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Thomas Wentworth Higginson, John Greenleaf Whittier, Chapter 12: Whittier the poet (search)
. It was the generation which listened in childhood to the Voices of Freedom, that fulfilled their prophecies .... After the war, Garrison, at last crowned with honour, and rejoicing in the consummation of his work, was seldom heard. Whittier, in his hermitage, the resort of many pilgrims, as steadily renewed his song. The poem in which Stedman finds the highest claim to have been made by Whittier as a natural balladist is the following:-- Cassandra Southwick It is a story of 1658, of a young Quaker girl sentenced in Boston, for her religion, to be transported to Virginia, and there sold as a slave. She is brought from prison to where the merchant ships are at anchor, and the ship-men are asked who will take charge of her. This is what follows:--But gray heads shook and young brows knit the while the sheriff read That law the wicked rulers against the poor have made. Grim and silent stood the captains, and when again he cried, ‘ Speak out, my worthy seamen! ’ no v