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Francis Jackson Garrison, William Lloyd Garrison, 1805-1879; the story of his life told by his children: volume 3 1 1 Browse Search
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow 1 1 Browse Search
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Francis Jackson Garrison, William Lloyd Garrison, 1805-1879; the story of his life told by his children: volume 3, Chapter 17: the disunion Convention.—1857. (search)
it to the doctrine. The date of the Convention was fixed in October, and the place selected was Cleveland, Lib. 27.146. Ohio. In that State, the abolitionists had in January petitioned the Legislature to take steps to withdraw from Lib. 27.19. the Union; with the result at least of precipitating a very edifying debate, in which the Republican members Lib. 27.57. solemnly reaffirmed their affection and fidelity to the Union. Rev. T. W. Higginson to W. L. Garrison. Worcester, August 27, 1857. Ms. Mr. Howland Joseph A. Howland of Worcester, a lecturing agent of the Massachusetts A. S. Society (Lib. 28: 35), and one of the signers of the call for the Disunion Convention of Jan. 15 (Lib. 27: 2). and I agreed quite well about your note to Mr. May in respect to the superiority of Syracuse to Cleveland. Rev. S. May, Jr. I regret your change of opinion about it, but the following considerations entirely convince my mind of the inexpediency of a change. 1. It is too late,
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Chapter 21: the Loftier strain: Christus (search)
y requests for autographs. As a background to all of this lie the peculiar excitements of that stormy summer of 1856, when his friend Sumner was struck down in the United States Senate and he himself, meeting with an accident, was lamed for weeks and was unable to go to Europe with his children as he had intended. The first rough draft of Wenlook Christison, whose title was afterwards changed to John Endicott, and which was the first of The New England Tragedies, was not finished till August 27, 1857, and the work alternated for a time with that done on Miles Standish; but it was more than ten years (October 10, 1868) before it was published, having first been written in prose, and only ten copies printed and afterwards rewritten in verse. With it was associated the second New England Tragedy, Giles Corey of the Salem farms, written rapidly in February of that same year. The volume never made a marked impression; even the sympathetic Mr. Fields, the publisher, receiving it rather