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Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Cheerful Yesterdays, chapter 6 (search)
a candidate before the First Religious Society at Newburyport, a church two hundred years old, then ostensibly ich happened in connection with my first visit to Newburyport. I had retained enough affection for the opinione in this garb, but implored me not to wear it to Newburyport. So unclerical, they said; it would ruin my proslitionist, had lost his parish, a few miles above Newburyport, for the alleged indecorum of swimming across theshrinking, on the auctionblock. On removing to Newburyport I found myself at once the associate of all that vailing around Boston; and when I went to live in Newburyport the same point of view soon presented itself in a, that the one political hero and favorite son of Newburyport, Caleb Cushing-for of Garrison himself they only ress, as I had simply stood in a gap, I lived in Newburyport for more than two years longer, after giving up mest scholars in New England, and then resident in Newburyport. With his aid I established a series of prizes f
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Cheerful Yesterdays, V. The fugitive slave epoch (search)
s forward in a bruilzie as their neighbors. Scott's The heart of Mid-Lothian. Nothing did more to strengthen my antislavery zeal, about 1848, than the frequent intercourse with Whittier and his household, made possible by their nearness to Newburyport. It was but a short walk or drive of a few miles from my residence to his home; or, better still, it implied a sail or row up the beautiful river, passing beneath the suspension bridge at Deer Island, to where the woods called The laurels sprthere to see, and, joining the Vigilance Committee in Boston, I waited for such an occasion. It was not necessary to wait long, for the Shadrach case was soon to be followed by another. One day in April, 1851, a messenger came to my house in Newburyport and said briefly, Another fugitive slave is arrested in Boston, and they wish you to come. I went back with him that afternoon, and found the Vigilance Committee in session in the Liberator office. It is impossible to conceive of a set of me
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Cheerful Yesterdays, chapter 8 (search)
examination committee in Worcester together with a Roman Catholic priest, and on the regular committee in Newport with a colored clergyman; thus bringing my sheaves with me, as a clever woman said. I had a hand in organizing the great Worcester Public Library, and was one of its early board of trustees, at a time when we little dreamed of its expansion and widespread usefulness. The old love for natural history survived, and I undertook again the microscopic work which I had begun in Newburyport under the guidance of an accomplished biologist, Dr. Henry C. Perkins. He had also introduced me to the works of Oken and Richard Owen; and I had written for the Christian Examiner (July, 1852) a paper called Man and nature, given first as a lyceum lecture, which expressed something of that morning glow before sunrise which existed after the views of Goethe and Oken had been made public, but when Darwin's great discoveries were yet to be achieved. In Worcester I did a great deal in the
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Cheerful Yesterdays, Index. (search)
inson, F. J., 123. Higginson, Francis, 4, 114, 130. Higginson, John, 123. Higginson, Louisa (Storrow), 8, 10, 34, 160. Higginson, Louisa Susan, 101. Higginson, Stephen, senior, 4; description of, by W. H. Channing, 43. Higginson, Stephen, junior, 4. Higginson, T. W., birth and home, 3; school days, 19; college life, 42; residence at Brookline, 81; favorite reading, 92, 102; love of natural history, 24, 194; first publications, 101, 102; post-collegiate study, go; residence at Newburyport, 112, 127; interest in Woman's Rights, 120; early anti.slavery influences, 126; residence at Worcester, 130, 146; fugitive slave events, 139; speech at Tremont Temple, 142; editorial writing, 145; first magazine articles, 172; first contribution to Atlantic monthly, 171; perilous versatility, 182; Young Folks' history of United States, 186; love of athletic exercises, 194; school committee work, 193; first book, 194; trip to Fayal, 196; visit to Kansas, 197; meeting with J. H. Lane, 203;