spiritual History.\x97Mrs. Stowe's Recollections of her School Days in Hartford.\x97Her Conversion.\x97Unites with the First Church in Hartford.\x97Her Doubts and Subsequent Religious Development.\x97Her Final Peace
22
CHAPTER III.
CINCINNATI, 1832-1836.
Dr. Beecher called to Cincinnati.\x97The Westward Journey.\x97First Letter from Home.\x97Description of Walnut Hills.\x97Starting a New School.\x97Inward Glimpses.\x97The Semi-Colon Club.\x97Early Impressions of Slavery.\x97A Journey to the East.\x97Thoughts aroused by First Visit to Niagara.\x97Marriage to Professor Stowe
53
[vi]
CHAPTER IV.
EARLY MARRIED LIFE, 1836-1840.
Professor Stowe's Interest in Popular Education.\x97His Departure for Europe.\x97Slavery Riots in Cincinnati.\x97Birth of Twin Daughters.\x97Professor Stowe's Return and Visit to Columbus.\x97Domestic Trials.\x97Aiding a Fugitive Slave.\x97Authorship under Difficulties.\x97A Beecher Round Robin
78
CHAPTER V.
POVERTY AND SICKNESS, 1840-1850.
Famine in Cincinnati.\x97Summer at the East.\x97Plans for Literary Work.\x97Experience on a Railroad.\x97Death of her Brother George.\x97Sickness and Despair.\x97A Journey in Search of Health.\x97Goes to Brattleboro' Water-cure.\x97Troubles at Lane Seminary.\x97Cholera in Cincinnati.\x97Death of Youngest Child.\x97Determined to leave the West
100
CHAPTER VI.
REMOVAL TO BRUNSWICK, 1850-1852.
Mrs. Stowe's Remarks on Writing and Understanding Biography.\x97Their Appropriateness to her own Biography.\x97Reasons for Professor Stowe's leaving Cincinnati.\x97Mrs. Stowe's Journey to Brooklyn.\x97Her Brother's Success as a Minister.\x97Letters from Hartford and Boston.\x97Arrives in Brunswick.\x97History of the Slavery Agitation.\x97Practical Working of the Fugitive Slave Law.\x97Mrs. Edward Beecher's Letter to Mrs. Stowe and its Effect.\x97Domestic Trials.\x97Begins to write "Uncle Tom's Cabin" as a Serial for the "National Era."\x97Letter to Frederick Douglass.\x97"Uncle Tom's Cabin" a Work of Religious Emotion
126
CHAPTER VII.
UNCLE TOM'S CABIN, 1852.
"Uncle Tom's Cabin" as a Serial in the "National Era."\x97An [vii]Offer for its Publication in Book Form.\x97Will it be a Success?\x97An Unprecedented Circulation.\x97Congratulatory Messages.\x97Kind Words from Abroad.\x97Mrs. Stowe to the Earl of Carlisle.\x97Letters from and to Lord Shaftesbury.\x97Correspondence with Arthur Helps
156
CHAPTER VIII.
FIRST TRIP TO EUROPE, 1853.
The Edmondsons.\x97Buying Slaves to set them Free.\x97Jenny Lind.\x97Professor Stowe is called to Andover.\x97Fitting up the New Home.\x97The "Key to Uncle Tom's Cabin."\x97"Uncle Tom" Abroad.\x97How it was Published in England.\x97Preface to the European Edition.\x97The Book in France.\x97In Germany.\x97A Greeting from Charles Kingsley.\x97Preparing to visit Scotland.\x97Letter to Mrs. Follen
178
CHAPTER IX.
SUNNY MEMORIES, 1853.
Crossing the Atlantic.\x97Arrival in England.\x97Reception in Liverpool.\x97Welcome to Scotland.\x97A Glasgow Tea-Party.\x97Edinburgh Hospitality.\x97Aberdeen.\x97Dundee and Birmingham.\x97Joseph Sturge.\x97Elihu Burritt.\x97London.\x97The Lord Mayor's Dinner.\x97Charles Dickens and his Wife
205
CHAPTER X.
FROM OVER THE SEA, 1853.
The Earl of Carlisle.\x97Arthur Helps.\x97The Duke and Duchess of Argyll.\x97Martin Farquhar Tupper.\x97A Memorable Meeting at Stafford House.\x97Macaulay and Dean Milman.\x97Windsor Castle.\x97Professor Stowe returns to America.\x97Mrs. Stowe on the Continent.\x97Impressions of Paris.\x97En Route to Switzerland and Germany.\x97Back to England.\x97Homeward Bound
228
CHAPTER XI.
HOME AGAIN, 1853-1856.
Anti-Slavery Work.\x97Stirring Times in the United States.\x97Address [viii]to the Ladies of Glasgow.\x97Appeal to the Women of America.\x97Correspondence with William Lloyd Garrison.\x97The Writing of "Dred."\x97Farewell Letter from Georgiana May.\x97Second Voyage to England
250
CHAPTER XII.
DRED, 1856.
Second Visit to England.\x97A Glimpse at the Queen.\x97The Duke of Argyll and Inverary.\x97Early Correspondence with Lady Byron.\x97Dunrobin Castle and its Inmates.\x97A Visit to Stoke Park.\x97Lord Dufferin.\x97Charles Kingsley at Home.\x97Paris Revisited.\x97Madame Mohl's Receptions
270
CHAPTER XIII.
OLD SCENES REVISITED, 1856.
En Route to Rome.\x97Trials of Travel.\x97A Midnight Arrival and an Inhospitable Reception.\x97Glories of the Eternal City.\x97Naples and Vesuvius.\x97Venice.\x97Holy Week in Rome.\x97Return to England.\x97Letter from Harriet Martineau on "Dred."\x97A Word from Mr. Prescott on "Dred."\x97Farewell to Lady Byron
294
CHAPTER XIV.
THE MINISTER'S WOOING, 1857-1859.
Death of Mrs. Stowe's Oldest Son.\x97Letter to the Duchess of Sutherland.\x97Letter to her Daughters in Paris.\x97Letter to her Sister Catherine.\x97Visit to Brunswick and Orr's Island.\x97Writes "The Minister's Wooing" and "The Pearl of Orr's Island."\x97Mr. Whittier's Comments.\x97Mr. Lowell on "The Minister's Wooing."\x97Letter to Mrs. Stowe from Mr. Lowell.\x97John Ruskin on "The Minister's Wooing."\x97A Year of Sadness.\x97Letter to Lady Byron.\x97Letter to her Daughter.\x97Departure for Europe
315
CHAPTER XV.
THE THIRD TRIP TO EUROPE, 1859.
Third Visit to Europe.\x97Lady Byron on "The Minister's Wooing."\x97Some Foreign People and Things as they Appeared [ix]to Professor Stowe.\x97A Winter in Italy.\x97Things Unseen and Unrevealed.\x97Speculations concerning Spiritualism.\x97John Ruskin.\x97Mrs. Browning.\x97The Return to America.\x97Letters to Dr. Holmes
343
CHAPTER XVI.
THE CIVIL WAR, 1860-1865.
The Outbreak of Civil War.\x97Mrs. Stowe's Son enlists.\x97Thanksgiving Day in Washington.\x97The Proclamation of Emancipation.\x97Rejoicings in Boston.\x97Fred Stowe at Gettysburg.\x97Leaving Andover and Settling in Hartford.\x97A Reply to the Women of England.\x97Letters from John Bright, Archbishop Whately, and Nathaniel Hawthorne
363
CHAPTER XVII.
FLORIDA, 1865-1869.
Letter to Duchess of Argyll.\x97Mrs. Stowe desires to have a Home at the South.\x97Florida the best Field for Doing Good.\x97She Buys a Place at Mandarin.\x97A Charming Winter Residence.\x97"Palmetto Leaves."\x97Easter Sunday at Mandarin.\x97Correspondence with Dr. Holmes.\x97"Poganuc People."\x97Receptions in New Orleans and Tallahassee.\x97Last Winter at Mandarin
395
CHAPTER XVIII.
OLDTOWN FOLKS, 1869.
Professor Stowe the Original of "Harry" in "Oldtown Folks."\x97Professor Stowe's Letter to George Eliot.\x97Her Remarks on the Same.\x97Professor Stowe's Narrative of his Youthful Adventures in the World of Spirits.\x97Professor Stowe's Influence on Mrs. Stowe's Literary Life.\x97George Eliot on "Oldtown Folks"
419
CHAPTER XIX.
THE BYRON CONTROVERSY, 1869-1870.
Mrs. Stowe's Statement of her own Case.\x97The Circumstances under which she first met Lady Byron.\x97Letters to Lady Byron.\x97Letter to Dr. Holmes when about to publish "The True Story of Lady Byron's Life" in the "Atlantic."\x97Dr. Holmes's Reply.\x97The Conclusion [x]of the Matter
445
CHAPTER XX.
GEORGE ELIOT.
Correspondence with George Eliot.\x97George Eliot's First Impressions of Mrs. Stowe.\x97Mrs. Stowe's Letter to Mrs. Follen.\x97George Eliot's Letter to Mrs. Stowe.\x97Mrs. Stowe's Reply.\x97Life in Florida.\x97Robert Dale Owen and Modern Spiritualism.\x97George Eliot's Letter on the Phenomena of Spiritualism.\x97Mrs. Stowe's Description of Scenery in Florida.\x97Mrs. Stowe concerning "Middlemarch."\x97George Eliot to Mrs. Stowe during Rev. H. W. Beecher's Trial.\x97Mrs. Stowe concerning her Life Experience with her Brother, H. W. Beecher, and his Trial.\x97Mrs. Lewes' Last Letter to Mrs. Stowe.\x97Diverse Mental Characteristics of these Two Women.\x97Mrs. Stowe's Final Estimate of Modern Spiritualism
459
CHAPTER XXI.
CLOSING SCENES, 1870-1889.
Literary Labors.\x97Complete List of Published Books.\x97First Reading Tour.\x97Peeps Behind the Curtain.\x97Some New England Cities.\x97A Letter from Maine.\x97Pleasant and Unpleasant Readings.\x97Second Tour.\x97A Western Journey.\x97Visit to Old Scenes.\x97Celebration of Seventieth Birthday.\x97Congratulatory Poems from Mr. Whittier and Dr. Holmes.\x97Last Words
489
LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS.
PAGE
Portrait of Mrs. Stowe. From a crayon by Richmond, made in England in 1853
Frontispiece
Silver Inkstand presented to Mrs. Stowe by her English Admirers in 1853
xi
Portrait of Mrs. Stowe's Grandmother, Roxanna Foote. From a miniature painted on ivory by her daughter, Mrs. Lyman Beecher
6
Birthplace at Litchfield, Conn.[A]
10
Portrait of Catherine E. Beecher. From a photograph taken in 1875
30
The Home at Walnut Hills, Cincinnati[A]
56
Portrait of Henry Ward Beecher. From a photograph by Rockwood, in 1884
130
Manuscript Page of "Uncle Tom's Cabin" (fac-simile)
160
The Andover Home. From a painting by F. Rondel, in 1860, owned by Mrs. H. F. Allen
186[xii]
Portrait of Lyman Beecher, at the Age of Eighty-Seven. From a painting owned by the Boston Congregational Club
264
Portrait of the Duchess of Sutherland. From an engraving presented to Mrs. Stowe
318
The Old Home at Hartford
374
The Home at Mandarin, Florida
402
Portrait of Calvin Ellis Stowe. From a photograph taken in 1882
422
Portrait of Mrs. Stowe. From a photograph by Ritz and Hastings, in 1884
470
The Later Hartford Home
508
FOOTNOTE:
[A] From recent photographs and from views in the Autobiography of Lyman Beecher, published by Messrs. Harper & Brothers.
PINK AND WHITE TYRANNY
A Society Novel
By Mrs. Harriet Beecher Stowe
1871
CONTENTS.
Chap. Page
I. Falling in Love 1
II. What she thinks of it 19
III. The Sister 31
IV. Preparation for Marriage 39
V. Wedding, and Wedding-trip 56
VI. Honey-moon, and after 63
VII. Will she like it? 74
VIII. Spindlewood 86
IX. A Crisis 92
X. Changes 104
XI. Newport; or, the Paradise of Nothing to do 112
XII. Home \xC3 la Pompadour 126
XIII. John’s Birthday 137
XIV. A Great Moral Conflict 152
XV. The Follingsbees arrive 161
XVI. Mrs. John Seymour’s Party, and what came of it 181
XVII. After the Battle 197
XVIII. A Brick turns up 213
XIX. The Castle of Indolence 228[viii]
XX. The Van Astrachans 243
XXI. Mrs. Follingsbee’s Party, and what came of it 250
XXII. The Spider-web broken 268
XXIII. Common-sense Arguments 281
XXIV. Sentiment v. Sensibility 284
XXV. Wedding Bells 291
XXVI. Motherhood 297
XXVII. Checkmate 304
XXVIII. After the Storm 321
XXIX. The New Lillie 326
SUNNY MEMORIES OF FOREIGN LANDS, VOL. 1 (of 2)
By Harriet Beecher Stowe
CONTENTS
Preface
Introductory
Breakfast In Liverpool\x97April 11.
Public Meeting In Liverpool\x97April 13.
Public Meeting In Glasgow\x97April 15.
Public Meeting In Edinburgh\x97April 20.
Public Meeting In Aberdeen\x97April 21.
Public Meeting In Dundee\x97April 22.
Address Of The Students Of Glasgow University\x97April 25.
Loud Mayor's Dinner At The Mansion House, London\x97May 2.
Stafford House Reception\x97May 7.
Congregational Union\x97May 13.
Royal Highland School Society Dinner, At The Freemason's Tavern, London\x97May 14.
Antislavery Society, Exeter Hall\x97May 16.
Soir\xE9e At Willis's Rooms\x97May 25.
Concluding Note.
Letter I
Letter II
Letter III
Letter IV
Letter V
Letter VI.
Letter VII
Letter VIII
Letter IX
Letter X
Letter XI
Letter XII
Letter XIII
Letter XIV
Letter XV
Letter XVI
Letter XVII
Letter XVIII
Notes
Credits
OLDTOWN FIRESIDE STORIES.
By Harriet Beecher Stowe.
CONTENTS
THE GHOST IN THE MILL
THE SULLIVAN LOOKING-GLASS.
THE MINISTER'S HOUSEKEEPER.
THE WIDOW'S BANDBOX.
CAPTAIN KIDD'S MONEY.
\x93MIS' ELDERKIN'S PITCHER.\x94
THE GHOST IN THE CAP'N BROWNHOUSE.
ILLUSTRATIONS
Titlepage
Frontispiece
The Ghost in the Mill, Page 001
Old Cack Knew Him Too, Page 020
Tailpiece, Page 024
The Sullivan Looking-glass, Page 025
Tailpiece, Page 052
The Minister's Housekeeper, Page 053
Huldy Came Behind Chokin' With Laugh, Page 065
I've Thrown the Pig in The Well, Page 070
Tailpiece, Page 078
The Widow's Bandbox, Page 079
Tailpiece, Page 102
Captain Kidd's Money, Page 108
They Dug Down About Five Feet, Page 119
Mis' Elderkin's Pitcher, Page 122
Ghost in Cap'n Brown House, Page 139
Stood There Lookin' Right at Cinthy, Page 149
HOUSEHOLD PAPERS AND STORIES
By Harriet Beecher Stowe
1868
CONTENTS
PAGE
INTRODUCTORY NOTE 1
II. Homekeeping vs. Housekeeping 33
IV. The Economy of the Beautiful 69
VI. The Lady who does her own Work 101
VIII. Economy 133
X. Cookery 182
XII. Home Religion 231
II. Woman\x92s Sphere 274
IV. Is Woman a Worker? 316
VI. Bodily Religion: A Sermon on Good Health 347
VIII. How shall we be Amused? 374
X. What are the Sources of Beauty in Dress? 412
XII. The New Year 438
OUR SECOND GIRL 473
THE PEARL OF ORR'S ISLAND
A Story of the Coast of Maine
By Harriet Beecher Stowe
1896
CONTENTS
Introductory Note
CHAPTER
I. Naomi 1
II. Mara 5
III. The Baptism and the Burial 9
IV. Aunt Roxy and Aunt Ruey 15
V. The Kittridges 25
VI. Grandparents 36
VII. From the Sea 47
VIII. The Seen and the Unseen 58
IX. Moses 74
X. The Minister 85
XI. Little Adventurers 99
XII. Sea Tales 110
XIII. Boy and Girl 120
XIV. The Enchanted Island 132
XV. The Home Coming 143
XVI. The Natural and the Spiritual 154
XVII. Lessons 165
XVIII. Sally 175
XIX. Eighteen 179
XX. Rebellion 186
XXI. The Tempter 198
XXII. A Friend in Need 208
XXIII. The Beginning of the Story 218
XXIV. Desires and Dreams 229
XXV. Miss Emily 235
XXVI. Dolores 245
XXVII. Hidden Things 258
XXVIII. A Coquette 270
XXIX. Night Talks 279
XXX. The Launch of the Ariel 290
XXXI. Greek meets Greek 303
XXXII. The Betrothal 315
XXXIII. At a Quilting 323
XXXIV. Friends 329
XXXV. The Toothacre Cottage 335
XXXVI. The Shadow of Death 339
XXXVII. The Victory 351
XXXVIII. Open Vision 358
XXXIX. The Land of Beulah 368
XL. The Meeting 376
XLI. Consolation 380
XLII. Last Words 387
XLIII. The Pearl 393
XLIV. Four Years After 398
PALMETTO-LEAVES
By Harriet Beecher Stowe
1873
CONTENTS.
PAGE.
Nobody's Dog 1
A Flowery January in Florida 16
The Wrong Side of the Tapestry 26
A Letter To the Girls 40
A Water-coach, and a Ride in It 53
Picnicking up Julington 69
Magnolia 87
Yellow Jessamines 97
"Florida for Invalids" 116
Swamps and Orange-Trees 137
Letter-Writing 148
Magnolia Week 161
Buying Land in Florida 175
Our Experience in Crops 185
May in Florida 196
St. Augustine 206
Our Neighbor Over the Way 225
The Grand Tour up River 247
Old Cudjo and the Angel 267
The Laborers of the South 279
Map of the St. John River
MAP OF THE ST. JOHN RIVER, FLORIDA.
The Savannah Steamer
SALEM WITCHCRAFT
THE PLANCHETTE MYSTERY AND MODERN SPIRITUALISM
By Harriet Beecher Stowe
CONTENTS.
PAGE
The Place 7
The Salemite of Forty Years Ago 8
How the Subject was opened 9
Careful Historiography 10
The Actors in the Tragedy 12
Philosophy of the Delusion 12
Character of the Early Settlement 13
First Causes 15
Death of the Patriarch 16
Growth of Witchcraft 17
Trouble in the Church 18
Rev. Mr. Burroughs 19
Deodat Lawson 20
Parris\x97a Malignant 20
A Protean Devil 21
State of Physiology 22
William Penn as a Precedent 22
Phenomena of Witchcraft 23
Parris and his Circle 25
The Inquisitions\x97Sarah Good 26
A Child Witch 27
The Towne Sisters 28
Depositions of Parris and his Tools 31
Goody Nurse\x92s Excommunication 35
Mary Easty 36
Mrs. Cloyse 38
The Proctor Family 40
The Jacobs Family 41
Giles and Martha Corey 42
Decline of the Delusion 44
The Physio-Psychological Causes of the Trouble 45
The Last of Parris 47
\x93One of the Afflicted\x94\x97Her Confession 49
The Transition 50
The Fetish Theory Then and Now 51
The Views of Modern Investigators 53
Importance of the Subject 55
CONTENTS OF THE PLANCHETTE MYSTERY.
What Planchette is and does (with review of Facts and Phenomena) 63
The Press on Planchette (with further details of Phenomena) 67
Theory First\x97That the Board is moved by the hands that rest upon it 70
Theory Second\x97\x93It is Electricity or Magnetism\x94 71
Proof that Electricity has nothing to do with it 78
Theory Third\x97The Devil Theory 79
Theory of a Floating Ambient Mentality 81
\x93To Daimonion\x94\x97The Demon 83
\x93It is some principle of nature as yet unknown\x94 85
Theory of the Agency of Departed Spirits 85
Planchette\x92s own Theory 89
The Rational Difficulty 92
The Medium\x97The Doctrine of Spheres 93
The Moral and Religious Difficulty 98
What this Modern Development is, and what is to come of it 102
Conclusion 105
How to work Planchette 106
SPIRITUALISM.
History of Spiritualism 107
Scriptural Views 110
Communion of Saints 112
DR. DODDRIDGE\x92S DREAM.
Pages 123-125
MEN OF OUR TIMES; OR LEADING PATRIOTS OF THE DAY
LINCOLN, GRANT, GARRISON, SUMNER, CHASE, WILSON, GREELEY, FARRAGUT, ANDREW, COLFAX, STANTON, DOUGLASS, BUCKINGHAM, SHERMAN, SHERIDAN, HOWARD, PHILLIPS AND BEECHER.
By Harriet Beecher Stowe
1868
LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS
PAGE.
1. President Lincoln, FRONTISPIECE.
2. Gen. U. S. Grant, 111
3. William L. Garrison, 154
4. Charles Sumner, 214
5. Salmon P. Chase, 241
6. Henry Wilson, 269
7. Horace Greeley, 293
8. Com. D. G. Farragut, 311
9. Gov. John A. Andrew, 325
10. Schuyler Colfax, 347
11. E. M. Stanton, 363
12. Frederick Douglass, 380
13. Gen. P. H. Sheridan, 405
14. Gen. W. T. Sherman, 423
15. Gen. Oliver O. Howard, 447
16. Gov. Wm. A. Buckingham, 463
17. Wendell Phillips, 483
18. Rev. Henry Ward Beecher, 505
CONTENTS
PAGE
CHAPTER I.\x97ABRAHAM LINCOLN.
The Men of our Time\x97Lincoln Foremost\x97The War was the Working-Man's Revolution\x97Abraham Lincoln's Birth and Youth\x97The Books he Read\x97The Thirty Thousand Dollars for Tender\x97The Old Stocking of Government Money\x97A Just Lawyer; Anecdotes\x97His First Candidacy and Speech\x97Goes to Legislature and Congress\x97The Seven Debates and Campaign against Douglass in 1858\x97Webster's and Lincoln's Language Compared\x97The Cooper Institute Speech\x97The Nomination at Chicago\x97Moral and Physical Courage\x97The Backwoodsman President and the Diplomatists\x97Significance of his Presidential Career\x97Religious Feelings\x97His Kindness\x97"The Baby Did It"\x97The First Inaugural\x97The Second Inaugural, and other State Papers\x97The Conspiracy and Assassination\x97The Opinions of Foreign Nations on Mr. Lincoln. 11
CHAPTER II.\x97ULYSSES S. GRANT.
A General Wanted\x97A Short War Expected\x97The Young Napoleon\x97God's Revenge Against Slavery\x97The Silent Man in Galena\x97"Tanning Leather"\x97Gen. Grant's Puritan Descent\x97How he Loaded the Logs\x97His West Point Career\x97Service in Mexico\x97Marries, and Leaves the Army\x97Wood-Cutting, Dunning and Leather-Selling\x97Enlists against the Rebellion\x97Missouri Campaign\x97Paducah Campaign\x97Fort Donelson Campaign\x97Battle of Shiloh\x97How Grant Lost his Temper\x97Vicksburg Campaign\x97Lincoln on Grant's "Drinking"\x97Chattanooga\x97Grant's Method of Making a Speech\x97Appointed Lieutenant-General\x97The Richmond Campaign\x97"Mr. Grant is a Very Obstinate Man"\x97Grant's Qualifications as a Ruler\x97Honesty\x97Generosity to Subordinates\x97Sound Judgment of Men\x97Power of Holding his Tongue\x97Grant's Sidewalk Platform\x97Talks Horse to Senator Wade\x97"Wants Nothing Said"\x97The Best Man for Next President. 111
CHAPTER III.\x97WILLIAM LLOYD GARRISON.
Mr. Garrison's Birth and Parents\x97His Mother\x97Her Conversion\x97His Boyhood\x97Apprenticed to a Printer\x97First Anti-Slavery Address\x97Advice to Dr. Beecher\x97Benjamin Lundy\x97Garrison Goes to Baltimore\x97First Battle with Slavery\x97In Jail\x97First Number of the Liberator\x97Threats and Rage from the South\x97The American Anti-Slavery Society\x97First Visit to England\x97The Era of Mob Violence\x97The Respectable Boston Mob\x97Mr. Garrison's Account\x97Again in Jail\x97The Massachusetts Legislature Uncivil to the Abolitionists\x97Logical Vigor of the Slaveholders\x97Garrison's Disunionism\x97Denounces the Church\x97Liberality of the Liberator\x97The Southerners' own Testimony\x97Mr. Garrison's Bland Manners\x97His Steady Nerves\x97xHis use of Language\x97Things by their Right Names\x97Abolitionist "Hard Language;" Garrison's Argument on it\x97Protest for Woman's Rights\x97The Triumph of his Cause\x97"The Liberator" Discontinued\x97Second Visit to England\x97Letter to Mrs. Stowe. 154
CHAPTER IV.\x97CHARLES SUMNER.
Mr. Sumner an instance of Free State High Culture\x97The "Brahmin Caste" of New England\x97The Sumner Ancestry; a Kentish Family\x97Governor Increase Sumner; His Revolutionary Patriotism\x97His Stately Presence; "A Governor that can Walk"\x97Charles Sumner's Father\x97Mr. Sumner's Education, Legal and Literary Studies\x97Tendency to Ideal Perfection\x97Sumner and the Whigs\x97Abolitionism Social Death\x97Sumner's Opposition to the Mexican War\x97His Peace Principles\x97Sumner Opposes Slavery Within the Constitution, as Garrison Outside of it\x97Anti-Slavery and the Whigs\x97The Political Abolitionist Platform\x97Webster asked in vain to Oppose Slavery\x97Sumner's Rebuke of Winthrop\x97Joins the Free Soil Party\x97Succeeds Webster in the Senate\x97Great Speech against the Fugitive Slave Law\x97The Constitution a Charter of Liberty\x97Slavery not in the Constitution\x97First Speech after the Brooks Assault\x97Consistency as to Reconstruction. 214
CHAPTER V.\x97SALMON P. CHASE.
England and our Finances in the War\x97President Wheelock and Mr. Chase's Seven Uncles\x97His Uncle the Bishop\x97His Sense of Justice at College\x97His Uncle the Senator\x97Admitted to the Bar for Cincinnati\x97His First Argument before a U. S. Court\x97Society in Cincinnati\x97The Ohio Abolitionists\x97Cincinnati on Slavery\x97The Church admits Slavery to be "an Evil"\x97Mr. Chase and the Birney Mob\x97The Case of the Slave Girl Matilda\x97How Mr. Chase "Ruined Himself"\x97He Affirms the Sectionality of Slavery\x97The Van Zandt Case\x97Extracts from Mr. Chase's Argument\x97Mr. Chase in Anti-Slavery Politics\x97His Qualifications as a Financier. 241
CHAPTER VI.\x97HENRY WILSON.
Lincoln, Chase and Wilson as Illustrations of Democracy\x97Wilson's Birth and Boyhood\x97Reads over One Thousand Books in Ten Years\x97Learns Shoemaking\x97Earns an Education Twice Over\x97Forms a Debating Society\x97Makes Sixty Speeches for Harrison\x97Enters into Political Life on the Working-Men's Side\x97Helps to form the Free Soil Party\x97Chosen United States Senator over Edward Everett\x97Aristocratic Politics in those Days\x97Wilson and the Slaveholding Senators\x97The Character of his Speaking\x97Full of Facts and Practical Sense\x97His Usefulness as Chairman of the Military Committee\x97His "History of the Anti-Slavery Measures in Congress"\x97The 37th and 38th Congresses\x97The Summary of Anti-Slavery Legislation from that Book\x97Other Abolitionist Forces\x97Contrast of Sentiments of Slavery and of Freedom\x97Recognition of Hayti and Liberia; Specimen of the Debate\x97Slave and Free Doctrine on Education\x97Equality in Washington Street Cars\x97Pro-Slavery Good Taste\x97Solon's Ideal of Democracy Reached in America. 269
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CHAPTER VII.\x97HORACE GREELEY.
The Scotch-Irish Race in the United States\x97Mr. Greeley a Partly Reversed Specimen of it\x97His Birth and Boyhood\x97Learns to Read Books Upside Down\x97His Apprenticeship on a Newspaper\x97The Town Encyclopedia\x97His Industry at his Trade\x97His First Experience of a Fugitive Slave Chase\x97His First Appearance in New York\x97The Work on the Polyglot Testament\x97Mr. Greeley as "The Ghost"\x97The First Cheap Daily Paper\x97The Firm of Greeley & Story\x97The New Yorker, the Jeffersonian and the Log Cabin\x97Mr. Greeley as Editor of the New Yorker\x97Beginning of The Tribune\x97Mr. Greeley's Theory of a Political Newspaper\x97His Love for The Tribune\x97The First Week of that Paper\x97The Attack of the Sun and its Result\x97Mr. McElrath's Partnership\x97Mr. Greeley's Fourierism\x97"The Bloody Sixth"\x97The Cooper Libel Suits\x97Mr. Greeley in Congress\x97He Goes to Europe\x97His Course in the Rebellion\x97His Ambition and Qualifications for Office\x97The Key-Note of his Character. 293
CHAPTER VIII.\x97DAVID G. FARRAGUT.
The Lesson of the Rebellion to Monarchs\x97The Strength of the United States\x97The U. S. Naval Service\x97The Last War\x97State of the Navy in 1861\x97Admiral Farragut Represents the Old Navy and the New\x97Charlemagne's Physician, Farraguth\x97The Admiral's Letter about his Family\x97His Birth\x97His Cruise with Porter when a Boy of Nine\x97The Destruction of the Essex\x97Farragut in Peace Times\x97Expected to go with the South\x97Refuses, is Threatened, and goes North\x97The Opening of the Mississippi\x97The Bay Fight at Mobile\x97The Admiral's Health\x97Farragut and the Tobacco Bishop. 311
CHAPTER IX.\x97JOHN A. ANDREW.
Governor Andrew's Death Caused by the War\x97The Governors Dr. Beecher Prayed for\x97Governor Andrew a Christian Governor\x97Gov. Andrew's Birth\x97He goes to Boston to Study Law\x97Not Averse to unfashionable and Unpopular Causes\x97His Cheerfulness and Social Accomplishments\x97His Sunday School Work\x97Lives Plainly\x97His Clear Foresight of the War\x97Sends a Thousand Men to Washington in One Day\x97The Story of the Blue Overcoats\x97The Telegram for the Bodies of the Dead of Baltimore\x97Gov. Andrew's Tender Care for the Poor\x97The British Minister and the Colored Women\x97The Governor's Kindness to the Soldier's Wife\x97His Biblical Proclamations\x97The Thanksgiving Proclamation of 1861\x97The Proclamation of 1862\x97His Interest in the Schools for the Richmond Poor\x97Cotton Mather's Eulogy on Gov. Winthrop\x97Gov. Andrew's Farewell Address to the Massachusetts Legislature\x97State Gratitude to Gov. Andrew's Family. 325
CHAPTER X.\x97SCHUYLER COLFAX.
General William Colfax, Washington's Friend\x97Mr. Colfax his Grandson\x97Mr. Colfax's Birth and Boyhood\x97Removes to Indiana\x97Becomes Deputy County Auditor\x97Begins to Deal with Politics\x97Becomes an Editor\x97Thexii Period of Maximum Debt\x97Mr. Colfax's First Year\x97He is Burnt Out\x97His Subsequent Success as an Editor\x97His Political Career as a Whig\x97Joins the Republican Party\x97Popularity in his own District\x97The Nebraska Bill\x97Mr. Colfax goes into Congress\x97The Famous Contest for Speakership\x97Mr. Colfax Saves his Party from Defeat\x97Banks Chosen Speaker\x97Mr. Colfax's Great Speech on the Bogus Laws of Kansas\x97The Ball and Chain for Free Speech\x97Mr. Colfax Shows the Ball, and A. H. Stephens Holds it for him\x97Mr. Colfax Renominated Unanimously\x97His Remarkable Success in his own District\x97Useful Labors in Post Office Committee\x97Early for Lincoln for President\x97Mr. Colfax urged for Post Master General\x97His Usefulness as Speaker\x97The Qualifications for that Post\x97Mr. Colfax's Public Virtues. 347
CHAPTER XI.\x97EDWIN M. STANTON.
Rebel Advantages at Opening of the War\x97They Knew all about the Army Officers\x97Early Contrast of Rebel Enthusiasm and Union Indifference\x97Importance of Mr. Stanton's Post\x97His Birth and Ancestry\x97His Education and Law Studies\x97County Attorney\x97State Reporter\x97Defends Mr. McNulty\x97Removes to Pittsburg\x97His Line of Business\x97The Wheeling Case\x97He Removes to Washington\x97His Qualifications as a Lawyer\x97He Enters Buchanan's Cabinet\x97His Unexpected Patriotism\x97His Own Account of the Cabinet at News of Anderson's Move to Sumter\x97The Lion before the Old Red Dragon\x97Appointed Secretary of War\x97"Bricks in his Pockets"\x97Stanton's Habitual Reserve\x97His Wrath\x97"The Angel Gabriel as Paymaster"\x97Anecdotes of Lincoln's Confidence in Stanton\x97Lincoln's Affection for him\x97The Burdens of his Office\x97His Kindness of Heart within a Rough Outside\x97The Country his Debtor. 363
CHAPTER XII.\x97FREDERICK DOUGLASS.
The Opportunity for Every Man in a Republic\x97The Depth Below a White Man's Poverty\x97The Starting Point whence Fred Douglass Raised Himself\x97His Mother\x97Her Noble Traits\x97Her Self Denial for the sake of Seeing him\x97She Defends him against Aunt Katy\x97Her Death\x97Col. Loyd's Plantation\x97The Luxury of his own Mansion\x97The Organization of his Estate\x97"Old Master"\x97How they Punished the Women\x97How Young Douglass Philosophized on Being a Slave\x97Plantation Life\x97The Allowance of Food\x97The Clothes\x97An Average Plantation Day\x97Mr. Douglass' Experience as a Slave Child\x97The Slave Children's Trough\x97The Slave Child's Thoughts\x97The Melancholy of Slave Songs\x97He Becomes a House Servant\x97A Kind Mistress Teaches him to Read\x97How he Completed his Education\x97Effects of Learning to Read\x97Experiences Religion and Prays for Liberty\x97Learns to Write\x97Hires his Time, and Absconds\x97Becomes a Free Working-Man in New Bedford\x97Marries\x97Mr. Douglass on Garrison\x97Mr. Douglass' Literary Career. 380
CHAPTER XIII.\x97PHILIP H. SHERIDAN.
Sheridan a Full-Blooded Irishman\x97The Runaway Horse\x97Constitutional Fearlessness\x97Sheridan Goes to West Point\x97Sheridan's Apprenticeship toxiii War\x97The Fight with the Apaches at Fort Duncan\x97He is Transferred to Oregon\x97Commands at Fort Yamhill in the Yokima Reservation\x97The Quarrel among the Yokimas\x97Sheridan Popular with Indians\x97He Thinks he has a Chance to be Major Some Day\x97Sheridan's Shyness with Ladies\x97He Employs a Substitute in Waiting on a Lady\x97Sheridan's Kindness and Efficiency in Office Work\x97He Becomes a Colonel of Cavalry\x97His Shrewd Defeat of Gen. Chalmers\x97Becomes Brigadier\x97The Kentucky Campaign against Bragg\x97Sheridan Saves the Battle of Perrysville\x97Saves the Battle of Murfreesboro\x97Gen. Rousseau on Sheridan's Fighting\x97Sheridan at Missionary Ridge\x97Joins Grant as Chief of Cavalry\x97His Raids around Lee\x97His Campaign in the Valley of Virginia\x97He Moves Across and Joins in the Final Operations\x97His Administration at New Orleans\x97Grant's Opinion of Sheridan. 405
CHAPTER XIV.\x97WILLIAM T. SHERMAN.
The Result of Eastern Blood and Western Developments\x97Lincoln, Grant, Chase and Sherman Specimens of it\x97The Sherman Family Character\x97Hon. Thomas Ewing adopts Sherman\x97Character of the Boy\x97He Enters West Point\x97His Peculiar Traits Showing thus Early\x97How he Treated his "Pleb"\x97His Early Military Service\x97His Appearance as First Lieutenant\x97Marries and Resigns\x97Banker at San Francisco\x97Superintendent of Louisiana Military Academy\x97His Noble Letter Resigning the Superintendency\x97He Foresees a Great War\x97Cameron and Lincoln Think not\x97Sherman at Bull Run\x97He Goes to Kentucky\x97Wants Two Hundred Thousand Troops\x97The False Report of his Insanity\x97Joins Grant; His Services at Shiloh\x97Services in the Vicksburg Campaigns\x97Endurance of Sherman and his Army\x97Sherman's estimate of Grant\x97How to live on the Enemy\x97Prepares to move from Atlanta\x97The Great March\x97His Courtesy to the Colored People\x97His Foresight in War\x97Sherman on Office-Holding. 423
CHAPTER XV.\x97OLIVER O. HOWARD.
Can there be a Christian Soldier?\x97General Howard's Birth\x97His Military Education\x97His Life Before the Rebellion\x97Resigns in Order to get into the Field\x97Made Brigadier for Good Conduct at Bull Run\x97Commands the Eleventh Corps and Joins the Army at Chattanooga\x97His Services in the Army of the Potomac\x97Extreme Calmness on the Field of Battle\x97Services with Sherman\x97Sherman's high Opinion of him\x97Col. Bowman's Admiration of Howard's Christian Observances\x97Patriotic Services while Invalided at Home\x97Reproves the Swearing Teamster\x97Placed over the Freedmen's Bureau\x97The Central Historic Fact of the War\x97The Rise of Societies to Help the Freedmen\x97The Work of the Freedmen's Bureau\x97Disadvantages Encountered by it, and by General Howard\x97Results of the Bureau thus far\x97Col. Bowman's Description of Gen. Howard's Duties\x97Gen. Sherman's Letter to Gen. Howard on Assuming the Post\x97Estimate of Gen. Howard's Abilities. 447
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CHAPTER XVI.\x97WILLIAM A. BUCKINGHAM.
The Buckinghams an Original Puritan Family\x97Rev. Thomas Buckingham\x97Gov. Buckingham's Father and Mother\x97Lebanon, the Birthplace of Five Governors\x97Gov. Buckingham's Education\x97He Teaches School\x97His Natural Executive Tendency\x97His Business Career\x97His Extreme Punctuality in Payments\x97His Business and Religious Character\x97His Interest in the Churches and Schools\x97His Benefactions in those Directions\x97His Political Course\x97He Accepts Municipal but not Legislative Offices\x97A Member of the Peace Conference\x97He Himself Equips the First State Militia in the War\x97His Zealous Co-operation with the Government\x97Sends Gen. Aiken to Washington\x97The Isolation of that City from the North\x97Gov. Buckingham's Policy for the War; Letter to Mr. Lincoln\x97His Views on Emancipation; Letter to Mr. Lincoln\x97Anecdote of the Temperance Governor's Staff. 463
CHAPTER XVII.\x97WENDELL PHILLIPS.
Birth and Ancestry of Wendell Phillips\x97His Education and Social Advantage\x97The Lovejoy Murder\x97Speech in Faneuil Hall\x97The Murder Justified\x97Mr. Phillips' First Speech\x97He Defends the Liberty of the Press\x97His Ideality\x97He Joins the Garrisonian Abolitionists\x97Gives up the Law and Becomes a Reformer\x97His Method and Style of Oratory\x97Abolitionists Blamed for the Boston Mob\x97Heroism of the Early Abolitionists\x97His Position in Favor of "Woman's Rights"\x97Anecdote of His Lecturing\x97His Services in the Cause of Temperance\x97Extract from His Argument on Prohibition\x97His Severity towards Human Nature\x97His Course During and Since the War\x97A Change of Tone Recommended. 483
CHAPTER XVIII.\x97HENRY WARD BEECHER.
Mr. Beecher a Younger Child\x97Death of his Mother\x97His Step-Mother's Religious Influence\x97Ma'am Kilbourn's School\x97The Passing Bell\x97Unprofitable Schooling\x97An Inveterate School Joker\x97Masters the Latin Grammar\x97Goes to Amherst College\x97His Love of Flowers\x97Modes of Study; a Reformer\x97Mr. Beecher and the Solemn Tutor\x97His Favorite Poetry\x97His Introduction to Phrenology\x97His Mental Philosophy\x97Doctrine of Spiritual Intuition\x97Punctuality for Joke's Sake\x97Old School and New School\x97Doubts on Entering the Ministry\x97Settlement at Lawrenceburg\x97His Studies; First Revival\x97Large Accessions to the Church\x97"Tropical Style"\x97Ministerial Jokes\x97Slavery in the Pulpit\x97The Transfer to Brooklyn\x97Plymouth Church Preaching\x97Visit to England\x97Speeches in England\x97Letters from England\x97Christian View of England\x97The Exeter Hall Speech\x97Preaches an Unpopular Forgiveness. 505
WOMAN IN SACRED HISTORY
A SERIES OF SKETCHES DRAWN FROM SCRIPTURAL, HISTORICAL, AND LEGENDARY SOURCES
By Harriet Beecher Stowe
1874
CONTENTS.
INTRODUCTION.
I. WOMEN OF THE PATRIARCHAL AGES.
1. Sarah the Princess.
2. Hagar the Slave.
3. Rebekah the Bride.
4. Leah and Rachel.
II. WOMEN OF THE NATIONAL PERIOD.
5. Miriam, Sister of Moses.
6. Deborah the Prophetess.
7. Delilah the Destroyer.
8. Jephtha's Daughter.
9. Hannah the Praying Mother.
10. Ruth the Moabitess.
11. The Witch of Endor.
12. Queen Esther.
13. Judith the Deliverer.
III. WOMEN OF THE CHRISTIAN ERA.
14. The Mythical Madonna.
15. Mary the Mother of Jesus.
16. The Daughter of Herodias.
17. The Woman of Samaria.
18. Mary Magdalene.
19. Martha and Mary.
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