Half a Century

Jane Grey Cannon Swisshelm

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Title: Half a Century
Author: Jane Grey Cannon Swisshelm
Release Date: April 15, 2004 [EBook #12052]
Language: English
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BY
JANE GREY SWISSHELM.
* * * * *
"God so willed:
Mankind is ignorant! a man am I:
Call ignorance my sorrow, not my sin!"
"O, still as ever friends are they
Who, in the interest of outraged truth
Deprecate such rough handling of a lie!"
ROBERT BROWNING.
1880.PREFACE.
It has been assumed, and is generally believed,
that the Anti-slavery struggle, which, culminated in
the Emancipation Proclamation of 1862, originated
in Infidelity, and was a triumph of Skepticism over
Christianity. In no way can this error be so well
corrected as by the personal history of those who
took part in that struggle; and as most of them
have passed from earth without leaving any record
of the education and motives which underlay their
action, the duty they neglected becomes doubly
incumbent on the few who remain.
To supply one quota of the inside history of the
great Abolition war, is the primary object of this
work; but scarcely secondary to this object is that
of recording incidents characteristic of the Peculiar
Institution overthrown in that struggle.
Another object, and one which struggles for
precedence, is to give an inside history of the
hospitals during the war of the Rebellion, that the
American people may not forget the cost of that
Government so often imperiled through their
indifference.
A third object, is to give an analysis of the ground
which produced the
Woman's Rights agitation, and the causes which
limited its influence.A fourth is, to illustrate the force of education and
the mutability of human character, by a personal
narrative of one who, in 1836, would have broken
an engagement rather than permit her name to
appear in print, even in the announcement of
marriage; and who, in 1850, had as much
newspaper notoriety as any man of that time, and
was singularly indifferent to the praise or blame of
the Press;—of one who, in 1837, could not break
the seal of silence set upon her lips by
"Inspiration," even so far as to pray with a man
dying of intemperance, and who yet, in 1862,
addressed the Minnesota Senate in session, and
as many others as could be packed in the hall, with
no more embarrassment than though talking with a
friend in a chimney corner.
J.G.S.
CONTENTS
CHAPTER
I. I FIND LIFE
II. PROGRESS IN CALVINISM, HUNT GHOSTS,
SEE LA FAYETTE
III. FATHER'S DEATHIV. GO TO BOARDING SCHOOL
V. LOSE MY BROTHER
VI. JOIN CHURCH, AND MAKE NEW
ENDEAVORS TO KEEP SABBATH
VII. DELIVERER OF THE DARK NIGHT
VIII. FITTING MYSELF INTO MY SPHERE
IX. HABITATIONS OF HORRID CRUELTY
X. KENTUCKY CONTEMPT FOR LABOR
XI. REBELLION
XII. THE VALLEY OF THE SHADOW OF DEATH
XIII. "LABOR—SERVICE OR ACT"
XIV. SWISSVALE
XV. WILLOWS BY THE WATER-COURSES
XVI. THE WATERS GROW DEEPXVII. MY NAME APPEARS IN PRINT
XVIII. MEXICAN WAR LETTERS
XIX. TRAINING SCHOOL
XX. RIGHTS OF MARRIED WOMEN
XXI. PITTSBURG SATURDAY VISITER
XXII. RECEPTION OF THE VISITER
XXIII. MY CROOKED TELESCOPE
XXIV. MINT, CUMMIN AND ANNIS
XXV. FREE SOIL PARTY
XXVI. VISIT WASHINGTON
XXVII. DANIEL WEBSTER
XXVIII. FUGITIVE SLAVE LAW—THE TWO
RIDDLES
XXIX. BLOOMERS AND WOMAN'S RIGHTS
CONVENTIONSXXX. MANY MATTERS
XXXI. THE MOTHER CHURCH
XXXII. POLITICS AND PRINTERS
XXXIII. SUMNER, BURLINGAME AND CASSIUS
M. CLAY
XXXIV. FINANCE AND DESERTION
XXXV. MY HERMITAGE
XXXVI. THE MINNESOTA DICTATOR
XXXVII. ANOTHER VISITER
XXXVIII. BORDER RUFFIANISM
XXXIX. SPEAK IN PUBLIC
XL. A FAMOUS VICTORY
XLI. STATE AND NATIONAL POLITICS
XLII. RELIGIOUS CONTROVERSIES
XLIII. FRONTIER LIFEXLIV. PRINTERS
XLV. THE REBELLION
XLVI. PLATFORMS
XLVII. OUT INTO THE WORLD AND HOME
AGAIN
XLVIII. THE ARISTOCRACY OF THE WEST
XLIX. THE INDIAN MASSACRE OF '62
L. A MISSIVE AND A MISSION
LI. NO USE FOR ME AMONG THE WOUNDED
LII. FIND WORK
LIII. HOSPITAL GANGRENE
LIV. GET PERMISSION TO WORK
LV. FIND A NAME
LVI. DROP MY ALIASLVII. HOSPITAL DRESS
LVIII. SPECIAL WORK
LIX. HEROIC AND ANTI-HEROIC TREATMENT
LX. COST OF ORDER
LXI. LEARN TO CONTROL PYAEMIA
LXII. FIRST CASE OF GROWING A NEW BONE
LXIII. A HEROIC MOTHER
LXIV. TWO KINDS OF APPRECIATION
LXV. LIFE AND DEATH
LXVI. MEET MISS DIX AND GO TO
FREDERICKSBURG
LXVII. THE OLD THEATER
LXVIII. AM PLACED IN AUTHORITY
LXIX. VISITORS
LXX. WOUNDED OFFICERS