Statistics for occurrence #1 of “Whittier” in chapter 5, page 55 of Thomas Wentworth Higginson, John Greenleaf Whittier:
...ontests of the antislavery body were scarcely less vehement and far more personally bitter than those waged with the supporters of slavery; and these cannot be passed by unnoticed.
In the meantime, Whittier was enlisted for the war.
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