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Mary Thacher Higginson, Thomas Wentworth Higginson: the story of his life, V: the call to preach (search)
of which he had chiefly attended the Anti-Slavery ones, Higginson said:— The most interesting and moving speech of all I have heard this week was by an old colored woman, Mrs. Thompson of Bangor, at one of the AntiSlav-ery meetings in Faneuil Hall. This old lady rose among the crowd and began to speak—all stood up to gaze on her, but she undaunted fixed her eyes on the chairman and burst out into a most ardent, eloquent and beautiful tribute of gratitude from herself and her race to Garrison who came truly in a dark hour she said; her style was peculiar, tinctured strongly with methodistical expressions and scripture allusions, but her voice was clear and her language fluent and easy; and if ever a speech came straight from the heart of the speaker and went straight to the hearts of the hearers that was the one; no one could resist the impression and the tears came to many eyes; there was a perfect hush while she spoke on without a single pause or taking her eyes from the chai
Mary Thacher Higginson, Thomas Wentworth Higginson: the story of his life, X: a ride through Kansas (search)
Josiah, as a substitute. Also I have urged your name of Sumner. The trouble of these family names is that by and by there must be Christian names to distinguish them, there will be so many. Fancy a town of South-Wendell Phillips or Wm. Lloyd-Garrison-4-corners, or Rev. Gen. Thos. Wentworth Higginson Centre! On September 24, Mr. Higginson wrote home from Topeka:— I got here yesterday afternoon after six days ride and walk (chiefly the former) across the prairies of Kansas. A few otion to consider the expediency of a separation between free and slave States, and Mr. Higginson's name led the signatures. This meeting was followed the next July by a call for a National Convention which was signed by Wendell Phillips, William Lloyd Garrison, Higginson, and 6400 others. This proposed convention, however, was never held. Some of his reasons for belief in disunion, Mr. Higginson expressed in a letter to Harriet Prescott, January, 1861:— I cannot agree with you and Mr.
Mary Thacher Higginson, Thomas Wentworth Higginson: the story of his life, XI: John Brown and the call to arms (search)
s of danger, despising it too utterly to give it a thought—such as one fancies Montrose for instance might have had. We who were with him in the midst of great danger, possible and even actual, were all equally struck with this. We had to control him, he was reckless of danger not from adventurousness nor from ignorance but because he really could not stoop to keep it in mind. In an estimate of the radical leaders of the day, found in his journal for 1857, Mr. Higginson said of William Lloyd Garrison:— Of all the heroes of ancient or modern days, that man stands most firmly on his feet. If he knew that at his next word of truth, the whole solar system would be annihilated, his voice, in saying it, would not tremble. Apropos of the duty of guarding Phillips, the Worcester clergyman again wrote to his mother, January, 1861:— I spent yesterday in Boston for a wonder, not having been away on Sunday for a long time. They sent for me to come down because it was feared<
Mary Thacher Higginson, Thomas Wentworth Higginson: the story of his life, Bibliography (search)
) A Word of Hope. [Poem.] (In National Anti-Slavery Standard, Sept. 3.) Sonnet to William Lloyd Garrison. (In Liberty Bell.) (Tr.) A Cradle Song, from the German of Ruckert. (In Harbinger, Jud Immortal. [Poem.] (In Atlantic Monthly, Aug.) Def. VI. Two Anti-Slavery Leaders. [William Lloyd Garrison and Levi Coffin.] (In International Review, Aug.） Howells's Undiscovered Country. (Inner Traume. It is said to have also appeared in French, but no particulars are known. William Lloyd Garrison. (In Atlantic Monthly, Jan.) Def. II. Grant. (In Atlantic Monthly, March, Sept.) Defohn Holmes. Thaddeus William Harris. A Visit to John Brown's Household in 1859. William Lloyd Garrison. Wendell Phillips. Charles Sumner. Dr. Howe's Anti-Slavery Career. Ulysses S for Bryan. Leaflet. Reprinted from the Springfield Daily Republican, Sept., 1900. （With W. L. Garrison and G. S. Boutwell.) How Should a Colored Man Vote in 1900? Leaflet. Reprinted from the Bos
Mary Thacher Higginson, Thomas Wentworth Higginson: the story of his life, Index (search)
Brown's plans, 191, 200. Francis, Dr., 78. Free Religious Association, 398; Higginson's address at, 164; his activity in, 268; similar English organization, 336, 337. Free Soil Party, 89-91, 115. Frothingham, O. B., 78; on Higginson's style, 156. Froude, J. A., 323. Fugitive Slave Law, 111, 114, 144, 148. Future Life, The, in In After Days, 254, 428. Galatea Collection founded by Higginson at Boston Public Library, 284. Galton, Francis, and Higginson, 328. Garrison, William Lloyd, favors disunion, 181; estimate of, 202. Geary, Gov., 172, 174; account of, 176. Gladstone, W. E., Higginson meets, 324. Grant, Judge, Robert, poem for Col. Higginson's birthday, 391. Grant, Gen. U. S., 264. Greeley, Horace, at Syracuse, 133. Greene, Henry Copley, 374. Greene, W. B., influence of, 72. Hale, Edward Everett, 399; and Higginson, 24, 83; account of, 261; festival for, 387. Hamilton, Sir, William, described, 339. Hardy, Thomas, Higginson meets,