. American lands and letters. hittier is virtualeditor of that Hartford weekly; and I can recalldistinctly how, in those years (when the presentwriter was a fledgling-pupil at a country schoolfifteen miles away from the tidy Connecticut capi-tal) there was a close fingering of the goods —journals, raisins, and candies—which an itinerant WHITTIER AS EDITOR. 311 huckster brought every Saturday afternoon intothe school-yard — for a possible story or poem byJ. G. W.! A year or two later we find AVhit-tier returned to his old home^ shouldering up theindustrial exigencies of the farm — his father be
. American lands and letters. hittier is virtualeditor of that Hartford weekly; and I can recalldistinctly how, in those years (when the presentwriter was a fledgling-pupil at a country schoolfifteen miles away from the tidy Connecticut capi-tal) there was a close fingering of the goods —journals, raisins, and candies—which an itinerant WHITTIER AS EDITOR. 311 huckster brought every Saturday afternoon intothe school-yard — for a possible story or poem byJ. G. W.! A year or two later we find AVhit-tier returned to his old home^ shouldering up theindustrial exigencies of the farm — his father be-ing dead — butstill illuminat-ing the news-paper columnswitli the brightoutcome of hiswakeful muse. He has alsoa quasi entryupon politics ;is twice a mem-ber of the Mas-sachusetts Leg-islature ; is stim-ulated to vigor-ous political plotting ; has large faith in his lobby-ing capacity; is even talked of as possible memberof Congress. He is for some time lie with thatacute politician Caleb Gushing, then recently re-. Caleb Gushing. From a Photograph taken in tSjo. 312 AMERICAN LANDS &- LETTERS. turned from European voyaging, and who notmuch later gave to the Knickerbocker readers hisNotes from tlie Netherlands ; but the lines of po-litical travel for these two Essex men soon divergedlargely ; and for the Gushing of John Tylers and
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