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Mary Thacher Higginson, Thomas Wentworth Higginson: the story of his life, VIII: Anthony Burns and the Underground railway (search)
ering Mr. Higginson's head, a deputy marshal was killed. How and by whom was long a subject of controversy, for this was the first time a life had been sacrificed in an attempt to resist the Fugitive Slave Law. Of the Faneuil Hall meeting, Mr. Higginson wrote to a Newburyport friend: That meeting at Faneuil Hall was tremendous. I never saw such enthusiasm, and (though warned that it would be so) I could not possibly believe that it would exhale so idly as it did in Court Square. Still , twenty more men, in the right place, would have rescued the slave, that all acknowledge. From Mr. W. F. Channing's house in Boston, where he had taken refuge, Mr. Higginson wrote to his wife: There has been an attempt at rescue and failed. I am not hurt except a scratch on the face which will prevent me doing anything more about it, lest I be recognized. From the following letter, written two days later, May 28, to Rev. Samuel May, Jr., it appears that there was still hope of rescuing the slav