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Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Letters and Journals of Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Chapter 2: the Worcester period (search)
iding nobly on the advancing waves. What is to be your future? We do not ask you to join us, till time be ripe. Make Sumner your star, till time has taught you to see the greater greatness of Phillips. ... Remember that with or without Fremont,ew years later the writer of the above was fighting to preserve the Union! This was written after the brutal attack on Sumner in the Senate Worcester, January 9, 1857 I had various Kansas and other experiences, saw old Captain Brown, but not Gg, and then another invasion, and is trying for means to repel it. The best thing I did, you will think, was to see Mr. Sumner at the Athenaeum Library. He seemed at first very well, looked as usual, while seated, and spoke as easily and in as fion, everybody applauded, much to his surprise. They say his speech did more than our Convention. I had a note from Mr. Sumner the other day, who thinks that Virginia will secede, first or last, and take all the States except perhaps Maryland, wh
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Letters and Journals of Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Chapter army life and camp drill (search)
and quite expensively dressed; that is, her laces were fine, worth two thousand dollars, and she told a lady she hardly felt it right to wear them in these times, although they were a present. They were delighted with Mrs. McClellan; heard Charles Sumner's speech which was read and not exciting; and said the Senate Chamber looked quite pathetic with half the seats vacant. ... In Baltimore they stayed with the Bowens; he is Unitarian minister there and married Annie Gilman, of Charleston; tnt. This Dr. Minor writes. Worcester, October 28 To-morrow I may go to Boston chiefly to see on business Colonel Hartwell, of the Massachusetts Fifty-Fifth, just from Folly Island, and may either go to the opera or to a Republican dinner to Sumner and Wilson. I hanker after opera, and indeed after all the vanities of life; one returns from the seat of war with a wholesome appetite for luxuries.... Mary declares that in reading to her from Trowbridge's letter something about tales of re
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Letters and Journals of Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Index. (search)
fteld Republican, the, 157, 158, 165. Stanley, Henry M., the African explorer, 232. Stedman, Edmund Clarence, letters to, 333 if. Stillman, William J., the artist, 123, Stone, Lucy, at temperance meeting, 55; at suffrage meeting, 59; her wedding, 60-63; in Canada, 98. Storrow, Anne (Aunt Nancy), letter to, 1-3. Storrs, Rev. Richard S., 46, 47. Stowe, Harriet Beecher, Uncle Tom's Cabin, 54; description of, 54, 55; at Atlantic dinner, 107-09. Studley, Lt.-Col., 179. Sumner, Charles, 78, 263; on secession, 79; speech, 165. T Taylor, Bayard, 74, 113. Temperance movement, 41, 42, 55, 56, 80. Tennyson, Alfred, marriage of, 32, 33. Terry, Rose, 101. Thaxter, Celia Leighton, described; 25, 29; marriage of, 27, 28. Thaxter, Levi, 24-29. Thayer, Abbott, in Paris, 284, 285; daughter of, 329. Thayer, Perry, 63. Thoreau, Henry D., 119; Channing on, 42, 43; described, 94; works of, 105. Todd, Mabel Loomis, letters to, 331. Tracys, the, of Newburypo