Thursday, February 24, 2022
All Alike
Philip McFarland, Hawthorne in Concord (New York: Grove Press, 2004), p. 225, with note on p. 318:
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Politicians and shrill reformers, people telling other people what to do: Hawthorne cared for none of them—cared, he said, for no party anymore, hated them all, "free soilers, pro-slavery men, and whatever else—all alike."
225 "free soilers, pro-slavery men": To William D. Ticknor, 10/10/56; quoted in Hall, Critic, 152.
