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Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Letters and Journals of Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Chapter 1: Cambridge and Newburyport (search)
orry to hear it, but it may not be necessarily inconsistent with the grand qualities which I have admired in Mrs. Chapman. He afterwards added, I told her also that to make use of private letters, as she did, in public controversy, was something I would never be guilty of in any cause. I remember [hearing] long ago that Mrs. Chapman and Whittier were not on speaking terms; but I never heard him mention her before. Long afterward I adverted to this subject with Wendell Phillips (December, 1851). He said: We never accused Whittier of any dishonorable conduct — he showed only timidity. He was identified with us and had much weight; he knew the whole case, knew that right was on one side and wrong on the other; he agreed with Mr. Garrison in the opinions for which he was cast off, he had no right to stand aloof and call it neutrality. Higginson alluded to these dissensions in his life of Whittier and said, It is needless to explore these little divergences of the saints.