History of Essex County, Massachusetts, with biographical sketches of many of its pioneers and prominent men . de sung on theoccasion. At the close of his first term at Haverhill,he secured a school at West .Vmesbury, now Merri-mac, which he taught during the winter of 1827, re-turning to the academy in the spring, where he re-mained six months. In 1828 he wrote for the Ameri-can Manii/iicliircr, a protectionist paper in the inter-est of Ilcnry Clay, and in (t returned home to aidin carrying on the farm, where he continued untilJuly, 1830. During all this time he wrote much inboth prose an
History of Essex County, Massachusetts, with biographical sketches of many of its pioneers and prominent men . de sung on theoccasion. At the close of his first term at Haverhill,he secured a school at West .Vmesbury, now Merri-mac, which he taught during the winter of 1827, re-turning to the academy in the spring, where he re-mained six months. In 1828 he wrote for the Ameri-can Manii/iicliircr, a protectionist paper in the inter-est of Ilcnry Clay, and in (t returned home to aidin carrying on the farm, where he continued untilJuly, 1830. During all this time he wrote much inboth prose and verse, and some of his poems werepublished in the newspapers of the day and read withapproval. Most of these poems failed to reach thestandard which he had set up for himself, and havebeen excluded from his i)ublished collections. Indeed,he has never reached that standard, and when recentlyasked by the writer of this sketch which of his poemswas most satisfactory to himself, he replied that allof them are so unsatisfactory to me it is difficult todecide. During the first six months of 1830 he edited the. H-.^rJc/^^ HAVERHILL. 2073 Uaverhill Gazette, writing articles at the same timefor the Xeip Englund lieview of Hartford, of which hewas afterwards for a year aud a liiilf tlic editor, as asubstituti- for George D. rrenlice, who was tem-porarily absent from his post. During his editorshiphe published in the Revicic miioy of the poems, withwhich the world is familiar. Aside from his poeticallabors he devoted time and labor to the support ofHenry Ulay and the American system and to thethree great causes of Temperance, Freedom and Re-ligion, or rather, perhaps, religion, which included theother two. In January, 1832, Whittier gave up hisposition at Hartford and returned home, where heremained a year, during which time he published apamphlet in condemnation of slavery, of which sub-sequently an edition often thousand copies was pub-lished by Lewis Tappan, of New York, for gra
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