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Mary Thacher Higginson, Thomas Wentworth Higginson: the story of his life, XIV: return to Cambridge (search)
und him a large man, nearly as tall as I and heavily built . . . decidedly plain, but with a very good clear eye and a frank and honest though not handsome mouth. He has not an air of polish— rather what we should call a Western than Eastern type,—but prepossessing through frankness and strength . . . . On the whole my impression was favorable. Not so my impression of Beecher, who is the only man I have spoken with in public of whom I felt ashamed. The Jersey City audience was a regular Bowery audience and he took them completely on their own level. It was a wonderful exhibition of popularity and power, but there was a coarse jauntiness in his way of treating the attacks on Cleveland that disgusted me . . . . till Beecher is Beecher, at his best and worst. Yet politics did not exclude other public interests:— May 2, 1885. I had a very good time speaking on Total Abstinence to an excellent audience of young men at Sanders Theatre with Mrs. Livermore, who appeared a<