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Cambridge History of American Literature: volume 2 (ed. Trent, William Peterfield, 1862-1939., Erskine, John, 1879-1951., Sherman, Stuart Pratt, 1881-1926., Van Doren, Carl, 1885-1950.), Chapter 13: Whittier (search)
print were sent, unknown to the author, by his sister Mary to The free press, a weekly paper just established by William Lloyd Garrison in Newburyport. The boy's surprise was great when he read his own composition in an issue of the paper that was delivered at the Whittier farm in the summer of 1826. Other pieces followed, and one day shortly afterward, Garrison made a journey to the farm for the purpose of hunting up his promising contributor. He found Whittier at work in the field, urged tf heart and soul to the crusade, from early manhood until the cause was won, from the time of his first association with Garrison to the time when his jubilant Laus Deo acclaimed the writing into the fundamental law of the republic of the ban upon slit nor the erudition that have preserved many of the occasional pieces of Holmes and Lowell from decay. The tributes to Garrison, Sumner, and a few others still stand out as significant from this mass of metrical exercises, and when a great occasion
Cambridge History of American Literature: volume 2 (ed. Trent, William Peterfield, 1862-1939., Erskine, John, 1879-1951., Sherman, Stuart Pratt, 1881-1926., Van Doren, Carl, 1885-1950.), Chapter 21: Newspapers, 1775-1860 (search)
most critically related to journalism was abolition. The abolitionist press which began with The Emancipator of 1820, and had its chief representative in William Lloyd Garrison's Liberator, first issued I January, 1831, forced the slavery question upon the newspapers, and there ensued a struggle for the freedom of the press more, Cincinnati, Alton, and elsewhere, editors were assaulted, offices were attacked and destroyed; rewards were offered in the South for the capture of Greeley and Garrison; in a few instances editors, like Lovejoy at Alton, lost their lives at the hands of mobs. Out of the period of restless change in the thirties there emerged Whigs merely but of a great class of Northerners who were thoroughly antagonistic to slavery but who had not been satisfied with either the non-political war of Garrison or the one—plank political efforts of the Free Soil party. This influence was greatly increased between 1850 and 1854 by some of the most vigorous and trenchant
Cambridge History of American Literature: volume 2 (ed. Trent, William Peterfield, 1862-1939., Erskine, John, 1879-1951., Sherman, Stuart Pratt, 1881-1926., Van Doren, Carl, 1885-1950.), Index (search)
Frothingham, Octavius Brooks, 197 Froude, J. H., 137 Fruin, Professor, 138, 139, 140, 141 Fry, William H., 192 Fuller, Margaret, 37, 165, 192 Fulton, M. G., 304 Furness, Horace Howard, 197 Furness, William Henry, 197, 211 Future of the American negro, the, 325 Gabriel Conroy, 380, 387 Gachard, L. P., 138 Gales, 181 Gallatin, Albert, 89 Gallegher and other stories, 388, 392 Garfield, James A., 220 Garland, Hamlin, 363, 388, 390 Garland, the, 174 Garrison, William Lloyd, 44, 50, 51, 188, 189, 193 Garrison of Cape Anne, the, 48 Gayangos, Pascal de, 127 Gazette (Boston), 178 Gazette (Cincinnati), 184 Gazette (Haverhill), 45 Gazette (Salem), 177 Gazette (Washington), 182 Gazette of the United States, the, 180, 181 Gem of the Season, the, 174 Gentleman's magazine, the, 149, 161 George III, 142 George Eliot. See Cross, Marian Evans George Selwyn (Walt Whitman), 263 n. Georgia scenes, 153, 347, 389 Georg