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1834 AD (search for this): chapter 7
u can't cooperate with a suit of old clothes. Garrison's life, III. 35. How far Garrison did justice to the real strength of Whittier's nature will perhaps always remain somewhat doubtful, in view of the fact that eight years before this, in 1834, he had briefly characterised him as highly poetical, exuberant, and beautiful. Garrison's Life, I. 461. It is possible he may have been rather surprised, in later years, to find his young proselyte developing a will of his own. There was cerwas a bold letter to be written by a shy Quaker youth of twenty-six to a man more than twice his years, for Channing was then almost fifty-four. A yet unknown man, Whittier was offering counsel to the most popular clergyman in Boston. Written in 1834, the letter long preceded Channing's Faneuil Hall speech of 1837, which first clearly committed him to the antislavery movement; and it still farther preceded his work on slavery in 1841, which identified him with the enterprise and made him, in
1856 AD (search for this): chapter 7
y Convention at London (June, 1840), but being cautioned by the well-known physician, Dr. Henry I. Bowditch, he forebore to take the risk, his heart being at that period the point of danger. Of the later tests which came to abolitionists and sometimes separated them into opposing ranks, little need be said, for Whittier was never personally combative, and though he was severely tested as to his peace principles, yet the Quaker principle carried him safely through. When I was in Kansas in 1856, in the times of trouble, I could hear of but one of the theoretical non-resistants who had gone thither and who had adhered faithfully to his principles. I did not agree with these views, but went out of my way to call upon him and express my respect, a feeling I could not quite entertain for those who had backslidden, and could then give as an excuse that they never imagined there could be such people in the world as the Border Ruffians. With all Whittier's Arab look and his admiration of
February 25th, 1852 AD (search for this): chapter 7
st. I have repented of it a thousand times, especially as it gave those who were not intimately acquainted with me a false idea of my character. . . . Pickard, I. 218-19. The only record in the Life of Garrison by his sons — perhaps the most thoroughly executed biography ever written in America, though it could hardly be expected to be the most absolutely impartial — of any final interview showing the cleavage between him and Whittier is in a letter from Lucretia Mott, written on Feb. 25, 1852. She says: Maria W. Chapman wrote me that he [Whittier] was in the [antislavery] office a few months since, bemoaning to Garrison that there should have been any divisions. Why could we not all go on together? Why not, indeed? said Garrison; we stand just where we did. I see no reason why you cannot cooperate with the American Society. Oh, replied Whittier, but the American Society is not what it once was. It has the coat, the hat, and the waistcoat of the old society, but t
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