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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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