He started
an Anti-Slavery weekly paper in Lowell known as the Lowell
_American._ That afforded him a bare and difficult living
for a few years. After the Anti-Slavery people got into power
he was made Clerk of the Massachusetts House of Representatives.
Then he began to write his famous letters to the Springfield
_Republican,_ which he signed Warrington. They were full
of wit and wisdom and displayed great knowledge of the best
English literature. He made many enemies and finally, by
a concert among them, was turned out of office. He lost his
health not long after, and died prematurely.
He was quite unsparing in his attacks on anybody who offended
him, or against whom he took a dislike; and he seemed to dislike
everybody whom he did not know. It was said of him that,
like the rain of Heaven, he "fell alike on the just and on
the unjust." He attacked some of the most venerable and worthy
citizens of the Commonwealth without any apparent reason.
He used to call Chief Justice Chapman, one of the worthiest
and kindest of men, Chief Justice Wheelgrease. He had a controversy
in his paper of long standing with a man named Piper, a pompous
and self-important little personage, who edited the Fitchburg
_Reveille.
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