n the paramount object, and I am ready to go with it, heart and soul.
The great body of the people of all parties here are ready to unite in the formation of a new party.
The Whigs especially only wait for the movement of the men to whom they have been accustomed to look for direction.
I may be mistaken, but I fully believe that Robert C. Winthrop holds in his hands the destiny of the North.
By throwing himself on the side of this movement he could carry with him the Whig strength of New England.
The Democrats here, with the exception of two or three office-holders and their dependents, defend the course of Banks, and applaud the manly speeches of Sumner. Pickard's Whittier, I. 374.
I have gone a little in advance of the development of this part of Whittier's nature — that of the politician — to show how the gift which at first seemed to threaten him with moral danger became, in its gradual development, a real service to the cause of freedom.
We must now return, however, to
Ralph Waldo, 2, 37, 127,151,159,173,178; his Life and letters in New England, quoted, 80; Whittier's letter to, 46, 47; acquaintance with Whieall, Elizabeth, Whittier's letter to, 70, 71.
Nebraska, 46.
New England, 3, 8, 18, 47, 141; life in, 31.
New England Historical and Genealogical Register, cited, 6 n. New England Magazine, mentioned, 32, 175.
New England Review, mentidned, 37, 48; Whittier edits, 34.
NNew England Review, mentidned, 37, 48; Whittier edits, 34.
New Hampshire, 7, 35, 101.
New Jersey, 120.
New Orleans, paper of, gives account of Philadelphia fire, 63, 64.
New York, N. Y., 77, 91, 1st, 32; plunges into journalism, 33; edits Haverhill Gazette and New England Review, 34; letters to, 34, 35, 118-120, 167, 183; his social life at Hartford, 35; first volume called Legend of New England, 35, 36; difference between youthful and mature poetry, 36, 37; gives up editorship of New England Review, 37; public life, 38, 39; in politics, 40-43; defeats Caleb Cushing, 43; political foresight, 44; his view of Sumn