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Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Letters and Journals of Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Chapter 1: Cambridge and Newburyport (search)
s. This is the latest form of chivalry — intellect and beauty reciprocally admiring and admired. I fear it will be several years ere those halls witness such another display of either. It is really a superior class, yet, my hopes from it are, for one reason and another, not large. I had the pleasure of introducing myself to my beloved Sunday-School teacher, Samuel May, who really seemed gratified thereat. Then there was a dinner in Harvard Hall, a procession to which was marshalled by Dr. Pierce. We heard, Brethren, attention, shouted as if by a superhuman hippopotamus or other aerial loud-voiced beast floating above us, and behold, it was the white-haired old Doctor whose voice had raised the echoes. He is great to see on these occasions, rejoicing as a strong man to run a race — few of the graduating class have a step so elastic or a voice so strong. The dinner was like Commons dinners usually; there is a beautiful equality about these things — the most superb sumptuous coll<
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Letters and Journals of Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Chapter 2: the Worcester period (search)
and executed Porteous, commander of the City Guard of Edinburgh. mob by some future Scott. You cannot conceive how frightened the poor wretch was. . .. If Worcester frightens ex-kidnappers thus, you may imagine how it would be with those who shall pursue the profession. A Worcester newspaper of the day said: The immediate provoker of this Worcester riot, and the man to whom Butman ought to look for the reparation of his damages, is, we take it, Mr. Benjamin F. Hallet, Mr. [President] Pierce's slave-catching attorney for the district of Massachusetts. From an undated letter: I have been busy about the Butman affair, and my Italian lecture. Arrests have been made. . . . They [the accused] are to be examined next Wednesday; meantime S. F. [Stephen Foster] stays in jail, on nonresistant principles. I visited him to-day; he seemed very happy — only the sixth time he has been imprisoned for righteousness' sake. We may have an anti-slavery meeting Sunday night and Wendell