PEOPLE MENTIONED IN CAPE COD - Kouroo · The historian George Bancroft, from his summer “cottage” Roseclyffe at Newport (see following screen), weighed into Rhode Island’s “Dorr

PEOPLE MENTIONED IN CAPE COD:

THE REVEREND JOHN STETSON BARRY

“NARRATIVE HISTORY” AMOUNTS TO FABULATION, THE REAL STUFF BEING MERE CHRONOLOGY

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CAPE COD: It is remarkable that there is not in English anyadequate or correct account of the French exploration of what isnow the coast of New England, between 1604 and 1608, though it isconceded that they then made the first permanent Europeansettlement on the continent of North America north of St.Augustine. If the lions had been the painters it would have beenotherwise. This omission is probably to be accounted for partlyby the fact that the early edition of Champlain’s “Voyages” hadnot been consulted for this purpose. This contains by far the mostparticular, and, I think, the most interesting chapter of what wemay call the Ante-Pilgrim history of New England, extending toone hundred and sixty pages quarto; but appears to be unknownequally to the historian and the orator on Plymouth Rock. Bancroftdoes not mention Champlain at all among the authorities for DeMonts’ expedition, nor does he say that he ever visited the coastof New England. Though he bore the title of pilot to De Monts, hewas, in another sense, the leading spirit, as well as thehistorian of the expedition. Holmes, Hildreth, and Barry, andapparently all our historians who mention Champlain, refer to theedition of 1632, in which all the separate charts of our harbors,&c., and about one half the narrative, are omitted; for the authorexplored so many lands afterward that he could afford to forgeta part of what he had done. Hildreth, speaking of De Monts’sexpedition, says that “he looked into the Penobscot [in 1605],which Pring had discovered two years before,” saying nothingabout Champlain’s extensive exploration of it for De Monts in 1604(Holmes says 1608, and refers to Purchas); also that he followedin the track of Pring along the coast “to Cape Cod, which hecalled Malabarre.” (Haliburton had made the same statement beforehim in 1829. He called it Cap Blanc, and Malle Barre (the Bad Bar)was the name given to a harbor on the east side of the Cape.)Pring says nothing about a river there. Belknap says that Weymouthdiscovered it in 1605. Sir F. Gorges says, in his narration (MaineHist. Coll., Vol. II. p. 19), 1658, that Pring in 1606 “made aperfect discovery of all the rivers and harbors.” This is the mostI can find. Bancroft makes Champlain to have discovered morewestern rivers in Maine, not naming the Penobscot; he, however,must have been the discoverer of distances on this river (seeBelknap, p. 147). Pring was absent from England only about sixmonths, and sailed by this part of Cape Cod (Malebarre) becauseit yielded no sassafras, while the French, who probably had notheard of Pring, were patiently for years exploring the coast insearch of a place of settlement, sounding and surveying itsharbors.

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March 26, Friday: John Stetson Barry was born in Massachusetts. He and his five older brothers would be growing up, however, in Alton, an Illinois suburb of St. Louis.

The Magistrat (commoners’ court) of Vienna appointed Councillor Mathias von Tuscher as guardian over Ludwig van Beethoven’s nephew Karl.

NOBODY COULD GUESS WHAT WOULD HAPPEN NEXT

1819

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June 18, Monday: Representative John Quincy Adams of Massachusetts continued his speech before the US House of Representatives, on the expansive topic of Texas, for a 4th day.

Having undergone a total of four blasphemy trials, and Massachusetts Chief Justice Lemuel Shaw having come to the opinion that the Commonwealth was obligated to protect its citizens against “an intended design to calumniate and disparage the Supreme Being, and to destroy the veneration due to him,” the convicted atheist and blasphemer Abner Kneeland was consigned to 60 days in the Boston lockup. (Presumably while there he was of incredible benefit to other prisoners, by instructing them in the tenets of Universalist doctrine.) Presumably it was while he was there that he prepared A REVIEW OF THE TRIAL, CONVICTION, AND FINAL IMPRISONMENT IN THE COMMON JAIL OF THE COUNTY OF SUFFOLK OF ABNER KNEELAND FOR THE ALLEGED CHARGE OF BLASPHEMY. The Reverend William Ellery Channing put together a petition for his pardon based upon the principles of freedom of speech and press, which was signed by many prominent people, including Ralph Waldo Emerson, Theodore Parker, George Ripley, William Lloyd Garrison, and Bronson Alcott. The Reverend Hosea Ballou, who did not sign the petition, did visit his old friend in jail. When the jail doors opened, Kneeland relocated to Iowa to initiate a small utopian community that was to be known as Salubria (it was near what is now Farmington).

During his childhood in Alton, Illinois, John Stetson Barry had determined to prepare himself for the ministry. In this year he returned to Massachusetts to study under the Reverend Hosea Ballou in Boston (there was no Universalist College). After his ordination he would initially serve the Universalist congregation of West Amesbury MA (has become Merrimac), but would begin to serve instead Weymouth in 1839, West Scituate in 1841, Pawtucket, Rhode Island in 1844, and finally Needham beginning in 1855.

1838

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The Reverend John Stetson Barry began to serve the Universalist church of Weymouth, Massachusetts.

LIFE IS LIVED FORWARD BUT UNDERSTOOD BACKWARD?— NO, THAT’S GIVING TOO MUCH TO THE HISTORIAN’S STORIES.

LIFE ISN’T TO BE UNDERSTOOD EITHER FORWARD OR BACKWARD.

1839

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April 8, Wednesday: The Reverend John Stetson Barry got married with Louisa Young, who was a niece of his sister Adaline’s husband.

April 8: How shall I help myself? By withdrawing into the garret and associating with spiders andmice, determining to meet myself face to face sooner or later. Completely silent and attentive I will be this hour,and the next, and forever. The most positive life that history notices has been a constant retiring out of life, awiping one’s hands of it, seeing how mean it is, and having nothing to do with it.

DO I HAVE YOUR ATTENTION? GOOD.

1840

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The Reverend John Stetson Barry began to serve the Universalist congregation in West Scituate, Massachusetts.

THE FUTURE IS MOST READILY PREDICTED IN RETROSPECT

April 12, Monday: Birth of the Reverend John Stetson Barry and Louisa Young Barry’s 1st child, Caroline Louisa Barry.

In the continuing snowstorm, Nathaniel Hawthorne arrived at Brook Farm: “But I reflect that the Plymouth pilgrims arrived in the midst of storm... and nevertheless they prospered, and became a great people.”

1841

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BROOK FARM

THE SCARLET LETTER: Such were some of the people with whom I nowfound myself connected. I took it in good part, at the hands ofProvidence, that I was thrown into a position so little akin tomy past habits; and set myself seriously to gather from itwhatever profit was to be had. After my fellowship of toil andimpracticable schemes with the dreamy brethren of Brook Farm;after living for three years within the subtle influence of anintellect like Emerson’s; after those wild, free days on theAssabeth, indulging fantastic speculations, beside our fire offallen boughs, with Ellery Channing; after talking with Thoreauabout pine-trees and Indian relics in his hermitage at Walden;after growing fastidious by sympathy with the classic refinementof Hillard’s culture; after becoming imbued with poetic sentimentat Longfellow’s hearthstone – it was time, at length, thatI should exercise other faculties of my nature, and nourishmyself with food for which I had hitherto had little appetite.Even the old Inspector was desirable, as a change of diet, to aman who had known Alcott. I looked upon it as an evidence, in somemeasure, of a system naturally well balanced, and lacking noessential part of a thorough organization, that, with suchassociates to remember, I could mingle at once with men ofaltogether different qualities, and never murmur at the change.

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Nathaniel to his AMERICAN NOTEBOOKS, as rendered into poetry by Robert Peters:

Hawthorne as AgriculturalistI

My first lesson inagriculture: I went to seeour cows foddered …

We have eight cows,and the number isincreased by atranscendental heiferbelonging toMiss Margaret Fuller.She is very fractious, I believe,and apt to kick over the milk-pail.

I intend to convert myselfinto a milkmaid, this evening …I shall perform my dutywith fear and trembling.

III did not milk the cows last night.

IIIMiss Fuller’s cowhooks the other cowsand has made herself rulerof the herd.

Robert Peters. HAWTHORNE: POEMS ADAPTED FROM THE AMERICAN NOTEBOOKS. Fairfax CA: Poet-Skin / Red Hill Press, 1977

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June 6, Tuesday: Birth of the Reverend John Stetson Barry and Louisa Young Barry’s 2d child, Eliza Barnard Barry, who would become a teacher.

1843

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The historian George Bancroft, from his summer “cottage” Roseclyffe at Newport (see following screen), weighed into Rhode Island’s “Dorr War” on the side of Governor Thomas Wilson Dorr.

The Reverend John Stetson Barry began to serve the Universalist congregation of Pawtucket, Rhode Island.

At the foot of Meeting Street at the corner of Town Street, the Friends put what had been their 2d meetinghouse in Providence (Moshasuck), Rhode Island on heavy sledges and had it tugged (by a team of horses, we are told, although perhaps it was oxen) over snow down Town Street, then up Wickenden Street on Fox Point, and then uphill to 77 Hope Street, where it became a 2-family residence. Thus its century-and-a-quarter old foundation was cleared, to hold up the west half of a new larger meetinghouse (the east half of this 3d structure would be on top of a crawl space). This 3d meeting house would last us 112 years, until the city of Providence needed a central site for a proposed new Fire Station. Another site would be available to the city, but a brick building on it would be more expensive to clear and its location between North Main Street and Canal Street would

1844

BANCROFT AND DORR

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offer inferior access for fire equipment. So we would sell our lot to the City, and erect a 4th-generation brick meetinghouse with a slate roof at the top of College Hill, at the corner of Olney and Morris on Friend Moses Brown’s donated property, in about 1952.

Belatedly recognizing the dangers of freebasing in your home kitchen in the presence of your children, Perry Davis purchased a building on Pond Street in which to mix up his patent vegetable painkiller consisting of opiates and ethanol. It would be asserted that freebie “cases of Davis’ medicine were shipped with every Baptist missionary bound for India and China.”

(Doesn’t that seem a bit like carrying coal to Newcastle? But it is not at all unusual –or so I have heard– for drug pushers to offer young people free samples in order to get them on the hook.)

WHAT I’M WRITING IS TRUE BUT NEVER MINDYOU CAN ALWAYS LIE TO YOURSELF

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A copy of a MS by Governor William Bradford of Plimouth Colony turned up in the library of the Lord Bishop of London.

1846

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CAPE COD: Very different is the general and off-hand account givenby Captain John Smith, who was on this coast six years earlier,and speaks like an old traveller, voyager, and soldier, who hadseen too much of the world to exaggerate, or even to dwell long,on a part of it. In his “Description of New England,” printed in1616, after speaking of Accomack, since called Plymouth, he says:“Cape Cod is the next presents itself, which is only a headlandof high hills of sand, overgrown with shrubby pines, hurts, andsuch trash, but an excellent harbor for all weathers. This Capeis made by the main sea on the one side, and a great bay on theother, in form of a sickle.” Champlain had already written, “Whichwe named Cap Blanc (Cape White), because they were sands and downs(sables et dunes) which appeared thus.” When the Pilgrims get toPlymouth their reporter says again, “The land for the crust ofthe earth is a spit’s depth,” — that would seem to be their recipefor an earth’s crust, — “excellent black mould and fat in someplaces.” However, according to Bradford himself, whom someconsider the author of part of “Mourt’s Relation,” they who cameover in the Fortune the next year were somewhat daunted when “theycame into the harbor of Cape Cod, and there saw nothing but anaked and barren place.” They soon found out their mistake withrespect to the goodness of Plymouth soil. Yet when at length, someyears later, when they were fully satisfied of the poorness ofthe place which they had chosen, “the greater part,” saysBradford, “consented to a removal to a place called Nausett,” theyagreed to remove all together to Nauset, now Eastham, which wasjumping out of the frying-pan into the fire; and some of the mostrespectable of the inhabitants of Plymouth did actually removethither accordingly.

CHAMPLAIN

JOHN SMITH

BRADFORD

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CHANGE IS ETERNITY, STASIS A FIGMENT

CAPE COD: It must be confessed that the Pilgrims possessed but fewof the qualities of the modern pioneer. They were not theancestors of the American backwoodsmen. They did not go at onceinto the woods with their axes. They were a family and church,and were more anxious to keep together, though it were on thesand, than to explore and colonize a New World. When the above-mentioned company removed to Eastham, the church at Plymouth wasleft, to use Bradford’s expression, “like an ancient mother grownold, and forsaken of her children.” Though they landed on Clark’sIsland in Plymouth harbor, the 9th of December (O.S.), and the16th all hands came to Plymouth, and the 18th they rambled aboutthe mainland, and the 19th decided to settle there, it was the8th of January before Francis Billington went with one of themaster’s mates to look at the magnificent pond or lake now called“Billington Sea,” about two miles distant, which he haddiscovered from the top of a tree, and mistook for a great sea.And the 7th of March “Master Carver with five others went to thegreat ponds which seem to be excellent fishing,” both which pointsare within the compass of an ordinary afternoon’s ramble, —however wild the country. It is true they were busy at first abouttheir building, and were hindered in that by much foul weather;but a party of emigrants to California or Oregon, with no lesswork on their hands, — and more hostile Indians — would do as muchexploring the first afternoon, and the Sieur de Champlain wouldhave sought an interview with the savages, and examined thecountry as far as the Connecticut, and made a map of it, beforeBillington had climbed his tree. Or contrast them only with theFrench searching for copper about the Bay of Fundy in 1603,tracing up small streams with Indian guides. Nevertheless, thePilgrims were pioneers, and the ancestors of pioneers, in a fargrander enterprise.

CHAMPLAIN

BRADFORD

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January 1, Saturday: Birth of the Reverend John Stetson Barry and Louisa Young Barry’s 3d child, Henrietta Maria Barry.

Evelina E. Vannevar Slack wrote to Charles Wesley Slack extending her best wishes for the new year.1

By this point Margaret Fuller, in Florence, was aware that she was pregnant, but had not yet advised her lover of this situation. A letter written during the previous month, on the topic of New-World vs Old-World “democracy,” appeared as a column in the New-York Tribune.

1848

1. Stimpert, James. A GUIDE TO THE CORRESPONDENCE IN THE CHARLES WESLEY SLACK MANUSCRIPT COLLECTION: 1848-1885. Kent State University, Library, Special Collections

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The Reverend John Stetson Barry’s A HISTORICAL SKETCH OF THE TOWN OF HANOVER, MASS., WITH FAMILY GENEALOGIES (Boston: Published for the Author by Samuel G. Drake, 15 Brattle St. Bazin & Chandler, Printers, 37 Cornhill. Engravings by Baker, Smith and Andrew, 45 Court St.), founded upon an elaborate genealogical study of his mother’s Stetson family of origin.

THE FUTURE CAN BE EASILY PREDICTED IN RETROSPECT

1853

BARRY ON HANOVER MAFAMILY GENEALOGIES

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January 22, Sunday: Birth of the Reverend John Stetson Barry and Louisa Young Barry’s 4th child, Esther Stetson Barry, who would become a teacher and a clerk.

Jan. 22nd 54 Saw Jan 20th some tree sparrows in the yard Ones or twice of late I have seen themother-o’-pearl tints & rain-bow flocks in the western sky– The usual time is when the air is clear & pretty cool,about an hour before sundown Yesterday I saw a very permanent specimen like a long knife-handle of motherof pearl very pale with an interior blue. & rosaceous tinges. Methinks the summer sky never exhibits this sofinely.When I was at Cs the other evening, he punched his cat with the poker because she purred too loud for him.R. Rice says he saw a white owl 2 or 3 weeks since. Harris told me on the 19th ult that he had never found thesnow flea–No 2d snowstorm in the winter can be so fair & interesting as the 1st. Last night was very windy — & today Isee the dry oak leaves collected in thick beds in the little hollows of the snow-crust — these later falls of theleaf–A fine freezing rain on the night of the 19th ult produced a hard crust on the snow — which was but three inchesdeep & would not bear.

1854

CAT

ELLERY CHANNING

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The Reverend John Stetson Barry began to serve the Universalist congregation of Needham, Massachusetts. He would keep this up until health problems would cause him to retire to Scituate, where he would engage in outdoor exercise while lecturing in biology and geology and devoting himself to his historical and genealogical labors. He would for two terms represent his district in the Massachusetts Legislature. Evidently his health must have then improved, for eventually he would take up pastorates at East Boston and Arlington, moving to Medford and then to Wakefield.

1855

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The MS by Governor William Bradford of the Plimouth Colony which had been turned up in the library of the Lord Bishop of London in 1846, OF PLIMOTH PLANTATION, was published, but inadvertently with 16 lines

omitted that had pertained to the year 1621. In those omitted lines, Governor Bradford had described how Squanto had taught the Brownists that “except they got fish and set with it in these old grounds it would come to nothing.” Unfortunate for this nice story, which would become in our storybooks an instruction to bury a dead herring with each hill of maize that is planted, such a method of horticulture simply will not work. (You are urged to try the experiment yourself, and verify this at first hand. What prevents this method from working is a temporary differential local demand for nitrogen, the fish decaying at the wrong time denying this entirely to the developing plants just at the point at which they are in need of it.)

... Afterwards they (as many as were able) began to plant theircorn, in which service Squanto stood them in great stead,showing them both the manner how to set it, and after how todress and tend it. Also he told them, except they got fish andset with it (in these old grounds) it would come to nothing, andhe showed them that in the middle of April they should have storeenough come up the brook, by which they began to build, andtaught them how to take it, and where to get other provisionsnecessary for them; all which they found true by trial andexperience....

1856

AS FIRST PUBLISHED

CAMBRIDGE HISTORY OF ENGLISH AND AMERICAN LITERATURE

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Publication of a text that Henry Thoreau would refer to in CAPE COD, in three volumes, the Reverend John Stetson Barry’s THE HISTORY OF MASSACHUSETTS.... (Boston: Phillips, Sampson, and Company).

While engaged in research on this project, the Reverend had discovered the existence, and the current location, of a manuscript by early governor William Bradford describing the initial years of the Plimouth Colony!

1857

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CAPE COD: It is remarkable that there is not in English anyadequate or correct account of the French exploration of what isnow the coast of New England, between 1604 and 1608, though it isconceded that they then made the first permanent Europeansettlement on the continent of North America north of St.Augustine. If the lions had been the painters it would have beenotherwise. This omission is probably to be accounted for partlyby the fact that the early edition of Champlain’s “Voyages” hadnot been consulted for this purpose. This contains by far the mostparticular, and, I think, the most interesting chapter of what wemay call the Ante-Pilgrim history of New England, extending toone hundred and sixty pages quarto; but appears to be unknownequally to the historian and the orator on Plymouth Rock. Bancroftdoes not mention Champlain at all among the authorities for DeMonts’ expedition, nor does he say that he ever visited the coastof New England. Though he bore the title of pilot to De Monts, hewas, in another sense, the leading spirit, as well as thehistorian of the expedition. Holmes, Hildreth, and Barry, andapparently all our historians who mention Champlain, refer to theedition of 1632, in which all the separate charts of our harbors,&c., and about one half the narrative, are omitted; for the authorexplored so many lands afterward that he could afford to forgeta part of what he had done. Hildreth, speaking of De Monts’sexpedition, says that “he looked into the Penobscot [in 1605],which Pring had discovered two years before,” saying nothingabout Champlain’s extensive exploration of it for De Monts in 1604(Holmes says 1608, and refers to Purchas); also that he followedin the track of Pring along the coast “to Cape Cod, which hecalled Malabarre.” (Haliburton had made the same statement beforehim in 1829. He called it Cap Blanc, and Malle Barre (the Bad Bar)was the name given to a harbor on the east side of the Cape.)Pring says nothing about a river there. Belknap says that Weymouthdiscovered it in 1605. Sir F. Gorges says, in his narration (MaineHist. Coll., Vol. II. p. 19), 1658, that Pring in 1606 “made aperfect discovery of all the rivers and harbors.” This is the mostI can find. Bancroft makes Champlain to have discovered morewestern rivers in Maine, not naming the Penobscot; he, however,must have been the discoverer of distances on this river (seeBelknap, p. 147). Pring was absent from England only about sixmonths, and sailed by this part of Cape Cod (Malebarre) becauseit yielded no sassafras, while the French, who probably had notheard of Pring, were patiently for years exploring the coast insearch of a place of settlement, sounding and surveying itsharbors.

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December 4, Tuesday: The Reverend John Stetson Barry and Louisa Young Barry’s daughter Caroline Louisa Barry got married with Charles Willard Morton, son of Charles O. Morton and Persis Morton of Needham, Massachusetts.

Henry Thoreau surveyed William Monroe, Jr.’s land on the east side of Monument Street next to Daniel Shattuck’s property and Richard Gourgas’s property.2 Laying down his surveying tools after this job, he would not use them again.

View Henry Thoreau’s personal working drafts of his surveys courtesy of AT&T and the Concord Free Public Library:

http://www.concordlibrary.org/scollect/Thoreau_Surveys/Thoreau_Surveys.htm

(The official copy of this survey of course had become the property of the person or persons who had hired this Concord town surveyor to do their surveying work during the 19th Century. Such materials have yet to be recovered.)

View this particular personal working draft of a survey in fine detail:

http://www.concordlibrary.org/scollect/Thoreau_surveys/93a.htm

Dec. 4. The first snow, four or five inches, this evening.Talk about slavery! It is not the peculiar institution of the South. It exists wherever men are bought and sold,wherever a man allows himself to be made a mere thing or a tool, and surrenders his inalienable rights of reasonand conscience. Indeed, this slavery is more complete than that which enslaves the body alone. It exists in theNorthern States, and I am reminded by what I find in the newspapers that it exists in Canada. I never yet metwith, or heard of, a judge who was not a slave of this kind, and so the finest and most unfailing weapon ofinjustice. He fetches a slightly higher price than the black man only because he is a more valuable slave.It appears that a colored man killed his would-be kidnapper in Missouri and fled to Canada. The bloodhoundshave tracked him to Toronto and now demand him of her judges. From all that I can learn, they are playing theirparts like judges. They are servile, while the poor fugitive in their jail is free in spirit at least.This is what a Canadian writes to the New York Tribune: “Our judges may be compelled to render a judgmentadverse to the prisoner. Depend upon it, they will not do it unless compelled [his italics]. And then the poorfellow will be taken back, and probably burned to death by the brutes of the South.”3 Compelled! By whom?Does God compel them? or is it some other master whom they serve? Can’t they hold out a little longer againstthe tremendous pressure? If they are fairly represented, I wouldn’t trust their courage to defend a setting hen ofmine against a weasel. Will this excuse avail them when the real day of judgment comes? They have not to fearthe slightest bodily harm: no one stands over them with a stick or a knife even [?]. They have at the worst onlyto resign their places and not a mouse will squeak about it. And yet they are likely to assist in tying this victimto the stake! Would that his example might teach them to break their own fetters! They appear not to know whatkind of justice that is which is to be done though the heavens fall. Better that the British Empire be destroyedthan that it should help to reenslave this man!This correspondent suggests that the “good people” of New York may rescue him as he is being carried back.There, then, is the only resort of justice, –not where the judges are, but where the mob is, where human heartsare beating, and hands move in obedience to their impulses. Perhaps his fellow-fugitives in Toronto may notfeel compelled to surrender him. Justice, departing from the Canadian soil, leaves her last traces among these.What is called the religious world very generally deny virtue to all who have not received the Gospel.They accept no god as genuine but the one that bears a Hebrew name. The Greenlander’s Pirksoma [?] (he thatis above), or any the like, is always the name of a false god to them.C. says that Walden was first frozen over on the 16th December.

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2. It was this William Monroe, Jr. who later gave the funds to build and maintain the Concord Free Public Library.3. This was from the issue of November 29, 1860 and appeared on page 6. It pertained to a fugitive slave in Toronto, known there as John Anderson.

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The Reverend John Stetson Barry became editor of The Universalist.

1861

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September 22, Sunday: Henrietta Maria Barry got married with Horace B. Parker, son of John Parker and Rebecca Young Parker. After the death of her father the Reverend John Stetson Barry in this year, she would take her widowed mother Louisa Young Barry into her home.

December 11: John Stetson Barry died at the age of 53 while visiting his married daughter Caroline Louisa Barry Morton in St. Louis, Missouri (the region in which he had spent his childhood).

“MAGISTERIAL HISTORY” IS FANTASIZING, HISTORY IS CHRONOLOGY

1872

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“It’s all now you see. Yesterday won’t be over untiltomorrow and tomorrow began ten thousand years ago.”

– Remark by character “Garin Stevens”in William Faulkner’s INTRUDER IN THE DUST

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ARRGH AUTOMATED RESEARCH REPORT

GENERATION HOTLINE

This stuff presumably looks to you as if it were generated by ahuman. Such is not the case. Instead, someone has requested thatwe pull it out of the hat of a pirate who has grown out of theshoulder of our pet parrot “Laura” (as above). What thesechronological lists are: they are research reports compiled byARRGH algorithms out of a database of modules which we term theKouroo Contexture (this is data mining). To respond to such arequest for information we merely push a button.

THE PEOPLE OF CAPE COD: JOHN STETSON BARRY

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Commonly, the first output of the algorithm has obviousdeficiencies and we need to go back into the modules stored inthe contexture and do a minor amount of tweaking, and then weneed to punch that button again and recompile the chronology —but there is nothing here that remotely resembles the ordinary“writerly” process you know and love. As the contents of thisoriginating contexture improve, and as the programming improves,and as funding becomes available (to date no funding whateverhas been needed in the creation of this facility, the entireoperation being run out of pocket change) we expect a diminishedneed to do such tweaking and recompiling, and we fully expectto achieve a simulation of a generous and untiring roboticresearch librarian. Onward and upward in this brave new world.

First come first serve. There is no charge.Place requests with <[email protected]>. Arrgh.