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Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Letters and Journals of Thomas Wentworth Higginson 34 0 Browse Search
Jula Ward Howe, Reminiscences: 1819-1899 4 0 Browse Search
Mary Thacher Higginson, Thomas Wentworth Higginson: the story of his life 2 0 Browse Search
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Mary Thacher Higginson, Thomas Wentworth Higginson: the story of his life, VI: in and out of the pulpit (search)
placed in a lawyer's office in Court Square. Great pains were taken to keep the plan a secret and I well remember the sinking of the heart with which I saw, on walking through Court Square on the evening planned for the enterprise, that masons were at work putting iron bars in the window of Sims' cell. The whole plan was thus frustrated. In this despairing mood the ardent young Abolitionist found some comfort in the attitude of his fellow clergymen, for he wrote:— I heard from Sam Longfellow a few weeks since that he was thinking of leaving Fall River. Among settled divines the game of Puss-in-the-corner seems growing harder and hotter. The Fugitive Slave Law has mightily stimulated it. But how finely our Unitarian brethren have done and are doing, on that point. It shows the clergy to be a grade above politicians, after all, that the capitalists have less power to muzzle the Reverends than the Honorables. Perhaps you read an editorial of mine in the Commonwealth, some 2