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Mary Thacher Higginson, Thomas Wentworth Higginson: the story of his life, VI: in and out of the pulpit (search)
freeze. I am engaged in several new enterprises, wrote Higginson to Samuel Longfellow who was abroad; one is or was the attempt to bring back the Free Soil Party to self-control and consistency from the more fascinating paths of coalition and conquest; this has failed already; and I have only seen my name in many newspapers, with unwelcome Whig compliments and melancholy Free Soil ones; and no good done but warning and reproof. The other may be more successful—it is to induce Massachusetts to follow the example of Maine, and either have laws that can do something, or none at all, in the way of checking the liquor traffic. But as you are now in England where all teetotallers take to drinking, and going soon to the Continent where all forget that they ever were teetotallers, you will not care about this, though we are really entering on a very important revival. Temperance was one of the vital causes in which the young minister interested himself with some practical res
Mary Thacher Higginson, Thomas Wentworth Higginson: the story of his life, VII: the free church (search)
t allow a married woman to own even her own wardrobe. This protest was read and signed as a part of the ceremony. One of the many instances in which Mr. Higginson defended the equality of the sexes is preserved in an old newspaper account. He had been asked to serve on the committee of credentials at a temperance convention in another State. In explanation of his failure to do this, a speaker at the convention, who called Mr. Higginson the heart and head of the temperance cause in Massachusetts, said, He came here at the call, but declined to serve on a committee that could not recognize his sister as well as himself. With all this remarkable activity, the indefatigable pastor did not neglect outdoor exercise and recreation. His love of boating found a happy outlet at Worcester where he was instrumental in organizing a boat club for young men and also one for girls, the latter being practically an unheard-of thing in those days. These novices he patiently and enthusiastica
Mary Thacher Higginson, Thomas Wentworth Higginson: the story of his life, VIII: Anthony Burns and the Underground railway (search)
ct it. If true, I hope no U. S. Officer will be sent up, for I cannot answer for his life in the streets of Worcester. . . . Send for me if you want me again. I am thankful for what has been done—it is the greatest step in Anti-Slavery which Massachusetts has ever taken. And I am ready to do my share over again. Burns's master agreed to sell him for a certain sum, but after the money was raised, he changed his mind. The day on which Burns was returned to slavery, when he was marched through the streets of Boston guarded by United States troops, was known for many years after as Bad Friday. The following Sunday Mr. Higginson preached a sermon called Massachusetts in Mourning, in which he said, The strokes on the door of that court-house that night.. went echoing from town to town... and each reverberating throb was a blow upon the door of every slave prison of this guilty republic. After the excitement had somewhat subsided, Mr. Higginson wrote:— I do not think they c
Mary Thacher Higginson, Thomas Wentworth Higginson: the story of his life, X: a ride through Kansas (search)
e was sent to Chicago and St. Louis to give aid and advice to a party from Massachusetts who, to quote a newspaper account, had fallen among thieves. From Alton, I. Higginson responded in the Boston Journal: I have seen frightened men, in Massachusetts and elsewhere, and I never saw men look less like them than did Dr. Cutter'er . . . pledging themselves to die, if need be, but to redeem the honor of Massachusetts. From the bottom of my heart I felt with them; one word from me would havein our camps some twenty tents and thirty wagons; including parties from Maine, Mass., Vt., Illinois, etc., and six large families from Indiana. On the other hand, d not go there even to see an underground railroad, for I had seen that in Massachusetts. I wanted to see something above the ground. All my life I had been a cit and material, which is denied us now. You know that even now the credit of Massachusetts Stocks is far higher in Europe than [that] of United States Stocks, and thi
Mary Thacher Higginson, Thomas Wentworth Higginson: the story of his life, XI: John Brown and the call to arms (search)
April, 1861, and there was alarm about the safety of Washington, Mr. Higginson conceived the daring scheme of recalling Montgomery and his men from Kansas and going with them into the mountains of Virginia to divert the attention of the Confederacy from the national capital. In reference to this plan he wrote to his mother:— I vibrate between rumors of wars—and high school examinations. Since our troops went, things are quieter, though many are drilling. Think how honorable to Massachusetts that her first troops marched through New York before the famous 7th Regiment had started . . . . If you see I have enlisted don't believe it yet, but I am trying to get means for equipping a picked Company for John Brown, Jr.—to be used on the Pennsylvania border. How much I may have to do with the undertaking if it ever comes to anything—the future course of events must determine. I want at least to get the name of John Brown rumored on the border and then the whole party may com
Mary Thacher Higginson, Thomas Wentworth Higginson: the story of his life, XIV: return to Cambridge (search)
ing my place on staff he wished me to take either a similar trusteeship vacant—or to go on the Board of Education. With some reluctance I did the latter. The allusion to Cowpens referred to the address which Colonel Higginson gave in May, 1881, at Spartansburg, South Carolina, the occasion being the celebration of the Battle of Cowpens during the Revolution, which Bancroft called the most extraordinary victory of the war. Governor Long had requested his chief of staff to represent Massachusetts and incidentally the original New England States at the one hundredth anniversary of this battle, although it was one in which the New England colonies had no direct share. The letter quoted above continues:— All these things have much interfered with literature and I was getting impatient with myself and feeling that I had lost power of writing. Then on waking very early one morning I suddenly decided to make a book out of my Woman's Journal articles and similar things. I jumpe
Mary Thacher Higginson, Thomas Wentworth Higginson: the story of his life, Bibliography (search)
ewburyport） Address to the Voters of the Third Congressional District of Massachusetts. Pph. Birthday in Fairyland. Pph. Same. (In Phillips. Laurel Leaver） Does Slavery Christianize the Negro? (Anti-Slavery Tract, no. 4.) Massachusetts in Mourning: A Sermon preached in Worcester, June 4. Pph. Scripture Ido1897.) （With Mrs. Florence W. Jaques.) List of battles and casualties of Massachusetts regiments during the war of the Rebellion. (In New England Historical and Oct. 24). How to Read Magazines. (In Golden Rule, Nov. 15.) 1895 Massachusetts in the Army and Navy during the War of 1861-65. Vol. 2. The Fairy Courser. (In Boston Evening Transcript, Harper's Bazar, Nation, et al.) 1896 Massachusetts in the Army and Navy during the War of 1861-65. Vol. I. Prefatory note.e essays previously printed. The Alliance between Pilgrim and Puritan in Massachusetts: An Address delivered before the Old Planters' Society, Salem, June 9, 1900<
Mary Thacher Higginson, Thomas Wentworth Higginson: the story of his life, Index (search)
orms, 140, 141; bequest to, 141; and Anthony Burns affair, 142-46; court-house incident, 143, 149; describes excitement in Worcester, 144, 145; preaches sermon Massachusetts in Mourning, 146; arrest of, 146-48; trial, 148; Butman affair, 149-51; helps slaves, 151-54; literary work at Worcester, 155-60; Atlantic Essays, 156, 157; A te, Queen of Italy, Higginson's Sonnets of Petrarch sent to, 278. Marks, Lionel, poem on engagement of, 388, 389. Martineau, James, reception at, 329. Massachusetts in the Army and Navy during the War of 1861-65, 386. 421. Massachusetts in Mourning, 146, 406. Masson, Prof, and Higginson, 328; dines with, 339, 340. Massachusetts in Mourning, 146, 406. Masson, Prof, and Higginson, 328; dines with, 339, 340. May, Rev. Samuel, Jr., letter to, about anti-slavery excitement, 144, 145; and fugitive slaves, 152. Medici, Marchesa Peruzzi de, daughter of Story, visit to, 355-57. Michigan University, influence of Higginson's writings on, 157. Miller, Joaquin, 336. Monarch of Dreams, 417, 423; account of, 311. 312. Montgomery, Cap