Tales from the German. Volume II. The Lichtensteins. A Tale of the Times of the Thirty Years War
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Reply to a Letter Published by Henry Orne, in the Boston Evening Bulletin: With an Appendix (Classic Reprint)
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Excerpt from Reply to a Letter Published by Henry Orne, in the Boston Evening Bulletin: With an Appendix
In the Boston Evening Bulletin of September 18, 1829, is a letter from Henry Orne, Esq. Of Boston, to Gen. Duff Green, of Washington, containing sundry grossly erroneous statements in relation to my private concerns, which I feel it my duty to answer and explain. And to make the business as brief, and tax the patience of the reader as little as pos sible, proceed to the examination of the most important of those erroneous statements, in the order in which they occur.
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Nathaniel Greene was an American translator, editor and politician.
Background
Nathaniel Greene was born May 20, 1797 in Boscawen, New Hampshire, a descendant of John Greene, one of the founders of Warwick, Rhode Island, and the son of Nathaniel and Ruth (Fowler) Greene. He was christened Peter, but in early manhood took the name of his father by authority of the Massachusetts legislature. His father died in 1812, leaving the family in meager circumstances.
Education
A memoir of Franklin had already decided the boy’s career, and at the age of twelve he had walked to Concord and become an apprentice in the office of the New Hampshire Patriot, edited by Isaac Hill. Chiefly by persistent reading and his practise as a printer, he obtained an education.
Career
Connections followed with the Concord Gazette, the New Hampshire Gazette published at Portsmouth, and the Merrimack Intelligencer, published at Haverhill, Massachusetts, where, when he was about twenty, he set up for himself with the Essex Patriot.
His ability and enterprise were noticed in Boston, and a group of Democratic politicians, headed by David Hen- shaw, the principal party organizer in the state, invited him to establish the American Statesman in that city. The first number appeared on Feburary 6, 1821.
The Henshaw and Theodore Lyman factions of the party were rivals for patronage favors and in the end the more aristocratic faction lost. Having shrewdly promoted the interests of Andrew Jackson throughout the administration of John Quincy Adams, Greene reaped a substantial reward in his appointment as postmaster at Boston, an office which he held from 1829 to 1841 to the general approbation of the public, and again from 1844 to 1849 by designation of President Tyler.
In August 1831 the Statesman ceased to be the party organ and the Morning Post, managed by Greene’s younger brother, Charles G. Greene, superseded it. For a time the Statesman was issued as the weekly edition of the Post. Meanwhile Greene had been cultivating his knack as a linguist, acquiring a working knowledge of French, Italian, and German.
In 1836 he published a translation of Luigi Sforzozi’s History of Italy, and the following year, two volumes of Tales from the German of K. F. van der Velde.
With his translation of The People’s Own Book (1839), he is said to have introduced the French reformer, H. F. Robert de Lamennais, to American readers. In 1843 he issued a collection, Tales and Sketches: From the Italian, French, and German. With the end of his postmastership he retired from public life and went abroad for a long period, living much of the time in Paris, writing verse under the name “Boscawen, ” sending correspondence to Boston papers, and doing other literary work. A volume, Improvisations and Translations, the contents of which had originally appeared in the Boston Post, was published in 1852. He returned to Boston some years before his death and lived quietly and almost unknown at the Coolidge House in Bowdoin Square.