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Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Letters and Journals of Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Chapter 2: the Worcester period (search)
about our fate in the next one! The following letter refers to a Temperance Convention: May, 1853 Enough has no doubt reached you, through the New York papers, of the affair in which I figured there, to make you anxious to hear from me about them. ... The best account is that in the Herald, which I send, though all the leading New York papers were full of it the next day (Friday). This is, of course, exaggerated in parts (for instance, the majority of the dozen ladies did not wear Bloomer dresses); but the speeches and proceedings are more correct than in any other paper. You see I was the right-hand man of the Temperance meeting, and for me to take up the cause of those ladies was rather a blow. They had come, relying on the hall for the meeting, which was for Friends of Temperance ; still they knew there would be opposition, but thought it their right to cooperate, and when Lucy Stone (who came with them) found I was there, she was rejoiced and appealed to me in a way th