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Hereabouts our Indian told us at length the story of their contention with the priest respecting schools. He thought a great deal ... of education and had recommended it to his tribe. His argument in its favor was, that if you had been to college and learnt to calculate, you could "keep 'um property,--no other way." He said that his boy was the best scholar in the school at Oldtown, to which he went with whites. He himself is a Protestant, and goes to church regularly at Oldtown. According to his account, a good many of his tribe are Protestants, and many of the Catholics also are in favor of schools. Some years ago they had a schoolmaster, a Protestant, whom they liked very well. The priest came and said that they must send him away, and finally he had such influence, telling them that they would go to the bad place at last if they retained him, that they sent him away. The school party, though numerous, were about giving up. Bishop Fenwick came from Boston and used his influence against them. But our Indian told his side that they must not give up, must hold on, they were the strongest. If they gave up, then they would have no party. But they answered that it was "no use, priest too strong, we'd better give up." At length he persuaded them to make a stand.
The priest was going for a sign to cut down the liberty-pole. So Polis and his party had a secret meeting about it; he got ready fifteen or twenty stout young men, "stript 'um naked, and painted 'um like old times," and told them that when the priest and his party went to cut down the liberty-pole, they were to rush up, take hold of it, and prevent them, and he assured them that there would be no war, only noise,--"no war where priest is." He kept his men concealed in a house near by, and when the priest's party were about to cut down the liberty-pole, the fall of which would have been a death-blow to the school party, he gave a signal, and his young men rushed out and seized the pole. There was a great uproar, and they were about coming to blows, but the priest interfered, saying, "No war, no war," and so the pole stands, and the school goes on still.
We thought that it showed a good deal of tact in him, to seize the occasion and take his stand on it; proving how well he understood those with whom he had to deal.

Henry David Thoreau

education | clergy | intolerance, religious

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The well was dry beside the door,
And so we went with pail and can ...

Robert Frost

pails | rivers | water

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To think that I very nearly didn't go.... What if I'd been here--out riding in Virginia or somewhere--Thank God I went with him.

Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis

Kennedy, John F. | assassination | marriage

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In my opinion, most of the great men of the past were only there for the beer--the wealth, prestige and grandeur that went with th ...

A.J.P. Taylor

greatness

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We styled ourselves the Knights of the Umbrella and the Bundle; for, wherever we went ... the umbrella and the bundle went with us ...

Henry David Thoreau

traveling | travelers

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I cast my heart into my rhymes,
That you, in the dim coming times, ...

William Butler Yeats

writers and writing

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Do you really want to know who I think started the war?... Who would ever have believed that human beings would be stupid enough t ...

John Paxton

atomic bomb | weapons | arms race

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When I was a boy, I had a clock with a pendulum that could be lifted off. I found that the clock went very much faster without the ...

Bertrand Russell

language | philosophical | world, the

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... women are supposed to be unfit to vote because they are hysterical and emotional and of course men would not like to have emot ...

Anna Howard Shaw

emotion | politics | sex differences

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There will never be a really free and enlightened State until the State comes to recognize the individual as a higher and independ ...

Henry David Thoreau

state, the

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