Evening journal., 1888-10-08
IIIGaINsnN.

IIGGINsON. BANKS.
peared rarely, not from lack of success
but from disinclination. While IN con
! gress he was successfully coalition
Democrat, a Know Nothing for 4
short time, and finally RepubH
can. Those who are old enougb
will remember his great contest for tRe
| speakership of the house of representa-.
tives. Those who are not old enough have
read Of it. 1t was in 1856. 1t was one ~
the most famous deadlocks in parliament.
airy history, Banks was finally elected
on the 1880 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 Cen
tral railroad and was commissioned a
major general of volunteers and ASSIGNED
to the command of the Fifth corps in tbe
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. lie had tussle with Gen. Jack
son short time afterward. His Red
River expedition is enmeshed in the his
tory Of the civil war. He was at the
front III many battles and was an excel
lent general for a man not trained in the
strategies of war.
Gen. Banks resigned his commission in
ioo4 ana was elected to congress from his
OLD district. lie was reelected to the
successive congresses until 1877, failing
only IN 1877, when he was active in be-
nan OF Horace Greeley, the Liberal Demo-
cfatlc candidate for president. Since his
retirement from congress he has been
United states marshal for Massachusetts,.
The especial felicity Of Thomas Wont.
worth Higginson has been to unto the
activities of a political and social reformer
with the grace and dignity Of a man of
letters. He was born in Cambridge
Mass, in 1928, was graduated at Harvard
IN 1871 and at the divinity school in 1947
and IN the same year was ordained pastor az
Congregationalist church in Newbnrv-
port, Mass. In 1850 lie was an unsuccess.
Iul Free Soil candidate for congress. In
looo ne left the ministry and devoted
hlinself TO literature. For his part in the
attempted rescue Of q 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 n
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
coiored troops. 1t was the first regiment
Of freed slaves mustered into the national
service Col. Higginson captured and
held Jacksonville, Fla, but was wounded
at Miiltown Bluff. s. G., in August. 1s6s
and in October, 1864, resigned on account
p ms disability He then turned his at
.ention to literary work, and resided in
Newport, r. l.. until 1878, when he re-.
moved to Cambridge, where he has since
lVed, varying his pursuits as an author
ly MS devotion to the cause Of political
md social reforms AS early as 1850 he
lad come prominently before the public
n bchalf of woman SUFFRAGE III sio~ri,,,.
ne first call for a national movement Of
ts friends, which was held in Worcester /
1e mas SINCE been leader in the cause, +
it ~ his voice and pen.