. Connecticut as a colony and as a state; or, One of the original thirteen; . sid-ing bishop of the United States. Samuel Nott, one of the early graduates of Union College,and a native of Franklin, Connecticut, was one of the firstpioneer missionaries sent out to India by the American Boardof Foreign Missions. We all know how America was honored by the fearlesseloquence of Henry Ward Beecher in his five great addressesin England in 1863. When he unflinchingly stood the stormof hostile audiences, and with all his powers of wit andearnestness and oratory held under perfect control, turned thecou
. Connecticut as a colony and as a state; or, One of the original thirteen; . sid-ing bishop of the United States. Samuel Nott, one of the early graduates of Union College,and a native of Franklin, Connecticut, was one of the firstpioneer missionaries sent out to India by the American Boardof Foreign Missions. We all know how America was honored by the fearlesseloquence of Henry Ward Beecher in his five great addressesin England in 1863. When he unflinchingly stood the stormof hostile audiences, and with all his powers of wit andearnestness and oratory held under perfect control, turned thecourse of public opinion in Great Britain against the slave-power, he effected a result unparalled in modern oratory. Other men have not lacked courage to assert their convic-tions of right; such as Henry B. Stanton, who, fifty years ajournalist, able and upright, knew not how to bend his coursefor friend or foe; and, as champion of the anti-slavery cause,had to face many an angry mob. In the quiet village of Tor-rington, stands the house which was the birthplace, and for 348.
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