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noble, enthusiastic W. H. Channing, a character
as ardent as it is pure, with a beaming eye, and a
countenance as pure and regular as I could imagine
that of a seraph to be. His figure, noble and elegant,
is well suited for that of a public speaker.
He is rather a critical admirer than an enthusiast
as regards his own country. He loves enthusiastically
merely the ideal and the perfect, and knows
that the reality falls short of this. Speaking of
the people of the United States, he said, “We are
very young, very young.”
Rose Cottage, November 12, 1849. I must
now tell you something about Mr. W. H. Channing,
because he is in a remarkable manner connected
with the life of the country. He was some
years ago the minister of a Unitarian congregation
in Cincinnati, but the confines of Unitarianism
became too small for him; he could not put heart
and soul into it, and “he therefore resigned an
office which he could no longer hold with an easy
conscience,” although his congregation, which was
very much attached to him, did all they could to
induce him to remain, and although he knew not
how henceforth he was to maintain himself, his
wife, and his two children. But he probably
thought like the old patriarch, strong in faith,
when he obeyed the summons of the Supreme, “The
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