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This scarce antiquarian book is a selection from Kessinger
Publishing's Legacy Reprint Series. Due to its age, it may contain
imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed
pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we
have made it available as part of our commitment to protecting,
preserving, and promoting the world's literature. Kessinger
Publishing is the place to find hundreds of thousands of rare and
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This scarce antiquarian book is a selection from Kessinger
Publishing's Legacy Reprint Series. Due to its age, it may contain
imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed
pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we
have made it available as part of our commitment to protecting,
preserving, and promoting the world's literature. Kessinger
Publishing is the place to find hundreds of thousands of rare and
hard-to-find books with something of interest for everyone!
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This scarce antiquarian book is a selection from Kessinger
Publishing's Legacy Reprint Series. Due to its age, it may contain
imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed
pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we
have made it available as part of our commitment to protecting,
preserving, and promoting the world's literature. Kessinger
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WILLIAM GREENLEAF ELIOT WRITTEN FOE MY CHILDREN LEST THEY FORGET
PREFACE THE following narrative of over fifty years of labor in the
interest of a higher civilization of religion, morality, and
learning has been pre pared in the belief that the facts therein
presented are worthy of permanent record. Although the story is
intended primarily as a personal memoir, incidentally it relates to
events of historical im portance, and depicts life in the West
during its formative period under conditions that will not recur.
The materials used in the preparation of this memoir have been
obtained from Dr. Eliots dia ries, correspondence, sermons,
reports, and other documents, published and unpublished, in the
study of which contemporaneous history has been consulted. In the
diaries occur frequent intervals of days, months, and years. The
record for 1849, the year of pestilence in St. Louis, is quite full
and that from 1861 to the close of 1862 contains under the head of
Suggestions the original draft of the military order creating the
Western Sanitary Commission, and of the tiii PREFACE complexion, in
particular of the negro. Under slavery he mitigated, so far as his
great influence extended, the hard lot of the blacks. Though having
no part with the extremists who declared the Constitution of the
United States to he a covenant with death and an agreement with
hell he was actively anti-slavery, and from the out break of the
Civil War was zealously loyal. In the Western Sanitary Commission,
which came into existence through his suggestion, he was always a
leader in collecting and applying the millions which flowed through
its channels to the relief of the soldiers in the field. His
youngestbrother, a gallant officer, was killed at Chancel lorsville
at the head of his men. His brother Thomas, in Congress, became
conspicuous for wisdom and ability in the difficult time of recon
struction. William, in Missouri, played a part not less honorable
and important in carrying through the struggle and in bringing to
pass afterward a proper settlement. Lincoln and his cabinet offi
cers and generals received his advice with respect. In particular,
Dr. Eliots interest was great in education. The first free school
west of the Mis sissippi was begun under his direction, and no one
deserves more than he to be regarded as the father of the public
school system in Missouri. Washington University, a cluster of
educational institutions conceived after the broadest stan dard,
containing at the present moment thousands PREFACE k the original
record book o the Commission, and from reports issued by its
secretary during the holding of the Mississippi Valley Sanitary
Fair, which reports were completed and issued in book form at the
close of the Civil War. The book referred to is simply a collection
of reports, and contains many uninteresting details. It was the
hope of the gentlemen composing the Board of the Western Sanitary
Commission that the secretary, Kev. J. Gr. Forman, would at some
time re write the account of the work of the Commission in more
attractive literary form, but he did not live to accomplish the
task. In preparing this memoir the writer has taken especial
satisfaction in presenting Dr. Eliots work in the cause of
emancipation, as for many years his conservative attitude was
misunderstood and misconstrued by persons of more radical ideas. As
a matter of fact he expressed in thepulpit and on the rostrum
sentiments that would have entailed swift retribution if uttered in
the heat of debate by one less honored and respected. Impassioned
but never passionate, he appealed to the reason and conscience, and
men could not gainsay him. A man of deep and tender affections,
whose intensity of feeling was only equaled by his x PBEFACE strong
power of self-control, Dr. Eliot was reti cent in the expression of
his own emotions...
WILLIAM GREENLEAF ELIOT WRITTEN FOE MY CHILDREN LEST THEY FORGET
PREFACE THE following narrative of over fifty years of labor in the
interest of a higher civilization of religion, morality, and
learning has been pre pared in the belief that the facts therein
presented are worthy of permanent record. Although the story is
intended primarily as a personal memoir, incidentally it relates to
events of historical im portance, and depicts life in the West
during its formative period under conditions that will not recur.
The materials used in the preparation of this memoir have been
obtained from Dr. Eliots dia ries, correspondence, sermons,
reports, and other documents, published and unpublished, in the
study of which contemporaneous history has been consulted. In the
diaries occur frequent intervals of days, months, and years. The
record for 1849, the year of pestilence in St. Louis, is quite full
and that from 1861 to the close of 1862 contains under the head of
Suggestions the original draft of the military order creating the
Western Sanitary Commission, and of the tiii PREFACE complexion, in
particular of the negro. Under slavery he mitigated, so far as his
great influence extended, the hard lot of the blacks. Though having
no part with the extremists who declared the Constitution of the
United States to he a covenant with death and an agreement with
hell he was actively anti-slavery, and from the out break of the
Civil War was zealously loyal. In the Western Sanitary Commission,
which came into existence through his suggestion, he was always a
leader in collecting and applying the millions which flowed through
its channels to the relief of the soldiers in the field. His
youngestbrother, a gallant officer, was killed at Chancel lorsville
at the head of his men. His brother Thomas, in Congress, became
conspicuous for wisdom and ability in the difficult time of recon
struction. William, in Missouri, played a part not less honorable
and important in carrying through the struggle and in bringing to
pass afterward a proper settlement. Lincoln and his cabinet offi
cers and generals received his advice with respect. In particular,
Dr. Eliots interest was great in education. The first free school
west of the Mis sissippi was begun under his direction, and no one
deserves more than he to be regarded as the father of the public
school system in Missouri. Washington University, a cluster of
educational institutions conceived after the broadest stan dard,
containing at the present moment thousands PREFACE k the original
record book o the Commission, and from reports issued by its
secretary during the holding of the Mississippi Valley Sanitary
Fair, which reports were completed and issued in book form at the
close of the Civil War. The book referred to is simply a collection
of reports, and contains many uninteresting details. It was the
hope of the gentlemen composing the Board of the Western Sanitary
Commission that the secretary, Kev. J. Gr. Forman, would at some
time re write the account of the work of the Commission in more
attractive literary form, but he did not live to accomplish the
task. In preparing this memoir the writer has taken especial
satisfaction in presenting Dr. Eliots work in the cause of
emancipation, as for many years his conservative attitude was
misunderstood and misconstrued by persons of more radical ideas. As
a matter of fact he expressed in thepulpit and on the rostrum
sentiments that would have entailed swift retribution if uttered in
the heat of debate by one less honored and respected. Impassioned
but never passionate, he appealed to the reason and conscience, and
men could not gainsay him. A man of deep and tender affections,
whose intensity of feeling was only equaled by his x PBEFACE strong
power of self-control, Dr. Eliot was reti cent in the expression of
his own emotions...
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