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Search : William White

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Prohibition of Colored Persons

  • Date: 6 May 1858
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

Oregon prohibits colored persons, either slave or free, from entering the State—making an exclusively white

The great obstacle to Southern progress and enterprise is well-known to be the fact that White Labor

It would be altogether a contest with reference to the interest of the masses of the Whites, and would

Who believe that the Whites and Blacks can ever amalgamate in America? Or who wishes it to happen?

Besides, is not America for the Whites? And is it not better so?

Abolitionists Around

  • Date: May 12, 1858
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

He said— “The American Government was a failure, and its dissolution was the question for white men as

country would some day assert their rights and their manhood, Union or no Union; that they would say to white

mass of the people sooner or later decide;—not an isolated association of men and women, black and white

How Our Health and Long Life Are Affected by Our Different Employments

  • Date: 21 May 1858
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

Operatives in white lead manufactories, Lead miners, Paper Stainers, and Potters also have their health

New Publications

  • Date: 14 June 1858
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

revised edition of Allison's great work, in four handsome, compact volumes, well-printed, on fine, white

Into the Country

  • Date: 19 June 1858
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

getting so horridly common." and even Niagara has got to be a bore of the first magnitude, and the White

New Publications

  • Date: 21 June 1858
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

number, and as we do not often do such a thing, we have ventured to clip a little gem from the fair white

Sun Struck

  • Date: 28 June 1858
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

William Baxter, living at No. 10 Franklin Place, died about 8 o'clock last evening from the effects of

[Ninety-five in the shade]

  • Date: 28 June 1858
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

The streets have broken out into an eruption of white indispensables and hot weather caput-coverings,

The Monroe Obsequies

  • Date: 3 July 1858
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

William M. Harris, of the Board of Education, and Alonso H. Gale, Esq.

The Frazer River Ferment

  • Date: 28 July 1858
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

There were then 4,000,000 adult white men in the Union, of whom 100,000, or one in 40, left for California

On the 1st of April, there were 150,000 adult white men in this State; 12,000 (some say 22,000) or one

The Colored Folk’s Festival

  • Date: 3 August 1858
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

Whatever may be the diversity of opinion among the whites, in regard to the effect of Negro Emancipation

It seems to me that the white Douglass should occasionally meet his deserts at the hands of a black one

MANUAL OF THE COMMON COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF BROOKLYN, for 1858-9, compiled by William G. Bishop, City Clerk, Brooklyn.

  • Date: 7 August 1858
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

MANUAL OF THE COMMON COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF BROOKLYN, for 1858-9, compiled by William G.

MANUAL OF THE COMMON COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF BROOKLYN, for 1858–9, compiled by William G.

New Publications

  • Date: 9 August 1858
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

$54,000; rosin oil, $25,000; Kerosene, $200,000; saleratus, $500,000; starch, $30,000; vinegar, $12,000; white

lead, $1,250,000, giving employment to 225 men; whiting $60,000; lamps, lanterns, gas fixtures, &c,

Walker Redivivus

  • Date: 11 August 1858
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

It was to the effect that General William Walker , at the head of eight hundred filibusters fillibusters

filibuster in character or not—we have very little doubt that the world will yet hear more of General William

[The summer heats may be]

  • Date: 14 August 1858
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

The reverend clergy are off, some of them to Europe, some to the White Mountains, the lakes and other

New Publications

  • Date: 27 August 1858
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

Papers follow on the Circulation of the Blood;" on White's "Eighteen Centuries;" on "London Exhibitions

Woman in the Pulpit—Sermon by Mrs. Lydia Jenkins, Last Night

  • Date: 6 September 1858
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

She was simply but becomingly dressed in white, relieved by black lace, and her appearance altogether

Douglas and Buchanan

  • Date: 8 September 1858
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

In order to render the Senator's re-election hopeless, the crafty inhabitant of the White House turned

[New York Atlas, 12 September 1858]

  • Date: 12 September 1858
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

William L.

[New York Atlas, 10 October 1858]

  • Date: 10 October 1858
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

In later times, William Pestel, a Frenchman, lived to a hundred and well-nigh twenty years, the top of

The Vth Congressional District—Shall We Re-elect Mr. Maclay?

  • Date: 14 October 1858
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

State that it did to govern a Slave State, received the cordial and zealous support of the Honorable William

[New York Atlas, 17 October 1858]

  • Date: 17 October 1858
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

William E. Finkel traces these writings to R. T.

advantages are here concentrated . . .") are taken, with only minor changes in wording, from John William

William Gilmore Simms relates this maxim as one of Weems' favorites.

New Publications

  • Date: 2 November 1858
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

His father, Frederick William, set him to work at French and Mathematics as soon as he was out of long

Public School Training

  • Date: 5 November 1858
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

Whiting for the exclusion from the list of studies prescribed for our public schools of such branches

Whiting’s resolution that they are, the poor—for whom mainly the schools are designed—reap no benefit

Whiting’s resolution will not be summarily ignored—but that it will provoke at least discussion and inquiry

[New York Atlas, 28 November 1858]

  • Date: 28 November 1858
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

Sanger's late work, New York physician William W.

Public School Education

  • Date: 10 December 1858
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

Whiting, in favor of excluding from the list of studies Astronomy, Zoology, Algebra, Geometry and Physiology

Whiting, or any of them, should be dispensed with.

Whiting's resolution, and now after reflection we see many reasons for sympathising with his feelings

[An incorrigible bookworm]

  • Date: 15 December 1858
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

precious treasure a scrap of manuscript, a broken goblet—an old glove even—that the sacred hand of William

[New York Atlas, 19 December 1858]

  • Date: 19 December 1858
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

being the real foundation of all manly beauty, and have done our part toward dissipating the pink-and-white

Sir Isaac Newton (1642–1727) was an English mathematician, astronomer, and scientist; William Harvey

The anecdote about the French statistician, which appears in the Harper's article, originates in William

[New York Atlas, 26 December 1858]

  • Date: 26 December 1858
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

beauty, flickers out of and over your face; a transparency beams in the eyes, both in the iris and the white

[The Atlantic Monthly for January]

  • Date: 29 December 1858
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

The present number, besides its numerous learned and elaborate papers, such as those on White’s Shakspere

History of the Introduction of Water into the City

  • Date: 25 April 1859
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

Prentice, William Wall, Daniel Van Voorhis, James Carson Brevoort, Nicholas Wyckoff, Thomas Sullivan

The Celebration

  • Date: 28 April 1859
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

Water Department—Birkenbein, White, Moore, Barond, City Comptroller, J. N. Dutton.

Williams. Health Officer, Arthur Hughes. NEW HAVEN—Aldermen—H. S.

White, Ald. Huntley, and ex-Ald. Bannon acting as vice-chairmen.

Marion Hose Company No. 1—William H. Lawrence Foreman with a full company numbering 30.

White, whose own fair proportions distracted by no means from those of his noble team.

Can All Marry?

  • Date: 22 June 1859
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

as hard to find as the slipper of Cinderella; and so, in default of the fairy chaussure , the small white

Literary Notices

  • Date: 25 June 1859
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

White copper, and alloy with arsenic, was made at Herculaneum.

Walt. Whitman's New Poem

  • Date: 28 December 1859
  • Creator(s): Whitman, Walt, and Henry Clapp
Text:

his vulgar and profane hoofs among the delicate flowers which bloom there, and soiling the spotless white

Mannahatta

  • Date: 1860–1861
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

the little islands, the larger adjoining islands, the heights, the villas, The countless masts, the white

Thoughts 5

  • Date: 1860–1861
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

O the huge sob—A few bubbles—the white foam spirting up—And then the women gone, Sinking there, while

Debris 10

  • Date: 1860–1861
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

Debris 10 ONE sweeps by, old, with black eyes, and profuse white hair, He has the simple magnificence

Debris 14

  • Date: 1860–1861
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

shall see how I stump clergymen, and confound them, You shall see me showing a scarlet tomato, and a white

Sleep-Chasings

  • Date: 1860–1861
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

The wretched features of ennuyés, the white features of corpses, the livid faces of drunkards, the sick

sweet eating and drinking, Laps life-swelling yolks—laps ear of rose-corn, milky and just ripened; The white

and even to his head— he strikes out with courageous arms—he urges himself with his legs, I see his white

his arms with measureless love, and the son holds the father in his arms with measureless love, The white

hair of the mother shines on the white wrist of the daughter, The breath of the boy goes with the breath

Leaves of Grass (1860–1861)

  • Date: 1860–1861
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

Let the white person tread the black person under his heel! (Say!

We, loose winrows, little corpses, Froth, snowy white, and bubbles, (See!

The early lilacs became part of this child, And grass, and white and red morning-glories, and white and

you white or black owners of slaves! You owned persons, dropping sweat-drops or blood- drops!

pass up or down, white-sailed schooners, sloops, lighters! Flaunt away, flags of all nations!

Cluster: Leaves of Grass. (1860)

  • Date: 1860–1861
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

We, loose winrows, little corpses, Froth, snowy white, and bubbles, (See!

The early lilacs became part of this child, And grass, and white and red morning-glories, and white and

afar at sunset— the river between, Shadows, aureola and mist, light falling on roofs and gables of white

the thick tangle, the openings, and the pink turf, Different colors, pale gray and green, purple, white

Cluster: Enfans D'adam. (1860)

  • Date: 1860–1861
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

beauty of person, The shape of his head, the richness and breadth of his manners, the pale yellow and white

swelling and deliciously aching, Limitless limpid jets of love hot and enormous, quivering jelly of love, white-blow

Examine these limbs, red, black, or white—they are so cunning in tendon and nerve, They shall be stript

Cluster: Calamus. (1860)

  • Date: 1860–1861
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

hurry in and out, Not the air, delicious and dry, the air of the ripe summer, bears lightly along white

Behold this swarthy and unrefined face—these gray eyes, This beard—the white wool, unclipt upon my neck

Cluster: Thoughts. (1860)

  • Date: 1860–1861
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

O the huge sob—A few bubbles—the white foam spirting up—And then the women gone, Sinking there, while

Cluster: Debris. (1860)

  • Date: 1860–1861
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

ONE sweeps by, old, with black eyes, and profuse white hair, He has the simple magnificence of health

shall see how I stump clergymen, and confound them, You shall see me showing a scarlet tomato, and a white

Walt Whitman

  • Date: 1860–1861
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

side through the night, and withdraws at the peep of the day, And leaves for me baskets covered with white

And it means, Sprouting alike in broad zones and narrow zones, Growing among black folks as among white

This grass is very dark to be from the white heads of old mothers, Darker than the colorless beards of

The young men float on their backs—their white bellies bulge to the sun—they do not ask who seizes fast

I believe in those winged purposes, And acknowledge red, yellow, white, playing within me, And consider

Chants Democratic

  • Date: 1860–1861
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

those of the grape, Welcome are lands of sugar and rice, Welcome the cotton-lands—welcome those of the white

fire-trumpets, the falling in line, the rise and fall of the arms forcing the water, The slender, spasmic blue-white

murderer with haggard face and pinioned arms, The sheriff at hand with his deputies, the silent and white-lipped

the old response, Take what I have then, (saying fain,) take the pay you approached for, Take the white

Chants Democratic

  • Date: 1860–1861
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

I see not merely that you are polite or white-faced, married, single, citizens of old States, citizens

The sum of all known reverence I add up in you, whoever you are, The President is there in the White

All architecture is what you do to it when you look upon it, Did you think it was in the white or gray

the stumpy bars of pig-iron, the strong clean-shaped T rail for railroads, Oil-works, silk-works, white-lead-works

Chants Democratic

  • Date: 1860–1861
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

where men have not yet sailed— the farthest polar sea, ripply, crystalline, open, beyond the floes; White

tree-tops, Below, the red cedar, festooned with tylandria—the pines and cypresses, growing out of the white

wind; The camp of Georgia wagoners, just after dark—the supper-fires, and the cooking and eating by whites

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