Word: abolitionist
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...first issue of a new liberal weekly called The Nation appeared in Manhattan. Founder and editor was a shy, 33-year-old, Irish Presbyterian, Edwin Lawrence Godkin, who had emigrated to the U. S. nine years earlier. His associate editor, Wendell Phillips Garrison, was the son of Abolitionist William Lloyd Garrison. The Nation (named after a fiery Dublin weekly) announced that its purpose was to defend "free inquiry and free endeavor...
...When little Pierpont came into the world [in 1837] there were a great many business troubles," writes Mr. Satterlee gravely. Not greatly troubled was the well-to-do Morgan family of Hartford, Conn., though little Pierpont's grandfather, red-nosed, craggy-faced Abolitionist Preacher John Pierpont of Boston, had fights with some of his non-Abolitionist parishioners. In his school days "Pip" was a fun-loving, feverish, arrogant character with a temper and a direct, wide-open gaze. He and Joe Wheeler, later a Confederate cavalry leader, risked their necks and expulsion to carve their initials on the school...
...never a violent abolitionist, and many biographers claim that his proclamation of freedom during the Civil War was just a political move. I do think, however, that though he was not one of the violent pre war abolitionists that he really pitted the plight of the slaves and that he welcomed the chance to free them during...
...felt, little Thomas answered: "Thank you, madam, the agony is abated." At eight he wrote his Compendium of Universal History, a record of leading events from creation to the current year (1808). Next followed a long heroic poem, part of which celebrated the career of his father, Zachary, famed abolitionist and founder of the Bible Society (forerunner of the Gideon Society). At twelve, with little effort, he memorized Paradise Lost and Pilgrim's Progress...
...drinking, singing, marching." Whitman was no Utopian socialist, says Mr. Arvin, not only because he was too hardheaded to accept the "lovable insanity" of their more extravagant plans, but because he would not be anything that made him different from the vast mass of plain people. He was no Abolitionist, because of his almost mystical veneration for the Union...