curse of slavery; both because each such restriction is in itself so great a good, and because it makes it more easy to preserve the Union.
I fear the recent decision, in the case of Pennsylvania and Maryland, works the other way, but hope it will not turn out so, when we have it duly reported; and I fear, however the decisions may stand, that the question of a dissolution of the Union is soon to come up for angry discussion.
Mr. Ticknor often said, that after his visit to Washington in 1824, he always felt that a civil war might grow, sooner or later, out of the question of slavery.
He dreaded this, and always desired its postponement, if it could not be averted, on the ground that every year the resources of the North were strengthened, and its power to maintain the cause of the Union increased.
To Prince John, of Saxony. Boston, U. S. A., March 15, 1842.
my Lord,—I received duly your very kind letter, and the beautiful copy of the translation of Dante's Purgatorio that
116-121. 1817-18.
Accepts professorship at Harvard College, 120; visits France, Italy, Spain, and Portugal, 121-249. 1819.
Paris, London, and Edinburgh, 250-298; death of his mother, 273; return to America, 299; inauguration as professor, 319. 1821.
Death of his father, 334; marriage, 335. 1821-35.
Life in Boston, labors in his professorship, activity in charitable and educational movements, 334-402. 1823-27.
Efforts for reform in Harvard College, pamphlet on changes in college, 353-39. 1824.
Writes Life of Lafayette, 344; winter in Washington and Virginia, 346-351. 1826 Examiner at West Point, 372-376; writes Memoir of N. A. Haven, 377. 1834.
Death of his only son, 398. 1835.
Resignation of professorship, 399; second visit to Europe, 402-511, II. 1-183. 1835-36. England, Ireland, Belgium, Germany, I. 402-456; winter in Dresden, 456-492; Berlin, Bohemia, 493-511. 1836-37. Austria, Bavaria, Switzerland, Italy, II. 1-58, winter in Rome, 58-86. 1837-38. Italy, Tyrol, Bavaria, Hei