A strong rope was fastened to the cord and pulled to the shore, and by its aid many of the sailors were rescued.
In 1833 Miss Prudence Crandall, a Quaker schoolmistress of Canterbury, Conn., opened her school to negro children as well as to whites.

The whole place was thrown into uproar; town meetings were called to denounce her; the most vindictive and inhuman measures were taken to isolate the school from the support of the townspeople; stores and churches were closed against teacher and pupils; public conveyances were denied them; physicians would not attend them; Miss Crandall's own friends dared not visit her; the house was assailed with rotten eggs and stones and finally set on fire.

Yet the cause was righteous and the opposition proved vain and fruitless.

Public opinion is often radically wrong.
Staunch old Admiral Farragut--he of the true heart and the iron will--said to another officer of the navy, "Dupont, do you know why you didn't get into Charleston with your ironclads ?" "Oh, it was because the channel was so crooked." "No, Dupont, it was not that." "Well, the rebel fire was perfectly horrible." "Yes, but it wasn't that." "What was it, then ?" "_It was because you didn't believe you could go in._" "I have tried Lord Howe on most important occasions.

He never asked me _how_ he was to execute any service entrusted to his charge, but always went straight forward and _did it_." So answered Sir Edward Hawke, when his appointment of Howe for some peculiarly responsible duty was criticized on the ground that Howe was the junior admiral in the fleet.
There is a tradition among the Indians that Manitou was traveling in the invisible world and came upon a hedge of thorns, then saw wild beasts glare upon him from the thicket, and after awhile stood before an impassable river.