Arizona weekly enterprise., 1888-12-15
HIGGINsON.


 peared rarely. not from lack of success, but from disinclination. While in con- gress he was successively coalition short time, and finally Republi- can. Those who are old enough will remember his great contest for the speakership of the house of representa- tives. Those who are not old enough have read of It. It was in 1856 It was one of the most famous deadlocks in parliament ary history Banks was finally elected on the 133d ballot, when the deadlock had been broken by the adoption of the plu- rality rule. His war record is too well known to be dwelt upon In 1860 he re- signed the presidency of the Illinois Gen. tral railroad and was commissioned a major general of volunteers and assigned to the command of tho Fifth corps in the Army of the Potomac. For this duty he was in degree qualified by experience in the state militia. A part of his corps ac- quilted itself well at the battle of Win chester. He had tussle with Gen. Jack son a short time afterward. His Red River expedition is enmeshed in the his tory of the civil war. He was at the front in many battles, and was an excel lent general for a man not trained in the
 
 Gen. Banks resigned his commission in 1864 and was elected to congress from his old district. He was reelected to the successive congresses until 1877, failing only In 1872, when he was active in be- half of Horace Greeley, the Liberal Demo cratic candidate for president. Since his retirement from congress he has been United States marshal for Massachusetts. xAs
 The especial felicity of Thomas Went worth Higginson has been to unite the activities of political and social reformer with the grace and dignity of man of letters. He was born in Cambridge, Mass, in 1923. was graduated at Harvard in 1S41 and at the divinity school in 1647, and in the same year was ordained pastor of Congregationalistc church in Newbury- | port, Mass. In 1850 he was an unsuccess- ful Free Soil candidate for congress. In l 1858 he left the ministry and devoted l himself to literature. For his part in the | attempted rescue of fugitive slave he was indicted for murder, with Theodore Parker, Wendell Phillips and others, but was discharged. In 1862 he recruited two companies near Worcester and received a commission as captain in the Fifty first regiment of Massachusetts volunteers. | On Nov. 10, 1862, he was made colonel of the First South Carolina volunteers, after wards called the Thirty third United States colored troops. It was the first regiment of freed slaves mustered into the national service. Col. Higginson captured and held Jacksonville, Fla, but was wounded at Milltown Bluff, s. C., in August. 1868, and in October, 1864, resigned on account of his disability. He then turned his at- tention to literary work, and resided in Newport. R. l., until 1878. when he re- moved to Cambridge, where he has since lived. varying his pursuits as an autho, by his devotion to the cause of political and social reforms. As early as 1850 he had come prominently before the public in behalf of woman suffrage by signing the first call for national movement o1 its friends. which was held in Worcester. He has since been leader in the cause supporting 1t by his voice and pen