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Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Harvard Memorial Biographies, 1854. (search)
Cumberland, Maryland. He had come to regard himself as settled at Burlington, and had grown really attached to his mode of life. But he did not hesitate to accept this opportunity of returning to his former plans. In November we find him at Mt. Savage, in a position of great responsibility, at the head of a small city of workmen; and once again his chosen work seemed to lie before him. But going now into a Border State at the moment of the great election of 1860, and remaining there during of his last letters, it is evident that his mind dwelt above the range of the ordinary thought of any political party. In December he visited New Orleans on business connected with the mill, and he wrote to his mother on his return:— Mt. Savage, December 28, 1860. I suppose you fancied me burned, or at least barrelled; but after all, I suppose I ran less risk than friend——exposed himself to in panic-stricken Boston. Perhaps I did not merit martyrdom so richly, however, and certa<