A history of the United States . nation, but from 1830 to 1860 thispower was vastly increased. Erom her midst came abolition- §350] PKOGRESS OF THE NATION. 269 ists like Garrison ^ and others shortly to be mentioned. InWebster she had the greatest of orators and of exponents ofthe national idea. InRalph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882) she had ateacher of high mo-rality and a philoso-pher who, if vague, likehis fellow-members ofthe school known asTranscendental, pos-sessed, nevertheless,an inspiring person-ality. In the elderWilliam Ellery Chan-ning (1780-1842) andTheodore Parker^ shehad clergymen wh
A history of the United States . nation, but from 1830 to 1860 thispower was vastly increased. Erom her midst came abolition- §350] PKOGRESS OF THE NATION. 269 ists like Garrison ^ and others shortly to be mentioned. InWebster she had the greatest of orators and of exponents ofthe national idea. InRalph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882) she had ateacher of high mo-rality and a philoso-pher who, if vague, likehis fellow-members ofthe school known asTranscendental, pos-sessed, nevertheless,an inspiring person-ality. In the elderWilliam Ellery Chan-ning (1780-1842) andTheodore Parker^ shehad clergymen whoseinfluence, was felt farbeyond their Henry WadsworthLongfellow (1807-1882) she had the sweetest and most popular of native poets;and in John Greenleaf Whittier (1807-1892), a sturdy poet-champion of human liberty. James Russell Lowell (1819-1891), too, was a young son of Massachusetts who, as poetand critic, was to do good work for the nation. All thesegreat men were, more or less, forces to be counted against the. William Lloyd Garrison. 1 Born, 1805; died, 1879. Writer on Newburyport Herald, 1818-1826; editedvarious emancipation papers, 1820-1831; editor of the great agitation organin behalf of emancipation, the Liberator, 1831-1860; formed the AmericanAnti-slavery Society and became its president in 1832; perhaps had greaterinfluence than any other man in behalf of emancipation. 2 Bom, 1810; died, 1860. Was pastor of Unitarian Church at West Roxburyfrom 1837 to 1845; was an ardent advocate of emancipation; was very promi-nent as an orator and pamphleteer; founded a church in Boston for the advo-cacy of new and more radical phases of the Unitarian movement. 270 THE JACKSONIAN EPOCH, 1829-1837. [§350 continued dominance of the South in politics. With the ex-ception of Webster they were not politicians, but they werethinkers who taught others to think. Against them the South,even with the poet and story writer, Edgar Allan Poe (1809-1849), could set no such galax
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