{"title":"Great Infidel","authors":"Christopher Grasso","doi":"10.1093/oso/9780197547328.003.0016","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780197547328.003.0016","url":null,"abstract":"Kelso tried to reinvent himself as a public lecturer, giving talks describing his military adventures but also voicing radical views on marriage and religion. To earn a living, however, he had to return to itinerant school teaching. But he also kept writing, producing hundreds of pages of poetry, essays, and lectures, including freethinking treatises on God and the Bible and a book-length verse satire. He participated in the civic life of Modesto, a railroad boomtown that had sprouted next to vast wheat fields and was run by its saloon bosses—except on those occasions when vigilantes donned masks to clean up the town. In 1881, he climbed a Colorado mountain he dubbed “Great Infidel,” in honor of himself, and pondered his “desolate and storm-beaten life.”","PeriodicalId":220767,"journal":{"name":"Teacher, Preacher, Soldier, Spy","volume":"18 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-06-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128805863","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Captain Kelso Goes to Congress","authors":"Christopher Grasso","doi":"10.1093/OSO/9780197547328.003.0013","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/OSO/9780197547328.003.0013","url":null,"abstract":"The Thirty-Ninth Congress was one of the most eventful in U.S. history. Despite obstruction from President Andrew Johnson, it passed the Civil Rights Bill of 1866, the First Reconstruction Act of 1867, and the Fourteenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution. Kelso voted with the Radical Republican majority, outlining his position in a House speech, and he also proposed his own constitutional amendments. The first session was marred, though, by the challenge to his seat by his opponent Boyd, who disputed the results of the election. Kelso’s political reputation back in his district, too, was damaged by his intemperate public letter denouncing Boyd and announcing early for the next election.","PeriodicalId":220767,"journal":{"name":"Teacher, Preacher, Soldier, Spy","volume":"91 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-06-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"134239622","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Hauntings","authors":"Christopher Grasso","doi":"10.2307/j.ctv5qdghd.13","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctv5qdghd.13","url":null,"abstract":"In 1840, the Kelsos moved to land in Missouri recently vacated by Mormons driven away after Missouri’s Mormon War. Neighbors still told ghost stories about a murdered Mormon buried in the nearby woods. But Kelso was haunted by other things. He was a strong, hard-working teenager, ashamed of his ragged clothes and dirty bare feet. Lovesick over the minister’s pretty daughter, he was also soul-sick: after experiencing a powerful conversion experience, he joined the Methodist Church, but when the feelings of God’s love faded, he worried he was doomed to hell. Pushed to the brink of suicide, he recovered to become a successful schoolteacher and Methodist exhorter.","PeriodicalId":220767,"journal":{"name":"Teacher, Preacher, Soldier, Spy","volume":"94 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-06-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127371129","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Words on Fire","authors":"Christopher Grasso","doi":"10.1093/OSO/9780197547328.003.0006","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/OSO/9780197547328.003.0006","url":null,"abstract":"In May, 1861, when Kelso stood in front of his hometown’s courthouse, voiced support for the Union, and denounced his secessionist neighbors as traitors, he had a lot to lose. He had remarried, graduated from college, opened his own school, and lived with his wife and three children on a beautiful little farm in Buffalo, Missouri. But conscience and a sense of virtuous manhood made him declare his unpopular political sentiments as Missouri fractured with the beginning of the Civil War. A week later he interrupted a secessionist rally and, risking getting shot down in front of a crowd of angry, armed men, gave a rousing speech to rally Unionists to the American flag. He became a major in the Home Guard militia, but then, after the disastrous Union loss at the Battle of Wilson’s Creek, headed to the state capital to join the Union army.","PeriodicalId":220767,"journal":{"name":"Teacher, Preacher, Soldier, Spy","volume":"2 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-06-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"122503406","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Mirages","authors":"Christopher Grasso","doi":"10.1093/oso/9780197547328.003.0017","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780197547328.003.0017","url":null,"abstract":"Turning fifty, Kelso planned to enlist “in the invincible little army of Liberalism” by lecturing across the country and publishing his books. A report he published from the road tried to explain desert mirages. In New York City, he met with other freethinkers and arranged to have some of his books printed. In Rochester, New York, he met with reformers and spiritualists. But his health would not permit him to be a public lecturer. For months, the disappointment nearly paralyzed him. On a train trip he saw another mirage and reflected that the weary desert traveler who leaves the true path to pursue a phantom lake was like people “who have left the paths of reason, science, and common-sense to follow the phantoms” of religion. Yet he himself soon converted to spiritualism, convinced that the spirits of his dead children hovered about to comfort him.","PeriodicalId":220767,"journal":{"name":"Teacher, Preacher, Soldier, Spy","volume":"497 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-06-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115694346","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Hell Town","authors":"Christopher Grasso","doi":"10.1093/oso/9780197547328.003.0004","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780197547328.003.0004","url":null,"abstract":"In 1852, Kelso was a young schoolteacher in a place nicknamed “Hell Town” in Platte County, Missouri. He faced down a gang of knife-wielding teenaged boys who tried to control the school. Like many nineteenth-century schoolmasters, he used violence and humiliation to assert his authority: he beat the schoolhouse rebels with a dogwood switch (threatening worse), and ritually mocked the gang’s leader. But in the 1850s, the entire Missouri-Kansas borderland, and then the entire country, became a Hell Town, where authority broke down and men reached for weapons, threatening and inflicting violence. The issue was slavery. But which party stood like the schoolmaster, teaching a lesson about law and order, and which was the gang of rebels, needing to be mastered or humiliated and driven out? Proslavery vigilantes harassed anyone expected of abolitionism, and Free Soilers fought back. For the time being, though, Kelso and his young wife stayed quiet.","PeriodicalId":220767,"journal":{"name":"Teacher, Preacher, Soldier, Spy","volume":"23 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-06-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131087869","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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