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John G. Whittier, The Poet Of Freedom. By
WILLIAM SLOANE KENNEDY. New York:
Funk g. Wagnalls Company. London
and Toronto. 1892. Pages 32i.
For sale by WEST, JOHNSTON u Co., Rich
mond, Va.
Poet of freedom"l Whose freedom
What sort of freedom and how much OF
it? There is very current abuse of valu-
able general terms. 1.-The protection OF
Idborn Is one of them: as if The squad en-
gagged in manufacturing and mechanical
pursuits were The grand army of industrious
toilers who keep the march of our coun-
try's material progress.
MIR. KENNEDY has given us a book OF
red-hot Abolition and has another hero
besides WHITTIER, with the name of JOIN,
him of Ossawstomie and Harper's Ferry.
He lays much stress upon john BBowN's
msgnanimously kissing" the negro baby
"for the purpose of rebuking the shame
full color caste which makes america pro-
vincial and inferior to England in social
ethics" He also has heroine in the same
line. Strong, robust natures" says he.
"never have this hysterical morbid nor
TOR of the negro. LOUISA n. ALcoTT tells
how her Abolition blood took fire one
day in Washington, and just to give les
son to a ndse-,ceis southern woman, she
caught up funny little black cherub and
kissed IT,"
Our author might well have spared us
his datribe against HARRIET LIyERMooRE,
but we are glad he relates how the ready
and witty ABBY FoLsoM took such good
care of herself. He says she used to an
noy anti-siavery meetings by her grotesque
interruptions. and was roundly cheered by
the hostile characters who usually fringed
Abolition meetings. On one occasion she,
seated in chair was being carried out OF
O meeting by WENDELL PHILLIPS and two
Others, and she cried out 10 the crowd in
the aisle, " Pm better off than my master
was he had but one ass to ride. l have
three to carry me-
The authors attempt to reconcile WHIT
TIERS Quakerism with the bellicose tone
of his writings, both in prose and poetry,
and the necessary results of the political
position in which he gloried, is unsatisfac-
tory and consequential. He draws a
marked distinction between LINCOLN and
those with whom the Poet of Freedom
was most closely allied. LINCOLN, in his
large-hearted charity. pitied the masters
of tho slaves; the Abolitionists did not"
He intlmates that the mission of Abolition
Is not yet accomplished, and that it has
still TO look after the interests Of those
whom it has emancipated. Hence force
bills and other interferences with the
rights and autonomy of the South.
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Simplicity and conciseness are the
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