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Wendell Phillips, Theodore C. Pease, Speeches, Lectures and Letters of Wendell Phillips: Volume 2, The scholar in a republic (1881). (search)
than his grandfather; where men pretended to be alive, though swaddled in the grave-clothes of creed and custom as close as their mummies were in linen,--that Egypt is hid in the tomb it inhabited, and the intellect Athens has trained for us digs to-day those ashes to find out how buried and forgotten hunkerism lived and acted. I knew a signal instance of this disease of scholar's distrust, and the cure was as remarkable. In boyhood and early life I was honored with the friendship of Lothrop Motley. He grew up in the thin air of Boston provincialism, and dined on such weak diet. I remember sitting with him once in the State House when he was a member of our legislature. With biting words and a keen crayon he sketched the ludicrous points in the minds and persons of his fellow-members, and tearing up the pictures, said scornfully, What can become of a country with such fellows as these making its laws? No safe investments; your good name lied away any hour, and little worth keep
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Harvard Memorial Biographies, 1828. (search)
important influence in forming and directing their opinions. He was entirely free from all false pride. He never, directly or indirectly, boasted of his wealth or his connections. In his manners he was simple, cordial, and unaffected. Mr. Lothrop Motley says of him, in a letter which I have read: I have often thought and spoken of him as the true, original type of the American gentleman,— not the pale, washed-out copy of the European aristocrat. In his dress and equipage he observed a sim a few instances, to have survived the adverse influences that surrounded it, and which has been nowhere more unduly praised than at the North. But notwithstanding all these hindrances, Wadsworth remained a true, brave, Northern democrat. Mr. Lothrop Motley, in the letter from which I have already quoted, says of him: He believed, honestly, frankly, and unhesitatingly, in democracy, as the only possible government for our hemisphere, and as the inevitable tendency of the whole world, so far a
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Harvard Memorial Biographies, Biographical Index. (search)
35. Miles, N. A., Brig.-Gen., I. 111. Miller, Adam, Lieut., I. 322. Mills, Anna C. L., II. 133. Mills, C. H., II. 133. MillS, C. J., Brev. Maj., Memoir, II. 133-141. Montgomery, James, Col., II. 194, 463;. Moore, A. B., Col., II. 240. Moore, S. W., II. 229. Morgan, E. D., Gov., I. 11, 91;. Morgan, J., II. 241. Morris, Josephine M., I. 90. Morse, C. F., Lieut.-Col., II. 273, 274;. Mosby, J. S., Col. (Rebel service), 1.291,300, 303; II. 302. 329, 359. Motley, J. L., I. 6, 7;. Mott, G., Maj.-Gen., I. 430. Mudge, Caroline A., II. 142. Mudge, C. R., Lieut.-Col., Memoir, II. 142-152. Also, II. 83, 106;,122, 251,258. Mudge, E. R., II. 142. Mulligan, J. A., Col., I. 160. Murphy, Private, II. 427. Myer, Maj., II. 252. N. Nelson, Col., I. 67. Newcomb, E. M. Lieut., Memoir, II. 153-157. Also, II. 7. Newcomb, J. J., II. 153. Newcomb, Mary S., II. 153. Nichols, J., Dr. . I. 409. Nightingale, C., Rev., I. 42. N