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Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Carlyle's laugh and other surprises, chapter 5 (search)
my friends and love me; and whilst I live I will never forget this kindness they have showed me. It would be interesting, were I to take the time, to look into the relations of Massasoit with others, especially with Roger Williams; but this has been done by others, particularly in the somewhat imaginative chapter of my old friend, Mr. Butterworth, and I have already said enough. Nor can I paint the background of that strange early society of Rhode Island, its reaction from the stern Massachusetts rigor, and its quaint and varied materials. In that new state, as Bancroft keenly said, there were settlements filled with the strangest and most incongruous elements . . . so that if a man had lost his religious opinions, he might have been sure to find them again in some village in Rhode Island. Meanwhile the old benevolent sachem, Massasoit, says Drake's Book of the Indians, having died in the winter of 1661-2, so died, a few months after, his oldest son, Alexander. Then came by
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Carlyle's laugh and other surprises, VII: Henry David Thoreau (search)
y;--but when this financial standard can be safely applied more than thirty years after a man's death, it comes pretty near to a permanent fame. It is true that Thoreau had Emerson as the editor of four of his posthumous volumes; but it is also true that he had against him the vehement voice of Lowell, whose influence as a critic was at that time greater than Emerson's. It will always remain a puzzle why it was that Lowell, who had reviewed Thoreau's first book with cordiality in the Massachusetts Quarterly Review, and had said to me afterwards, on hearing him compared to Izaak Walton, There is room for three or four Waltons in Thoreau, should have written the really harsh attack on the latter which afterwards appeared, and in which the plain facts were unquestionably perverted. To transform Thoreau's two brief years of study and observation at Walden, within two miles of his mother's door, into a life-long renunciation of his fellow men; to complain of him as waiving all interes
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Carlyle's laugh and other surprises, IX: George Bancroft (search)
in charge of a school for girls, and highly esteemed; while another sister was well known in Massachusetts and at Washington as the wife of Governor (afterwards Senator) John Davis. George Bancrofext year refused a nomination to the Senate. In 1835 he drew up an address to the people of Massachusetts, made many speeches and prepared various sets of resolutions, was flattered, traduced, caric he was Collector of the Port of Boston; in 1844 he was Democratic candidate for Governor of Massachusetts, but was defeated,--George N. Briggs being his successful antagonist,--although he received Bancroft's version, and the words have often been cited by others. He says of the colony of Massachusetts: Preparing a remonstrance, not against deeds of tyranny, but the menace of tyranny, not agaited here. Yet any one who will compare Bancroft's draft with the original in the Records of Massachusetts (volume IV, part 2, pages 168-169) will be instantly convinced of this. Bancroft has simply
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Carlyle's laugh and other surprises, chapter 13 (search)
luence, the celebrated statesman and orator whose name he bore, and who was his mother's brother. My own recollections of him begin quite early. Nearly two years younger than he, I was, like him, the youngest of my Harvard class, which was two years later than his. My college remembrances of him are vivid and characteristic. Living outside of the college yard, I was sometimes very nearly late for morning prayers; and more than once on such occasions, as I passed beneath the walls of Massachusetts Hall, then a dormitory, there would spring from the doorway a tall, slim young student who had, according to current report among the freshmen, sprung out of bed almost at the last stroke of the bell, thrown his clothes over the stairway, and jumped into them on the way down. This was Edward Everett Hale; and this early vision was brought to my mind not infrequently in later life by his way of doing maturer things. The same qualities which marked his personal appearance marked his c
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Carlyle's laugh and other surprises, chapter 14 (search)
XIII. a Massachusetts General, Rufus Saxton. Complaint has sometimes been made of Massachusetts that the state did not provide a sufficient number of officers of high grade for the regular army during the Civil War. Be that as it may, one of the most eminent of such officers has just died, being indeed one whose actual fame l was Robert Gould Shaw, a young hero of Boston birth. The fact that this was the first black regiment enlisted at the North has left a general impression in Massachusetts that it was the first colored regiment; but this is an error of five months, General Saxton's authority having been dated August 25, 1862, and that of Governore had to be defended against this tendency, as he was, by an admirable wife and by an invaluable staff officer and housemate, Brevet Major Edward W. Hooper, of Massachusetts, who was his volunteer aide-de-camp and housemate. The latter was, as many Bostonians will remember, of splendid executive ability, as shown by his long subse
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Carlyle's laugh and other surprises, chapter 19 (search)
ation of a new magazine, which should be, in Theodore Parker's phrase, the Dial with a beard. Liberals and reformers were present at the meeting, including men so essentially diverse as Sumner and Thoreau. Parker was, of course, to be the leading editor, and became such. Emerson also consented, rather weakly, as Cabot says in his memoranda, to appear, and contributed only the introductory address, while Cabot himself agreed to act as corresponding secretary and business manager. The Massachusetts Quarterly Review sustained itself with difficulty for three years,showing more of studious and systematic work than its predecessor, the Dial, but far less of freshness and originality,--and then went under. A more successful enterprise in which he was meanwhile enlisted was a trip to Lake Superior with Agassiz, in 1850, when Cabot acted as secretary and wrote and illustrated the published volume of the expedition,--a book which was then full of fresh novelties, and which is still ver