LEADER 04272nam 2200661 450 001 9910821148703321 005 20230213215810.0 010 $a0-674-28160-8 024 7 $a10.4159/harvard.9780674281608 035 $a(CKB)3390000000059613 035 $a(SSID)ssj0001123192 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11732270 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001123192 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)11071763 035 $a(PQKB)10390537 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3046288 035 $a(DE-B1597)247936 035 $a(OCoLC)1013954716 035 $a(OCoLC)1029811428 035 $a(OCoLC)1032684512 035 $a(OCoLC)1037983071 035 $a(OCoLC)1042027490 035 $a(OCoLC)1046619076 035 $a(OCoLC)1047022911 035 $a(OCoLC)1049677564 035 $a(OCoLC)1054880718 035 $a(OCoLC)979740096 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780674281608 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL3046288 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10970728 035 $a(OCoLC)900564672 035 $a(EXLCZ)993390000000059613 100 $a20150215h19631963 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcnu|||||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aJohn Gorham Palfrey and the New England conscience /$fFrank Otto Gatell 205 $aReprint 2014 210 1$aCambridge, Massachusetts :$cHarvard University Press,$d1963. 210 4$dİ1963 215 $a1 online resource (353 pages) $cillustrations, portraits 300 $aIncludes index. 311 $a0-674-28159-4 327 $tFront matter --$tPreface --$tContents --$tIllustrations --$tI The Child --$tII The Student --$tIII Liberal Theology --$tIV Brattle Street --$tV Dean Palfrey --$tVI The North American --$tVII The State House --$tVIII A Practicing Abolitionist --$tIX Conscience and Judgment --$tX "He Knows Nothing About Politicks" --$tXI Down with Old Zack --$tXII Trial by Stalemate --$tXIII Defeat --$tXIV Political Twilight and the Puritan Past --$tXV War Against the Slave Power --$tXVI The Celebrated New Englander --$tManuscript Collections Cited. Palfrey's Books and Pamphlets. Notes. Index --$tManuscript Collections Cited --$tPalfrey's Books and Pamphlets --$tNotes --$tIndex 330 $aThe New England of his day regarded John Gorham Palfrey's life as blameless and exemplary, a nineteenth-century "monument to the Puritan ideal of rectitude." Yet he himself once called it "his personal tragicomedy." At least, it was diverse, for Palfrey had been historian, Harvard educator, Unitarian minister, Massachusetts politician, editor of the North American Review, and crusader against slavery, and himself an emancipator. During his lifetime, from 1796 to 1881, Palfrey participated, sometimes reluctantly, in revolutionary changes in the political, economic, and intellectual climate of New England. In his stormy political career, Palfrey not only was Massachusetts Secretary of State, member of Congress, and Postmaster of Boston, but also played a key role in the formation of the Free Soil Party. When the Whigs, in the name of national unity and compromise, seemed to ignore the moral necessities of the slavery question, he joined with such men as Charles Francis Adams, Charles Sumner and Richard Henry Dana, Jr., to reaffirm traditional moral values. From this struggle, Palfrey emerged a political loser. Hampered by inflexibility, he later retreated to his study to write his massive history of New England, nursing his disappointment and cherishing his sense of rectitude. We are left with the image of a man whose achievements were substantial, perhaps because he insisted upon making his life a Bay State morality play. For this biography of Palfrey, Gatell has used papers of Palfrey's contemporaries and of the Palfrey family manuscripts, among them an unpublished autobiography, itself a search for meaning in a long and perplexing life. 606 $aBIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Political$2bisacsh 615 7$aBIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Political. 676 $a923.273 700 $aGatell$b Frank Otto$0464917 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910821148703321 996 $aJohn Gorham Palfrey and the New England conscience$94018879 997 $aUNINA