Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1907-12-14

TOT SIX months. so closely aid he ra1-
sulate that at the beginning of the
Term No. reeNonel that he should have
- cents leti over 1t tlt end of tho
tenn end SO 30 proved Ho pail lfs
way aud had just quarter NJ dbl
lar laff Owe. 20 was tho rr1. Of bf-
lie newer % buy anything rI he bud
lhe money lu hand 90 pay for g. ana
though he was pinchod for means and
had hard struggle uD 10 middle life.
De never was i'm debt
After year or so no the acador1
hn bad the onuortuulty to be editor of
fostrn weekly rauCr. and afterrvard
ei'tcl for q while paper I'm Hartford
we was much interested in p0lifice and
Mhtn young man was talked of for
congress. But 40 this time. when he
was apparently al the beginning Of "A
career Is public man. he threw away
his chance by allyiug himself with the
outi-slat"rv apit1tors. who for many
years were denounced by both al.
great political parties aud used their
lnluN.co chiefly outside of the parties
When Whittier threw himself into this
cause. however, ho found his voice Be
fore hc had been writing smooth
agreeable poetry which was much like
other poetry ~ the day and had mo
great distinction. but now he was set
ON fire by his Indignation at the great
wrong done by slavery and be hoean
to TOur ont verses which were ike a
trumuet blast Not only so. but sing
iug these real war songs he learned the
very art Of poetry, and then an HIS love
for nature ana man and God found ex-
preston in beautiful poems which had
nothing 10 do with slavery. No Amer
lean writer, unless Irving be excepted.
has done $50 much o. throw graceful
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country of his daily life. Essex county
boz Massachusetts and the beaches ly-
ing between NcWbuHport and Ports
mouth blossom with flowers of Whitti-
ems planting the region approaching
the White Mountains g. warm with
Tho color DE has thrown on him and
lake and forest he has made rare
use Of the homely stories he heard ln
his childhood or learned afterward from
familiar intercourse with country peo-
pile and he has himself used invention
dciicatcly and DOB harmony with the
spirit OF the New England coast. Al
though OF "a body OF men who in ear
Tier days had been prosecuted By the
puritans OF New England, his gener-
GUS mind ala not fail 90 detect am the
good that WAS in the stern creed and
NE OF the prosecutors and 10 bring
% forward into the light OF his poetry
tn number Of his poems he drew HIS
material from the relation held between
the Indians and the settlers HIS sym
pathy was always with the prosecuted
and oppressed. and so while historical
ly he found am object OF pity and
subject for national self-repronch m
the Indian, his profoundest compassion
and most stirring indignation were
called ont hy African slavery N DEL
not TOO much 40 say that in the slow
development of public sentiment Whit
Tiers steady song was one of the most
powerful advocates that the slave had.
an the moro powerful thar it was free
from malignlty or unjust accusation
IFS fondness for a story has led him
10 use the ballad form in many cases,
such ah Mabel Martin skipper Ire-
sons Hide and Mary GaVln" The
catholic mind of this writer and his
Instinct for discovering the pure moral
in human action are disclosed hy
number Of poems drawn from a wide
range OF historical fact dealing with a
great variety of religious faiths and
circumstances OF life, but always point