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Mary Thacher Higginson, Thomas Wentworth Higginson: the story of his life, VIII: Anthony Burns and the Underground railway (search)
Higginson to Mr. F. B. Sanborn or Mr. R. W. Emerson, is given as a sample of the correspondence between the active abolitionists of that day:— Worcester, Sept. 14, 1860. The bearer, Capt. Stewart—sometimes known as Preacher Stewart—of Kansas, is leaving here to-day and I have advised him to pass through Concord and call on you. He is the head of the Underground Railway Enterprise in Kansas and has just made a highly successful trip. Mr. Stearns and others are raising funds to assisKansas and has just made a highly successful trip. Mr. Stearns and others are raising funds to assist him in his operations. He brought on this trip a young slave girl of 15, nearly white, for whom some provision must be made. There are many letters to Mr. Higginson from Rev. Samuel May, Jr., in reference to fugitives needing aid. One of these describes a young woman with babies whose master had threatened to move earth and hell to get her back. Mr. May thought the fugitives would be searched for in Boston, and that Worcester would afford her as much safety as this accursed Union can g<
Mary Thacher Higginson, Thomas Wentworth Higginson: the story of his life, IX: the Atlantic Essays (search)
Mr. Higginson wrote an account of this expedition for Putnam's Magazine, the article purporting to be written by a woman. The author amused himself by sending a copy to each member of the party, that they might guess its origin. We did have a charming time on the trip to Mount Katahdin, he wrote. The 30 miles by water on our return, shooting the rapids, were the most exciting experiences I ever yet had. A later visit to Maine was of a different nature, for he spoke at Bangor on Kansas and the Union, the former being the bait and the latter the hook. I had a superb audience . . . and preached Disunion to 1500 people for $50—and no hisses. The Higginsons spent several vacations at Pigeon Cove, a wild, rocky sea-place on the North Shore. When they summered one season at the town of Princeton, they found quarters at the Post-Office. This seemed to Mr. Higginson a funny place to stay, as he fancied the mattresses would be made of exhausted mail-bags. From Pigeon Cove, h
Mary Thacher Higginson, Thomas Wentworth Higginson: the story of his life, X: a ride through Kansas (search)
X: a ride through Kansas The returned pastor was at once launched into exciting scenes. The a in my hands. . . . A party left Boston for Kansas on Tuesday— 20 were from Maine and the strongery body eats all day. . . . We hear often from Kansas, they are not in distress actually, nor besieg other hand, we met quite as many going out of Kansas, some to avoid arrest, others from poverty. . rom the invading Missourians. The worst enemy Kansas had ever had, they pronounced Governor Geary t, Money is very scarce, and everything goes to Kansas, I believe. Then she told of a Kansas Sewing d .. Lawrence is a beautiful place and this Kansas People is glorious—so brave and patient and pehere, and the greatest need is now of money in Kansas, to keep people from moving out. Half of those prospect of a dollar; but I'll live or die in Kansas! And he added, Such is the spirit of multitud western visit:— I found a great deal in Kansas. . . . But I did not go there even to see an u[19 more...
Mary Thacher Higginson, Thomas Wentworth Higginson: the story of his life, XI: John Brown and the call to arms (search)
mittee had put some $500 in gold into his [Brown] hands and all the arms with only the understanding that he should go to Kansas and then be left to his own discretion. He went off in good spirits. In October, 1858, Sanborn wrote to the Worcesterritten and received with great caution. Funds were raised for the proposed rescue, and Mr. Higginson sent a messenger to Kansas to enlist Captain James Montgomery as leader of the enterprise, the rallying-point being Harrisburg, Pennsylvania. In Fe a letter which I thought might be the last I should ever write to you, when I had sent for Montgomery and seven men from Kansas, because I could find nobody in New England, and we lay in wait a fortnight in Harrisburg hoping vainly to penetrate Virg alarm about the safety of Washington, Mr. Higginson conceived the daring scheme of recalling Montgomery and his men from Kansas and going with them into the mountains of Virginia to divert the attention of the Confederacy from the national capital.
Mary Thacher Higginson, Thomas Wentworth Higginson: the story of his life, XII: the Black regiment (search)
ife, and says:— You don't know how pastoral I feel, when I contemplate my little flock of sheep straying round to find something to nibble; as soon as they succeed they will grow fat and we shall nibble them. They are pro-slavery sheep, as Kansas used to say. It was necessary to exercise some ingenuity in order to keep up military guise, for Colonel Higginson wrote to his wife:— When any occasion requires the Doctor to be magnificent, I am to whip off my shoulderstraps and put oBrigadier-General Walker . . . is an old friend! He is that Lieutenant Walker, U. S. A., who was sick at the Water Cure and liked me because of my physique and my abolitionism, he being a desperately pro-slavery invalid; who afterwards met me in Kansas as Captain Walker, with a cavalry company to arrest Redpath and me, and would n't do it for old acquaintance sake— and here he is across the river, face to face with me again! In July, the absent son wrote of the delight with which a box of <
Mary Thacher Higginson, Thomas Wentworth Higginson: the story of his life, XIV: return to Cambridge (search)
he wrote in his diary for March of the same year, against the private school bill amid a howling audience of sectarians. In the same year he went West on a lecture trip and wrote to his sister:— Kansas City, June 5, 1888. I have got so far, lecturing last night at Lawrence (University), here to-night . . . speaking at Topeka on Thursday, going Friday morn to Colorado Springs . . . . I have enjoyed the trip greatly. . . . I saw many of the old Kansasers and many of the new; all Kansas is transformed from bareness to a land of trees and hedges, greatly to its improvement and I had a fine reception from the Students. Colorado Springs, June 11. Here I have revelled in flowers and cañons. . . . Nothing disappoints except that the prairies when green are a far paler green than we are used to and Pike's Peak, though it seems to hang directly above the town and is still snow-clad, is far less picturesque and companionable than our New England mountains. It was impossib
Mary Thacher Higginson, Thomas Wentworth Higginson: the story of his life, Bibliography (search)
At Fayal began a book, the Return of Faith, of which only one chapter was afterwards published as the Sympathy of Religions (1871). 1856 (Worcester—trip to Kansas） Speech at Anniversary of West Indian Convention. (In Liberator, Aug. 8.) Going to Mount Katahdin. (In Putnam's Monthly Magazine, Sept.) Purporting to be written by one of the ladies of the party. Portugal's Glory and Decay. (In North American Review, Oct.） Letters from Kansas to New York Tribune. Published later as an anti-slavery tract (no. 20), under the title A Ride through Kansas, and also published independently. 1857 (Worcester） Speech. (In State Disunion ConveKansas, and also published independently. 1857 (Worcester） Speech. (In State Disunion Convention, Worcester, Jan 15. Proceedings.) Pph. and Broadside. Speech at Twenty-fifth Anniversary of the Massachusetts AntiSlav-ery Society. (In Liberator, Jan. 16, and a Broadside.) Statement on Spiritual Manifestations, April 15. Broadside. The New Revolution: A Speech before the American Anti-Slavery Society, May 12.
Mary Thacher Higginson, Thomas Wentworth Higginson: the story of his life, Index (search)
, 148, 154, 159, 160, 163-65, 202-04, 210, 211-13; (Kansas journey) 168, 169, 171, 172; (war) 216, 222, 226, 294, 266, 267; husband's letters to, 133, 144, 161; (Kansas) 167, 171; (Penn.) 197, 198; (war) 220, 222, 229, 233- 35, 237, 248, 249; goes to Fayal, 163-65; on Kansas troubles, 175; moves to Newport, 235; invalidism, 255,, 164; Sympathy of Religions, 164; goes West to aid Kansas emigrants, 166-68; returns to Worcester, 168, 169; goes to Kansas, 169; describes Kansas conditions, 169-81; and Dr. Seth Rogers, 175-77, 237, 321; preaches at LKansas conditions, 169-81; and Dr. Seth Rogers, 175-77, 237, 321; preaches at Lawrence, 177, 178; in Leavenworth, 178, 179; speaks at AntiSla-very meeting, 180, 181; favors disunion, 181, 1 78, 82; letter to, about resignation, 104, 105. Kansas, troubles in, 166, 167, 180, 181; Higginson in, 169es, 176; warns Higginson, 196, 197. Ride through Kansas, A, 169, 173, 407. Robinson, Gov., 176. Rogers,ginson's letter to, 198, 199. Stewart, Capt., of Kansas, 151. Stone, Lucy, described, 97; Higginson's fr