The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1914-04-05
T., where the radical abolitionist" was


hhpT soheo'
was the first person who had penetrated
| their solitude from the outer worid slhc'
the thunderbolt had fallen. Thes
asked but one question after had toic
them how little hope there was OF acoWt'a
or rescue: Does II seem as II freedom WERE
TO gain or lose BY this" That was all.
In $50 mud ga Nr Hipginson com
manded Il regiment Of freed slaves, anc
an interesting account of the expe'
Renee Of the black regiment has beer
taken from an unpublished manuscript
by one of its negro officers. The Colo
nel's military career was cut short b,
the Unexpectedly serious after effects
OF shock caused by the atmospheric
conclusion of n shell that just missed
him in Its flight. lie reports sermon
by acting chaplain Private Thomas
Long. a South Carolina darby:
We can remember, when we first enlisted.
1t was hardly safe for We to pass BY de
camps 10 beaufort and back lest we wen,
IN mop anu carried our SIDE arms nu'
,n,o a. ,,h,,o aon o., III, Nv. 80. it,,
toto our hnyons,s IN w,,n MN h,,, we lived
1t down by our naturally manhood. and now
de white sojers take US by de hand and say
Troder Sojer OATS what dis regiment did
for de Eplopian race.
We hadn't become soJers all might
ns 49, W.. o@eS az Was o.ioie' gu, IT,
non.o. -, consrs,. ~ r-a.,,.a, ,nv,,,.,
four y.or, NIGH havs nas,sd nv and not'in
been done for we. Bu, now things car
neber 20 back. because We have showed
our energy and our courage and our nat
uTs!iy manhood.
Naturally enough the best things In
Mr.. H.gg!nson's biography are the anec-
dotes Of the well known people Of the
day. with whom he came into frequent
ami intimate association: especially
the literary heavy artillery. Henry
Ward Beecher: "Something very fresh
and noble about him, and he showed
vigor and richness of mind. rather than
sublety and refined culture: perfectly
genial and simple and practical, too
Lucy Stone: "A little. meek looking
Quakerish body. with the sweetest
modest manners, and yet as unshrinl-
ing and self possessed as a loaded cam
non" Thoreau: He il more human
and polite than l supposed: little
bronzed. spare man; surveys
land. both automatically and medi-
tatively; lays out house lots in Haver-
hill and in the moon. - saw
his mother, - who told me anec-
dotes of 'Henry's' ways, which are more
domestic and filial than one would sup
pose" Whittier: Dark, slender, bald
black haired. kind, calm, flashing eyed
keen, somewhat narrow; not command
ing but interesting His sister, q
queer spr,ghtly little woman - has
a tremendous nose. and her wits all
seem to be lodging behind II, and when
you are looking into one eye that seems
very demure they are all sparkling In
the other" Alice and PhPbe Carey
The latter a dumpy, Jolly milkmaid
the former rather fine and superior. y
Thackeray refused to lecture at Worces-
ter at $500 for six lectures, Saying
II was more than he could get in Eng
land but he could get more in the
other cities: in Providence $500 for
three lectures Was laboriously anx-
ious to show me that he meant no dis
courtesy by refusing our offer"
In November. 1853. Mr.. L. II. Under
wood invited Mr.. Higginson 10 write
for the new literary and anti.slavery
magazine" and for several years he
contributed to il extensively, his best
work being perhaps the nature essays.
into which he put much true OBJ
servation, sympathy" with the world
outdoors and grace of diction. lie
wrote much also on feminist topics
and recorded with elation the rece!p,
Of letter from Miss Eastman SAYING
that one Of his papers was really the
seed OF Smith College" and another
from "a thoughtful friend" who called
il "one of the influences that opened
Michigan University to women, and has
now invited a woman professor on the
same terms as men" AT the Atlantic
dinner 70 Mrs. stowe in 1859 DIR.
Holmes, who had been pleasant and
cordial turned upon Higginson when
the latter refused a cigar. What"
says Holmes You don; smoker
NO says Hlgginson. Then" SAYS
Holmes. you unquestionably chew the
betel nut" Higglnson acknowledges
fondness for nuts and beetles, but pro-
fesses preference for botany and en-
tomology unmixed. "Ah." SAYS the
Doctor, but everybody must have some
narcotic. and II you don't chew the
betel nut you take opium pills or lau-
danum in some form" Travelling in
tho West after the war Mr.. Higginson
was surprised AT the enthusiasm of the
greeting won for him by his Atlantic
connection. At one town in Iowa he
was told that In the Atty houses twenty
ty-flve copies We're taken. That hardly
sounds like the thrift OF Agricola. Near
tho Minnesota border one man. an
original subscriber" brought his fam