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Thomas Wentworth Higginson, John Greenleaf Whittier, Chapter 6: a division in the ranks (search)
st. I have repented of it a thousand times, especially as it gave those who were not intimately acquainted with me a false idea of my character. . . . Pickard, I. 218-19. The only record in the Life of Garrison by his sons — perhaps the most thoroughly executed biography ever written in America, though it could hardly be expected to be the most absolutely impartial — of any final interview showing the cleavage between him and Whittier is in a letter from Lucretia Mott, written on Feb. 25, 1852. She says: Maria W. Chapman wrote me that he [Whittier] was in the [antislavery] office a few months since, bemoaning to Garrison that there should have been any divisions. Why could we not all go on together? Why not, indeed? said Garrison; we stand just where we did. I see no reason why you cannot cooperate with the American Society. Oh, replied Whittier, but the American Society is not what it once was. It has the coat, the hat, and the waistcoat of the old society, but t