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Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Harvard Memorial Biographies, 1852. (search)
the climate seems very healthy, and the weather is superb. Of course I want to get off as soon as possible, but I am quite contented to take things as they come. They however remained at Ship Island only about ten days, and were then transferred to New Orleans, where Captain Hooper was assigned to duties in more immediate connection with Headquarters. On December 28th he writes:— On Christmas day I received an order appointing me to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of Major Bell, the President of the Sequestration Commission, (who went home with General Butler,) which separates me at once from the Adjutant-General's office, and gives me an office of my own, and the partial control of an interesting and to me wonderful institution. . . . . It is far from being an unimportant thing in this vicinity, and I find my hands as full of business, and my thinking powers taxed quite as much as I care to have them. In fact, my only anxiety now is lest I should not prove equa
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Harvard Memorial Biographies, 1858. (search)
earnest and candid discussions of slavery. He tells with fidelity what he sees of it. His theory is that of necessary evil for the present. He desires its speedy end, but finds many excuses and palliating circumstances for slaveholders, and insurmountable difficulties at present in its removal. Meanwhile he can never forget the immense injustice on which the system rests. Politics he reviews quite as earnestly, it being the year of the Presidential election. His favorite candidates were Bell and Everett, but he would have voted for Mr. Seward, had he been the Republican nominee. In the spring of 1860, he attacked Blackstone again, though not very earnestly, and found no book more interesting. But lighter reading, as of favorite novels, like The Virginians, was better suited to the approaching summer; and out-door pleasures made him, he says, dwindle in mind and grow fat in body. As his engagement approached an end, he sighed for Northern air and a more ambitious career. In
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Harvard Memorial Biographies, Biographical Index. (search)
moir, II. 1-11. Batchelder, Jacob, II. 1. Batchelder, Mary W., II. 1. Batcheler, Samuel, II. 427. Bates, J., II. 207. Bates, J. N., Dr., I. 185. Bean, Richard, II. 451. Beauregard, G. T., Maj.-Gen. (Rebel service), II. 271. Bell, John, I. 418. Bell, Joseph, Maj., I. 195. Bigelow, G. T, Judge, I. 85. Bigelow, H. G., Lieut., I. 444. Bigelow, H. J., Dr., I. 134. Bigelow, John, Capt., II., 235, 236. Billings, Dr., II. 407, 408;. Birney, D., Lieut., II. 42Bell, Joseph, Maj., I. 195. Bigelow, G. T, Judge, I. 85. Bigelow, H. G., Lieut., I. 444. Bigelow, H. J., Dr., I. 134. Bigelow, John, Capt., II., 235, 236. Billings, Dr., II. 407, 408;. Birney, D., Lieut., II. 424. Birney, D. B., Maj.-Gen., II. 98, 419;, 420, 424. Birney, Fitzhugh, Capt., Memoir, II. 415-424. Birney, J. G., II. 415, 424;. Birney, William, Brig.-Gen., II. 420, 424;. Blake, C. F., II. 105. Blenker, Louis, Maj.-Gen., I. 111. Blight, Atherton, I. 311. Bliss, Capt., I. 146. Boardman, Mr., I. 336. Bodisco, M. de. I. 356. Bond, G. W., II. 12. Bond, H. M., Lieut., Memoir, II. 12-20. Bond, Sophia, A. M., II. 12. Bond, William, II. 12, 13;,14, 15. Bo