You will be interested to hear of a visit I made Whittier the other
day. . . . He had taken up the vague notion of annexing all Mexico and seemed
to Lord it in a very loose way too; even said more war would be better than
making peace and getting slave territory, though I couldn't make out how that
was to help the matter. He wasn't great on that tack, anyway — on
literary matters better. . . . He had plenty of humor and talks very freely,
making us feel very easy; gave a rich account of a come-outer who came in to
their “First Day Meeting.”
SOURCE: Mary Potter Thacher Higginson, Editor, Letters and Journals of
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, 1846-1906, p. 7-8
