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Mary Thacher Higginson, Thomas Wentworth Higginson: the story of his life, VI: in and out of the pulpit (search)
e slaves to their owners. Later one of these very men took Sims, the runaway slave, back to Savannah. Mr. Higginson's freq Vigilance Committee, received a summons to aid in rescuing Sims, the first fugitive slave captured in Boston and returned tis enthusiastic about W. [Wentworth] —she said her hopes of Sims' rescue rested upon him, and if he had not been followed intily formed by four or five abolitionists for the rescue of Sims. The plan was to communicate with the prisoner through a c in readiness to take him away. . . . We were not sure that Sims would have the courage to do this, rather than go back to cthat masons were at work putting iron bars in the window of Sims' cell. The whole plan was thus frustrated. In this desditorial of mine in the Commonwealth, some 2 months ago, on Sims' case. It was Dr. Walker who said to me, apropos de Sims, de Sims, that if these things continued the pulpit would become a refuge for scoundrels! Don't of course imagine my mind at all anxi
Mary Thacher Higginson, Thomas Wentworth Higginson: the story of his life, VIII: Anthony Burns and the Underground railway (search)
VIII: Anthony Burns and the Underground railway In the mean time the fugitive slave question was seething, and Mr. Higginson wrote to a friend, George William Curtis, whom he considered lukewarm, Remember that to us, Anti-Slavery is a matter of deadly earnest, which costs us our reputations today, and may cost us our lives to-morrow. In May, 1854, three years after the return of Sims to slavery, the Anthony Burns affair occurred. Colonel Higginson was often called upon in his later years to tell the details of this exciting episode. After the escape of Burns, a fugitive slave from Virginia, he had been, according to an old record, in the employ of a clothing dealer on Brattle Street, Boston. He wrote a letter to his brother in Virginia by the way of Canada, but as all letters to slaves were opened by their masters, his retreat was discovered. He was then arrested and imprisoned in an upper room of the court-house. A letter from Wendell Phillips notified Mr. Higginson of a
Mary Thacher Higginson, Thomas Wentworth Higginson: the story of his life, Index (search)
anterbury, Archbishop of, 328. Carlyle, Thomas, 323. Carlyle's Laugh, and Other Surprises, 323, 396, 428. Carnegie, Andrew, 284. Cary, Alice, 130. Cary, P$hoebe, 130. Chalmers, Thomas, described, 339. Channing, Barbara, on rescue of Sims, 112. Channing, Ellery, 48; on literary profits, 51. Channing, Francis (Lord Channing of Wellingborough), reception at, 350. Channing, Mary E., engaged to T. W. Higginson, 48; T. W. Higginson's letters to, 56, 57, 73, 75, 83; Higginson deh, 103, 104; lives at Artichoke Mills, 105, 106; preaches in a hall, 107; keeps up interest in Newburyport affairs, 107, 108; interest in public libraries, 108, 140; writes editorials, 110, 111; Thalatta, 111; and Fugitive Slave Law, III, 112; and Sims, 112-15; becomes pastor of Free Church in Worcester, 115, 116; leaves Newburyport, 117, 18; Worcester home, 118; preaches own installation sermon, 119, 120; his Sunday School, 120; and Free Church, 121-23; interest in Worcester public affairs, 123