good citizenship showed at its best. The corrupting and selfish influence of wealth was at its lowest ebb. The depletion of the population by war made immigration most desirable, and the new complications and troubles incident to new conditions had hardly appeared.
Page 208, note 1. Ovid, Ars Amatoria, III. 121.
Page 209, note 1. It may not be easy for one who had not the mortification to live in times when fugitive slaves were seized in Boston, and after trial and sentence, guarded to the vessel that was to carry them back by the local militia and police; when her business men mobbed and maltreated Garrison, and broke up anti-slavery meetings, and when many of the club-men, and also of the scholars, sympathized with such doings,—to appreciate the relief that the change wrought by the war brought. Membership in the Union Club, founded during the war by the best citizens, was now courted and not despised.
Page 210, note 1.
The Cossack eats Poland,Like stolen fruit;Her last noble is ruined,Her last poet mute:Straight, into double bandThe victors divide;Half for freedom strike and stand;—The astonished Muse finds thousands at her side."Ode," inscribed to W. H. Channing, Poems.
Page 211, note 1. Five years earlier Mr. Emerson wrote in his journal:—
"The world is full of pot and pan policy. Every nation is
