Romantic days in old Boston; the story of the city and of its people during the nineteenth century . ?r>. H 03 K « o t It< i 5 o IN OLD BOSTON 235 How sweet were life! Yet, by the mouth firm-set,And look made up for Dutys utmost debt, I could divine he knewThat death within the sulphurous hostile lines,In the mere wreck of nobly-pitched designs. Plucks hearts-ease, and not rue. The Fifty-fifth infantry and the Fifth Cavalrywere other Massachusetts regiments made upof black men, while all the soldiers in the blackregiment of which Thomas Wentworth Hig-ginson of Cambridge was chosen colone
Romantic days in old Boston; the story of the city and of its people during the nineteenth century . ?r>. H 03 K « o t It< i 5 o IN OLD BOSTON 235 How sweet were life! Yet, by the mouth firm-set,And look made up for Dutys utmost debt, I could divine he knewThat death within the sulphurous hostile lines,In the mere wreck of nobly-pitched designs. Plucks hearts-ease, and not rue. The Fifty-fifth infantry and the Fifth Cavalrywere other Massachusetts regiments made upof black men, while all the soldiers in the blackregiment of which Thomas Wentworth Hig-ginson of Cambridge was chosen colonel hadbeen slaves. It was in this connection that thefollowing nonsense verse began to be cir-culated in Boston: There was a young curate of WorcesterWho could have a command if hed choose ter; But he said each recruit Must be blacker than sootOr else hed go preach where he used ter. Iligginson denies that this verse is a Hteralstatement of the facts; but it is significantthat the only title to which he clings, aftera full and remarkably varied life, is that ofcolonel of the First South Carolina Volunte
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